Prajof P

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Professional Experience: 

3 years (as on 09-12-2019)
Industry experience : 1 year
Teaching experience : 2 years 6 months

Contact Details

E-mail: 

prajof@nitk.edu.in

Mobile: 

+919967325672

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NY6LlDMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Academic Background

• PhD Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 2019.
• M.Tech. Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, 2011.
• B.Tech. Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore, 2009.

Areas of Interest

Power Electronics Applications in Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles
Power Conversion: New converter topologies, Design and Control of Power Electronic Converters (dc-dc, dc-ac, etc.)
DC Microgrids

Significant Publications

Journals:

1. P. Prabhakaran, Y. Goyal and V. Agarwal, "Novel Nonlinear Droop Control Techniques to Overcome the Load Sharing and Voltage Regulation Issues in DC Microgrid," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 4477-4487, May 2018.
2. Prajof P., Y. Goyal and V. Agarwal, “Novel Communication Based Average Voltage Regulation Scheme for a Droop Controlled DC Microgrid”, in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1250-1258, March 2019.
3. P. Prabhakaran and V. Agarwal, "Novel Four-Port DC-DC Converter for Interfacing Solar PV-Fuel Cell Hybrid Sources with Low-Voltage Bipolar DC Microgrids," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (in Early Access; Accepted on 7th Dec. 2018).
4. P. Prabhakaran and V. Agarwal, " Novel Boost-SEPIC type Interleaved DC-DC Converter for Mitigation of Voltage Imbalance in a Low Voltage Bipolar DC Microgrid," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (in Early Access; Accepted on 14th Aug. 2019).

Conference Proceedings:

1. Jagadeeswaran S., Prajof P. and S. K. Kottayil, "A grid interfacing scheme for renewable energy sources," Power and Energy Systems Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy, 2014, Bangalore, 2014, pp. 1-4.
2. A. V. Panikulam, Megha I P, A. V. N. Sai Teja, S. Pandey, Prajof P and S. K. Kottayil, "A low-cost grid interface for DFIG using SPWM technique," Power and Energy Systems Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy, 2014, Bangalore, 2014, pp. 1-5.
3. Prajof P. and V. Agarwal, "Novel boost-SEPIC type interleaved dc-dc converter for low-voltage bipolar dc microgrid-tied solar pv applications," IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015, New Orleans, LA, 2015, pp. 1-6.
4. Prajof P. and V. Agarwal, "Novel solar PV-fuel cell fed dual-input-dual-output dc-dc converter for dc microgrid applications," IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015, New Orleans, LA, 2015, pp. 1-6.
5. P. Prabhakaran and V. Agarwal, "Mitigation of voltage unbalance in a low voltage bipolar DC microgrid using a boost-SEPIC type interleaved dc-dc compensator," 2016 IEEE 2nd Annual Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC), Auckland, 2016, pp. 1-6.

Achievements

1. Received two SPOT AWARDs at L&T Technology Services in capturing the show stopper issue in Suitcase model project and helping the EV team in developing BMS and power train for 10kW BLDC based EV.
2. Received a certificate of appreciation for excellence in teaching assistantship for assisting Prof. Vivek Agarwal, IIT-Bombay, in the course “Introduction to Electrical and Electronics Circuits” in the autumn semester of the academic year 2017-18.
3. Awarded gold medal for achieving the first rank (at university level) in M.Tech (Power Electronics), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
4. Secured third rank at the university level in B.Tech programme in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
5. Secured All India Rank 1089 with 99.3 percentile among 1,52,381 candidates in Electrical Engineering GATE-2013.