Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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Dr. Aftab Alam

Joined Institute on : 29-Jun-2016

  • Assistant Professor
  • Electrical and Electronics Engg
  • B.Tech., M.E., Ph.D.
Contact Address

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MESRA

A/6 Uttarayan Sarani, North Nowadapara, Kolkata- 700057

  • Phone Office - 7595827517
  • Phone Residence - 7595827517
  • Email - aftabalam5555@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 9 Years

Research : 9 Years

Individual: 9 Years

Professional Background

PhD Guidance:

Name of the PhD Student

Registration Date

Roll No.

Guide / Co-guide / Joint guide

Ongoing / Submitted / Awarded

Fellowship (IRS/ Self-financed / Sponsored / Project-funded / Self-project funded)

Avanish Kumar

05-09-2013

PhD/EE/10001/2022

Guide

Awarded

(04/03/2022)

Self- financed

Vijay Kumar Karan

23-08-2012

PHD/EE/10002/2012

Guide

Awarded

(29/01/2023)

Self-financed

Shashank Shekhar

20-01-2020

PHD/EE/10053/2019

Guide

Awarded

(12/03/2026)

JRF  under ECRA Scheme of  SERB

Dhanajay Roy

14-08-2024

PHD/EE/10001/2024

Guide

Ongoing

IRS

Sawarya Chandra

02-01-2025

PHD/EE/10051/2024

Guide

Ongoing

IRS

Invited lectures / Resource Person / Paper presentation in Conferences, FDPs, etc. / Full paper in Conference Proceedings:                             

 Year

Title of the Talk / Session Delivered

Type of the Engagement (Invited Lecture / Keynote / Resource Person / Expert talk)

Event Name

Organizing Institution / Department

Date and Mode (Offline / Online)

Level of the Event (International / National)

2023

Grid-tied Inverter, Operation and Control

Resource Person

ERLDC, Grid Controller of India Limited- Power System Resilience Reassessment: Situational Awareness-based Operational Augmentation and Renewable Integration

BIT, Mesra in association with ERLDC, Grid Controller of India Limited

10th- 14th April, 2023

National

2023

Cyberphysical system for Energy Management

Resource Person

SERB Sponsored Operation Requirements and Control Issues of Smart Technology Driven Active Distribution Network

BIT, Mesra

15th May - 21st May, 2023

National

2023

Novel Adaptive Droop Control with PI Controller for Robust DC Microgrid Operation

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC)

School of Electrical Engineering
KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

10-13 December 2023

International

2023

Decentralised Power Sharing Using Non Ideal Boost Converter with Internal Fuzzy logic control

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

2023 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA)

School of Electrical Engineering
KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

29-30 Sept. 2023    online

International

2024

Design of controller for three-phase grid-connected inverter using reinforcement learning

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

2024 1st International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Mechatronics, and Smart Systems (ISTEMS)

Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India

26-27 April 2024   offline

International

2024

Optimizing Electric Vehicle Trajectories: Overcoming Challenges and Improving Performance through PIDControl

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

2024 1st International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Mechatronics, and Smart Systems (ISTEMS)

Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India

26-27 April 2024 offline

International

2024

Design Of PI and PR controller in Various Reference Frames for Inverter Control

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

2024 1st International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Mechatronics, and Smart Systems (ISTEMS)

Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India

26-27 April 2024

International

2024

Judge in Research Colloquium (iv)

Judge in Research Colloquium (iv)

4th Research Colloquium

BIT, Mesra

15th-17th,  July , 2024   offline

National

2024

Flight Dynamics and Control

Invited Talk

Mastering UAV Design: From Concept to Creation

Dept. of ECE, BIT, Mesra

22 July - 26 July 2024  offline

National

2025

Hybrid Physics-Informed Digital Twin for Power Converter Modeling and Parameter Estimation

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

 2025 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS)

IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Incorporating the Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Asia Conference
New Taipei City, Taiwan

