Department of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Madras
Awards
 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES & AWARDS
  1. IEEE senior member (SMIEEE 41273303), Member IET, Member IES
  2. Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE, LM 2405)
  3. Won college and university merit awards at undergraduate level
  4. GATE scholarship for M. Tech. from July 1991 to Dec. 1992
  5. QIP Scholarship for Doctoral Research from July 1998 to July 2001
  6. Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award-2014, received by Prof. Mahesh Kumar for guiding Ms. J. Suma, M. S. student (EE11S061) for her outstanding work (M S Thesis) on "Voltage Sag Characterization and Compensation in Power Distribution System".
  7. Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award-2009, received by Prof. Mahesh Kumar for guiding, Vincent G., Ph.D. student (EE05D021) for his outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on "High Power Voltage Source Inverter Topologies and Current Control Strategies for DSTATCOM Applications".
  8. Best Paper Award-2006 was received by Prof. Mahesh Kumar and his Ph.D. student Mr. K. Karthikeyan for their titled "Novel Load Compensation Algorithm under Unbalanced and Distorted Supply Voltages" for National Power System Conference organized at IIT Roorkee.
 

AWARDS FOR STUDENTS GUIDE
  1. Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award-2014, received by Ms. J. Suma, M. S. student (EE11S061) on her outstanding M S Thesis on "Voltage Sag Characterization and Compensation in Power Distribution System".
  2. POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2014, received by Mr. Onkar Kulkarni, M. Tech. student (EE11M034) for his outstanding work on M. Tech. thesis on " Power Quality Improvement Using Zig-Zag Transformer and DSTATCOM in Three-Phase Power Distribution Systems" .
  3. POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2014, received by Mr. Lino Abraham, M. Tech. student (EE11M035) for his outstanding work on M. Tech. thesis on "Formulation of Control Algorithms for Grid Interactive Inverters in Power Quality Enhanced Microgrid System " .
  4. Best Paper Award-2013 received Mr. Onkar Kulkarni M. Tech. student (EE11M034 on his paper on "Power Quality Improvement using Zig-Zag Transformer", in IEEE Conference INDICON 2013 organized by IIT IEEE Bombay Section and IIT Bombay, Dec. 13-15, 2013.
  5. POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2013, received by G. Siva Kumar, PhD student (EE07D007) for his outstanding work on Doctoral thesis "Mitigation of Voltage Sags with Phase-Jumps using UPQC in Distribution System".
  6. POSOCO Power System Award PPSA-2013, received by Srinivas Bhaskar Karanki, PhD student (EE07D018) for his outstanding work on Doctoral thesis " Topologies and Design of State-feedback Controller for Custom Power Devices in Power Distribution System".
  7. INAE Innovative Student Project Award-2010 received by Vincent G., Ph.D. student (EE05D021) on his innovative PhD research work on "High Power Voltage Source Inverter Topologies and Current Control Strategies for DSTATCOM Applications".
  8. Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award-2009, received by Vincent G., Ph.D. student (EE05D021) on his outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on "High Power Voltage Source Inverter Topologies and Current Control Strategies for DSTATCOM Applications".
  9. Prof. Achim Bopp Hardware Project Award-2008, received by R. K. Veerabhadra Rao, M. Tech. student (EE06M040) for his project thesis on "Analysis, Design and Implementation of three-level Inverter for DSTATCOM".
  10. Prof. Achim Bopp Hardware Project Award-2006, received by Mr. Sudesh K. Soni, M. Tech. student (EE04M052) for his project thesis on " Design and Implementation of Dynamic Voltage Restorer".
  11. Prof. Achim Bopp Hardware Project Award-2005, received by Amareswar Reddy, M. Tech. student (EE03M032) for his project thesis on " Design and Implementation of Shunt Active Power Filter using TMS320F2812 processor".