Area of Research Interest:

• Smart Grid and Green Energy Systems: Microgrids- AC/DC, Power Converters for Renewable Energy System
• E-Mobility: Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, Advanced Battery Charging Solutions
• Pulse power supply: High Voltage Pulse Power Supply, Industrial Applications based Pulse power supply

Professional Career:

• Principal Scientist: 17 Feb 2024- Present, Industrial Automation Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani.
• Senior Scientist: 17 Feb 2020 – 16 Feb 2024 High Power Microwave Systems Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani.
• Scientist: 17 Feb 2016 – 16 Feb 2020, Power Electronics Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani.
• Trainee Scientist: 05 Sep 2012 – 16 Feb 2016, Power Electronics Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani.
• Assistant Professor: 17 Feb 2016 – Present, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)

Academic Details:

• Ph.D. (2022)
  Engineering Sciences
  Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India

Thesis title: Design, analysis and control of DC-DC converter for DC Microgrid and pulse power applications
Supervisors: Dr. S. A. Akbar, Ex-Chief Scientist, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India and Prof. Bhim Singh, SERB National Science Chair and Emeritus Professor, IIT Delhi, India

• M.Tech (2014)
  Advanced Electronics Systems
  Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad, India
  Distinction
• B.Tech (2011)
  Electronics and Communication Engineering
  Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

R&D Projects:

• Ultrasonic-based Solar powered monitoring and control of Harmful Algal bloom (USHA)
  Role: PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 76.81 Lakhs funded by DST, June 2025 – June 2027
• Dual Agricultural Land Utilization through photovoltaic based DC Microgrid
  Role: PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 64.75 Lakhs funded by DST, Nov. 2023- Nov. 2026
• E-Mobility battery system optimization and adaptive charging profile development using AI tools
  Role: PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 130.05 Lakhs funded by CSIR, May 2022 – March 2025.
• Development, Installation, and Commissioning of Solar Rooftop DC Microgrid at CEERI
  Role: PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 6.45 Lakhs funded by CSIR, Till Sep. 2023.
• Technologies and Products for Reduced Emission Fireworks
  Role: PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 42.00 Lakhs funded by CSIR, 2019-2020.
• Design and Development of Reconfigurable Ultra-Compact Bidirectional On-Board-Charger for 400/800-V Battery Architectures
  Role: Co-PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 73.41 Lakhs funded by DST, June 2024 – June 2027.
• Development of High-power THz source
  Role: Co-PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 105.60 Lakhs funded by DRDO, Feb 2022- Aug 2024.
• Design and development of renewable energy-based DC microgrid system for rural electrification
  Role: Co-PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 42.12 Lakhs funded by DST-SERB, 2018- Sep. 2021.

As Members in following projects

• High-power and Portable Sheet-Beam Driven Sub-THz source for Wireless High-Data-Rate Communication
• High Power Sub-THz Compact Source Applicable for Security screening and Non-destructive evaluation (HP-SCAN)
• Design and development of high current density sheet beam plasma cathode electron gun
• Investigation of ion focusing mechanism-based sheet beam driven sub-THz source for high power NDE application
• DRone based Electromagnetic And Magnetic system (DREAM)
• Solar PV based smart multi-vehicle EV charging station
• Development of 10kW 3-phase converter with unity power factor for industrial applications
• Development of Product for Solar Energy Utilization (TAPSUN)
• Design and development of DC and pulsed power systems for high power microwave tubes

Patents/ Publications/ Copyrights

• Patents: 05 (Filed and Granted)
• Copyrights: 07 (Granted)
• SCI Journal Publications: 14 (CIF: ~ 36)
• Peer reviewed International conferences: 29

Awards/Recognitions/ Affiliations:

• Second Prize in National DST-AWSAR Award by DST, Govt. of India for scientific research writing on DC microgrids for year 2019.
• Best Technology Translation Award in Research for “Renewable Energy-based DC Microgrid System” by DRDO – Defence Institute of Bio-Energy Research (DRDO-DIBER), Haldwani, Uttarakhand in 2023.
• Best research paper award for a research paper on electric vehicle battery state estimation in IEEE-PECCON 2022.
• Guest Lecturer at Metal Industry Development Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2019.
• Selected as one of the participants out of total twelve Indian participants in “Indo-German Design Thinking workshop on Green Mobility” organized by German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH), IIT Delhi and CSIR.
• Special Session Chair in 4th IEEE-STPEC 2025, NIT Goa and Session Chair in IEEE-ECCE 2023, Nashville, USA
• Reviewer of IEEE, IET, AIP Journals and other SCI journals.
• Delivered invited talks at various workshops/symposium: ~10.
• Member of executive committee of IETE, Pilani centre.

External Links:

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tiW0SS8AAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-abhishek-2ab51a23/

Webpage link: https://sites.google.com/view/anandceeri/home?authuser=0