Academic Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in 2021 from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi.

         Title of Thesis: Development of Multi Agent Evolutionary Algorithm based Fractional Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant

• M.E. (Electrical Engineering) in 2010 from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi.

          Specialization: Control Systems

• B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from AKTU, Uttar Pradesh.

Teaching Experience:

16 years at B.I.T. Mesra, Ranchi, Off-Campus Deoghar, Jharkhand

Ph.D. Supervision:

M.TECH. Supervision

Institute-level Administrative Responsibilities:

1. In-Charge, Dept. of Electrical Supply and Maintenance, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2021-2022 and 2025 to till-date)
2. Chairman, Electrical Maintenance, UPS and AC Committee, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2025 to till-date)
3. Member, Training & Placement Cell, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2025 to till-date)
4. Member, Student Disciplinary Committee, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2026 to till-date)
5. Member, Admission Committee 2026.
6. Member, Admission Committee 2025.
7. Department/Off-Campus Policy Committee, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2025 to till-date)
8. Member, IEEE Student Chapter, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2025- till-date)
9. Member, Institution Innovation Council (2025 to till-date)
10. Member, Institute Budget Committee, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2025 to till-date)
11. Member, Value Education Cell, BIT Mesra, Ranchi (2023-2024)
12. Member, Institution Innovation Council, BITU Mesra Ranchi (2023-2024)
13. Chairperson, Value Education Cell, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2022)
14. Assistant Hostel Warden, Boys Hostel-1, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2021-2022)
15. Cultural Coordinator, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2020-2022)
16. Department Policy Committee, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2022)

Department Level Administrative Responsibilities:

1. In-Charge, Dept. of EEE, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2025 to till-date)
2. ERP Coordinator, Dept. of EEE, BIT Mesra Ranchi (2023 to 2024)
3. Time table coordinator, Dept. of EEE, BIT Mesra Ranchi (2023 to 2024)
4. Member, NBA activity, Dept. of EEE, BIT Mesra Ranchi (2024)
5. Coordinator, Syllabus revision of Control System group, Dept. of EEE, BIT Mesra Ranchi (2024)
6. In-Charge, Dept. of EEE, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2021 to 2022)
7. ERP Coordinator, Dept. of EEE, BIT Off-Campus Deoghar (2020 to 2022 and 2025 to till-date)
8. Faculty In-Charge, Control System Lab. (2025 to till-date)

Courses Taught:

Course Revision and Lab Development:

1. Member of the committee for development of Electric Vehicle Lab, Dept. of EEE, BIT Mesra, Ranchi in 2024.
2. Course revision of the following courses in 2024.
   • Machine Learning,
   • Process and Measurement Control,
   • Physiological Control
   • Applied Control lab
3. Proposed a new course ‘Introduction to Autonomous Vehicle’ in 2024.
4. Development of Simulation Lab, Control System Lab, Basic Electrical Engineering Lab at BIT Off-Campus Deoghar.

Workshop/FDP Organized:

Fractional Order PID Controller, Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Autonomous Vehicle, Machine Learning.

Awards:

• Best Paper Award in 2024 in the IEEE International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (ICMICA-2023) organized by NIT Kurukshetra and sponsored by IEEE Delhi section
• Best Paper Award in 2019 in the International Conference on Emerging Trends for Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, sponsored by Springer, TEQIP-III and Typhoon HIL.

Honours:

• Elevated to Senior Member IEEE in 2024.
• Reviewer of reputed journals of IEEE, Elsevier and Springer.

Fellowships:

• MHRD scholarship for GATE 2007.

Resource Person/Invited Talks:

External Examiner:

• External Examiner for project viva-voce at University Polytechnic, BIT Mesra Ranchi on 08-05-2023.

2026

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Manish Kumar, D.S. Acharya, Pankaj Mishra, “Safe Reinforcement Learning based load Frequency Control for Low-Inertia Renewable Multi-Microgrid Systems using MPC Safety Layer”, 5^th International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET-2026), NIT Patna, 21-22 November 2026, (Accepted)
2. Manish Kumar, D.S. Acharya, Pankaj Mishra, “Design of Multi-Stage Fractional Controller using Hybrid Q-Learning and Differential Evolution for Load Frequency Control of Islanded Multi-Microgrid System”, 4^th Odisha International Conference on Electrical Power Engineering, Communication and Computing Technology (ODICON 2026), DOI:10.1109/ODICON66687.2026.11506261 . 

