Anand Abhishek

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:

• Senior Scientist: 17 Feb 2020 – Present, Societal Electronics 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:

• 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.
• Dual Agricultural Land Utilization through photovoltaic based DC Microgrid
  Role: PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 40.26 Lakhs recommended by DST for a duration of 03 years.
• Development of High-power THz source
  Role: Co-PI
  Details: Budget of Rs. 105.60 Lakhs funded by DRDO, Feb 2022- Aug 2024.
• 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 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 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

Awards/Recognitions/ Affiliations:

• Best paper award for the research paper titled “Performance Analysis of State of Charge Estimation Techniques for Two-Wheeler Electric Vehicles” in the third IEEE-Power Engineering Computing and Control (IEEE-PECCON 22) organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, in association with Deakin University, Australia, in 2022.
• SKOCH Award for technology development of a “Three-Phase Solar Inverter of 5 kW rating (without battery back-up) for Agriculture Irrigation Pump Application” in 2015.
• Second Prize in National DST-AWSAR Award for popular scientific research writing on DC microgrids for year 2019.
• Invited as expert member for training at Metal Industry Development Institute (MIDI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019.
• Member, IEEE
  Member, IETE

List of Publications:

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