Md Waseem Ahmad

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Professional Experience: 

  • Siemens, GTE, July 2008-July 2009.

  • Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, June 2018-Nov 2019.

Contact Details

E-mail: 

waseem@nitk.edu.in
mdwaseemahmad@gmail.com

Mobile: 

+917753058434

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vDskHKQAAAAJ&hl=en
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

0000-0001-5134-2906
Academic Background

• Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 2018.

• M.Tech.  Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2011.

• B.Tech. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2008.

Areas of Interest

  • Fault Diagnostics and Condition Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters, and Multilevel inverters

  • Power Electronic Converters for Solar PV Integration.

Significant Projects
  1. Development of integrated health monitoring tools for Solar PV inverter. PI, DST-SERB, 2021-2023.
     
  2. Design and Development of Pertial Procesing Converter for PV application. PI, VGST-Govt. of Karnataka, 2023-2024.
Supervision of Ph.D
  1. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P, “Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters in Photovoltaic System,” Research Supervisor: Dr. Md Waseem Ahmad. Completed 2025.
  2. Dr. Batchu Veena Vani, “Investigation into Heuristic Optimization for Enhanced Electric Vehicle Routing and Battery Swapping Strategy”, Dr. Md Waseem Ahmad (Co-Guide), Dr. Dharavath Kishan (Guide), Completed 2024.
  3. MD Sartaj Ahmed.“Investigation on Swtiched Capacitor Multilevel Inverter”, 2025 Dr. MdWaseem Ahmad (Co-Guide), Dr. Ravi Raushan (Guide), Completed 2025.
  4. Rajasekhar Reddy, “DC-DC Converter for LED Lighting Applications”, Dr. Md Waseem Ahmad(Guide), Dr. Dharavath Kishan(Co-Guide), Ongoing
Significant Publications

Patents:

  1. A. Arya, N. Agarwal, MdWaseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Method for Monitoring the Health of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor,” Indian Patent No. 399559, Appl. No. 201611008693, Date of Patent application: 12/03/2016, Granted:
    20/06/2022.
     
  2. Md Waseem Ahmad, Muhammed Ramees M K P and Mohamed Nadir N., “Open Switch Fault Detection Method for Transformerless Photovoltaic Inverter,” Appl. No. 202341013037, Date of Patent application: 27/02/2023, Granted:19/03/2024.
     
  3. Md Waseem Ahmad, Mohammad Rizwanur Rahman, Aman Kashyap, Sameer Mujawar, KarmaWangda, Ashish Jain, Mohammad Muhiuddin, Aliullah Zaifullah khan and Kaustubh Kishore Ambekar, “Method of Extracting Intracellular (Ri) and Extracellular (Re) Resistance from a Multi Frequency Bioimpedance Spectroscopy,” Appl. No. 202341049595, Date of Patent application: 22/07/2023, Granted:26/03/2025.
     
  4. Dharavath Kishan, Nitishkumar, Marupuru Vinod, Md Waseem Ahmad and Bonthapalle Dastagiri Reddy, “Wireless Electric Vehicle Battery Charger with Wide Output Voltage Range ,” Appl. No. 202341045189, Date of Patent application:05/07/2023, Granted: 05/03/2024. 
     
  5. Md Waseem Ahmad, Ravi Raushan, Argha Mukherjee, Muhammed Ramees M K P, Md Sartaj Ahmed, “Extended Voltage Operation and Power Decoupling in Photovoltaic Inverter,” Appl. No. 202541029108, Date of Patent application:
    27/03/2025.
     
  6. Ravi Raushan, MdWaseem Ahmad, Md Sartaj Ahmed , “ A Single-Stage Five-Level Common Ground Switched-Capacitor-Based Transformerless Inverter,” Appl.No. 202541000959, Date of Patent application: 04/01/2025.
     
  7. Md Waseem Ahmad, Ravi Raushan, Muhammed Ramees M K P, Md Sartaj Ahmed, “Single Sensor-Based Control and Fault Detection in Transformerless PV Inverters and Method Thereof,” Appl. No. 202441095918, Date of Patent application: 05/12/2024.
     
