B Dastagiri Reddy

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Professional Experience: 

1. Research Fellow/Post-Doc at NUS, Singapore:05/2015 to 01/2018 (2 Years 9 Months)

2. R&D Engineer at ABB, Chennai: 01/2018 to 12/2019 (2 Years)

Contact Details

E-mail: 

dastagiri.reddy@nitk.edu.in

Alternate E-mail: 

dastagirireddy9@gmail.com

Telephone: 

+918242473597

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bGjFr8BHEk4C&hl=en

LinkedIn: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdastagirireddy/
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

0000-0003-2430-8539

Scopus Author ID: 

56444394600
Academic Background

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, 2016.
• M.E. in Power Electronics, JNTUA University, 2011.
• B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, JNTUA University, 2009.

Areas of Interest
  • E-mobility
  • Power Electronics
  • Micro-grids
  • HVDC, FACTS
  • Condition Monitoring and Reliability studies.
Significant Projects

Projects at NITK: (5)

1. Design and Development of Low Power Wind Turbine System for Telecom Tower Applications (Product development)

Fund: 100k Euros from MoveAir GmbH, Germany. (2024-2026)

Role: Principal Investigator  

Outcome: 1 Patent-pending; Product launched

2. Integrated Air Source Heat Pump for 24x7 Hot Water (Product development)

Fund: 5 Lakh  from Swadeshi Pvt. Ltd. (2023-2024)

Role: Principal Investigator  

Outcome: Product launched

3. Design of Inductive Coil Structure and Controller for Three-Phase Wireless EV Charger

 Fund: 8.05 Lakh from LTTS, Bangalore. (2023-2024)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator  

Outcome: 50 kW WPT product development

4.Integrated Motor drive cum charger for 2W and 4W EV (Consultancy)

Fund: 14 Lakhs from German MNC. (2022-2023)

 Role: Principal Investigator  

Outcome:   Patent- Granted

5. Smart EV Charging Station with improved REAP.

Fund: 60 Lakhs by SERB-CRG, DST, GoI. (2021-2024)

Role: Principal Investigator,   

Outcome: 2 Patents Granted

Projects at NUS: (3)

1. Development of Intelligent Power Management System for Electric Propulsion based Marine Vessels for improving Reliability, Operational cost, Performance and Efficiency operating under different operating conditions; Funding Agency: Singapore Maritime Institute and ST Marine; Funding Amount: SGD 805,600; Role : Team lead; Year 2015-2018.

2. Analysis of High Voltage AC/DC Power Transmission together with Penetration of Renewables and Condition Monitoring and Fault-Identification and Location in Subsea Power System Distribution Network; Funding Agency:SMI and Schlumberger; Funding Amount: SGD 464,000; Role : Team lead; Year 2015-2018.

3. A Large-scale Stationary Energy Storage Technology for Near Term Deployment in Singapore;Funding Agency: National Research Foundation Singapore; Funding Amount: SGD 4,178,500; Role: Team Member; Year 2016-2019.

Projects at ABB: (2)

1. TOSA eBus Flash Charging Station.

2. Shore to ship power supply equipment.

Supervision of Ph.D

Completed-1
Ongoing - 5

Significant Publications

Patents: (15)

  1.  Prajof P, B. Dastagiri Reddy, Mr. Brijesh PV, “Galvanically Isolated Integrated Onboard Charger (IOBC) For Electric Vehicles (EVs)”, Filed, 2025.

  2. B. Dastagiri Reddy; N. Manikanteswara Reddy, “Multi-High Gain Multiport DC-DC Converter for Integrating Renewable Energy Sources with MPPT to DC Grids”, Filed, 2024, App. No. 202441066431.

  3. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Kishan D; M Vinod; Universal Wireless Battery Charger to Charge Different Voltage Range Batteries Granted, 2025, Patent No. 562398.

  4. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Kishan D; Nitishkumar; M Vinod; Md Waseem A “Wireless Electric Vehicle Battery Charger with Wide Output Voltage Range”, Granted, 2024, Patent No. 519763.

  5.  B. Dastagiri Reddy; Gutti Om Suraj; M R N Reddy; Vivek Kumar; Prajof P, “Multi-Mode Converter System for Electric Vehicles, Granted, 2024, Patent No. 522614.

  6. B. Dastagiri Reddy; “Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Station,”. Granted, 2024, Patent No. 517916.

  7. Vivek Kumar, Prajof P, B. Dastagiri Reddy, “An Integrated Charger-Cum-Motor-Drive Power Converter with Dual Energy Storage System”, Granted, 2023. Patent No. 481475.

  8. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Kishan D; “Method, System and Apparatus for Charging an Electric Vehicle”, Granted, 2023. Patent No. 467320.

  9. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Philippe Noisette; Tong Wu, “Direct Current Power Supply Assembly Provided with Fault Detection System”, EU patent application no. PCT/EP2019/071826 (WO 2021/028039 A1), Filed on 14 Aug 2019. (Status: Commercialised)

  10. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Philippe Noisette; Charles Sao, “Direct Current Power Supply Assembly”, EU patent application no. PCT/EP2019/071829 (WO 2021/028041 A1), Filed on 14 Aug 2019. (Status: Commercialised)

  11. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Selvan, M.P.; Moorthi, S., “S3 Sine Wave Inverter,” Granted, 2023, Patent No. 455872

  12. Rama Narayana Reddy, B Dastagiri Reddy, Prajof P, Kishan D, “Multiport High Gain Power Converter with Active Power Decoupling and its Operating Method Thereof”, Granted, 2023, Patent No. 431927

  13. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Anish, N.K.; Selvan, M.P.; Moorthi, S., “Embedded Controller for n-Level Multilevel Inverter using FPGA,” Granted, 2023. Patent No. 431547.

  14. B. Dastagiri Reddy; P. Prajof; “Method, System and Apparatus for Universal Motor Drive Cum Charging of an Electric Vehicle”, Granted, 2022. Patent No. 410737 (In commercialisation process)

  15. B. Dastagiri Reddy; Selvan, M.P.; Moorthi, S., “S3 Grid-tie Inverter,”. Granted, 2021.Patent No. 363338.

 

Publications: (Latest 5 Journal Publications)

1.  V. Kumar, P. Prabhakaran, B. Dastagiri Reddy and J. L. F. Daya, "An Integrated Onboard EV Charger With Wide Voltage Range Compatibility," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 131654-131670, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3590958.

2. M. R. N. Reddy, B. D. Reddy, P. Prabhakaran, A. Chub and S. Kouro, "Reconfigurable Three-Switch Leg Multi-Port Boost Inverters With Novel Modulation Schemes for Hybrid DC/AC Microgrid Systems," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 77124-77146, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3565791.
 
3. G. O. Suraj, M. Ramanarayana Reddy and B. Dastagiri Reddy, "A Novel Topology and Design Methodology for Improved Power Quality of High-Power Charger," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 80-88, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2024.3423482.
 
4. M. Ramanarayana Reddy, B. Dastagiri Reddy, P. Prabhakaran and D. Kishan, "Single-Phase Six-Switch Four-Port Boost Inverter With Active Power Decoupling," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 14155-14160, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2024.3435771.
 
5. M. Vinod, D. Kishan and B. D. Reddy, "Three-Leg DC–DC Converter for Efficient Inductive Power Transfer of Electric Vehicles for Wide-Range Battery Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 9317-9321, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3269886.
 
Achievements

Establishment of e-Mobility Research Lab at NITK

Remarks

Detailed CV: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2jtUWXuLCxJoMCPs-5x1Z4rPgVhoVEu/view?usp=shari...