Dr. Kuncham Sateesh Kumar

Assistant Professor
Area: Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Institute of science and Technology, Kattankulathur Campus
Email: kunchamk@srmist.edu.in

Other Details:

Courses

• Basic Electrical Engineering
• Electrical Machines – II
• Electrical Machines – I
• Control Systems
• Analog and digital Electronics

Research Interests

• Power Electronic Converters for Renewable Power Generation Systems
• Grid-Connected Inverters
• High-Gain Converters
• Multilevel Inverters
• PWM schemes
• PV based Electric vehicle charging infrastructures,
• Fast Charging Converters
• Inductive Wireless Power Transfer

Selected Publications

• Chinmay Kumar Das, A. Kirubakaran, VT. Somasekhar and K. Sateesh Kumar, “An Improved Quasi Z-Source Based H5 Inverter with Low Leakage Current for Photovoltaic Applications”, International Transactions of Electrical Energy Systems, doi/10.1002/2050-7038.13187
• Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu, “A Two-Stage T-type Hybrid Five-Level  Transformerless Inverter for PV Applications” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35 (9), pp. 9512-9523, Sept. 2020.
• Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu. "Bi-Directional Clamping Based H5, HERIC and H6 Transformerless Inverter Topologies with Reactive Power Capability”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial applications, vol. 56 (5), pp. 5119-5128, Sep. 2020.
• Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu. "Single-Phase Two-Stage Seven-Level Power Conditioner for Photovoltaic Power Generation System" IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol.8 (1), pp. 794-804, Apr. 2019.
• Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu, “An Improved Hybrid-Bridge Transformerless Inverter Topology with Bi-Directional Clamping and Reactive Power Capability” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 55 (6), pp. 7400-7409, May. 2019.
• Sateesh Kumar Kuncham, Kirubakaran Annamalai, and Subrahmanyam Nallamothu. "A new structure of single-phase two-stage hybrid transformerless multilevel PV inverter" International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 47 (1), pp. 152-174, Jan-2019.

• K. Sateesh Kumar, A. Kirubakaran, N. Subrahmanyam and Uma Shankar Subrahmanian, “Power Electronics: Technology for Grid – tied Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems” Book title: Power Electronics: Technology for Photovoltaic Panels, Scrivener Wiley Publication (In press).

Selected Conferences

• K. Sateesh kumar and S. Raghavendran, “A Self-Balanced High Gain Multi Port Converter for Photovoltaic and Fuel Cell based Power Generation Systems”, IEEE PESGRE Conference 2022, (Accepted for the presentation).
• K. Sateesh Kumar, S. Raghavendran, A.Kirubakaran and Umashankar Subramaniam, “Single-phase Five-level Transformerless Inverter for Multi-string Photovoltaic Applications”, IEEE TPEC conference 2021, pp. 1-6. 
• S. Raghavendran, K. Sateesh Kumar, T. Abhilash, Chittibabu. B, “An Improved Three-level DC-DC Boost Converter for Renewable Energy Systems with High Gain”, IEEE ICPEC Conference 2021, pp. 1-6.
• K.Sateesh Kumar, A.Kirubakaran, N.Subrahmanyam “A Hybrid-Bridge Asymmetrical Transformerless Five-Level Photovoltaic Inverter”, 2017 14th IEEE  INDIA councilI INDICON-2017 Conference, pp.1-6.
• K.Sateesh Kumar, A.Kirubakaran, N.Subrahmanyam “A Novel Two-Stage Hybrid T-type Five-Level  Transformerless Inverter” IEEE  i-PACT-2019 Conference, pp.1-6.
• K.Sateesh Kumar, A.Kirubakaran, N.Subrahmanyam “Bi-Directional Clamping Based H5, HERIC and H6-Type Transformerless Inverter Topologies with Improved Modulation Technique” IEEE  PESGRE Conference.

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor - From 01-09-2020 to Till date in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur. 
• Assistant Professor - From 01-04-2015 to 01-05-2016 in Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (Autonomous), Yamnamet, Hyderabad. 

Workshops /Seminars/Conferences/STTP

• TEQIP – III sponsored Five days Faculty Development program on “ Recent Trends in Power Electronics – Research Scope and Challenges”, organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India, from 23rd – 27th September, 2020.
• A Five days ATAL Faculty Development program on “Electrical and Computer Engineering”, organized by College of Engineering Pune, India, from 21st – 25th September, 2020.  
• TEQIP – III sponsored international Short-term course on “Microgrid Opportunity: Renewable Energy Resources and Buildings”, organized by Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra, India, from 16th – 20th  June, 2020.   
• A Five days Faculty Development program on “Technological Advances in Power Switching Converters for Renewable Energy Sources for Renewable Energy Sources and Fuel Cell Technology for E-vehicles”, organized by Bapatla Engineering College, from 1st -6th June, 2020. 
• A Five days Faculty Development program on “Outcome Based Education and Accreditation” organized by IILM College of Engineering & Technology, from 25th-29th May, 2020.
• A Five days Online Faculty Development Programme on “Recent Communication Tools and its Application”, organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Martin’s Engineering College, from 19th-23rd May, 2020.
• A Five days National level Online FDP on “Cutting-Edge Technologies for Electrical Engineering”, organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering and Technology, from 18th-22nd May, 2020.
• Three weeks SPARC course on “High gain converters for grid connected photovoltaic systems” organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Warangal from 1st - 24th July, 2019.
• One week GIAN course on “Power Conditioning for PV Systems” organized   by Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Warangal from 1st-5th January, 2018.
• 14th IEEE INDICON-2017 conference, held at IIT Roorkee during 12th-15th    December, 2017.
• Three days hands-on workshop on “Embedded Systems Design using C2000 and Power Supply Design using PMLK and Webench” organized   by Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Warangal during 23rd-24th March, 2017.  
• One week GIAN course on “Power Converters for Alternate Energy Sources” organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Goa from 21st -1st April, 2016.
• Two day National workshop on “Recent Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies (RTRET)” organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, JNTU Kakinada during 21st-22nd March 2014. 

On-going Projects:

• Co-PI for the Projects under SATU JRS
  • Title: High Step – up DC-DC Converter for sustainable Energy Systems
• Co-PI for the Projects under SATU JRS
  • Title: Methods of Reducing Three-Phase Voltage Unbalance In Distribution Systems with Renewable Energy Resources
• Mentor for the student Projects under “NewGen IEDC SRM Institute of Science and Technology”
  • Title: Wireless E – Skate Scooter for Micro E – Mobility.
• Mentor for the project under Grand Challenge 2021 by CDAC – Noida
  • Title: To design a low cost smart light system

Membership

• IEEE
• IEI
• IAENG