Dr.Sateesh Kumar Kuncham

    

 Name: Dr. SATEESH KUMAR KUNCHAM
 Designation: Assistant Professor
 Office Address: EEE A2 S9
 Telephone (Direct) (Optional):  Telephone :                                Extn (Optional):  Mobile (Optional): 04312503280
 Email (Primary):                                sateesh@nitt.edu Email (Secondary): sateeshkuncham@gmail.com
 Field(s) of Specialization:   Power Electronic Converters for Renewable power generation, Multilevel Inverters, Transformerless PV Inverters, High-Gain DC-DC Converters, Pulse width modulation schemes and Wideband gap device based power converters

 

Google Scholar i.d: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4FHRlYsAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Lab: Modren Power Converters Laboratory for Renewable Energy and EV Applications (MPCL-REEVA)

R&D Team

(Doctoral Category)

S.No Name of the student Degree Year  Status
1 Mrs.Soniya Agarwal Ph.D. (QIP) 2022 On-going
2 Mr.Nagaraju Kothapalli Ph.D. (HTRA) 2023 On-going
3 Mr.Kodeswaran R Ph.D. (Part-time Industry) 2023 On-going

(PG Category)

S.No Name of the Student Degree Year  Year
1 Sainath  M.Tech. 2023-2024 Completed
2 Deepak Dey M.Tech. 2023-2024 Completed
3 Ronit Mishra M.Tech. 2024-2025 On-going
4 Tejaswi B M.Tech. 2024-2025 On-going

 

Courses Taught

Subject title Degree AY Year
Power Generation Systems B.Tech 2021-2022
DC Machines and Transformers lab B.Tech 2021-2022
Design with PIC Microcontrollers B.Tech 2022-2023
Analog Electronics B.Tech 2022-2023
Design with PIC Microcontrollers B.Tech 2022-2023
Introduction to switched-mode power supplies B.Tech 2023-2024
Micro controller laboratory B.Tech 2023-2024
Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation  B.Tech 2023-2024

 

Employment Profile

Job Title Employer From To
Assistant Professor NIT Trichy 20-10-2022 Till date
Post-Doctoral Fellow IIT Delhi May 2022 Oct 2022
Assistant Professor  SRM University  Sep 2020 April 2022
Assistant Professor SNIST, Hyderabad March 2015 May 2016

 

Academic Qualifications

Examination Board / University Year Division/ Grade Subjects
Ph.D. NIT Warangal 2021 Not applicable Power Electronics    
M.Tech JNTU Kakinada 2015 Distinction (85%) Power Electronics
B.Tech JNTU Kakinada 2012 Distinction (78%) EEE
Intermediate State board of Andhra Pradesh 2008 Distinction (91.5%) Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
SSC State board of Andhra Pradesh 2006 Distinction (79%) -

 

Awards, Associateships

Year of Award Name of the Award Awarding Organization
2022 Best paper award SRMIST
2015 University Topper JNTU Kakinada
2009 College Topper Amrita Sai

 

Fellowships

Year of Award Name of the Fellowship Awarding Organization From (Month/Year) To (Month/Year)
2022 Institute Post-Doc Fellowship IIT Delhi May 2022 Oct 2022
2021 Research Fellow IIT Delhi May 2022 July 2022

 

 

Participation in Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia /Seminars

Date (s) Title of Activity Level of Event (International/ National/ Local) Role (Participant/ Speaker/ Chairperson, Paper presenter, Any other) Event Organized by Venue
1st to 24th July 2019 High gain converters for grid connected photovoltaic systems Three-week SPARK Program (National) Participant NIT Warangal EED Seminar Hall
1st to 5th Jan 2018 Power Conditioning for PV Systems One week GIAN course Participant NIT Warangal EED Seminar Hall
21st to 1st 2016

Power Converte

rs for Alternate Energy Sources

One week GIAN course Participant NIT Goa EED Seminar Hall

 

Workshops organized

S.No Title of the workshop/FDP Dates Sponsership 
1 Trends and Chellenges on EV Drive Train Design and Control  19-06-23 to 23-06-23 AICTE Margadarshan Sponsered FDP
2 Role of wide band gap device based power converters for EV and Renewble applocations 17-03-24 to 23-03-24  Karyashala - Accelerate vigyan - DST-SERB 
3 Design of Traction motors for EV applications  11-03-24 to 17-03-24     Karyashala - Accelerate vigyan - DST-SERB 

