faculty Profile

• Ph.D. (Full Time) – Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.
• M.Tech (Pursuing) – Applied in Artificial Intelligence, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.
• M.Tech. – Power Systems Engineering, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai.
• B.E – Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ganadipathi Tulsis Jain Engineering College, Vellore.

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering. (July 2025 – Till date)
• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Global Institute of Engineering and technology, Ranipet. (July 2024 – July 2025)
• Teaching Research Assistant, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. (Jan 2020-Feb 2023)
• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering, Kanchipuram. (July 2012 – January 2020)

• Power System Analysis
• Power System Operation and Control
• Electrical machines
• Control Systems
• Circuit Theory
• Measurements and Instrumentation
• Basic of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Deep Learning

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HNDabe8AAAAJ

List of Publications:

• Gupta, S., Sawle, Y., Thakre, K., & Thirunavukkarasu, M. (2025). Techno-Economic-Environmental Analysis of Hybrid Renewable Energy System with Lead Acid and Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Under Different PV Tracking Orientations., Journal of Energy Storage. (SCI/Q1/IF: 8.9)
•  Gupta, S., Sawle, Y., Thakre, K., & Thirunavukkarasu, M. (2025). Hippopotamus based optimization for reliable and cost-effective designing of stand-alone hybrid renewable system for a remote area. Frontiers in Energy Research. (SCI/Q2/IF:2.6)
•  Thirunavukkarasu, Y. Sawle, and H. Lala, “A comprehensive review on optimization of hybrid renewable energy systems using various optimization techniques,” Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev., vol. 176, p. 113192. (SCI/Q1/IF: 16.7)
• Thirunavukkarasu, Y. Sawle, and H. Lala, “Techno-Economic-Environmental Analysis of Off-Grid Hybrid Energy Systems Using Honey Badger Optimizer,” Renewable Energy (2023): 119247. (SCI/Q1/IF: 8.7)
•  Thirunavukkarasu, H. Lala, and Y. Sawle, “Reliability index based optimal sizing and statistical performance analysis of stand-alone hybrid renewable energy system using metaheuristic algorithms,” Alexandria Eng. J., vol. 74, pp. 387–413, 2023. (SCI/Q1/IF: 6.62)
•  Thirunavukkarasu and Y. Sawle, “An Examination of the Techno-Economic Viability of Hybrid Grid-Integrated and Stand-Alone Generation Systems for an Indian Tea Plant,” Front. Energy Res., vol. 10, 2022. (SCI/Q2/IF: 4.008)
•  Thirunavukkarasu and Y. Sawle, “A Comparative Study of the Optimal Sizing and Management of Off-Grid Solar/Wind/Diesel and Battery Energy Systems for Remote Areas,” Front. Energy Res., vol. 9, 2021. (SCI/Q2/IF: 4.008)

Book Chapters

• Sawle and M. Thirunavukkarasu, “Chapter 9 – Techno-economic comparative assessment of an off-grid hybrid renewable energy system for electrification of remote area,” in Design, Analysis, and Applications of Renewable Energy Systems, A. T. Azar and N. A. Kamal, Eds. Academic Press, 2021. (Elsevier/ Scopus Indexed)
• Thirunavukkarasu and Y. Sawle, “Smart Microgrid Integration and Optimization, “in Active Electrical Distribution Network, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2021. (Scopus)

• Thirunavukkarasu and Y. Sawle, “Design, analysis and optimal sizing of standalone PV/diesel/battery hybrid energy system using HOMER,” IOP Conf. Ser. Mater. Sci. Eng., vol. 937, no. 1, p. 12034, Sep. 2020. (Scopus Indexed)
• Attended two days workshop on “Curriculum development for the effective implementation of NEP-2020” at Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, MP, India
• Attended six days workshop on “Nature inspired optimization Techniques and Microgrid Applications” at Silicon Institute of Technology, Sambalpur.
• Attended seven days workshop on “Optimization Techniques for Engineering Applications” at Rajkiya Engineering College, Sonbhadra.
• Attended three days workshop on “LaTex” at Amity School of Engineering and Technology & Amity School of Applied Sciences.
• Attended seven days workshop on “LaTex” at Aacharya.
• Attended five days webinar on “Challenges, Issues, Designing & Grid Management for Grid Connected Solar/Wind Energy Systems” at Bangalore university, Bengaluru.
• Attended one day webinar on “Real Time Simulation of Microgrid using OPAL-RTTech” at Bangalore University, Bengaluru.
• Attended one day value added program on “Smart grid protection using intelligent Electronic devices and SCADA & Patents” at VIT University, Vellore.
• Attended two days workshop on “Recent trend in Technology for Teaching and Research” held at VIT University, Vellore.
• Attended one day national workshop on Developing Effective Research Publications, Proposals& Patents” at AGNI College of technology, Chennai.
• Attended one-day workshop on “Design and Implementation of Power Electronics Converters Using MATLAB” at SCSVMV University, Kanchipuram.
• Attended ISRO sponsored two days national workshop on Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies- ARET’15” at N.G.P. Institute of technology, Coimbatore.

• Faculty Advisor for 2025-2029 (EEE- A3-Batch)
• Technical Training Coordinator (III year / EEE)
• Website Assist
• Outreach Assist
• Assist to Student achievement Mr S. Thamizhmani

• Reviewer: Serving as a reviewer for several reputed international journals.

• Invited Speaker: Delivered a lecture in the IEEE PES Madhya Pradesh Section webinar on “Next-Gen Power Networks: Smart Grid with AI & IoT.”