Dr. Karthik Thirumala

Dr. Karthik Thirumala

Educational Qualification

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore), India – October 2017
  • M. Tech in Power Electronics, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology (VNRVJIET), Hyderabad – October 2012
  • B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences (JITS), Warangal – May 2010

Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli since April 2018.
  • Temporary Faculty, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli from July 2017 to March 2018
  • Lecturer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad from January 2013 to February 2013

Areas of Interest

  • Power Quality
  • Application of Power Electronics to Power Systems
  • Microgrid

Theory Courses Offered at NIT Tiruchirapalli

B.Tech Courses M.Tech. Courses
Basics of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Switched Mode Power Conversion
Networks and Linear Systems Power Quality
Electric Power Quality Advanced Digital Signal Processing
Linear Integrated Circuits
Digital Signal Processing

Honors & Awards

  • Award: M.Tech Student, Mr. Balwani Mayurkumar Rajkumar, is conferred with POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2022 for the M.Tech thesis work "Development of a Smart Meter for Power Quality-Based Tariff Implementation in a Smart Grid"
  • Award: POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) 2018 for the Ph.D. thesis "Power Quality Monitoring in Emerging Power Systems using Adaptive and Intelligent Techniques"
  • Award: 2017 IIT Indore Best Research Paper Award for the article “Tunable-Q Wavelet Transform and Dual Multiclass SVM for Online Automatic Detection of Power Quality Disturbances,” published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
  • Award: Best Project Award in M. Tech, VNR VJIET, 2012.
  • Achievement: Qualified GATE Electrical Engineering discipline in years 2010, 2012, and 2013
  • Achievement: Academic topper in the department during B.Tech, JITS, 2010
  • Award: Visveswaraya Best Student Award for the year 2008 by the ABVP Warangal unit
  • Recognition: Won 3 prizes for paper presentation in Various National Level Technical Symposiums during 2007-09

Academic and Administrative Responsibilities at NITT

Institute-level Responsibility Duration
Assoc Dean (Electrical), Planning & Development January 2023 - till date 1 year+
Hostel Warden July 2022 - March 2023 8 months
Member, SWAYAM Task Force April 2020 - May 2021 1 year
Member, Institute Data Insight Team Nov 2018 - Nov 2021 3 years
Department-level Responsibility Duration
Faculty incharge for Electronics Laboratory July 2023 - till date 1 year+
Class Committee Chairperson for M.Tech PE and PS I Year July 2023 - June 2024 1 year
Coordinator for Department MIS Activities, Reassessment, Redo, FA July 2021 - till date 3 years+
Coordinator, workload of faculty and research scholar July 2019 - June 2021

July 2022 - June 2023		 3 years
Member, Department NBA committee July 2018 - June 2020 2 years

Professional service

  • Editorial Member: Scientific Reports Journal, Springer Nature, August 2023 - till date
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Electric Power Systems Research, Measurement, Digital Signal Processing, etc.

Projects

Title Funding Agency Amount (INR) Duration Role Collaborators
Potential Peer to Peer Transactive Energy Markets in Indian Power Distribution Systems SPARC (Govt. of India, MHRD) 26,91,850 (~26.9 lakhs)

March 2019 -

March 2022

 Coinvestigator Dr. Vivek Mohan & Prof. Mini Shaji Thomas (NIT Tiruchirappalli)

Dr. Siqi Bu & Prof. Zhao Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Sustainable Energy System for Achieving Novel Carbon Neutral Energy Communities (SUSTENANCE) DST, GoI 1,18,60,080 (~118.6 lakhs)

July 2021 -

December 2024

 Coinvestigator Dr. G. Saravana Ilango, Dr. M. Jaya Bharatha Reddy, Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Dr. Manoranjan Sahoo, Dr. Shelas Sathyan, Dr. M. Brindha (NIT Tiruchirappalli)
Pilot Implementation of Energy Blockchain and P2P Transactive Market CPRI 19,44,000 (~19.44 lakhs)

