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• Ph. D (Electrical) – Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering ,Anna University, Chennai – March 2021 Title of the Thesis: “Some Investigations on Primary Frequency Response Analysis of Grid Connected Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion Systems”.
• M.E (Power System Engg) from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, June-2005, First Class with Distinction.
• B.E (Electrical and Electronics Engg) from Priyadarshini Engineering College, affiliated to Madras University, June-2003, First Class with Distinction

• Working as Associate Professor in SVCE from 03/01/2022 to till date
• Worked as Assistant Professor in SVCE from 01/06/2010 to 02/01/2022.
• Worked as lecturer in SVCE from 13/06/2005 to 31/05/2010.

UG THEORY:

• Utilization of Electrical Energy and Conservation
• Digital Logic Circuits
• Marine Electrical Machines I
• Marine Electrical Technology
• Marine Electrical Machines II
• Power System Analysis
• Power System Protection
• Power System Operation and Control
• Transmission and Distribution
• Electrical Power System

PG THEORY :

• Wind Energy Conversion Systems
• Flexible AC Transmission Systems
• High Voltage DC Transmission
• Analysis of Electrical Machinery
• Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Sources

LABORATORY:

• Power System Simulation Lab
• Measurement and Instrumentation Lab
• Electric Circuits Lab
• Engineering Practices Lab
• Linear Integrated Citcuits Lab
• Control System Lab
• Electrical Machines Lab-I
• Electrical Machines Lab-II
• Electrical Engineering and Control System Lab
• Electrical Engineering,Electronics and Microprocessor Lab

International Journal:

• Kumaravel, S & Bharathidasan, SG (2019) “Enhancement of Grid Primary Frequency Response using Type 3 and Type 4 WECS with Virtual Inertia Control”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, ISSN 1582-4594.
• Kumaravel, S R. Sundaravel (2017) “Control of PMSG Based Variable Speed Wind Turbines for Voltage Regulation”,IJAREEIE, ISSN:2320-3765, Vol. 6, Special Issue 2, March 2017.
• Kumaravel, S Gopinath. R (2016) “Implementation of Cascaded Resonant DC-DC converter Topology”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering IJAREEIE, ISSN:2320-3765,vol.5,Issue 3,Page no,1-9.
• Kumaravel, S & Abhinav Srinivas, M (2015) “Fuzzy Logic Controller for Shunt Active Power Filer using Synchronous Reference Frame Theory” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10 no.36 pp.27838-27846.
• Mohamed Azharudeen, J & Kumaravel, S (2015) “A Two stage Boost converter coupled with cascaded H-Bridge inverter” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10 no.9 pp.7724-7729.

International Conferences:

• Kumaravel S, Indumathi.A (2023) “Enhancing Cloud Data Security Using hybrid of DNA and Quantum Concepts” International Conference on Computer, Cybernetics and Education (ICCCE-2023) by Institute For Engineering Research and Publication (IFERP) Indonesia Chapter in association with UNIVERSITAS FAJAR, Indonesia CMR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, Hyderabad, India from 23rd & 24th February 2023.
• S.Kumaravel, Dr.S.GBharathidasan, Dr.M.Sankar (2021) “Frequency Ancillary Support by VSWECS in Deregulated Environment” in STEP 2021, International E-Conference on SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND POWER GRID, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering on 27.01.21 to 29.01.21
• Kumaravel, S Gopinath.R(2016),” Cascaded Hybrid Resonant DC-DC Converter” in IEEE ICIIECS’16, third International conference at Karpagam College of Engineering on 17 and 18 March 2016, Coimbatore.
• Kumaravel, S V. Nithya.\”Fault diagnosis of PSFB DC-DC Converter\”Proceedings of the International Conference on Power Electronis and Renewable energy system\”-REC,April,2014.

