Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Ajay Kumar
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engg
Ph.D.(MNIT Jaipur), M.Tech (MNIT Jaipur), B.Tech (Kurukshetra University)
Contact Address
Permanent Address VPO - Ahmedwas, Tehsil - Loharu, District - Bhiwani, Haryana, PIN - 127201
Local Address Department of EEE, BIT Mesra Campus, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Phone (Office) +91-9001027101
Phone Residence +91-8000847605
Email Id ajaykumar.ee@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 16-Aug-2021

  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 1 Years

Research : 5 Years

  Professional Background
  1. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra. (Since August 2021).
  2. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. (Feb. 2021 – July 2021)
  3. Research Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Rajasthan. (July 2016 – July 2020)
  Research Areas
 
  1. Power Electronic Interface for Non-conventional Energy Sources
  2. Power Quality Issues: Static VAR Compensation, Active Filters, DSTATCOM
  3. Power Conversion and Management
  4. Control of DC and AC Micro grid Systems
  5. Grid-interactive Converters and their Control
  Award and Honours
 
  1. Best Paper Award in ‘IEEE 3rd International Conference on “Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation, and Control Technologies (ICICICT-2022).
  2. MHRD Fellowship for Ph.D. and M.Tech
  3. Awarded by Bharat Vikas Parisad Kaithal for first position in academic at university level. 
  4. Gold Medal for securing first position in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, HCTM Technical Campus, Kurukshetra University.
  Publications
 

List of Journal Publications

Total Number of Journal Publications: 18

Year 2023

  1. M. Morey, N. Gupta, M. M. Garg, and A. Kumar, “Performance Analysis of Voltage Sensorless based Controller for Two-stage Grid Connected Solar PV System,” International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS), Vol. 14, No. 01, pp. 444-452, March 2023 (SCOPUS).

Year 2022

  1. A. Kumar, N. Patel, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “L2 norm Enabled Adaptive LMS Control for Grid Connected Photovoltaic Converters,” IEEE Transaction on Industry Application, Vol. 55, No. 04, pp. 5328-5339, April 2022 (SCI, IF:4.07)
  2. A. Kumar, N. Patel, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Electronically Interfaced Photovoltaic System using ARM Cortex-M4 Microcontroller,” Computer and Electrical Engineering, an International Journal, Vol. 98, March 2022 (SCIE, IF:4.152)

Year 2021

  1. S. Jalan, B. C. Babu, N. Patel, A. Kumar, and N. Gupta, “A Novel Active Current Co-Efficient Extraction based Control for Grid-tied Solar Photovoltaic System”, IET Power Electronics, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 2099-2114, March 2021 (SCI, IF:2.112)

Year 2020

  1. N. Patel, A. Kumar, and N. Gupta, “Electronically Coupled Photovoltaic System with Grey Wolf Optimizer Enabled DC-link Voltage Control Loop”, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Vol. 30, No. 12, pp. 12648, Dec. 2020. (SCI, IF: 2.639)
  2. A. Kumar, N. Patel, N. Gupta, V. Gupta, and P. Davari, “Performance Enhancement of PV System under Grid Voltage Distortion Utilizing Total Least Square Scheme”, IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, No.14, pp. 3044-3055, Nov. 2020 (SCI, IF:2.112)
  3. N. Patel, N. Gupta, A. Kumar, and BC. Babu, “Pseudo Affine Projection Assisted Multitasking Approach for Power Quality Improvement in Grid-Interactive Photovoltaic (PV) System”, IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, No. 13, pp. 2905-2916, October 2020 (SCI, IF:2.112)
  4. A. Kumar, V. Gupta, N. Patel, N. Gupta, and B. C. Babu, “Improved Robust-Mixed-Norm Filtering Control for Power Quality Enhancement in Grid-tied Solar Photovoltaic System”, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 14, no. 13, pp 2610-2619, July 2020. (SCI, IF:2.503)
  5. A. Kumar, N. Patel, N. Gupta, V. Gupta, and B. C. Babu, “Active Power Coefficient Control for Grid-tied Photovoltaic System under Voltage Distortions”, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, Taylor and Francis. July 2020. (SCI, IF:2.902)
  6. N. Patel, A. Kumar, N. Gupta, and B. C. Babu, “Experimental Investigations on Voltage Sourced Inverter Interfaced Photovoltaic Based Distributed Generation System”, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, Taylor and Francis. June 2020. (SCI, IF:2.902)
  7. N. Patel, A. Kumar, N. Gupta, S. Ray, and B. C. Babu, “Optimized PI-4VPI Current Controller for Three-Phase Grid-integrated Photovoltaic Inverter under Grid Voltage Distortions”, IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 779-792, April. 2020. (SCI, IF:3.034)
  8. A. Kumar, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “Dynamic Performance Improvement of Grid Interfaced Solar Photovoltaic System using Feed-Forward Compensation”, Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 52-63, 2020. (SCOPUS)

