Dr. Ambrish Devanshu

Ambrish

Assistant Professor

Email: ambrish@ee.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 14/07/2022

Academic/Industrial/Research Experience: 12+ years

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AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Power Electronics Electrical Machines and Drives
  • Electric Vehicle
  • Condition Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Electrical Machines
  • Renewable Energy Sources and Restructured Power System
  • Power Quality

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Ambrish Devanshu received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the School of Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India, in 2011. He completed his major project at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), a leading centre of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) under the Department of Space (DOS), Government of India.

From September 2011 to June 2014, he worked as a Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies in Greater Noida, India. Following this, he pursued a full-time PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India, and was awarded his doctorate in 2019. Between December 2020 and July 2022, he served as a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology Patna. Currently, he works as an Assistant Professor in the electrical engineering department at the National Institute of Technology Silchar.

Dr. Devanshu has authored several research journal and conference papers, published books and book chapters, and holds patents. He has been a session chair and track chair at many IEEE conferences. He has also reviewed research papers for numerous peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE Transactions, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley. He has delivered expert talks at notable institutions such as NIT Calicut and NIT Manipur.

He has expertise in but not limited to Electric Machine Drives, Power Electronics, Nonlinear Control, Electric Vehicles, and Renewable Energy.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Industrial Drives and Control (UG PG & PhD)
  • Renewable Energy (UG)
  • Electrical Vehicle (UG)
  • Extra High Voltage (PG & PhD)
  • Basic Electrical Engineering (UG)
  • Power System Protection (PG  & PhD)
  • Analog Electronics (UG)

PATENTS

  1. A Clasping Member for a Non-Thermal Plasma JET Reactor of CNC Pantograph; Application no: 202431048827  Status: Indian Patent Filed; 26/06/2024 Published dated 26/07/2024

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

  1. Received a Travel Grant from Delhi Technological University for the IEEE Conference at the National University of Singapore
  2. Received a Travel Grant from Delhi Technological University for the IEEE Conference at the University of Auckland
  3. Received a “Commendable Research Award” Organized by Delhi Technological University in the 5th Research Excellence Awards Function with a cash prize of 50K INR and a Certificate of Appreciation in March 2022
  4. Received a “Premier Research Award” Organized by Delhi Technological University in the 4th Research Excellence Awards Function with a cash prize of 100K INR and a Certificate of Appreciation in February 2021

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member IEEE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. A. Devanshu, M. Singh and N. Kumar, “An Improved Nonlinear Flux Observer Based Sensorless FOC IM Drive with Adaptive Predictive Current Control,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 652-666, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2019.2912265.
  2. A. Devanshu, M. Singh, and N. Kumar, “Adaptive Predictive Current Control of Field-Oriented Controlled Induction Motor Drive”, IETE Journal of Research (Taylor & Francis), June 2020, DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2020.1775502
  3. A. Devanshu, M. Singh, and N. Kumar, “Nonlinear flux observer-based feedback linearization control of IM drives with ANN speed and flux controller”, International Journal of Electronics (Taylor & Francis), vol. 108, no. 1, pp., 139-161, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/00207217.2020.1765416
  4. A. Devanshu, M. Singh, and N. Kumar, “Sliding Mode Control of Induction Motor Drive Based on Feedback Linearization”, IETE Journal of Research (Taylor & Francis), vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 256-269, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2018.1486743
  5. A. Devanshu, M. Singh, and N. Kumar, “Artificial neural network-based current control of field-oriented controlled induction motor drive”. Electrical Engineering (Springer). 103, pp. 1093–1104 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s00202-020-01138-9

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. K. K. Dutta, A. Devanshu and S. Allamsetty, “Scalar-controlled three-phase induction motor drive using FPGA-based WAVECT controller,” 2024 3rd International Conference on Power Electronics and IoT Applications in Renewable Energy and its Control (PARC), Mathura, India, 2024, pp. 264-268, doi: 10.1109/PARC59193.2024.10486589.
  2. K. Kumar, V. Badugu, A. Devanshu, A. Kumar and T. R. Choudhury, “Power Loss Estimation of Isolated Coupled Inductor based Dual Active Bridge Converter using GaN Devices,” 2022 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA), 2022, pp. 242-247, doi: 10.1109/ICIDeA53933.2022.9970119.
  3. A. Devanshu, K. Kumar, and R. Kumar, “Implementation of SRF Theory to DSTATCOM for Power Quality Improvement,” 2022 IEEE Delhi Section Conference (DELCON), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/DELCON54057.2022.9753538.
  4. A. Devanshu and N. Kumar, “Performance Analysis of IM Drive with New Flux Estimation Methods,” 2021 6th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2CT51068.2021.9417816.
  5. A. Devanshu, M. Singh, and N. Kumar, “DSP-based feedback linearization control of vector-controlled induction motor drive,” 2016 IEEE 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPEICES.2016.7853631.
  6. A. Devanshu, M. Sinah and N. Kumar, “Predictive Current Control of Feedback Linearized Induction Motor Drive,” 2018 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE), 2018, pp. 132-136, doi: 10.1109/ICITE.2018.8492622.
  7. M. Singh, M. Sreejeth and A. Devanshu, “Comparative Performance Analysis of IVCIM Drive using different Gain values of PI and Band values of Hysteresis Band Controller,” 2018 International Conference on Power Energy, Environment, and Intelligent Control (PEEIC), 2018, pp. 132-137, doi: 10.1109/PEEIC.2018.8665406.
  8. T. Mishra, A. Devanshu, N. Kumar and A. R. Kulkarni, “Comparative analysis of Hysteresis Current Control and SVPWM on Fuzzy Logic-based vector-controlled Induction Motor Drive,” 2016 IEEE 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPEICES.2016.7853632.
  9. D. C. Meena and A. Devanshu, “Genetic algorithm tuned PID controller for process control,” 2017 International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC), 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICISC.2017.8068639.
  10. C. Tigdey, M. Shreejeth, A. Devanshu, “Comparative Analysis of Hysteresis Current Control and SVPWM on Fuzzy Logic Based Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive” IEEE-International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Mechanical and Computing (EECCMC)-2018 Vellore January 28-29, 2018