National Conferences:

• Kumaravel, S Govindarasu.R,Geetha.V.,\” fuzzy logic based automatic generation control for multi-area system in a deregulated electricity market\”, Proceedings of the National Conference on computational Intelligence to emerging electric power systems, Pondicherry Engg College, Pondicherry, Sep 2006.
• Kumaravel, S Mary,D.,\” simulation of automatic generation control in a new distributed generation environment with genetic algorithm optimization\” , Proceedings of the National Conference on Power Electronics and Power Systems (EtEE 2005), St. Joseph\’s College of Engineering, Chennai, Jan 2005.
• S. Kumaravel ,P.Abirami, H.Madhumithaa, “Squirrel Deterrent at Substation Electrical Installation””National Conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering” (NCAEEE-2022) organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, on 27th and 28th May 2022.
• S. Kumaravel ,P.Abirami, H.Madhumithaa, “Road Accident Prevention and Safety Assistance System”, 6th National Conference on Recent Trends in Instrumentation and Control (RTIC -2022),organized by Dept. of Instrumentation Engineering,MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai 600044

Sponsored Project:

• Core team member for the funded project “Electronic Bird, Squirrel and Reptile Repellent System for Electrical Installation” from Gulf Engineering (P) Ltd
• Core team member to receive a grant of Rs.3,16,667/- from AICTE for conducting a Short Term Training Programme(STTP) on “ELECTRIC VEHICLE EVOLUTION – IMPACT ON POWERGRID” in the year 2020-2021.

List of Conferences/Workshops Organised:

• Two days workshop on “Modeling and Control of Electric Vehicles (EV) using MATLAB” in association with IEI SVCE EEE student chapter from 20/04/2023 to 21/04/2023.
• 3 days of hands-on online training on “Modeling and Control of Electrical Vehicles (EV’s) using Simulink and Simscape” starting 23rd to 25th November 2022 in association with MathWorks India Private Ltd.
• SVCE PATHWAYS on “Wired for Success: Exploring the Vast Scope of Electrical & Electronics Engineering” organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering on 20th, June 2023.
• Two days workshop on “Recent Technologies in Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid” IEI SVCE EEE STUDENT CHAPTER from 30/05/2022 to 31/05/2022.
• 3-days “Sensor Guided Robotics – Hands-on Training” program from 18/03/2022 to 21/03/2022.
• MATLAB DAY – MATLAB and Simulink Hands-on Session on 11/01/2022.
• Five days Online FDTP on “MATLAB applications to Electric Vehicle, Smart Grid and Battery Management Systems” from 20.01.2022 (Thursday) to 25.01.2022 (Tuesday)
• Co-Coordinator for AICTE -ISTE Sponsored six days online "SOLAR PV SYSTEM DESIGN USING IoT" – Phase II organised by EEE department, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering during 31st March – 8th April, 2021.
• AICTE sponsored Online Short Term Training Programme on “ELECTRIC VEHICLE EVOLUTION – IMPACT ON POWER GRID”
  i. Phase-I: February 8 th to 13 th 2021
  ii. Phase-II: March 22 nd to 27 th 2021
  iii. Phase-III: April 19 th to 24 th 2021
• Five days Value added course on VD18603-Modelling and Simulation of Electrical system conducted by Department of EEE in association with IEI , April 7 to April 12, 2021
• “Four days Competency Program on Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Engineering” on Feb 24th,25th,26th and March 3rd, 2020.
• “Two days on line workshop on Protection of Power Transmission lines” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in association with IEI SVCE EEE STUDENT CHAPTER on 27th & 28th May, 2020.
• A webinar on “WISE FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR FACULTY” on JUNE 4th 2020.
• Pathways- Sparkling Career in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering on 16th July, 2020.
• Acted as session chair in SMETI 2020
• presented a paper titled ” Frequency Ancillary Support by VSWECS in Deregulated Environment” in STEP 2021, International E-Conference on SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND POWER GRID, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering on 27.01.21.
• Co-cordinator for the “Two days workshop on Grid Stability with Distributed Generation-Advanced Ancillary Services” on 05.09.2019 & 06.09.2019
• Co-cordinator for the “Two days workshop on Artificial Intelligence Application to Renewable Energy systems” on 29/8/2019 & 30/08/2019.
• Co-cordinator for the Career awareness program to UG students through Alumni students during Feb 2019.
• Co-cordinator for the ISTE SVCE chapter sponsored two days workshop on “State Feedback Controllers for Power electronics & Power System Applications”, 30/09/2016 & 01/10/2016
• Organized Two Days “National conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering-NCAEEE, March 2017”, in SVCE
• Two Days National conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering-NCAEEE , 21 th and 22 nd March 2016, in SVCE
• Two Days National Workshop on “MATLAB Application to Power Electronics and Power System” 28 th & 29 th August 2015,in SVCE
• Two Days National conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering-NCAEEE , April 2015, in SVCE
• Two Days National Workshop on “MATLAB Application to Electrical Engineering” at SVCE on 26/09/2014 and 29/09/2014.
• Three days Training program on “MiPower software”,19-21,February 2014.
• Two Days National conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering-NCAEEE-2013,March 2013 in SVCE.
• One Day National Technical Symposium-PULSE 2009 at SVCE,September 2009.
• One Day National Workshop on Vision-Robotricks, at SVCE, February 2010.