15-20 June 2025

International

2025

Design of LQR for Three-Phase Grid-Tied Inverter System

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

2025 International Conference on Power Electronics Converters for Transportation and Energy Applications (PECTEA)

IIT, Bhubanswar

18-21 June 2025

International

2025

Session Chair

Session Chair

IEEE  International Conference on Power Electronics Converters for Transportation and Energy Applications (PECTEA)

IIT, Bhubanswar

19/06/2025 offline

International

2025

Digital Twin Technology for Sustainable and Smart Electric Mobility

Invited Talk

Six Day ONLINE ATAL-FDP on 'Innovative Trends in Data Science and Electric Mobility: IPR Opportunities and Challenges

BIT Deoghar

09-12-2025 online

National

2025

Wireless Charging Technologies

Invited Talk

FDP - Research Insights in Modern Power Electronics and EV Infrastructure

Dr D Y Patil Institute of Technology, Pune

27/06/2025 online

National

 

MoU signed and Possible Outcomes / Deliverables of a signed MoU or other agreements:     

Year

Name of the MoU partner Organization

Academic Institute / Research Institute / Industry

MoU Signing date

Outcomes / Deliverables

2023

UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, WINDSOR, CANADA

BIT Mesra

20-Nov-23

A research proposal was submitted in SPARC 20232024, on 15 Feb 2024. Currently, academic collaboration is being developed for curriculum development.

2024

       

2025

Megatherm Induction

BIT Mesra

23-Sep-25

Ongoing Hardware Product Development of 50kW Wireless Power Transfer System

2025

L&TTS

BIT Mesra

21-May-25

Development of Smart Electric Mobility Research Lab

           

Institute-Level and Departmental Activities:                                                                   

 Year

Name of the Assignment

Institute / Department

Duties Performed

2023

Lab In charge of Electrical Drives Lab, EV Lab, Course Coordinator of Battery Management System Lab, Course Coordinator of Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Lab

 Department

 

2023

 

 

 

2023

Faculty Advisor

Institute Team AVEON

Organizing Events and technical guidance on design of Electric Racing All Terrain Vehicle (ATV)

2024

Lab In charge of Electrical Drives Lab, EV Lab and Smart Electric Mobility Research Lab, Course Coordinator of Battery management System Lab, Course Coordinator of Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Lab

 Department

 

2024

 

 

 

2024

Faculty Advisor

Institute IEEE Club

Organizing Events and managing financial aspects of the allocated budget

2025

Lab In charge of Electrical Drives Lab, Microcontroller and Microprocessor Lab, EV Lab and Smart Electric Mobility Research Lab, Course Coordinator of Battery Management System Lab, Course Coordinator of Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Lab

Department

Upgradation of labs, and experiments

2025

Member of the institute-level committee for Faculty Promotion, Probation confirmation, and contract renewal

Institute

Deliberation and discussion on policy about faculty Assessment for Institute Excellence

2025

Faculty Advisor

IEEE Club

Organizing Events and managing financial aspects of the allocated budget

   Course Creation/Revision

Embedded Control of Switching Power Converter

New Course

2023

Power Semiconductor Devices

New Course

2023

Electric Drives Lab

New Course

2023

Power Converter Design Lab

New Course

2023

Electric Vehicle

New Course

2023

Hybrid Electric Vehicle

New Course

2023

Power Electronics System Design

Course Revision

2023

Embedded System Application

New Course

2024

Microprocessor and Embedded Systems

New Course

2024

Battery Management System

New Course

2025

Energy Storage and Battery Management System Lab

New Course

2025

Vehicle Dynamics

New Course

2025

Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Lab

New Course

2025

EMI EMC Compatibility for Power Converters

New Course

2026

BMS with AI

Course Revision

2026

Vehicle Dynamics with AI

Course Revision

2026

Embedded Control of Switching Power Converter with AI

Course Revision

2026

                                         

Research Areas

My area of research involves following fields:

  • IoT and Cloud applications in Smart Grid
  • AI-based Supervisory Algorithm (Deep Learning)
  • Digital Twin of Autonomous EV
  • Renewable Energy Integration with Grid
  • Microgrid, Power Electronics
  • Adaptive Electrical Drives
  • Battery Management System
  • EV to Grid and Grid to EV Power Transfer Technology
  • Electromagnetic Interference in Power Converters.
Award and Honours

“Certificate of appreciation”, L&TTS, 2024

Publications

Journals:

       

S. No.

Publication Details: authors, title, journal name, year, vol, page: with clickable DOI

Role*

SCI/Scopus

IF

1

Shashank Shekhar, Aftab Alam “Adaptive droop control for enhanced stability and robustness in DC microgrids”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 160, September 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.109649

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SCIE

4.9

2

S. Shekhar and A. Alam, "A Transient-Adaptive Droop Control Strategy for Better Current Sharing, Robustness, and Stability in DC-MGs," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 5513-5524, July-Aug. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2025.3549713.

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SCIE

4.5

3

Saha, P.K., Pal, N., Khan, F.A., A Alam “Modelling of small signals in MISO DC-DC converters for hybrid energy sources.” Microsyst Technol, October, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-024-05777-x

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SCIE

1.8

4

Karan, V.K., Shekhar, S., Alam, A. et al. Elimination of torque ripples by multiple slope ST-DTC vectors in PM-BLDC drive. Electr Eng (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-023-02155-0

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SCIE

1.8

5

S. K. Singh, C. S. Matwankar, M Jee, A. Alam, “MRAS-based current estimator for DC–DC converters considering time-variant load impedance,” Journal of Power Electronics, vol.22, no 2, pp. 210-221, Feb. 2022.

doi: 10.1007/s43236-021-00353-2

 

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SCIE

1.4

6

A. Alam, M. K. Mukul and P. Thakura, "Wavelet Transform-Based EMI Noise Mitigation in Power Converter Topologies,"  IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 1662-1673, Oct. 2016.

doi: 10.1109/TEMC.2016.2570299

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SCIE

2.1

7

Karan, V.K., Alam, A. & Thakur, A. Hybrid control using fuzzy logic and adaptive space vector modulation for reduction of torque ripples in PM-BLDC motor drive. J. Eng. Appl. Sci. 70, 66 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s44147-023-00238-0

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SCOPUS

 

8

A. Alam, M. K. Mukul and P. Thakura, “ Stability Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Z-Source Inverter”, International Journal of Power Electronics, vol.7, no.5, pp 1-15, Aug.2015.

doi:10.1504/IJPELEC.2015.071194

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SCOPUS

 

IEEE XPLORE INDEXED Conferences:

1

S. Shekhar and A. Alam, "Hybrid Physics-Informed Digital Twin for Power Converter Modeling and Parameter Estimation," 2025 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IAS62731.2025.11061687.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)-Scopus

 

2

K. P. Pragya, S. Shekhar and A. Alam, "Design of LQR for Three-Phase Grid-Tied Inverter System," 2025 International Conference on Power Electronics Converters for Transportation and Energy Applications (PECTEA), Jatni, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PECTEA61788.2025.11076494.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)-Scopus

 

3

S. Priyadarshini, A. Alam and S. Shekhar, "Design Of PI and PR controller in Various Reference Frames for Inverter Control," 2024 1st International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Mechatronics, and Smart Systems (ISTEMS), Dehradun, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISTEMS60181.2024.10560308.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

4

R. k. Mahto, P. Mishra and A. Alam, "Design of Controller for three-phase Grid-Connected Inverter Using Reinforcement Learning," 2024 1st International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Mechatronics, and Smart Systems (ISTEMS), Dehradun, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISTEMS60181.2024.10560100.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

5

D. Roy, S. Kamlu and A. Alam, "Optimizing Electric Vehicle Trajectories: Overcoming Challenges and Improving Performance through PIDControl," 2024 1st International Conference on Innovative Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Mechatronics, and Smart Systems (ISTEMS), Dehradun, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISTEMS60181.2024.10560078.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)

Sopus

 

6

S. Shekhar and A. Alam, "Novel Adaptive Droop Control with PI Controller for Robust DC Microgrid Operation," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10431184.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

7

S. Shekhar and A. Alam, "Decentralised Power Sharing Using Non Ideal Boost Converter with Internal Fuzzy logic control," 2023 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA), Imphal, India, 2023, pp. 477-482, doi: 10.1109/ICIDeA59866.2023.10295056.

