Dr. Biswajit Sahoo

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Dr. Biswajit Sahoo

Assistant Professor

Email: biswajitsahoo@ee.nits.ac.in

Date of Joining: 15/11/2023

Academic/Industrial Experience: 2+ years

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AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Wide area back-up protection
  • Machine learning application to power system protection
  • Phasor measurement unit and Wide-area measurements (WAMs)
  • Protection of Series-Compensated Transmission System

 

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Biswajit Sahoo received his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in 2021 from school of electrical sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar. He worked as Associate Software Developer in UnitedHealth Group, Hyderabad from June 2013 to July 2015. Since 2015, He has carried out his research in the field of power system monitoring, protection during his doctoral studies which includes the development of wide-area backup protection algorithms, application of synchrophasors to primary and back-up fault protection, machine learning applications for enhancing security of protection algorithms and advanced signal processing techniques for fault detection, etc. His doctoral work has led to publication of 9 research papers in reputed international journals such as IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery, IEEE Access, IEEE Systems Journal and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and international conferences.

He renders his services voluntarily as a reviewer to Scopus indexed International Journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution etc. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Silchar.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, IEEE (Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers)

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of National Workshop on Smart Grid Technology (NWSGT)-2020, National Frontiers of Engineering (NatFoE)-2019, National Power System Conference (NPSC)-2016, held in IIT Bhubaneswar.
  • Active reviewer in various reputed SCIE / ESCI / SCOPUS indexed journals and International conferences.
  • Received Institute Silver Medal of IIT Bhubaneswar for obtaining the first rank in the Department of Electrical Engineering in B.Tech in 2013.
  • Carried out Short-term summer research project at Warwick manufacturing group, university of Warwick, UK on the topic “Energy storage for smart grid (Construction of Li-TiS2 molten salt battery)” during May-June 2012
  • Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-2013, 2014 & 2015.
  • Qualified in the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE), All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) and Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) in 2009.

 

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. Sahoo, S. R. Samantaray, I. Kamwa “Supervising Vulnerable Third Zone Distance Relay to Enhance Wide-Area Back-Up Protection Systems”, IEEE Access, vol. 10, p. 49862 – 49872, May 2022
  2. Sahoo, S.R. Samantaray, B. Bhalja “An Effective Zone-3 Supervision of Distance Relay for Enhancing Wide Area Back-up Protection of Transmission System”, IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery, vol. 36, issue 5, p. 3204 – 3213, Oct. 2021
  3. Sahoo, S. R. Samantaray, “System Integrity Protection Scheme for Enhancing Backup Protection of Transmission Lines”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 15, p. 4578-4588, 2021
  4. Sahoo, S. R. Samantaray, “Fast Adaptive Auto-reclosing Technique for Series Compensated Transmission Lines”, IET Generation, Transmission Distribution, vol. 13, issue 15, Jun 2019, p. 3272-3280
  5. Sahoo, S. R. Samantaray, “An Enhanced Fault Detection and Location Estimation Method for TCSC Compensated Line connecting wind farm”, Int. Jour. of Elec. Power & Energy Sys. vol. 96, Mar 2018, p. 432-441

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Sahoo, S.R. Samantaray, “Deep Neural Network-based Wide Area Back-up Protection Scheme for Transmission System”, 11th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, IEEE APPEEC 2019.
  2. Sahoo, S. K. Joshi, S.R. Samantaray, “A New Approach to Supervise Vulnerable Third Zone Relay Operation for Power Transmission System”, 8th Int. Conf. on Power Sys., ICPS 2019.
  3. Sahoo, S.R. Samantaray, “Wavelet-based Auto-reclosing Technique for TCSC compensated lines connecting windfarm”, 20th National Power System Conference, NPSC 2018.
  4. Sahoo, S.R. Samantaray, “An Enhanced Travelling Wave-Based Fault Detection and Location Estimation Technique for Series Compensated Transmission Network” 7th Int. Conf. on Power Sys., ICPS 2017.