List of Workshops attended:

• Successfully completed NPTEL course on “Introduction to Industry 4.0 And Industrial Internet of Things” during November 2022 with Elite plus silver grade.
• Successfully completed NPTEL course on “Introduction to Smart Grid” during November 2022 with Elite plus silver grade within top 5%.
• Three days FDTP on “Modeling and Control of Electric Vehicles using Simulink and Simscape” organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering in association with MATHWORKS India Pvt Ltd from 24/04/2023 to 26/04/2023.
• Three days Faculty Development Program on VIRTUAL LABS, held virtually from 9-Nov-2022 thru 11-Nov-2022 as part of the “PALS-VLABS 2022-23 INITIATIVE with NITK Surathkal”.
• Faculty Development program- The Art of Living (Capacity Building for Productivity Enhancement) from Jan 9 to 11, 2023.
• Ministry of Education (MoI) Innovation Cell & AICTE Govt. Mentor Mentee Programme 16 & 17 June 2022.
• Presented “EV Integration into the Grid for Primary Frequency Regulation based Ancillary Services” in the Faculty Research day on 15.6.2022.
• Successfully completed NPTEL course on “Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality” during April 2022 with Elite plus silver grade.
• Five days online FDTP on “MATLAB applications to Electric Vehicle, Smart Grid and Battery Management Systems” organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering during 20thJanuary 2022 – 25th January 2022
• Two Days Workshop on “EV Charge Controllers – Power and Control Aspects” Organized by VIT, Chennai from 4/2/2022 to 5/02/2022.
• National Conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering” (NCAEEE-2022) organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, on 27th and 28th May 2022.
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship Training and Expo on 16th and 17th June 2022.
• Presented “EV Integration into the Grid for Primary Frequency Regulation based Ancillary Services” in the Faculty Research day on 15.6.2020
• Participated in six days AICTE -ISTE Sponsored online induction/refresher programme on “SOLAR PV SYSTEM DESIGN USING” – Phase II organized by EEE department, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering during 31st March – 8th April, 2021.
• Participated in AICTE sponsored Online Short Term Training Programme on “ELECTRIC VEHICLE EVOLUTION – IMPACT ON POWER GRID” Phase -II,organised by EEE department, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering during March 22 nd to 27 th 2021
• Successfully completed NPTEL course on “DC microgrid and control system” during November 2020
• Successfully completed NPTEL course on “Design of photovoltaic systems” during December 2020
• 4-day certificate course (hands-on) on Battery modeling systems for electric vehicles using Simulink, Simscape & Stateflow from 4/1/2021 to 7/1/2021 by MATHWORKS
• Attended MATLAB training for software installation of campus wide licence on 28/12/2020
• International Hackathon for smart india Hackathon-2020
