Dr. Amritesh Kumar

Assistant Professor, NIT Silchar

Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Silchar

[Founder & Incharge of the APEC LAB]

Specialization area : Electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Design and development of power converters/inverters and its application in renewable energy sources, Grid connected photovoltaic system, Multilevel systems, Power quality issues, AC–DC microgrids, Distributed and coordinated control of microgrid.

Dr. Amritesh Kumar, PhD '17, is Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology, Silchar (NIT Silchar). He was born in 1986 in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, India. He completed his 10th class from May Flower School, Patna and 12th from Delhi Public School, Ranchi, Jharkhand. He completed B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from SASTRA University, Tamilnadu, India in 2009. He obtained M.Tech in Power Electronics and Drives from BITS PILANI, India in 2011. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2017 from Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi college of Engineering, Delhi, India. Along with the research works, he also worked as an Assistant Professor at Delhi Technological University (DTU) from 2013 to mid June 2018. Then he joined NIT Silchar and serving there as an Assistant professor from 18th June, 2018 onwards.

Resource Person in Conference/FDP/Webinar

Acts as Resource person in AICTE sponsored Short-term training program on “Augmentation of SMART Materials and Technologies for Commercial Energy Harvestation” held on 23rd Nov- 12th December, 2020 at Kongu Engineering College.
Act as a reviewer in 6th Students’ Conference on Engineering & Systems(SCES-2020) held in July 10-12,2020 at Department of Electrical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India.
Act as a session chair in 6th Students’ Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES-2020) on “S24 –Mechanical systems and Mechatronics” held in July 10-12, 2020, at Department of Electrical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India.
Act as a session chair in “3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards clean Energy technologies (ICEPE 2020)” held in March 5-7, 2021, at National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Shillong, India.
Act as a session chair in “9th IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) 2020” held in Dec 16-19, 2021, at MNIT, Jaipur, India.
AICTE Sponsored Six Days Online STTP on “Digital Controllers for Power Electronics Applications” held on August 3-8, 2020, at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Syed Ammal Engineering College Ramanathapuram.
One Week Online Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering (RAEE-2020)” held on June 03-07, 2020, at VEMU Institute of Technology
TEQIP-III sponsored online FDP on Engineering Next Generation Technology for Humanity (ENGTH-2020) held on August 05-09, 2020, at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Motihari college of Engineering, Motihari.
One week TEQIP-111 sponsored FDP on “Power Electronics and Drive systems” held in Aug 26-30th ,2019 at Department of Electrical Engineering, Girijananda chowdhury institute of management and technology (GIMT), Guwahati, Assam.
TEQIP-111 sponsored two day expert lecture on “Control and operation of power electronics switches in renewable energy resources” held in Sept 27-28th, 2019 at Department of Electrical Engineering, MCE, MOTIHAI, Bihar.
One week FDP on “Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering” held in June 3-7th , 2020 at Department of Electrical Engineering, VEMU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, P.Kothakota, Chittoor.
One day webinar on “Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Grid/Off-Grid PV Application for Developing EV Charging Infrastructure” held in July 25th , 2020 at The Institution of Engineers (India), SILCHAR LOCAL CENTRE.
ICEPE 2020 Special Session chair on "Power Electronics Interfaces and their control for Distributed Energy Resources, Storage Systems and Electric vehicle" held in Sept 4-6th , 2020 at National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Shillong, India.
TPC member for conference on “ICSEM” held in Aug 21-22th , 2020 at College of engineering roorkee, Uttrakhand.
Chair a session on "Mechanical Systems and Mechatronics" for SCES 2020 held at MNIT Allahabad during 10-12th July, 2020.

Awards & Achievements

Mentored students for zonal and central level in ANVESHAN 2.0 on topic “Photovoltaic Based Sustainable Controlled Electrical Heating for Tea Processing” in Feb 2020.
Awarded POSOCO Power System (PPSA-2018) award under doctoral category for excellence in research work at Delhi Technological University.
Awarded under Premium Research category at Delhi Technological University for the year 2018 for Publication in IEEE Transactions.
Awarded under Commendable Research category at Delhi Technological University for the year 2017 for Publication in IEEE Transactions.
Awarded VEL TECH Merit Scholarship for excellence in academics at BITS PILANI in 2010.
Awarded GATE Merit Scholarship in academics at BITS PILANI in 2011.

FDP/WEBINAR/SHORT TERM COURSE ORGANIZED

One week TEQIP-111 sponsored workshop Programme on “Power Electronics Application to Industrial Systems” held in Sep 07-11th , 2020 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar.
One week TEQIP-111 sponsored workshop Programme on “Challenges in Operation and Control of Distributed Energy Resources (COCDER’19)” held in July 26-30th , 2019 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar.
One week TEQIP-111 sponsored workshop Programme on “Fractional Order Systems and Their Applications(FOSTA - 2019)” held in Aug 16-20th , 2019 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar

Publications

1. A. K. Dubey, J. P. Mishra and A. Kumar, "Modified CCF Based Shunt Active Power Filter Operation With Dead-Band Elimination for Effective Harmonic and Unbalance Compensation in 3-Phase 3-Wire System," in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 2131-2142, June 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2021.3104828.

2. Dubey, Alok Kumar, Jyoti Prakash Mishra, and Amritesh Kumar. "Performance improvement of shunt active power filter under variable grid frequency condition using complex coefficient filter‐frequency locked loop." International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 49, no. 4 (2021): 1164-1181.

3. Chilakalapudi, Ganesh, and Amritesh Kumar. "Optimal reactive power control for dual‐active‐bridge converter using improved dual‐phase‐shift modulation strategy for electric vehicle application." International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (2022).

4. Verma, Vishal, and Amritesh Kumar. "Cascaded multilevel active rectifier fed three-phase smart pump load on single-phase rural feeder." IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 32, no. 7 (2016): 5398-5410.

5. Kumar, Amritesh, and Vishal Verma. "Analysis and control of improved power quality single‐phase split voltage cascaded converter feeding three‐phase OEIM drive." IET Power Electronics 10, no. 8 (2017): 903-910.

6. Kumar, Amritesh, and Vishal Verma. "Performance enhancement of single-phase grid-connected PV system under partial shading using cascaded multilevel converter." IEEE Transactions on industry applications 54, no. 3 (2018): 2665-2676.

7. Kumar, Amritesh, and Vishal Verma. "Photovoltaic-grid hybrid power fed pump drive operation for curbing the intermittency in PV power generation with grid side limited power conditioning." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 82 (2016): 409-419.

8. A. Kumar and V.Verma, "Photovoltaic-grid hybrid power fed pump drive operation for curbing the intermittency in PV power generation with grid side limited power conditioning," in International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (Elsevier) Volume 82, Pages 409-419, November 2016. Impact factor : 3.289.