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Dr. Chandan Kumar

Assistant Professor
Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Contact: Room No. 212, New Extension Block, EEE Department IITGuwahati, Guwahati-781039, INDIA Phone: +91 3612583467 (O) Fax: +91-361-2582542


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Awards and Honours

§  Awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
§  Received"POSOCO Power Systems Award"for Doctoral Work in the year 2016
§  Highlighted as a top reviewer for the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN) published by Elsevier group for year 2015
§  One of the 50 scientists worldwide selected for Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Week 2014 atTechnische Universitat Munchen(TUM), Germany
§  Got research award at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India for year 2014 in recognition of Quality and Quantity of the Research Work
§  Received excellent Teaching Assistant award for year 2014 at IIT Madras, India
1. 
Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K. Mishra, Marco Liserre, “Design of external inductor for improving performance of voltage controlled DSTATCOM,"IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,vol.63, no.8, pp.4674-4682, Aug. 2016
2.  Chandan Kumar,Mahesh K Mishra, “Operation and control of an improved performance interactive DSTATCOM,"IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.62, no.10, pp. 6024-6034, Oct. 2015
3.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “Predictive voltage control of transformer less dynamic voltage restorer,"IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 2693-2697, May 2015
4.  M. V. Manoj Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra,Chandan Kumar, “A grid connected dual voltage source inverter with power quality improvement features,"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol.6, no.2, pp. 482-490, Apr. 2015
5.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “An improved hybrid DSTATCOM topology to compensate reactive and nonlinear loads,"IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 61, no. 12, pp. 6517-6527, Dec. 2014
6.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “A multifunctional DSTATCOM operating under stiff source,"IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 3131-3136, Jul. 2014
7.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “A voltage controlled DSTATCOM for power quality improvement,"IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1499-1507, Jun. 2014
8.  S Srinath,Chandan Kumar, M P Selvan, “A simple digital control algorithm for three phase shunt active filter: simulation and experimentation,”Frontiers in Energy, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 119-128, Mar. 2014.
Conference Publications
1.  Hrishikesan VM,Chandan Kumar,Marco Liserre, "Voltage Quality Improvement in Smart Transformer Integrated Distribution Grid," Accepted for publication in43nd Annual Conference of the IEEE,Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2017), Beijing, China, Oct./Nov., 2017
2.  Chandan Kumar,Rongwu Zhu, Marco Liserre, "Investigation of Load Compensation Features of Smart Transformer in Medium Voltage Grid," Accepted for publication in43nd Annual Conference of the IEEE,Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2017), Beijing, China, Oct./Nov., 2017
3.  Chandan Kumar,Giampaolo Buticchi, Marco Liserre, "Operation and Control of Smart Transformer-based Electric Vehicles Charging System,"Accepted for publication in43nd Annual Conference of the IEEE,Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2017), Beijing, China, Oct./Nov., 2017
4.  Chandan Kumar,Zhixiang Zou, MarcoLiserre, "Smart Transformer Application for Improving Performance of Loads in Partial Disconnection of MV/HV Power System"Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE 2016), Sept. 18-22, 2016, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
5.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K. Mishra, Marco Liserre,"LCL Filter Based UPQC Configuration for PowerQuality Improvement"IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM),July 17-21, 2016, Boston, MA, USA.
6.  Chandan Kumar, Marco Liserre, "A New Prospective of Smart Transformer application:DualMicrogrid (DMG) Operation,"41st Annual Conference of the IEEE,Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2015),Yokohama, Japan,Nov., 2015
7.  Chandan Kumar,Marco Liserre,"Smart Transformer for Improving Performance of Medium Voltage Power Distribution System,"6thIEEEInternational Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG2015),Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2015
8.  Chandan Kumar,Mahesh K Mishra, M. V. Manoj Kumar, “A Control Scheme to Enhance DSTATCOM Operation in Power Distribution System," 6thIEEEInternational Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG2015),Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2015
9.  Chandan Kumar,Mahesh K Mishra, M. V. Manoj Kumar , “Enhanced Utilization of Grid-Connected Inverter,"6thIEEEInternational Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG2015), Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2015
10.  M. V. Manoj Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra,Chandan Kumar, “A Dual Three-leg VSI Based DSTATCOM in Three Phase Four-Wire Distribution Systems,"6thIEEEInternational Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG2015),Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2015
11.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “Dual-functional DSTATCOM with flexible mode transfer for power quality improvement,"IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM),Washington DC (USA), pp. 1-5, Jul. 2014
12.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “A multi-functional DSTATCOM operating in voltage control mode,"IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Kandy (Sri Lanka), pp. 271-276, Dec. 2013
13.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “Energy conservation and power quality improvement with voltage controlled DSTATCOM,"IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), IIT Bombay (India), pp. 1-6, Dec. 2013
14.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “A modified DSTATCOM topology with reduced VSI rating, dc link voltage, and filter size,"IEEE International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), Alghero (Italy), pp. 325-331, Jun. 2013
15.  Chandan Kumar, Mahesh K Mishra, “A control algorithm for flexible operation of DSTATCOM for power quality improvement in voltage and current control mode,"IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES),Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (India), pp. 1-6, Dec. 2012
16.  S Srinath,Chandan Kumar, M P Selvan, “Digital feedback control based dynamic voltage compensator for voltage sag mitigation: simulation and experimental validation,”IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), IIT Madras (India), pp. 1-6, Aug. 2012
17.  S Srinath,Chandan Kumar, M P Selvan, “Dynamic voltage compensator: transformation less control perspective,”IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT),India, Kerala (India), pp. 65-70, Dec. 2011