• Four days Matlab Training on “Customized course,Modelling Physical Systems with Simscape,Stateflow for Logic Driven System Modeling” by Maths works from 4.1.21 to 7.1.21
• Two Days Online Workshop on “Protection of Power Transmission Lines” at SVCE from 27/05/2020 to 28/05/2020
• National workshop on “ Modelling and Simulation of Electric Vehicle” at Sri Venkateswara college of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, from 05.03.2020 to 06.03.2020
• 12 weeks FDP on ” Design of photovoltaic systems” from NPTEL
• 8 weeks FDP on “DC Microgrid and Control System” from NPTEL
• Research Oriented Two-Day Faculty Development Training Programme under the UGC XII Plan Scheme on “Power System Protection in Real Time” at CEG Campus, Anna University, Chennai from 06/02/2020 to 07/02/2020.
• Two Days Online National Level Virtual FDP on “Industrial Power System Protection and Control” at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai from 15/06/2020 to 16/06/2020.
• MATLAB Onramp, MATLAB, 06 June 2020
• Two weeks Short Term Training course on “Big Data Analytics in Bioinformatics” from 4/11/2019 to 17/11/2019, MNM Jain Engineering College, Chennai.
• Four Days Training program on “Data Science and machine learning using python” from 29.04.2019 & 03.05.2019, SVCE.
• Industrial Training in “Switchgear and Fusegear Protection” at Panickker Switchgear Pvt. Ltd., Sriperumbudur from 14/06/2019 to 21/06/2019
• Two days National workshop on ” A Revolutionary Technology-IoT Applications in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SVCE from 3/1/2019 to 4/1/2019
• Industrial Training in the field of Power Electronics” at Jayam Electronics, Chennai from 7/05/2018 to 11/05/2018
• One week FDP on “Electrical Machines” from 20/11/2017 to 26/11/2017, MNM Jain Engineering College, Chennai
• Two Days National Workshop on “Design of Controllers & Compensators using MATLAB” from 01.04.2016 to 02.04.2016,SVCE.
• Two Days Workshop on “Power conversion for Smart Grids” at SSN College of Engineering on 18/07/2014 and 19/07/2014.
• Four Days Training program on Solar Photovoltaic System,23-26,June 2014 at Anna University, Chennai.
• Three days Training program on Mi Power software,19-21,February 2014 at SVCE.
• Two days National Workshop on “Recent Trends in Optimization & Control” at VIT, August 2012.
• Two days National Workshop on “PSCAD Power System Simulator” at Bangalore, July 2012.
• Two weeks AICTE sponsored National Level workshop on “Fundamentals of Solar Photovoltaics and Applications” conducted by IIT-Bombay from 12/12/11 to 24/12/11.
• Two weeks workshop on FDP On “Power System Analysis” in Anna University, Chennai from 03/12/07 to 15/12/07.
• Two weeks Training Course in “Training for Trainers and Assessors” at HIMT,Chennai from 12/11/2007 to 24/11/2007.
• Two days workshop on FDP On Computer Applications In Power System in IIT Madras from 06/04/07 to 07/04/07.
• Two weeks workshop on “SDP On FACTs Power 2006” in Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, sivakasi from 13/11/06 to 24/11/06.

Lectures Delivered:

