DEEPAK KUMAR

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: deepak_kumar[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +91-532-2271401(O)

Other Academic Achievements

Chair in Conferences:

Publication Chair, 2020 IEEE 7th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 27th - 29th November, 2020

Conference Chair, 2020 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 10th -12th July, 2020

Technical Program Chair, 2019 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 29th - 31st May, 2019

Tutorial and Keynote Chair, 2015 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 6th - 8th November, 2015

Organizing Secretary, 3rd International Conference on Power Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES-2014) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 26th - 28th December, 2014

Technical & Keynote Chair, 2014 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 28th - 30th May, 2014

Publication Secretary, 2nd International Conference on Power Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES-2012) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 17th -19th December, 2012

Associate Editor, 2019 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC-2019)

Associate Editor, 2020 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC-2020)

Associate Editor, 2022 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC-2022)

Technical Program Chair, 5th International Conference on Power Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES-2023), MNNIT Allahabad, India, 06th - 08th January, 2023

Technical Program Co-Chair, 3rd Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference (EPREC-2022)

Technical Program Committee member, 2nd Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference (EPREC-2021)

Technical Program Co-Chair, 4th Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference (EPREC-2023)

Technical Program Co-Chair, 9th IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON-2022)

Technical Program Chair, 2024 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 21st - 23rd June, 2024

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:: 2020 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), Gold Coast, Australia, 26 - 27 November 2020; 2019 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Kochi, Kerala, 17th - 20th October 2019; 2017 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), Gold Coast, Australia, 17 - 20 November 2017; 2015 10th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 31 May – 3 June, 2015; 2014 International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON2014), Thailand, March 19–21, 2014; 2014 18th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), Guwahati, India, 18th – 20th December, 2014; 2013 IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Mumbai. India, 13th – 15th December 2013; 2012 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Singapore, 18 – 20 July 2012; 2011 National Systems Conference (NSC), IIT Bhubaneswar; 2010 National Systems Conference (NSC), NIT Surathkal; 2012 2nd International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, IISc Banglore; 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2022), 04- 07 May 2022; 5th International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICCIS 2023), 16th -17th December, 2023 at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India

Award and Honors:: Postdoctoral fellowship by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Year 2016; Senior Research fellowship by Ministry of Human Resource and Development (M.H.R.D.), Government of India, 2009 - 2012; GATE fellowship by Ministry of Human Resource and Development (M.H.R.D.) and University Grants Commission (U.G.C.), Government of India, 2007 - 2009; Best Paper Award by International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Taylor & Francis, of the Year 2021 for the paper: Sonker, B., Kumar, D. and Samuel, P., 2019. Design of two degree of freedom-internal model control configuration for load frequency control using model approximation. International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, 39(1), pp.27-37. on 12/2021

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:: Conference Chair, 2020 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES) held at MNNIT Allahabad, India, 10th - 12th July, 2020.; Convener, One-Week Online Short Term Course on Future trends in Wide Area-based Power Systems Control and Protection (WACP–2020), October 13–17, 2020 at Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad.; Convener, Summer Internship Program in Electrical Engineering (SIPEE-2018), 11th June - 6th July 2018 at Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad.; Convener, Five days AICTE-ATAL-Sponsored Online Faculty Development Programme on “Smart Cities for Sustainable Development”, organized by Electrical Engg. Department, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India during 7th – 11th March 2022.

On-going Projects:: Design of two-dimensional digital filters using finite-frequency reduced-order modelling, Project coordinator: Dr. Deepak Kumar (PI); Funding agency: SERB-DST, Govt. of India; Sanction of the project: Sanction No. MTR/2021/000722, dated 14-01-2022, Duration: Three years; Status of the project: Ongoing; Total Budget: Rs. 6,60,000 /-

Projects Completed:: Frequency-Weighted Model Reduction and its Applications, Project coordinator: Prof. Victor Sreeram (PI) and Dr. Deepak Kumar (Co-PI); Funding agency: SERB-DST, Govt. of India; Sanction of the project: Sanction No. SB/SO/PDF-262/2015-16, Duration: One year; Status of the project: Completed; Total Budget: Rs. 27,50,570 /-

Consultancy(Past):: Party: RITES LTD., Vigilance Cell, Gurgaon. Project/Type of Work: Testing of Electrical Samples e.g. PVC conduit 25 mm diameter, Copper wire 2.5 sq. mm, Copper wire 4 sq. mm, LT cable 1.1 kV Aluminum, 4C X 10 sq. mm as per respective IS codes. Consultancy project no. CP/121/Sept/2021-22/30-09-2021, Charges: Rs. 64,900/-, Completed on 04-01-2021; Party: NCC Limited, RO-Lucknow, Project/Type of Work: Vetting of Electromechanical Design and Drawings for “Construction of Patwadh group of villages water supply scheme in villages, District – Sonbhadra with relevant works including Commissioning and Operation & Maintenance for 10 Years”. Consultancy project no. CP/235/Sept/2022-23, Dated: 22/09/2022, Charges: Rs. 1,18,000/-, Completed on 18-11-2022

Expert Lectures:: On "Fractional Order Control and Model Reduction" in the One-week AICTE sponsored Online Short-term Training Program (STTP) on “Fractional-order robust control system design (Series – III)” from 15th - 20th March 2021.; On "Reduced-order modeling and development of Balanced truncation" in the One-week AICTE sponsored Online Short-term Training Program (STTP) on “Fractional-order robust control system design (Series – III)” from 15th - 20th March 2021.; On "Balanced Truncation based Frequency-weighted Model Order Reduction" Online faculty development program on ‘Recent Trends in Research & Opportunities in Electrical and Electronic Engineering’ (Under E & ICT Academy at National Institute of Technology Patna), 15-March-2021 to 23-March-2021; On "Model order reduction and its application in Power System" in One-Week Online Short Term Course on Future trends in Wide Area-based Power Systems Control and Protection (WACP-2020), October 13-17, 2020; On "Introduction to Control System toolbox and Model Order Reduction through MATLAB" at Short term training programme on Simulation and Mathematical Tools for Engineering Applications (SMTEA –2015), KNIT Sultanpur, 27th – 31st July, 2015; On "Reduced Order Modelling for Nonlinear Systems" at Short term Course on Nonlinear Control and their applications (NLCA–2014), Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad, India, 12th – 16th November 2014; On "A review of model order reduction techniques" at Advanced Control Systems (ACS–2013), Electrical Engineering Department, MNNIT Allahabad, India, 8th – 12th July 2013; On “Smart City and its Components” in AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) sponsored one week online Faculty Development Program on “Smart Cities for Sustainable Development” organized by Electrical Engg. Department, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India during 7th – 11th March 2022.; On "Reduced-order modelling using finite frequency Gramians and truncated balanced realization" in the Five Days Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on “Lab-Market 1.0, Recent Trends in Engineering” from 9th - 13th December 2023, at Department of Electrical Engineering, Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur (Rajasthan)

Overseas Assignments:: Postdoctoral fellow, School of Engineering, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2017-2018; Visiting Researcher, School of Engineering, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, September 2018 (Two weeks); Visiting Researcher, School of Engineering, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, November 2015 (One week)

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:: Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor & Francis; Electric Power Components and Systems, Sage; IETE Journal of Research, Taylor & Francis; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs; Asian Journal of Control, Willey; International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Willey; Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, Springer; IET Control Theory & Applications; Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Elsevier; International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Hindawi; Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Elsevier; IEEE Systems Journal; Journal of the Franklin Institute, Elsevier; Journal of Mathematics, Hindawi; Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier; International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Willey; ISA Transactions, Elsevier; IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Oxford University Press; Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier