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Faculty details

Prof.Shyam A B

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering

Email: shyamab[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5024

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About Me: I am a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, India, from October 2023. Before this, from July 2012 to December 2015, I was a faculty member at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) – R K Valley, Andhra Pradesh. I received BTech degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from NSS College of Engineering Palakkad in 2009, ME in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2023. I work in the area of Power Electronics, wherein my research interests are Power Electronic Converters, Wide Band Gap (WBG) based Circuits, Distributed Generation and Microgrids.

Research Interest: Power Electronic Converters, Wide Band Gap (WBG) Based Circuits, Distributed Generation And Microgrids

Teaching

2024-25, Winter: EEC207 – Power System Engineering
2024-25, Winter: EEC377 – Power and Switchgear Laboratory
2024-25, Monsoon: NEEE101 – Electrical Devices and Circuits
2024-25, Monsoon: NEEC102– Basics of Electrical Engineering – I Lab
2023-24, Summer: EEC311 – Power System Analysis and Control
2023-24, Winter: EEC311 – Power System Analysis and Control
2023-24, Winter: EEC514 – Advanced Power System Simulation Laboratory

Academics

Ph.D.: Jan 2012 – Jun 2023
Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
M.E.: Aug 2010 – Jul 2012
Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
B.Tech.: Jul 2005 – Jun 2009
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad

Position

Assistant Professor: Oct 2023 – Present
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
Project Scientist: Aug 2023 – Oct 2023
Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Lecturer: Jul 2012 – Dec 2015
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) – R K Valley

Awards and Honors

Best Contributory Paper Award in track Micro-Grid and Distribution System at 9th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS-2021), IIT Kharagpur, 2021
Student Support Grant to present paper at 2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, 2018

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Voltage Regulation and Load Sharing in DC Microgrid Using Single Variable Global Average Estimation,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 336-345, April 2024, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2023.3317800
A. Das, A. Shukla, A. B. Shyam, S. Anand, J. M. Guerreo and S. R. Sahoo, “A Distributed-Controlled Harmonic Virtual Impedance Loop for AC Microgrids,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 3949-3961, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2987290
A. B. Shyam, S. Anand and S. R. Sahoo, “Effect of Communication Delay on Consensus-Based Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 3202-3212, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2978719
A. Ingle, A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Quality-Index Based Distributed Secondary Controller for a Low Voltage DC Microgrid,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 7004-7014, Sept. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2018.2795524
Islam, S., Agarwal, S., Shyam, A. B., Ingle, A., Thomas, S., Anand, S. and Sahoo, S.R. (2018), “Ideal current-based distributed control to compensate line impedance in DC microgrid,” IET Power Electronics, 11: 1178-1186, doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2017.0531

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

A. B. Shyam, A. Das, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Effect of Communication Delay on Steady State Voltage in DC Microgrids,” 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 524-529, doi: 10.1109/NPSC57038.2022.10069847
A. B. Shyam, S. Ranjan Sahoo and S. Anand, “Voltage Regulation Controller in DC Microgrid: Implementation Challenges and Solutions,” IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Brussels, Belgium, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968717
A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo, S. Anand and J. M. Guerrero, “Comparative Study of Various Communication Technologies for Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid,” 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Kharagpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS52420.2021.9670303 (Best Contributory Paper Award)
V. P. Abhiram, A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Stability of DC Microgrid for Different Reduced Communication Topologies,” 2019 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Jaipur, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS48983.2019.9067705
V. P. Abhiram, A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Communication Topology Selection for Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid,” 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPEC47332.2019.9034875
D. Dhua, A. B. Shyam, S. Anand and S. R. Sahoo, “Dynamic Overcurrent Saturation of Distributed Sources in a DC Microgrid System,” 2018 20th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2018.8771443
A. B. Shyam, A. Ingle, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Performance Analysis of Reduced Communication Network in DC Microgrid,” 2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, 2018, pp. 976-981, doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2018.8467839

Projects & Activities

Membership of Scientific Societies

Member IEEE, since Jan 2024
Student Member IEEE, Jan 2017 – Dec 2022

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Departmental Undergraduate Committee (DUGC) member, EE, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad since Oct 2024
Department Faculty Coordinator for Alumni Affairs, EE, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad since Jun 2024