• First Round of Judging for “MAKE-A-THON” 4.0 organized by Electronics and Communication Engineers Association on 01.04.2023.
• Delivered Technical talk in Two days (April 20-21,2023) workshop on “Modeling and Control of Electrical Vehicle (EV) using MATLAB” under IEI SVCE EEE STUDENT CHAPTER in association with Mathworks India private Ltd.
• Technical Session chair for paper presentation event in National level technical symposium PULSE 2023.
• First Round of Judging for “MAKE-A-THON” 3.0 organized by Electronics and Communication Engineers Association on 25.03.2022.
• Technical session chair for National Conference on Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NCAEEE-2022 on 27/05/2022.
• Delivered Technical talk on “Cyber security in Smart Grid” in Two days workshop on “Recent Technologies in
• Delivered lecture on “Impact of DG on primary frequency control of wind turbine generator for Grid support” during two days workshop on Grid Stability with Distributed Generation-Advanced Ancillary Services on 06.09.2019
• Delivered lecture on “Simulation of Fuzzy Logic Controller application to wind turbine generator using MATLAB” during Two days workshop on Artificial Intelligence Application to Renewable Energy systems” on 30/08/2019.
• Delivered lecture on “MATLAB applications for Electrical Engineering” on 13/12/2017 ,SVCE,Tirupati
• Delivered lecture on “Design of state feedback controller for LFC applications” during two days workshop on “State Feedback Controllers for Power electronics & Power System Applications”, on 01/10/2016,SVCE.
• Delivered lecture on “Basics of Electrical and Electronics Engineering” during training programme on BEEE to Engineers from Hyundai India Pvt Ltd on 03/11/2015,SVCE.
• Delivered lecture on “FLC Design for Power system Application” at SVCE on 26/09/2014.
• Delivered a lecture on “Automatic Generation Control” at SVCE, Aug-2014.

Current Responsibilities:
• Software Laboratory Incharge
• NIRF work (College and department level)
• AICTE Coordinator for the department
• NAAC Criterion V – Head for the department-Student Support and Progression
• NBA Criterion IV – Head and Criterion 7 Core member
• Anna University Inspection Coordinator
• Class Committee Chairperson Second Year EE -A section:
• Member of EEE Department Board of Studies
• Module Coordinator for Curriculum Development
• Pathways Coordinator
• Member of IIC of department
• Member for department Parent Day Meet
• College day committee member-Parents Refreshment Committee Member
• Graduation Day committee member for maintaining Discipline.
• Deputy Warden-HOSTEL

Previous Responsibilities:

• Residential Tutor Hostel from June 2005 to June 2015
• Dept Placement Coordinator from June 2010-May2012.
• Dept ISO Employability Objective Incharge from June 2010-May 2012.
• Dept ISO Students Skill Development Objective Incharge from June 2009-May 2010.
• Time table Coordinator from June 2007-May 2008.
• Coordinator of AEEE and Guest Lectures from June 2009- May 2010.
• Dept Alumini Incharge from June 2008-May 2009.
• Exam cell Coordinator for AU examination from June 2005 to May 2008and May 2014.
• AUR and Flying squad member for AU Theory and Practical examination.
• Class committee Chairperson.
• Vacation Roster-In charge from June 2011 to May 2017
• Software Laboratory Incharge ( 2011 to 2022)
• NIRF work (College and department level) (2017 to 2022)
• Alumni Coordinator (2012 to 2022)
• AEEE coordinator (2020 to 2022)
• DC Machine Laboratory Incharge (2022 to 2023)

• Guided the project titled “Dynamic Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles” and developed the hardware prototype along with the III year EEE students Mr.Deepak H , Mr.Jassim Ahmed R and Mr.Bharathwaj P. This project presentation received First prize in Students’ Research Day, SVCE Innovates 2023 on 30th March 2023
• Received Second prize for project demo on “Dynamic Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles” in 21st Annual ISTE Tamilnadu Section Engineering Students’ Convention”, titled “Recent Technological Trends and Engineering Innovations Powering a Sustainable Future” on 29th April 2023 (Saturday)
• Received the Best paper award for paper entitled “Frequency Ancillary Support by VSWECS in Deregulated Environment” in STEP 2021, International E-Conference on SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND POWER GRID, organised by Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Pennalur on 27.01.21 to 29.01.21
• Received the SVCE prestigious award “Outstanding Teacher Award” for the academic year 2015 – 2016.
• Received the cash prize for best Research presentation during Faculty Research Day 2019
• Received appreciation certificate for achieving 100% results for 10 core subjects.