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

8

S. Banerjee, S. S. Kumar and A. Alam, "Whale Optimization Algorithm(WOA) Based Speed Control of BLDC Motor," 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), Hyderabad, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SeFeT55524.2022.9909419

CoA

Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

9

A. Kumar and A. Alam, "Whale Optimization Algorithm in Grid-Connected Inverter with SRF-PI," 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), Hyderabad, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SeFeT55524.2022.9909388.

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Conference

(Proceedings) Scopus

 

10

M. Mahato, S. S. Kumar, P. Ojha, A. Kumar and A. Alam, "Solar Fed Boost Inverter with Closed Loop Proportional Resonant Controller for Grid Application," 2022 International Conference on IoT and Blockchain Technology (ICIBT), Ranchi, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICIBT52874.2022.9807804.

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

11

Chatterjee, S., Alam, A., Ghose, T. (2021). “Evaluation of the Performance of Droop Control Scheme for Interlinking Converter in Stand-Alone Hybrid Microgrid.” Advances in Smart Grid Automation and Industry 4.0. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 693. Springer, Singapore. 

doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-7675-1_81

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

12

V. Mishra and A. Alam, "Islanded AC/DC Microgrid Analysis for Three Phase System with Multilevel Inverter and Introducing Droop Theory Based Supervisory Control Algorithm," IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, 2020, pp. 3297-3301, doi: 10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254283.

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

13

S. Roy, S. Nayar, S. Kumar, A. Alam and T. Ghose, "Bidirectional Power Flow in DC Microgrid and its Islanding Detection Using Support Vector Machine," 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems (ICCS), 2019, pp. 42-47

doi: 10.1109/ICCS45141.2019.9065548.

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

14

S. Singha, A. S. Singh, S. Prasad and A. Alam, "A Study on Power Optimization Techniques in PSoC," 2019 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), Chennai, India, 2019, pp. 0225-0229.

doi: 10.1109/ICCSP.2019.8698070

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

15

A. Kumar, Smrity, N. Bajoria and A. Alam, "Modeling and Analysis of Multi-Input Hybrid DC-DC Converter in an Integrated System," 2019 International Conference on Vision Towards Emerging Trends in Communication and Networking (ViTECoN), 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ViTECoN.2019.8899439.

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

16

C. S. Matwankar and A. Alam, "Solar Powered Closed-loop Current Controlled DC-DC Buck Converter for Battery Charging Application," 2019 International Conference on Vision Towards Emerging Trends in Communication and Networking (ViTECoN), 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ViTECoN.2019.8899645.

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

17

Smrity, A. Kumar, N. Bajoria and A. Alam, "Multiple-Input-Single-Output Converter for Hybrid Renewable Sources," 2019 International Conference on Vision Towards Emerging Trends in Communication and Networking (ViTECoN), 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ViTECoN.2019.8899579.