  8. Dharavath Kishan, Bhukya Saraswathi, Batchu Veena Vani, Md. Waseem Ahmad, “Reconfigurable Resonant Direct Current-Direct Current (DC-DC) Converter for Electric Vehicle (EV) Battery Charging,” Appl. No. 202541111859, Date of Patent application: 15/11/2025.

Journals:

  1. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and MdWaseem Ahmad, “Non-Intrusive Capacitor Monitoring in Photovoltaic Inverters Based on MPPT-Induced Voltage Transients,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Early Access.
     
  2. Md Sartaj Ahmed, Ravi Raushan and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A Reduced Capacitance H-9 Five-Level Switched Boost Capacitor Transformerless Inverter.” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 788-792, May. 2025. 
     
  3. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A Robust Open Circuit Fault Detection and Localization Scheme for HERIC PV Inverter,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 8633-8645, August 2025.
     
  4. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A Noninvasive Sliding Mode Observer Based Approach for Detecting Open-Circuit Faults in HERIC Inverters,” e-Prime-Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, vol. 10, 2024, 100793.
     
  5. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and MdWaseem Ahmad, “An Integrated Approach for Current Balancing and Open-Circuit Fault Diagnosis for Interleaved Boost Converter,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 13310-13318, Oct. 2024.
     
  6. M. S. Ahmed, R. Raushan and Md Waseem Ahmad, “An Inductorless Triple Boost 13-Level Switched Capacitor Inverter With Reduced Ripple Current,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 9891-9901, Aug 2024.
     
  7. Vani, Batchu Veena, Dharavath Kishan, Md Waseem Ahmad and Ch Rama Prakasha Reddy. “Enhanced electric vehicle battery management system employing bat algorithm with chaotic diversification strategies.” IET Power Electronics, 17(15), 2319-2330,2024.
     
  8. Md Sartaj Ahmed, Ravi Raushan and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A Reduced Component Count Self-balance Quadruple Boost Seventeen-level Switched Capacitor Inverter.” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 791-802, Feb. 2024.
     
  9. D. Kumar, Ravi Raushan, Md Waseem Ahmad and S. Dutta, “A Novel Single Source Bridgeless Nine-Level Switched-Capacitor-Based Quadruple Boost Inverter With Reduced Voltage Stress.” IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 152183-152195, 2024,
     
  10. Vani, Batchu Veena, Dharavath Kishan, Md Waseem Ahmad and B. Naresh Kumar Reddy, “An efficient battery swapping and charging mechanism for electric vehicles using bat algorithm.” Computers and Electrical Engineering, 118, 109357,2024.
     
  11. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and Md Waseem Ahmad, “Advances in Capacitor Health Monitoring Techniques for Power Converters: A Review,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 133540-133576, 2023.
     
  12. B Veena Vani, Dharavath Kishan, MdWaseem Ahmad, and Ch Rama Prakasha Reddy. “An efficient optimization algorithm for electric vehicle routing problem.” IET Power Electronics, 2023.
     
  13. B Veena Vani, Dharavath Kishan, Md Waseem Ahmad , B Naresh Kumar Reddy,“Bat Optimization Model for Electric Vehicle Route Optimization Under Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing. Wireless Pers Communications, 2023. 
     
  14. Muhammed Ramees M.K. P, Mohamed Nadir Nasirudeen, Yashkumar A. Saywan, Md Waseem Ahmad, and Hasmat Malik., “A Review of Open-Circuit Switch Fault Diagnostic Methods for Neutral Point Clamped Inverter” Electronics vol.11, no. 19, 2022.
     
  15. A. K. Singh, R. Raushan, R. K. Mandal and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A New Single-Source Nine-Level Quadruple Boost Inverter (NQBI) for PV Application” IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 36246-36253, 2022.
     
  16. M.A. Husain, ,R. Rajput, M.K. Gupta,M. Tabrez, Md Waseem Ahmad, and Bakhsh, F. I. “Design and Implementation of Different Drive Topologies for Control of Induction Motor for Electric Vehicle Application . Distributed Generation & Alternative Energy Journal,vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 999–1026,2022.
     
