Biography

Pravat Kumar Ray received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology Sarang, Odisha, in 2000, the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, Rourkela, in 2011. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore during Jan. 2016 to June 2017. He is currently serving as Professor, Electrical Engineering in NIT Rourkela. He has around 20 year of experience in teaching and research. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. theses. He works on several R&D projects sponsored by DST, DST-UKIERI, IMPRINT-II, SERB, Indo-ASEAN and Indo-Thailand etc. He authored/co-authored more than 150 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. His research interests include Estimation & Filtering in Power System, Power system operation and control, Power Quality, Hybrid AC/DC Micro-grids, Smart Grid, Solar irradiance forecasting and Renewable Integration.