Rajesh Gupta

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: rajeshgupta[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +91-532 2271410(O) +91 5322271739(R) +91-9415540587(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Chair in Conferences:

Chaired a session in IEEE PEDES 2020, Dec. 16-19, 2020, MNIT Jaipur, India

Chaired a session in IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2020), 5-7 June, 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chaired and organized sessions in IEEE IECON 2020, 18-21 Oct. 2020, (Online) Singapore.

Chaired sessions in IEEE PEDES 2018, Dec. 18-22, 2018, IIT Madras, Chennai, India

Chaired a session in IEEE IECON 2015, Nov. 09-12, 2015, Yokohama Japan.

Chaired a session in IEEE TENCON 2014, Oct. 23-25, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand.

Chaired a session in IEEE ISIE 2014, June 1-4, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.

Chaired two sessions in IEEE ISIE 2012, May 27-31, 2012, Hangzhau, China.

Chaired a session in an International Conference “IEEE PEDES 2010 & 2010 Power India Conference”, New Delhi, Dec 20-23, 2010.

Chaired a session in an International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Kolkata, India, Dec. 3-5, 2007.

Chaired a session in an International Conference IEEE INDICON 2008, IIT

49th Annual Conf. of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON 2023), 16-19 Oct. 2023, Singapore

11th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC 2023), 14-17 Dec. 2023, IIT Guwahati , India

9th IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE-2023)

7th Int. Conf. on Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering-Recent Advances (CERA 2023), 27-29 Oct. 2023, IIT Roorkee, India

47th Annual Conf. of IEEE Ind. Electronics (IECON 2021), 13-16 Oct. 2021, (Online) Canada

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:: IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) General meeting 2006, Montreal Canada, 18-22 June 2006.; IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) General meeting 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 20-24 July 2008.; IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe 2010, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-12 Oct. 2010.; 20th IEEE Int. Symp. on Industrial Electronics 2011 (ISIE 2011), June 27-30, 2011, Gdansk, Poland.; 21st IEEE Int. Symp. on Industrial Electronics 2012 (ISIE 2012), May 27-31, 2012, Hongzhau, China.; 23rd IEEE Int. Symp. on Industrial Electronics 2014 (ISIE 2014), June 01-04, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.; IEEE TENCON 2014, Oct. 23-25, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand.; 41st Annual Conf. of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON 2015), Nov. 09-12, 2015, Yokohama Japan.; IEEE TENCON 2016, Nov. 22-25, 2016, Singapore.; 45th Annual Conf. of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON 2019), Oct. 14-17, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.; 46th Annual Conf. of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON 2020), 18-21 Oct. 2020, (Online) Singapore; 49th Annual Conf. of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON 2023), 16-19 Oct. 2023, Singapore; 11th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC 2023), 14-17 Dec. 2023, IIT Guwahati , India; 9th IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE-2023); 7th Int. Conf. on Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering-Recent Advances (CERA 2023), 27-29 Oct. 2023, IIT Roorkee, India; 1st IEEE Industrial Electronics Online Conference (ONCON 2022), 9-11 Dec. 2022; 47th Annual Conf. of IEEE Ind. Electronics (IECON 2021), 13-16 Oct. 2021, (Online) Canada

Award and Honors:: Serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, since 2021.; Listed in top 2% Scientist in the World under the category, Electrical & Electronics, by Stanford University, 2020.; Outstanding Section Volunteer award by IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section for year 2014.; Outstanding Branch Counselor award by IEEE in R-10 for year 2013.; Best Paper Award in International Conference on Advance Computing & Communication Systems, Coimbatore, India, Dec. 19-21, 2013.; Two Ph.D. student and Two M. Tech. students conferred Best Doctoral and Masters category in POSOCO Power System Award (2014, 2015 and 2016) in top 25 list.; 1st Prize Winner- VI MANTRA CONTEST 2006, Best solution in the field of Computer Based Measurement and Automation, 5th National Conference on Virtual Instrumentation in Engineering Education, Bangalore, organized by National Instruments, (India), The solution titled, “FPGA control of multilevel converters for active power filters used in electrical power distribution system”.Nov. 2006.; Paper selected for the best-of book of the AMSE conferences held in 2007 at Int. Conf. on Modelling and Simulation, Kolkata, India, Dec. 3-5, 2007.; The following solution appeared in the “TOP-10 Customer Solutions Contest-2005 Booklet” Published by National Instruments, (India), Nov. 2005, titled, “FPGA based closed loop control of compensators for electrical distribution system”.; Cash Award of Rs. 20,000.00 given by DRPG, IIT Kanpur for publishing papers in the Journal listed by ISI Web of Science, under the scheme Cash Award for Journal Publication 2006-07.; Biography Included in 2000 Outstanding Scientists 2008/09, 2010/11 for International Biographical Centre (IBC) leading scientists of the world 2008, St. Thomas Place, Great Britain.; Listed in top 2% Scientist in the World under the category, Electrical & Electronics, by Stanford University, consecutively from 2020 to 2023, published in Elsevier data base.