2025

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. S. Chintala, S Cheepiri, V Kokkisa, J Kolluri, D. S. Acharya, “Transparent Parkinsons’s Risk Assessment via XGBoost and SHAP Explanations”, 7^th IEEE International Conference on Cybenetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications (ICCCMLA-2025), 1-2 November, Elmshorn, Germany, 2025.
2. S. Chintala, M. Jagadheesh, K. Akshith, D. S. Acharya, “Obesity Prediction using Adaptive Moment Estimation Optimizer”, 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electrical, Electronics and Computing Technologies, 30-31 October, Warangal, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICRTEECT67512.2025.11448964
3. Manish Kumar, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Pankaj Mishra, “Design of Multi-stage Fractional-Order Controller for Load Frequency Control of Islanded Multi-Microgrid System”, International Conference on Recent Innovations and Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computing (RITEEC-2025), NIT Patna, May 2025.
4. Harideo Ram, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Shradha Kishore “Design of Multi-stage FOPD(1+PI) Controller for Stabilization of Magnetic Levitation Plant”, International Conference on Recent Innovations and Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computing (RITEEC-2025), NIT Patna, May 2025.
5. Harideo Ram, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Shradha Kishore “A Multi-Agent Symbiotic Organisms Search based Modified Fractional-Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant”, IEEE Fourth Conference onPower, Control and Computing technologies (ICPC2T-2025), NIT Raipur, January 20-22, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICPC2T63847.2025.10958718
6. Manish Kumar, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Pankaj Mishra, “Mitigating Low Inertia Challenges in Renewable Energy Based Microgrids: A Survey”, IEEE 1^st Conference on Smart and Sustainable Developments in Electrical Engineering (SSDEE), 28 Feb. – 2 March, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/SSDEE64538.2025.10967724
7. Sridhar Chintala, Ashok Nimmala, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Vishwanath Bijalwan, “Intelligent Farming: Crop Recommendation System Powered by Decision Tree Classification”, Internation Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies (ACT-2025), 7-8 February, 2025.
8. S. Chintala, S. Cheepiri, T. Kokkula, D. S. Acharya, V. Bijalwan and T. Radhika “Heart Attack Prediction using Random Forest”, Seventh International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Technologies (CCICT-2025), 11-12 April, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/CCICT65753.2025.00038

2024

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Divyangini Gyani, Debomita Ghosh, Deep Shekhar Acharya, “Decisive unsurpassed arrangement of PV panels for diverse Indian climatic zones”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICMICA), NIT Kurukshetra, May 3-5, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICMICA61068.2024.10732219

2023

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Amit Kumar Sahoo, Sudhansu Kumar Mishra, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Sarbani Chakraborty, Subrat Kumar Swain, “A Comparative Evaluation of a set of Bio-Inspired Optimisation Algorithms for Design of Two-DOF Robust FO-PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant”, Electrical Engineering, Springer (Q2, SCIE, IF: 1.9), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-023-01867-7 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Divyangini Gyani, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Debomita Ghosh, “Deciphering Solar Potential and Sustainability-A Comparative Study of Indian Subcontinent”, Second International Conference on Trends in Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (TEECCON), IEEE, August, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TEECCON59234.2023.10335878

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. N. K. Rajalwal, D. S. Acharya*, “Evolutionary Algorithms for Load Frequency Control of Renewable Microgrid”, In: Smart Grid 3.0: Computational and Communication Technologies, pp. 153-184, Springer, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38506-3_7 (*Corresponding Author)

2022

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Deep Shekhar Acharya*, Sudhansu Kumar Mishra, Subrat Kumar Swain, Subhojit Ghosh, “Real-Time Implementation of Fractional-Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant with Time Delay”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 71, pp. 1-11, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2022.3218566  (Q1, SCIE, IF: 5.9) (*Corresponding Author)

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Gyani, Divyangini, Sonal Sonal, Sourav Kumar Sahu, Debomita Ghosh, Pankaj Mishra, and Deep Shekhar Acharya, ‘Data-Driven Apprehension of Cyber and Physical Anomalies in Distribution System’, 2^nd IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Energy, Signal Processing and Cyber Security (iSSSC-2022), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/iSSSC56467.2022.10051628