BOOKS

  1.  Kumar, K., Ambrish Devanshu., & Dwivedi, S.K. (Eds.). (June-2024). Electric Vehicle Propulsion Drives and Charging Systems (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Sushma Balanagu, Srikanth Allamsetty, Ambrish Devanshu Hydrogen production using nonthermal plasma technology in; Arya, Raj Kumar, Tiwari, Anurag Kumar, Verros, George, Malik, Prashant and Davim, J. Paulo. Sustainable Hydrogen Energy: Production, Storage & Transportation, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111246475
  2. Surya Kant, Ambrish Devanshu, Vimal Singh Bisht Implementation of model predictive control of PMSM for EVPT system (2024); in  Kumar, K., Ambrish Devanshu., & Dwivedi, S.K. (Eds.). (June-2024). Electric Vehicle Propulsion Drives and Charging Systems (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003481065
  3. Kosha Krishna Dutta, Ambrish Devanshu, Srikanth Allamsetty, An overview of motors used in electric vehicle applications; in Kumar, K., Ambrish Devanshu., & Dwivedi, S.K. (Eds.). (June-2024). Electric Vehicle Propulsion Drives and Charging Systems (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003481065

PROJECTS 

  1. Received a Grant of INR 10 Lakhs in 2021 from NIT Patna to Establish Industrial Drives and Control Laboratory for UG Students.

INTERNSHIP

  1. Organized One month, SERB funded Accelerate Vigyan, Government of India Vritika Internship and skill training program for UG, PG Students on “Health monitoring, fault diagnosis and failure prognosis of electrical machines and drives used for EV applications”, during 07. Aug. 2023 to 06. Sept. 2023. Funding Amount 150K.

INVITED TALKS DELIVERED

  1. Delivered an invited expert talk on “Electric Drives for Electric Vehicles” at NIT Patna in July 2024.
  2. Delivered an invited expert talk on “Advanced speed control of three phase induction motor drive: Theoretical and Experimental Assessment” at NIT Calicut in October 2021.
  3. Delivered an invited expert talk on “Three phase induction motor drives: 20th to 21st Century” at NIT Manipur in Oct-2021.
  4. Delivered an invited expert talk at the AICTE/ISTE Sponsored Induction/Refresher Program in the Department of Electrical Engineering Yashwant Rao Bhonsale Polytechnic at Mumbai in February 2022.

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/ORGANIZED/SESSION CHAIRED

  1. Faculty Co-Ordinator of One-week event Hindi Pakhwada Monthan-2024 organized by National Institute of Technology Silchar during 07th-14th  Sept. 2024.
  2. Convener of One Week Online Faculty Development Program on “Sustainable Energy Technology and Green Mobility: Present Status and Future Prospects” organized by the Electrical Engineering Department National Institute of Technology Silchar Assam during 11th-16th Sept. 2024.
  3. Track Chair during “2023 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA 2023)” organized by IEEE Kolkata Section, Bhubaneswar, Silchar Sub Section Industrial Electronics Society Chapter Bhubaneswar and IEEE Bhubaneswar Subsection on 29th – 30th Sep 2023
  4. Session Chair during “2023 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA 2023)” organized by IEEE Kolkata Section, Bhubaneswar, Silchar Sub Section Industrial Electronics Society Chapter Bhubaneswar and IEEE Bhubaneswar Subsection on 29th – 30th Sep 2023
  5. Session Chair during “2022 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA 2022)” organized by IEEE Kolkata Section Industrial Electronics Society Chapter Bhubaneswar and IEEE Bhubaneswar Subsection on 15th – 16rh Oct 2022
  6. Organized a one-day seminar on the IPR Awareness Program on Intellectual Property Rights and Patents at NIT Patna in association with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Govt of India in April 2022.
  7. Member of the organizing committee and Technical Chair of the International Conference ICEFEET- organized at Electrical Eng. Dept. National Institute of Technology Patna in June 2022.
  8. The Member Organizing Committee of the International Conference IEEE-ICPICES, organized at Electrical Eng. Dept. Delhi Technological University in July 2016.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  1. Lab in Charge Power Electronics and Drives Laboratory from April 2023
  2. Associate Warden of BH 9A hostel at NIT Silchar from Jan-2023
  3. Secretary of Student Academic Council Committee Electrical Engineering Department from Sep-2022
  4. Assistant Warden at Delhi Technological University during 2015-2019

PhD Scholar

S. No Name Status Research Area Supervision
1 Kosha Krishna Dutta Ongoing Electric Vehicle Supervisor
2 Sushma Balanagu Ongoing Non-Thermal Plasma Co-Supervisor