Wind & Renewable Energy

Biography

Padmanaban Sanjeevikumar (Member 2012, Senior Member 2015, IEEE) received Bachelor of Engineering (first class), Master of Technology (with distinction), and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Madras (India), Pondicherry University (India), and University of Bologna (Italy), in 2002, 2006, and 2012 respectively. After completing his Ph.D degree he worked as Associate Professor with VIT University from August 2012 to May 2013. Furthermore he joined as Faculty with National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry, from July 2013 to December 2013. He was invited as visiting fellow at Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar from January 2014 to February 2014. He continued his research activities with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland from April 2014 to November 2014. Presently, from September 2014, he is Project Head in Research & Development and Consultant with Ohm Technologies, Chennai, India. He has published scientific papers in the field of power elec¬tronics, with particular reference to multi¬phase and multilevel converters. He has received the Most Excellent Research Paper Award of IET-4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Intelligent System in 2013.Dr.Sanjeevikumar is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Power and Energy Societies.

Research Interest

Power Electronics and drives