Year 2019

  1. A. Kumar, N. Gupta, V. Gupta and B. C. Babu, “A Novel Orthogonal Current Decomposition Control for Grid-Connected Voltage Source Converter”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 7628-7641, Nov. 2019. (SCI, IF:4.07)
  2. A. Kumar, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “Experimental prototype of a novel feed forward compensation for DC-link voltage stabilization in grid-tied PV system’’, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-26, Jan. 2019. (SCIE, IF:2.639)

Year 2018

  1. A. Kumar N. Patel, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “Photovoltaic Power Generation in Indian Perspective Considering Off-grid and Grid-connected Systems”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1936-1950, Dec. 2017. (SCOPUS)
  2. N. Patel, N. Gupta, and A. Kumar, and A. K. Verma, “Multifunctional Grid Interactive Solar Photovoltaic System: A Comprehensive Review”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2116-2130, Dec. 2017. (SCOPUS)

Year 2017

  1. A. Kumar, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “A Comprehensive Review on Grid-Tied Solar Photovoltaic System’’, Journal of Green Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1&2, pp. 213-254, Sep. 2017. (SCOPUS)
  2. P. Anjana, A. Kumar, N. Gupta, V. Gupta, and H. Tiwari, “Optimization Based Shunt APF Controller to Mitigate Reactive Power, Burden of Neutral Conductor, Current Harmonics and Improve cos?”, Journal of Electrical Systems, Vol. 13, no.4, pp. 131-142, 2017. (SCOPUS)

List of Conference Publications

  1. M. Gupta, N. Gupta, M. M. Garg, and A. Kumar, “Analysis and Design of PI-Lead Compensator for DC-DC Boost Converter,” In 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), pp. 1-6. NIT Meghalaya, India, 2022.
  2. S. Sharma, N. Gupta, A. Kumar, and M. M. Garg, “Comparative Analysis of PI and PR Controller for Grid-tied Solar Photovoltaic System,” In 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), pp. 1-6, NIT Meghalaya, India, 2022.
  3. A. Kumar, N. Patel, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “L2 Norm Based Adaptive LMS Control for Grid Connected Converters” In 9th IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems Conference (PEDES-2020), MNIT Jaipur, India, 2020.
  4. N. Patel, A. Kumar and N. Gupta, “Real-Time Harmonic Filtering in Grid Interfaced Photovoltaic System Based on Adaptive NLMLS,” In 9th IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems Conference (PEDES-2020), MNIT Jaipur, India, 2020.
  5. A. Kumar, V. Gupta, N. Patel, and N. Gupta, “Regularized NLMS Control for Power Quality Improvement in Grid-connected PV Systems,” In The 46th International Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON-2020), Singapore, 2020.
  6. N. Patel, A. Kumar and N. Gupta, “Three-Phase Single-Stage VSC Controlled Solar Photovoltaic System with Harmonic Filtering Capability Applied to DG,” 2019 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Power and Energy Applications (ICPEA), pp. 238-242, Singapore, 2019.
  7. A. Kumar, V. Gupta, N. Gupta, and B. C. Babu, “Active Power Coefficient Based Control for Grid Connected PV Systems,” 2019 1st IEEE International Conference on Energy, Systems and Information Processing (IEEE ICESIP), IIITD&M Kancheepuram, Chennai, India, 2019.
  8. A. Kumar, R. Baranwal, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “Indirect Current Control of Single-stage Grid-tied Photovoltaic using PSO Assisted PI Controller,” 2018 8th IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), MNIT Jaipur, India, 2018.
  9. A. Kumar, N. Gupta, and V. Gupta, “A synchronization of PV source by using bacterial foraging optimization-based PI controller to reduce day-time grid dependency,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Techniques in Control, Optimization and Signal Processing (INCOS), Srivilliputhur, India, 2017.
  10. P. Kumar, A. Kumar, and V. Gupta, “Design and implementation of solar PV fed UPQC with advanced MPPT technique. In 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Control, Communication, and Information Systems (ICICCI) pp. 1-9, Noida, India, 2017.
  11. A. Kumar, P. Anjana, H. Tiwari, and V. Gupta, “Modified P-Q technique to mitigate power quality problems in distribution system,” 2016 IEEE 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), New Delhi, India, 2016, pp. 1-6.
  Member of Professional Bodies
 

Member of IEEE

  Current Sponsored Projects
 
    1. Science and Engineering Research Board Sponsored High-End workshop (KARYASHALA) on “Power Electronics Interface for Green Energy Sources and e-Mobility” from 18th July 2022 to 24th July 2022. (Sanctioned Amount - INR 5 Lacs) – Status: Completed
    2. Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India, Sponsored SEED MONEY SCHEME for "Flexible Current reference Generation Scheme with Ride Through Functionality for Grid Following PV Inverter" from July 2022 to July 2024) (Sanctioned Amount - INR 5 Lacs). Status: Ongoing
  Member, Editorial Board
 
  1. Faculty Advisor of IEEE Student Chapter, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi since July 2022