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

 

18

V. Anand, A. Alam, S. Singh and A. Gautam, "Hardware Implementation of Real-Time Flux, Torque, Sensorless Speed Estimation of a 3KW Three-Phase Induction Machine using LabVIEW," 2018 International Conference on Current Trends towards Converging Technologies (ICCTCT), Coimbatore, 2018, pp. 1-6.

doi: 10.1109/ICCTCT.2018.8550952

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Conference

(Proceedings)

 

19

V. Anand, S. Singh, A. Alam and A. Gautam, "State-Space Stator-Flux Model of 3-phase Induction Motor using LabView," 2018 International Conference on Current Trends towards Converging Technologies (ICCTCT), Coimbatore, 2018, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/ICCTCT.2018.8551022

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

20

R. R. Kar and M. Aftab Alam, "Design and Modeling of High Power DC-DC Boost Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System," 2018 International Conference on Soft-computing and Network Security (ICSNS), Coimbatore, 2018, pp. 1-5.

doi: 10.1109/ICSNS.2018.8573607

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Conference

Scopus

 

21

S. Singh, N. K. Singh and M. Aftab Alam, "Design of a Closed Loop Direct Torque Control for an Induction Motor Drive," 2018 International Conference on Soft-computing and Network Security (ICSNS), Coimbatore, 2018, pp. 1-5.

doi: 10.1109/ICSNS.2018.8573643

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Conference

Scopus

 

22

S. Goswami and A. Alam, "Real-time flux-torque estimation of three phase induction motor using LabVIEW," 2017 International Conference on Technological Advancements in Power and Energy ( TAP Energy), Kollam, 2017, pp. 1-6.

doi: 10.1109/TAPENERGY.2017.8397242

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Conference

(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

23

A. Singh and A. Alam, "A new mathematical technique and analysis of a three-phase voltage source rectifier," 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems (ICIIECS), Coimbatore, 2017, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/ICIIECS.2017.8276175

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(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

24

A. Alam, A. Sharma and N. Neogi, "Cost effective design of bidirectional energy management topology," 2016 Biennial International Conference on Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy (PESTSE), Bangalore, 2016, pp. 1-6.  doi: 10.1109/PESTSE.2016.7516486

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(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

25

S. K. Agrawal, V. Kumar, A. Alam and P. Thakura, "Regenerative braking for induction motor drive," 2014 6th IEEE Power India International Conference (PIICON), Delhi, 2014, pp. 1-6.  doi: 10.1109/POWERI.2014.7117698

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(Proceedings)

Scopus

 

26

A. Alam, S. Upadhyay, C. H. Murthy, M. J. B. Reddy, K. C. Jana and D. K. Mohanta, "Reliability evaluation of solar photovoltaic microgrid," 2012 11th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, Venice, 2012, pp. 490-495. doi: 10.1109/EEEIC.2012.6221427

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Member of Professional Bodies

IEEE Member (Member # 97344045) – Two years

Current Sponsored Projects

Title of

Project

PI/Co-PI

Sponsoring

Agency

Year

(From- to)

Fund Value

Status

Design of IoT based Energy Managenent System using Cloud Computing Platform

PI

SERB

2019-2022

38,70,900/-

Completed

Design of IoT Enabled System for Precision Agriculture using AI based supervisory algorithm on cloud computing platform.

PI

IDEAS, TIH, ISI Kolkata

2022-2023

5,14,000/-

Completed

Design improvement for reliable performance BLDC motor-based ceiling fans

PI

Orient Electric

2023

2,38,000/- (In Manpower Only)

Completed

Development of high-power Grid-friendly Conductive and Static Wireless Charger for Electric Vehicles

PI

ANRF EV Mission

2025-2028

1,49,61,000/-

Ongoing

Development of Fault-Tolerant Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive for EV Application

Co-PI

Asha & Sajjan Agarwal Foundation

2025-2026

7,69,410/-

Ongoing

Development of Smart Electric Mobility Research Lab

PI

L&TTS - Allumni

2025-2027

97,00,000/-

Ongoing

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Title of patent inventors name Patent number year status
Battery Management System Dr.Aftab Alam, Shashank Shekhar, Amit Kumar De
 
202331089296 04 July 2025 published
IOT-ENABLED SYSTEM FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE AND RELATED METHODS ALAM, Aftab; SHEKHAR, Shashank; BHASKAR, Debanjan; ITANKAR, Sarthi
and RANJAN, Priyanshu
202631006194 30 January 2026 published