PhD in Electrical Engineering

Novel switched-capacitor and coupled-inductor based high-gain converter achieving >10× voltage gain for low-voltage solar PV to grid-tied inverter interface.

GaN-based bidirectional half-bridge converter enabling vehicle-to-grid (V2G) energy transfer with model predictive control and 98.2% peak efficiency.

Four-phase interleaved boost topology with coupled inductors for fuel cell electric vehicle applications — 100W prototype, ≤2% input current ripple.

Deep Q-Network (DQN) based maximum power point tracking for non-uniform irradiance conditions — outperforms P&O and INC algorithms by 8.4% under partial shading.

Finite control set MPC (FCS-MPC) for three-phase two-level VSI achieving fast dynamic response, low THD (<2%) and seamless islanding detection.

Novel 9-level T-type multilevel inverter topology with 60% fewer switches — nearest level modulation, THD <1.5%, suitable for 10kW solar farm integration.

Synchronverter-based virtual inertia emulation to stabilise frequency dynamics in 100% inverter-based islanded microgrids — validated on OPAL-RT real-time simulator.

Shunt active power filter with p-q theory and neural-network based harmonic reference generation — reduces THD from 28% to <3% for 415V industrial bus.

CNN-LSTM hybrid model for dissolved gas analysis (DGA) based incipient fault diagnosis in oil-filled power transformers — 99.1% classification accuracy on IEEE C57 dataset.

Privacy-preserving federated anomaly detection across distributed AMI smart meters — identifies non-technical losses with 97.8% F1 score without raw data sharing.

Hybrid Particle Swarm–Grey Wolf Optimizer for multi-objective OPF minimising fuel cost, emission and voltage deviation on IEEE 30-bus and 57-bus benchmark networks.

Advanced STATCOM with fuzzy-PI controller for reactive power compensation in weak grids with high wind penetration — PSCAD simulation on IEEE 14-bus network.

85 kHz inductive WPT system with LCC-S topology achieving 93.5% end-to-end efficiency at 150mm air gap — coil misalignment compensation using adaptive control.

Gated recurrent unit (GRU) and transformer-based state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation under dynamic drive cycles — RMSE <1.2% on NASA battery dataset.

Totem-pole bridgeless PFC + LLC resonant DC-DC two-stage OBC achieving THD <3%, power factor >0.99 and peak efficiency 97.1% at 3.3 kW rated power.

Three-port non-isolated converter for simultaneous PV generation, battery storage and grid interaction — MPC-based energy management reduces peak grid import by 42%.