 

Invited Talks delivered

Topic Date Inviting Organization
Opportunities and Challenges of Power Electronics 13-10-2022 G. H. RAISONI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Solar charger infrastructure for EV applications

09-02-2023

Dept.of Energy & Environment, NIT Trichy

Power Supply System for EV Charging stations

01-04-2023

Dept.of EE, SVNIT Surat

Basic concepts and EV Charging Infrastructure in Micro grid

30-05-2023

School of Electrical Sciences, VIT Vellore

Solar-PV based EV Charging Infrastructure

20-06-2023

Dept.of EEE, NIT Trichy

Roles and opportunities of EE in EV and RES under Industry 4.O 28-11-2023 School of Electrical Sciences, VIT Vellore
Roles and opportunities of EE in EV and RES under Industry 4.O 30-03-2024 Andhra loyola college of Engineering, Vijayawada
Trends and Challanges on Solar-PV Power Converters for Renewable power generation systems 05-09-2024 SRM Institute of Science and Technology Kattankulathur

 

Membership of Learned Societies

Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member ) Organization Membership No. with date
Life Member IEI M-1742145
Life Member IA ENG 282227
Professional Member IEEE 95702053

 

Publications (A) Refereed Research Journals:

            Author(s) Title of Paper Journal Volume  (No.) Page numbers   Year Impact Factor of the Journal (Optional)
Soniya Agrawal, Ravitheja Rage, Manoranjan Sahoo, K.Sateesh Kumar A single-phase seven-level buck-boost common ground transformerless inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic system International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications doi:10.1002/cta.3790 1-25 2023 2.378
Chinmay Kumar Das, A. Kirubakaran, VT. Somasekhar and K. Sateesh Kumar A Dual Quasi Z-Source Based T-Type Five-Level Inverter with Improved HERIC Structure for Photovoltaic Applications IEEE Transactions on Industrial applications vol. 59 (4) 4539 - 4549 2023 4.079
Chinmay Kumar Das, A. Kirubakaran, VT. Somasekhar and K. Sateesh Kumar An Improved Quasi Z-Source Based H5 Inverter with Low Leakage Current for Photovoltaic Applications International Transactions of Electrical Energy System Volume 31, Issue 12 13187-99 2021 2.639
Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu A Two-Stage T-type Hybrid Five-Level  Transformerless Inverter for PV Applications IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol. 35 (9) pp. 9512-9523 2020 5.967
Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu Bi-Directional Clamping Based H5, HERIC and H6 Transformerless Inverter Topologies with Reactive Power Capability IEEE Transactions on Industrial applications vol. 56 (5) pp. 5119-5128 2020 4.079
Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu An Improved Hybrid-Bridge Transformerless Inverter Topology with Bi-Directional Clamping and Reactive Power Capability IEEE Transactions on Industrial applications vol. 55 (6) pp. 7400-7409 2019 4.079
Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu Single-Phase Two-Stage Seven-Level Power Conditioner for Photovoltaic Power Generation System   IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics vol.8 (1) pp. 794-804 2019 5.462
Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu A new structure of single‐phase two‐stage hybrid transformerless multilevel PV inverter International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications vol. 47 (1) pp. 152-174 2019 2.378

 

(B)Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Proceedings

Author(s) Title of Abstract/ Paper Title of the Proceedings Page numbers Conference Theme Venue Year
N.Panchalai, K.Sateesh Kumar, N.Kumaresan, R. Ramesh Review on Underwater Sonar Power Amplifier Technologies IEEE SPACE 2024 1-6 IEEE SPace, Aerospace and defenCE conference Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center 2024

A. Kirubakaran, K. Sateesh Kumar, R. Barzegarkhoo and Marco Liserre

A New Single-Phase Fault-Tolerant T-Type Five-Level Inverter with 100% DC Utilization

IEEE ICPC2T

1-6

Third International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies …

NIT Raipur

2024

K.Nagaraju, K.Sateesh Kumar

A Transformer less Two-Stage Three-Port Power Converter with Battery Storage for PV Systems