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:: Coordinator of the short term course on, Power Electronics and Renewable Integration for Consumer Applications (PERICA-2020), organized by Electrical Engineering Department during the period from Sept. 16-20, 2020.; Chairman, IEEE Sponsored 5th Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2019), May 29-31, 2019, Allahabad, India.; Coordinator of the short term course on “Modeling and Simulation of Renewable Energy Systems”, jointly organized by Electrical Engineering Department MNNIT and NITTTR Chandigarh, May 28-June 01, 2018.; Convener of NaMPET sponsored Short Term Course on “Advances in Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Resources (APERER-2017), organized by Electrical Engineering Department, July 21-23, 2017.; Convener of the National Workshop on “Photovoltaics: Technology and Business Overview (PTBO - 2017)”, organized jointly by Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering, during March 04-06, 2017.; Coordinator of the short term course on "Power Conversion of Renewable Energy Resources (PCRER)" organized by Electrical Engineering Department during the period from Jan. 29-Feb.03, 2015.; Organizing Chairman of “IEEE Sponsored 2014 International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2014)”, Dec. 26-28, 2014, Allahabad, India.; Coordination Committee Chairman (Coordinator), IEEE Sponsored 2014 3rd Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2014), May 28-30, 2014, Allahabad, India. (IEEE Conference Record # 33522); Organizing Chairman (Convener), IEEE Sponsored 2013 2nd Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2013), April 12-14, 2013, Allahabad, India. (IEEE Conference Record # 30980); Organizing Chairman (Convener), IEEE Sponsored 2012 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2012), March 16-18, 2012, Allahabad, India. (IEEE Conference Record # 20125); Program Co-chair of “IEEE Sponsored 2010 International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2010)”, Nov. 28-Dec.01, 2011, Allahabad, India.; Coordinator of the short term course on "Electrical Power Control (EPC)" organized by Electrical Engineering Department during the period from July 18-22, 2013.; Coordinator of the short term course on "Solar and Wind Power Conversion (SWPC)" organized by Electrical Engineering Department during the period from July 12-16, 2013.; Coordinator of the “Workshop on Virtual Instrumentation & Its Applications (WVIA 09)” from March 18 - 20, 2009 organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, MNNIT, Allahabad and sponsored by TEQIP, MNNIT & National Instruments, India.; Coordinator of the “IEEE Sponsored Seminar on Electric Power Conversion” held on Oct. 17, 2008 organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, MNNIT, Allahabad.

On-going Projects:: DST FIST project, Titled: To strengthen the research facilities in the Department, 2022-2012, Rs. 141 Lakhs, STATUS: Ongoing; Rajesh Gupta, Research Project of Rs. 30.7098 Lakhs under National Mission on Power Electronics Technology Phase-III (NaMPET-III) programme (No. 25(6)/2020-ESDA), CDAC(T), MeitY, Titled: Solar PV supported Reconfigurable EV charger with Reduced Switching Devices, July 2022- Jan. 2023. STATUS: Ongoing

Projects Completed:: Rajesh Gupta, Research Project of Rs. 26.985 Lakh by MNRE, New Delhi, Hybrid DC Micro Grid System for Future Residential-Rural Electrification, Sanction No. 24/20/2015-SWES (R&D), dated: 24/06/2016, 2016-2018. STATUS: Completed; Rajesh Gupta, Research Project of Rs. 20.46 Lakh by CSIR, New Delhi, Power Electronics Converter Based Bidirectional Power Flow Controller for Energy Storage Applications, Sanction No. 22(0691)/15/EMR-II Dated 18Th June, 2015, Dec. 2015- March 2019. STATUS: Completed; Rajesh Gupta, Research Project of 34.84 Lakh by SERC, DST, New Delhi (No. SR/S3/EECE/0053/2012), Titled: Solar Photovoltaic Array Power Conversion using Embedded Cascaded Multilevel Inverter, Sept. 2012- April 2016. STATUS: Completed; Rajesh Gupta, Research Project of Rs. 1.0 lacs by R & C, MNNIT, Allahabad. Titled: Design of Intelligent Power Modules for Multilevel Inverters Used as Power Converter for PV Solar Panel. STATUS: Completed; Officer in-Charge of DST FIST project as O/C Power Electronics Lab. Titled: To augment post-graduate teaching and research facilities in Power Electronics Laboratory, 2007-2012, STATUS: Completed

Consultancy(Past):: Vetting of Electro mechanical Equipments for 4-number of water supply projects located in Mirzapur & Jhansi Dist., UP, for state water and sanitization mission projects.; Development of Electric Crematoriums at various districts in Uttar Pradesh

Overseas Assignments:: Training programme at Energy and Power Electronics Applied Research Laboratory (ePEARL), in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada from May 17, 2008 to May 31, 2008, Visited following department in Canada (i) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGrill University, Montreal, Canada (ii) Department of Electrical Engineering, ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE (ETS), Montreal, Canada (iii) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada (iv) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:: Reviewer for the Journals (i) IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, (ii) IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, (iii IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, (iv) IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications (v). IET Power Electronics (vi). IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conferences (viii) Other reputed International Journals and Conferences

Other Significant Achievements:: Faculty Counselor, IEEE Student Branch, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, from 2011-2016.; Member executive committee IEEE UP Section since 2008 till 2016.; Convener Student Activities, IEEE UP Section for the year 2013 and 2014; Secretary of Joint Chapter of IEEE on Industrial Electronics/Power Electronics/Control System at MNNIT Allahabad for the year 2010 and 2012.; Vice-Chairman of Joint Chapter of IEEE on Industrial Electronics/Power Electronics/Control System at MNNIT Allahabad for the year 2013, 2019 to till date; Vice-Chairman, IEEE UP Section for the year 2015.; Joint Secretary, IEEE UP Section for the year 2011 and 2012.