  17. Hasmat Malik, MdWaseem Ahmad, Majed A. Alotaibi, and Abdulaziz Almutairi, “Development of wide area monitoring system for smart grid application,” Journal of Intelligent Fuzzy Systems vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 827-839, 2022.
     
  18.  MdWaseem Ahmad, N. B. Y. Gorla, H. Malik and S. K. Panda, “Non-invasive Model-based Open-Circuit Switch Fault Detection of AC-Bypass Leg Switches in Transformerless PV Inverter,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6671-6680, Dec. 2021.
     
  19. Md Waseem Ahmad, N. B. Y. Gorla, H. Malik and S. K. Panda, “A Fault Diagnosis and Postfault Reconfiguration Scheme for Interleaved Boost Converter in PV-Based System,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 3769-3780, April 2021.
     
  20. Y. Gupta, Md Waseem Ahmad, S. Narale and S. Anand, “Health Estimation of Individual Capacitors in a Bank With Reduced Sensor Requirements,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 7250-7259, Sept. 2019.
     
  21. A. S. Bedi, Aditya P., Md Waseem Ahmad, S. Shinde, K. Rajawat, and S. Anand, “Online Algorithms for Storage Utilization under Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grid,” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier), Vol 101, pp. 50-59 October 2018. 
     
  22. Nikunj Agarwal, MdWaseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Quasi-Online Technique for Health Monitoring of Capacitor in Single Phase Solar Inverter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 5283-5291, June 2018.
     
  23. Md Waseem Ahmad, Nandha Kumar, Abhinav Arya, and S. Anand, “Noninvasive Technique for DC-link Capacitance Estimation in Single Phase Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 3693-3696, May. 2018.
     
  24. Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, P. Nandha Kumar, and S. Anand, “Low-Frequency Impedance Monitoring and Corresponding Failure Criteria for Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronicsvol. 64, no. 7, pp. 5657-5666, July. 2017.
     
  25. Abhinav Arya, MdWaseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Capacitor impedance estimation utilizing dc-link voltage oscillations in single phase inverter,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, issue 9, pp. 1046-1053, July 2017.
     
  26. Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Online Monitoring Technique for Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor in Solar PV Based DC System,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 7059-7066, Nov. 2016.
     
  27. Nikunj Agarwal, Abhinav Arya, MdWaseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Lifetime Monitoring of Electrolytic Capacitor to Maximize Earnings from Grid Feeding PV System,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 11, pp.7049-7058, Nov. 2016.

Conferences:

  1. D. Kishan, B. Mallikarjuna, Md Waseem Ahmad and A. Chub, “Design of a Multi-Mode DC-DC Converter for High-Power Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mangalore, India, 2024.
     
  2. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P., and Md Waseem Ahmad, “An Online technique for estimation of the C and ESR of DC link capacitor in a boost converter based on multiple harmonic injection ,”2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India.
     
  3. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P., and Md Waseem Ahmad, “Open-Circuit Fault Detection and Identification in Neutral Point Clamped Inverter via Sliding Mode Observers,”2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics
     
  4. Nitishkumar, D. Kishan,Md Waseem Ahmad and M. Vinod, “Novel 5-Switch Two-Leg Series Resonant Converter for Ultra-Wide Output Voltage Range in Wireless Power Transfer,” IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-6.
     
  5.  R. R. Ponduru, D. Kishan and MdWaseem Ahmad, “Dual Output Symmetrical Voltage Cancellation Controlled Full Bridge Resonant LED Driver,” 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-5.
     
  6. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P., Md Waseem Ahmad and N. B. Y. Gorla, “Sliding Mode Observer Based Open-Circuit Fault Detection in the HERIC PV Inverter,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2022, pp. 1-5.
     
  7. Vani, B.V., Kishan, D., MdWaseem Ahmad,, S. Hanumanthakari,. and B.N.K. Reddy, , “A Technological Research on Electric Vehicles Charging Approaches and Optimization Methods. 2022 IEEE 12th Symposium on Computer Applications Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE) pp. 191-195.
     