March 2023 -

March 2025

 Coinvestigator Dr. Vivek Mohan (NIT Calicut), Auroville Consulting (Auroville), Epixel Solutions (Palakkad)

Ph.D. Guidance

S.No. Name of Scholar Area of Research Registered in Status Category Supervisors
1 Mr. B. Jayaprakash Novel Power Quality-based Tariff Schemes and Smart Meter Development for Low Voltage Distribution Network July 2018 Graduated Full time Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. Manoranjan Sahoo (NIT Rourkela)
2 Mr. G. Anilkumar ​Power Quality Improvement of AC Microgrid January 2019 Ongoing Part-time Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. Vivek Mohan (NIT Calicut)
3 Mr. Rajesh Tanna ​Power System Stability January 2019 Ongoing Part-time Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. Vivek Mohan (NIT Calicut)
4 Mr. Rage Ravitheja ​Single-stage Buck-Boost Multilevel Inverters July 2019 Thesis submitted Full time Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. Manoranjan Sahoo (NIT Rourkela)
5 Mr. Divyalal R. K. Power System Reliability January 2020  Ongoing Full time (QIP) Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. Vivek Mohan (NIT Calicut)
6 Mr. Rahul Kumar Power Quality Analysis & Improvement in Microgrid July 2021 Ongoing Full time Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
7 Ms. Anjali Mohan Smart Energy Management August 2022 Ongoing Full time (Project) Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. G. Saravana Ilango
8 Mr. Rajesh M Power Quality based Peer-Peer Transactive Electricity Markets July 2022 Ongoing Full time (QIP) Guide: Dr. Karthik Thirumala
Co-guide: Dr. Vivek Mohan (NIT Calicut)

M.Tech. Guidance

S.No. Name of Student Project Title Duration Status
1 Mr. Hari Babu Development of Online Monitoring System using a Unified Power Quality Index 2018 - 2019 Completed
2 Mr. Harshal Jamode ​Virtual Power Quality Disturbance Classifier using Knowledge-based Neural Network 2018 - 2019 Completed
3 Mr. Boda Anilkumar ​Development of a Smart Power Quality Meter for Analysis of a Microgrid 2019 - 2020 Completed
4 Mr. B. Sai Krishna Developing a Pricing Mechanism for Power Quality Regulation 2019 - 2020 Completed
5 Mr. Balwani Mayurkumar Rajkumar Developing a Pricing Mechanism for Harmonic Pollution and Reactive Power Compensation 2020 - 2021 Completed
6 Mr. Y. Srinivas Voltage Quality Improvement in an Islanded Microgrid with Multiple DGs 2020 - 2021 Completed
7 Mr. Harikrishnan Voltage Quality Improvement and Power Management of Islanded AC Microgrids with Multiple DGs 2021 - 2022 Completed
8 Ms. Somya Pant Classification of Combined Power Quality Disturbances using CNN and Temporal-CNN 2021 - 2022 Completed
9 Ms. Habitha Balakrishnan Fundamental and Harmonic Power Sharing in Isolated AC Microgrid 2022 - 2023 Completed
10 Ms. Surabhi Singh Genetic Algorithm-Based Multi-Objective Optimization for Home Energy Management System 2022 - 2023 Completed
11 Mr. Anup Kumar Singh Techno-Economic Feasibility of Solar Implementation for Optimal Saving/Profit of Prosumer, RESCO, and Different Utilities in India 2022 - 2023 Completed
12 Ms. Reena Khanna Multi-objective Energy Management of Microgrid using Fuzzy-based Hybrid Augmented Epsilon Constraint and Compromise Programming Approach 2023 - 2024 Completed
13 Mr. Roshan Kumar Biswal Small Signal Modelling and Power Sharing Analysis in Islanded AC Microgrid 2023 - 2024 Completed