2021

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Deep Shekhar Acharya*, Sudhansu Kumar Mishra and Ganapati Panda, “A Comparative Performance Assessment of Evolutionary Fractional Order PID Controllers for Magnetic Levitation Plant with Time Delay”, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-NISCAIR), Vol. 80, no. 4, 2021. DOI:  http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/57478  (Q2, SCIE, IF: 0.8) (*Corresponding Author)

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. D. S. Acharya and Srihari Gude, “A Multi-Objective Sliding Mode Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant”, In: Advances in Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, December 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7675-1_17 
2. D. S. Acharya, S. K. Mishra, Shudit Kumar and Shubham Kumar, “Design of 2-Degree of Freedom Fractional Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant with Time Delay”,  In: Advances in Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, December 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7675-1_15 
3. D. S. Acharya, S. K. Mishra, B. Sarkar and D. Bharti, “Fractional Order Particle Swarm Optimization to optimize a Fractional Order PID Controller for a Vertical Take-Off and Landing System”, In: Advances in Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, December 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7675-1_14 

2020

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Deep Shekhar Acharya* and Sudhansu Kumar Mishra, "A multi-agent based symbiotic organisms search algorithm for tuning fractional order PID controller" Measurement, Elsevier, Vol. 155, 107559, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2020.107559 (Q1, SCIE, IF: 5.6) (*Corresponding Author)
2. D. S. Acharya*, S. K. Swain and S. K. Mishra, "Real-Time Implementation of a Stable 2 DOF PID Controller for Unstable Second-Order Magnetic Levitation System with Time Delay", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue. 8, pp: 6311-6329, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-020-04425-6 (Q1, SCIE, IF: 2.9) (*Corresponding Author)
3. Deep Shekhar Acharya* and Sudhansu Kumar Mishra, "Optimal Consensus Recovery of Multi-agent System Subjected to Agent Failure", International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2050017, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218213020500177  (Q3, SCIE, IF: 1.0) (*Corresponding Author)

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. D. S. Acharya, Baishali Sarkar, Divya Bharti, 'A Fractional Order Particle Swarm Optimization for tuning a Fractional Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant', 1st IEEE Conference on Measurement Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICMICA-2020), NIT Kurukshetra, June 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICMICA48462.2020.9242792
2. D. S. Acharya, Srihari Gude, Shudit Kumar, Shubham Kumar, "An Integral Sliding Mode Controller for Vertical Take-Off and Landing System", IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics & IoT Applications in Renewable Energy and It's Control (PARC-2020), GLA Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, 28-29 February 2020, DOI: 10.1109/PARC49193.2020.236609

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. D. S. Acharya* , S. K. Mishra, “Parameter Optimization of a modified PID Controller using Symbiotic Organisms Search for Magnetic Levitation Plant”, In: Algorithms for Intelligent Systems Series: Proceedings of ICSC2019, Springer, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0633-8_96 (*Corresponding Author)

2019

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. D. S. Acharya* and Srihari Gude, "A Multi-Objective Sliding Mode Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant", International Conference on Emerging Trends for Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, December 2019. (*Corresponding Author)
2. D. S. Acharya, S. K. Mishra, Shudit Kumar and Shubham Kumar, "Design of 2-Degree of Freedom Fractional Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant with Time Delay", International Conference on Emerging Trends for Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, December 2019.
3. D. S. Acharya, S. K. Mishra, B. Sarkar and D. Bharti, "Fractional Order Particle Swarm Optimization to optimize a Fractional Order PID Controller for a Vertical Take-Off and Landing System", International Conference on Emerging Trends for Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, December, 2019.
4. D. S. Acharya*, S. K. Mishra, "Parameter Optimization of a modified PID Controller using Symbiotic Organisms Search for Magnetic Levitation Plant", International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Smart Communication (ICICSC), THDC-IHET, Tehri, Uttarakhand, 19-21 April 2019, Springer. (*Corresponding Author)

2018

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. D. S. Acharya*, S.K. Mishra, P.K. Ranjan, S. Mishra, S. Pallavi, "Design of Optimally Tuned Two Degree of Freedom Fractional Order PID Controller for Magnetic Levitation Plant", 5th Uttar Pradesh Section IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), 2-4 Nov 2018, DOI: 10.1109/UPCON.2018.8596895 (*Corresponding Author)

2011

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Sneha Rathor, Deep Shekhar Acharya, Srihari Gude, Pankaj Mishra, “Application of Artificial Bee Colony Optimization for Load Frequency Control”, World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Mumbai, India, 2011, DOI: 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141339

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