Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member’12–Senior Member’15, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2012. He is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems Council on Power Electronics in Renewable Energy System & Electric Vehicles. S. Padmanaban has authored over 750+ scientific papers and received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON’13, IET-CEAT’16, IEEE-EECSI’19, IEEE-CENCON’19, and five best paper awards from ETAEERE’16 sponsored Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer book. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who - USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research. He is listed among the world’s top 2 scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University USA.
He is an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board for refereed journals, in particular the IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, IET Electronics Letters, and Wiley-International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Subject Editorial Board Member—Energy Sources—Energies Journal, MDPI, and the Deputy/Subject Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and FACETS Journal (Canada).
Responsibilities
Course Lecturer:
- Master Degree: EPE 2216 – Power System Operation and Smart Grid
Thesis Supervisor:
- Master thesis project on Power Electronics, renewable energy systems and their application to Electric Vehicles, and Grid Connected Systems.
Competences
- Power Electronics Application to Smart Energy System (Renewable Energy Integration: Wind Energy, Photo Voltaic, Fuel Cell, etc.).
- Electric Vehicle s Applications and Control Scheme, Battery Management System with Renewable Energy Systems Integration.
- Investigation for novel topologies for AC motor drives.
- Multiphase AC drives focus on space vector techniques for modeling and dynamic controller.
- Design and analysis of conventional inverters, multilevel inverters, and alternative configurations.
- Design and analysis of AC/DC converter and high voltage DC/DC converter topologies, switching loss reduction techniques.
Publications
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=18134802000
- Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=KyuMg7IAAAAJ&hl=en
- Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/P_Sanjeevikumar/
- Orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3212-2750
- ResearcherID http://www.researcherid.com/rid/N-2245-2014
- Web of Science https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1084256
- Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeevikumarpadmanaban/?originalSubdomain=dk