Journal Publications

  1. A. Mohan, K. Thirumala, J J Prakash, G S Ilango, "Rule based coordinated source and demand side energy management of a remote area power supply system," Electr Eng, 2024.
  2. Raviteja Rage, M. Sahoo, P Shaw, K. Thirumala, "A Four Switch Common Ground-based Single Phase Current-fed Boost Inverter," IEEE Transaction Poer Electronics, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 1064-1073, Jan. 2025.
  3. Raviteja Rage, M. Sahoo, K. Thirumala, "An integrated common ground-based grid-connected current-fed switched inverter," Int Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, 1-22, 2024.
  4. Rajesh Tanna, Vivek Mohan, E. A. Gopalakrishnan, K. Thirumala, "Detecting safe operational regimes of synchronous motor-generator pair for wind integration: a non-linear perspective," IET Energy Syst. Integr. 1–14, 2023.
  5. Raviteja Rage, M. Sahoo, K. Thirumala, S. Agarwal, "A transformerless common ground‐based 1‐ϕ single‐stage switched boost inverter for solar photovoltaic applications," Int Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, 1-23, 2023.
  6. M. Jisma, Vivek Mohan, M.S. Thomas, K. Thirumala, "Tail risk adjusted clean energy portfolios in P2P transactive markets using Rachev ratio," Energy Conversion and Economics, 4(2), 105-122, 2023.
  7. J Budhavarapu, Hritik K Singh K. Thirumala, M. Sahoo, “Design and implementation of smart meter for PQ-based tariff computation for LV distribution network consumers,” Measurement, vol. 216, 106309, July 2023.
  8. J Budhavarapu, K. Thirumala, Vivek Mohan, Siqi Bu, M. Sahoo, “Tariff structure for regulation of reactive power and harmonics in prosumer-enabled low voltage distribution networks,” Energy Economics, vol. 114, 106309, October 2022.
  9. J Budhavarapu, MR Balwani, K. Thirumala, Vivek Mohan, Siqi Bu, M. Sahoo, “Tariff rationalization for reactive power and harmonics regulation in low voltage distribution networks,” Electr Eng, June 2022.
  10. Vivek Mohan, Harish Ram DS, Ganesh Patil, M Jisma, Rohith C Unni, K Nandakumar, K. Thirumala, Siqi Bu, “Policy assistance for adoption of residential solar PV in India: A stakeholder-centric approach for welfare optimization,” Energy Reports, 8(10), 197-206, 2022.
  11. M K Balwani, K. Thirumala, Vivek Mohan, Siqi Bu, Mini S. Thomas, “Development of a Smart Meter for Power Quality-Based Tariff Implementation in a Smart Grid,” Energies, 14(19), 6171, Sep 2021.
  12. K. Thirumala, J Budhavarapu, Hari Babu D., "A composite power quality index for low-voltage active distribution networks," Int. J. Emerg. Electr. Power Syst., vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 339 -351, 2021.
  13. Vivek Mohan, Siqi Bu, M. Jisma, V.C. Rijinlal, K. Thirumala, Mini S. Thomas, Zhao Xu, “Realistic energy commitments in peer-to-peer transactive market with risk adjusted prosumer welfare maximization,” Int. J. Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 124, 2021.
  14. K. Thirumala, A. Kanjolia, T. Jain, and A. C. Umarikar, “Empirical Wavelet Transform and Dual Feed Forward Neural Network for Classification of Power Quality Disturbances,” Int. J. Power and Energy Conversion, vol. 11, no.1, pp. 1-21, January 2020.
  15. ​​K. Thirumala, S. Pal, T. Jain, and A. C. Umarikar, "A classification method for multiple power quality disturbances using EWT based adaptive filtering and multiclass SVM," Neurocomputing, Vol. 334, pp. 265 - 274, March 2019.
  16. K. Thirumala, A. C. Umarikar and T. Jain “An improved adaptive filtering approach for power quality analysis of time-varying waveforms,” Measurement, vol. 131, pp. 677 - 685, January 2019.
  17. K. Thirumala, M. S. Prasad, T. Jain, and A. C. Umarikar, “Tunable-Q Wavelet Transform and Dual Multiclass SVM for Online Automatic Detection of Power Quality Disturbances,” IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3018 - 3028, 2017.
  18. K. Thirumala, Shantanu, T. Jain, and A. C. Umarikar, “Visualizing Time-Varying Power Quality Indices using Generalized Empirical Wavelet Transform,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 143, pp. 99-109, October 2016.
  19. K. Thirumala, A. C. Umarikar, and T. Jain, “Estimation of Single-phase and Three-phase Power Quality Indices using Empirical Wavelet Transform,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 445-454, February 2015.

