Parthasarathi Sensarma

Background

Parthasarathi Sensarma was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on March 25, 1968. He began his professional career in the Indian power and electrical-engineering sector before moving into research and higher education.

Education

Sensarma studied electrical engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, completing a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1990. He earned a Master of Technology in Machine Drives and Power Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1992 and completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2001. His academic preparation established the foundation for his later work in power electronics and power-system applications.

Career

Sensarma began his industrial career as a management trainee at Bharat Bijlee Limited in 1992–1993 and subsequently worked as a management trainee at the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited in Kolkata from 1993 to 1994, including experience connected with a 150-megawatt thermal power station. After completing his doctoral studies, he worked as a scientist in the Power Electronics Group of ABB Corporate Research in Switzerland from 2000 to 2002. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an assistant professor in 2002, became an associate professor in 2009, and was appointed professor in 2014. His work at IIT Kanpur has centered on power electronic applications to power systems, power quality, FACTS devices, power supplies, utility interfaces for renewable generation, and power conversion. He became Professor-HAG in the Department of Electrical Engineering in August 2024.

Achievements

• Developed and published research on new power-electronic converter topologies, renewable-energy interfaces, matrix converters, UPS systems, photovoltaic microinverters, resonant converters, and switched-reluctance-machine systems.

• Contributed to patents pending for a new method for optimal power-system expansion planning.

Works

• conference paper

  • A Cascaded Buck-Flyback Structure for High Voltage Step Down Applications

    (Co-authored with Ashok Kumar and Kanika Bathra; presented...)

    2019

  • Design Optimization of a Switched Reluctance Machine using Analytical model and PSO

    (Co-authored with Rajdeep Banerjee; presented at IECON 2019.)

    2019

  • Super Buck Converter for High Step-Down DC-DC Conversion

    (Co-authored with Vignesh Pogaku; presented at IECON 2019.)

    2019

  • Output impedance mitigation at filter resonance for single and three-phase UPS systems with reduced sensor count

    (Co-authored with Sanjay Tolani; presented at IECON 2015.)

    2015

  • Operating Modes based Review of Single-Stage Buck-Boost Inverters

    (Co-authored with Ashok Kumar; presented at IECON 2019.)

    2019

• journal article

  • Input-Series-Output-Parallel-Connected Buck Rectifiers for High-Voltage Applications

    (Co-authored with Poonam Chaudhary and Suvendu Samanta; pu...)

    2015

  • Power Decoupling for Single-Phase PV System Using Ćuk Derived Microinverter

    (Co-authored with Anindita Jamatia and Vasav Gautam; publi...)

    2018

  • Accurate ZVS Analysis for Magnetic Design and Efficiency Improvement of Full-Bridge LLC Resonant Converter

    (Co-authored with Utsab Kundu and Kalyan Yenduri; publishe...)

    2016

  • Front-End Buck Rectifier With Reduced Filter Size and Single-Loop Control

    (Co-authored with Poonam Chaudhary; published in IEEE Tran...)

    2013

  • Filter Design of Direct Matrix Converter for Synchronous Applications

    (Co-authored with Anindya Dasgupta; published in IEEE Tran...)

    2014

  • An Instantaneous Average Current Sharing Scheme for Parallel UPS Modules

    (Co-authored with Sanjay Tolani; published in IEEE Transac...)

    2017

  • Design of Ćuk-Derived Transformerless Common-Grounded PV Microinverter in CCM

    (Co-authored with Vasav Gautam; published in IEEE Transact...)

    2017

  • A Unified Approach for Automatic Resonant Frequency Tracking in LLC DC-DC Converter

    (Co-authored with Utsab Kundu; published in IEEE Transacti...)

    2017

  • Maximum Power Point Tracking of Variable Speed Wind Turbines With Flexible Shaft

    (Co-authored with Kalyan Yenduri; published in IEEE Transa...)

    2016

  • Extended Bandwidth Instantaneous Current Sharing Scheme for Parallel UPS Systems

    (Co-authored with Sanjay Tolani; published in IEEE Transac...)

    2016

  • A pre-filter based PLL for three-phase grid connected applications

    (Co-authored with Rakesh Kumar Sinha; published in Electri...)

    2011

  • A Four-Switch Single-Stage Single-Phase Buck–Boost Inverter

    (Co-authored with Ashok Kumar; published in IEEE Transacti...)

    2016

  • Ripple-Free Input Current High Voltage Gain DC–DC Converters With Coupled Inductors

    (Co-authored with Ashok Kumar; published in IEEE Transacti...)

    2018

  • Low-frequency dynamic modelling and control of matrix converter for power system applications

    (Co-authored with Anindya Dasgupta; published in IET Power...)

    2012

  • A SEPIC derived single stage buck-boost inverter for photovoltaic applications

    (Co-authored with Ashok Kumar and Vasav Gautam.)

    2014

  • A novel single stage, transformerless PV inverter

    (Co-authored with Vasav Gautam and Ashok Kumar.)

    2014

• technical book

  • Design and Control of Matrix Converters

    (Co-authored with Anindya Dasgupta. The book presents desi...)

    2017

Membership

Sensarma is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His professional association with IEEE corresponds to his continuing research and publication activity in power electronics, industrial electronics, power conversion, renewable-energy systems, and electrical engineering.

• Professional member associated with research and publications in electrical engineering and power electronics.

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , United States

Interests

• Travel, trekking, and river rafting

• Sport & Clubs

  Swimming

Connections

Sensarma has collaborated with numerous researchers and supervised doctoral research at IIT Kanpur. His documented professional relationships include Anindya Dasgupta, with whom he co-authored the book Design and Control of Matrix Converters, and research collaborators including Ashok Kumar, Poonam Chaudhary, Vasav Gautam, Utsab Kundu, Sanjay Tolani, and other engineers working in power electronics and electrical-energy systems. His family relationships recorded in the profile include Sipra, Surajit, and Sinjini Sen.

Father:

Surajit

Mother:

Sipra

1st wife:

Sinjini Sen

References

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur faculty profile Documents Sensarma's professorship, research interests, educational qualifications, office affiliation, and selected publications.
• Parthasarathi Sensarma personal academic profile Documents Sensarma's academic qualifications and chronological professional experience at CESC, ABB Corporate Research, and IIT Kanpur.