  8. M. Naseem, M. A. Husain, J. D. Kumar, and MdWaseem Ahmad, A. F. Minai, and A. A. Khan, “Particle Swarm Optimization based Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique for Solar PV System under Partially Shaded conditionsin 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation, Power and Signal Processing(CAPS), pp. 1-6.
     
  9. Sagar Bhanudas Narale, P. Nandha Kumar, Md Waseem Ahmad, Amit Verma, and Sandeep Anand, “Reliability Comparison of DC Link Capacitor Bank for Different Configurations ” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Technology, ICIT’2019, Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2019.
     
  10. Sagar B. Narale, P Nandha Kumar, Md Waseem Ahmad, D. S. More, and S. Anand, “Mission Profile Based Evaluation Of Capacitor Reliability In Two Stage Grid Feeding Photovoltaic Inverter,” in Proc. 8th National Power Electronics Conference, NPEC’2017, Pune, India, Dec 2017.
     
  11. A. S. Bedi, MdWaseem Ahmad, K. Rajawat and S. Anand, “Optimal utilization of storage systems under real-time pricing,” in Proc. 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Paris, 2017, pp. 1141-1146.
     
  12. Md Waseem Ahmad and S. Anand, “Power Decoupling in Solar PV System using Partial Power Processing Converter,” in Proc. I6th Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives and 10th Int. Conf. on Compatibility and Power Electronics,CPE-POWERENG’2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, June-July 2016.
     
  13. Danny Boby, MdWaseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Correlation of Accelerated Lifetime in Punctured Capacitor with Normal Operating Lifetime,” in Proc. I6th Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives and 10th Int. Conf. on Compatibility and Power Electronics,CPE-POWERENG’2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, June-July 2016.
     
  14. Nikunj Agarwal, Md Waseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Condition Monitoring of DC-Link Capacitor Utilizing Zero State of Solar PV H5 Inverter,in Proc. I6th Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives and 10th Int. Conf. on Compatibility and Power Electronics,CPE-POWERENG’2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, June-July 2016.
     
  15. Rashmi Shukla, Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Acceler-ated Ageing of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor,” in Proc. 7th National Power Electronics Conference, NPEC’2015, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2015.
     
  16. Md Waseem Ahmad, Abhinav Arya, and S. Anand, “An Online Technique For Condition Monitoring Of Capacitor In PV System” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Technology, ICIT’2015 Seville, Spain, March 2015.
     
  17.  Abhinav Arya, Md Waseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Online Monitoring of Power Extraction Efficiency for Minimizing Payback Period of Solar PV System,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Technology, ICIT’2015, Seville, Spain, March 2015. 
     
  18. Piyush Agrawal, Raj Kumar Yadav, Mohammed Asim, and Md Waseem Ahmad, “Modelling of Audio-visio-Tactile (AVT) Machine.” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies (ACCT), 2012 , pp. 303-308., 2012.

Books

  1. “Intelligent data analytics for power and energy systems” Edited by: Hasmat Malik, Md Waseem Ahmad and D.P. Kothari, Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2022.
     
  2. “Photovoltaic Systems Technology” Edited by: Mohammed Aslam Husain, Md Waseem Ahmad, Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh, P Sanjeevikumar, Hasmat Malik, Publisher: John Wiley Sons, 2024

Book Chapters

  1. Md Waseem Ahmad and R. Raushan, “Energy Storage System in Microgrid” Smart Grids and Microgrids: Technology Evolution, pp. 27-58.
     
  2. R.K.Bansal, S. Singh, A.K.Singh, Md Waseem Ahmad “Performance Analysis of PV Module Using Pyramid Surface Texturing Approach” In: Malik, H., Ahmad, M.W., Kothari, D. (eds) Intelligent Data Analytics for Power and Energy Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 802. Springer, Singapore.
     
  3. M.K.P. Muhammed Ramees, Md Waseem Ahmad, Aasim, “Transformerless grid-connected inverter for PV integration” In: Power Electronics for Next-Generation Drives and Energy Systems, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Remarks

Detailed CV: 

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