Dr B K Panigrahi
Dr. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi has been working as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2005 and was the founder head of Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He is the Indu Shrivastava & Serla Singh Chair Professor in Artificial Intelligence at IIT Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he served as a faculty in Electrical Engineering Department, University College of Engineering, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India from 1992 to 2005. His research focus is the design and develop artificial intelligence-based tools for the detection and classification of power quality events, fault diagnostics of induction motor drives, diagnostics of electric vehicle motors. He has investigated intelligent techniques for the design of maximum power point tracking controllers for the solar photovoltaic system. Professor Panigrahi is also actively involved in the research area of energy management in smart grid, EV charging infrastructures, impact of fast charging on the grid, EV battery technology, Battery Management Systemsetc. Heis mentor of many startups working in the area of EV charger design, Battery pack design and IoT devices for EVs. Dr Panigrahi has published more than 750 research articles in various international journals and conference proceedings. He is serving as the editorial board member / associate editor/ special issue guest editor of different international journals published by IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer etc. He is also associated with various international conferences in various capacities. He is a fellow of IEEE, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association(AAIA).