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.

Email: amritesh@ee.nits.ac.in

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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. 

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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.