IEEE ICPC2T

1-6

Third International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies …

NIT Raipur

2024

KS Kumar, A Kirubakaran, S Raghavendran

Single-Phase Five-Level H5 and HERIC Transformerless Inverters for PV Applications

IEEE SEFET 2023

1-6

Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation

Bhuwaneswar

2023

KS Kumar, S Raghavendran, P Manjunath, A Das, ARK Reddy, P Koushik

A Novel Three-Port Converter for Battery and Ultra Capacitor Based Electric Vehicle

IEEE SEFET 2023

1-6

Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation

Bhuwaneswar

2023

D.Vijay Kumar, Kirubakaran, K.Sateesh Kumar

Performance evaluation two-stage boost T-Type Inverter for PV Applications

IEEE SEFET 2022

1-6

Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation

Hyderabad

2022

Chinmay Kumar Das;A. Kirubakaran;V.T. Somasekhar;K. Sateesh Kumar

A New Dual Quasi Z-Source Based T-Type Five-Level Inverter with HERIC Structure for PV System

IEEE SEFET 2022

1-6

Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation

Hyderabad

2022

K. Sateesh Kumar;S. Raghavendran;Chinmay Kumar Das;A. Kirubakaran

Novel Single-Phase Packed U-Cell based Symmetrical Multilevel Inverters

IEEE ICPC2T 2022

1-6

Power, Control, and computing Technologies

NIT Raipur

2022

S. Raghavendran;K. Sateesh Kumar;Abhilash. Tirupathi;Chittibabu. B

An Improved Three-level DC-DC Boost Converter for Renewable energy Systems with High Gain  

IEEE ICEPE 2021

1-6

Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies  

VIT Vellore

2021

K. Sateesh Kumar;S. Raghavendran;A. Kirubakaran;

Single-Phase Five-level Transformerless Inverter for Multi-String Photovoltaic Applications  

IEEE TPEC 2021

1-6

Texas Power and Energy Conference

Texas, USA

2021

S. Raghvendran, K. Sateesh Kumar

A Self-Balanced High Gain Multi-Port Converter for Photovoltaic and Fuel Cell based Power Generation Systems

IEEE PESGRE 2021

1-6

POWER ELECTRONICS S M A R T GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

Cochin, Kerala

2021

K.Sateesh Kumar, A.Kirubakaran, N.Subrahmanyam

A Novel Two-Stage Hybrid T-type Five-Level  Transformerless Inverter

IEEE i-PACT 2019

1-6

Power and advanced computing technologies

VIT Vellore

2019

K.Sateesh Kumar, A.Kirubakaran, N.Subrahmanyam

Bi-Directional Clamping Based H5, HERIC and H6-Type Transformerless Inverter Topologies with Improved Modulation Technique

IEEE  PESGRE Conference 2019

1-6

POWER ELECTRONICS S M A R T GRID AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

Cochin, Kerala

2019

K.Sateesh Kumar, A.Kirubakaran, N.Subrahmanyam

A Hybrid-Bridge Asymmetrical Transformerless Five-Level Photovoltaic Inverter

IEEE INDICON 2017

1-6

IEEE Indian Conference

IIT Roorkee

2017

 

(C) Books & Monographs

Author(s) Title of Book/Monograph Name of Publishers Year of Publication ISSN/ISBN Number
Jammy Ramesh Rahul, K.Sateesh Kumar, T.Abhilash, A.Kirubakaran, B.Hema kumar reddy Recent Advances and Emerging Technologies in Multi-Level Inverters River  Provisionally accepted -
K.Sateesh Kumar, T.Koteswara rao
ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND THEIR CHARGING TECHNOLOGIES
CRC Press, Taylor& Francis Group 2024 ISBN 9781032528113
K.Sateesh Kumar, A. Kirubakaran, N. Subrahmanyam, Uma shankar Subramaniam Power electronics for green energy conversion Wiley 2022 9781119786481
T. Abhilash, Kuncham Sateesh Kumar, Jammy Ramesh Rahul, A. Kirubakaran, VT. Somashekar   Advanced Power Electronics Converters for Future Renewable Energy Systems Taylor&Francis Group 2023 9781003323471