Faculty details

Prof.Soumyabrata Barik

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering

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

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5443

Personal Page: Under Construction

About Me: Dr. Soumyabrata Barik received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, in 2019. He completed his M. Tech from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut, India, with a specialization in Power Systems. He completed his B. Tech from Kalyani Government Engineering College in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Barik is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Prior to joining IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, he also served as an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. His broad research area includes the integration of renewable energy in distribution networks, optimal operation of microgrids with renewable energy, charging and discharging strategies of EV, BMS, and application of soft computing techniques in power system studies.

Research Interest: Power System, Distribution Network, Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles

Teaching

 

Courses Taught @ IIT (ISM) Dhanba

 

Labs Taken @ IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

Sr No
Course Taught
Course Code
Grade
1.
Power System Dynamics
EED511
UG/PG/Ph.D
2. 
Basics of Electrical Engineering-I
NEEC101
UG
3.
Electrical Devices and Circuits
NEEE101
UG
4.
Basics of Electrical Engineering-II
NEEC103
UG
Sr No
Labs Taken
Course Code
Level
1.
Power and  Switchgear Lab
EEC377
UG
2. 
Advanced Power System Protection Lab
 
PG

Academics

Position

  • Assistant Professor (Grade-I), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India from Dec 2023 to till date.
  • Assistant Professor (Grade-I), Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus Goa, India, from Dec-2020 to Dec 2023. 
  • Assistant Professor (Grade-II), Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus Goa, India, from July 2019 to Dec 2020. 

Awards and Honors

Publications

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

Authors Title Journal Name Year of Publication Other Details
S Suraj, Narayan S Manjarekar, Soumyabrata Barik, Sudarshan Swain
A delayed charging enabled station for electric vehicles
Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier)
2025
vol. 123, pp. 110166
Bikash Das, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Soumyabrata Barik, Debapriya Das
Effect of zero bus load flow on network reconfiguration of distribution network
International Journal of Ambient Energy (Taylor & Francis)
2023
vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 626-653
https://doi.org/10.1080/01430750.2022.2140193 
Bikash Das, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Soumyabrata Barik, Debapriya Das
Effect of Zero Bus Load Flow on Network Reconfiguration of Distribution
Network
International Journal of Ambient Energy (Taylor & Francis)
2022
Doi:10.1080/01430750.2022.2140193
Bikash Das, Soumyabrata Barik, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Debapriya Das
Application of mixed discrete student psychology-based optimization for optimal placement of unity power factor distributed generation and shunt capacitor
International Journal of Ambient Energy (Taylor & Francis)
2022
vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 8847-8860
https://doi.org/10.1080/01430750.2022.2111354

Projects & Activities

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