Conference Publications

  1. A. Mohan, A. G. P, A. Shambharkar, S. T. Akshaya Shree, T. M, and K. Thirumala, "Development of IOT-based Smart Home Model for Monitoring and Scheduling Loads," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6.
  2. A. Mohan, S. Singh, K. Thirumala and G. S. Ilango, "A Comparative Study on Genetic Algorithm and Mixed Integer Linear Programming based Optimal Home Energy Management System," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6.
  3. Hari Krishnan S, Anilkumar G, and K. Thirumala, “Voltage Quality Improvement and Power Management of Islanded AC Microgrids with Variable Loads and Sources,” 2022 IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (INDICON), Kochi, India, 2022, pp. 1-6.
  4. Ravitheja Rage, M. Sahoo and K. Thirumala, “Common Ground based Transformer-less High Gain Basic Switched Boost Inverter,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2022), Trivandrum, India, 2-5 Jan. 2022.
  5. Ananta Agarwalla, Diya Dileep, Jyothsana P, Purnima Unnikrishnan, and K. Thirumala, “Principal Component Analysis and CNN for classification of Power Quality Disturbances,” 8th IEEE UP Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (UPCON 2021), Tula's College, Uttarakhand, India, November 2021.
  6. Harshal Jamode, K. Thirumala, T. Jain, and A. C. Umarikar, “Knowledge-based Neural Network for Classification of Power Quality Disturbances,” 2020 19th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 2020, pp. 1-5.
  7. Harshal Jamode, K. Thirumala, T. Jain, and A. C. Umarikar, “Virtual Power Quality Disturbance Classifier using Knowledge-based Neural Network,” 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, pp. 1-6, December 13 -15, 2019.
  8. K. Thirumala, A. C. Umarikar, and T. Jain, "DSP Implementation of the Empirical Wavelet Transform for Classification of Power Quality Disturbances," in Proc. of 2017 7th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), pp. 698-703, Pune, India, December 21-23, 2017.
  9. ​K. Thirumala, A. C. Umarikar, and T. Jain, "A New Classification Model based on SVM for Single and Combined Power Quality Disturbances," in Proc. of 19th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2016), IIT Bhubaneswar, India, December 19-21, 2016.
  10. K. Thirumala, A. C. Umarikar, and T. Jain, "A Generalized Empirical Wavelet Transform for Classification of Power Quality Disturbances," in Proc. of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON), Wollongong, Australia, September 28-30, 2016.
  11. K. Thirumala, A. C. Umarikar, and T. Jain, “Empirical Wavelet Transform based Single Phase Power Quality Indices,” in Proc. of 18th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC 2014), IIT Guwahati, India, December 18-20, 2014.
  12. K. Thirumala and G. S. Raju, “New Criterion for Stator Inter-turn Fault Detection of Synchronous Generator,” in Proc.of 17th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), IIT Varanasi, December 2012.

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Contact Address

Dr. Karthik Thirumala

Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Electrical and Electrical Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Tiruchirappalli - 620015, Tamil Nadu, India.
thirumala[at]nitt.edu
karthikt2707[at]gmail.com
Office contact number:0431 2503273
Office: EEE A2 F2, EEE Annexure-2 Building, Admin Block
 
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