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Subrata Banerjee Professor
Joined the Institute in 1996
sbanerjee[dot]ee[at]nitdgp[dot]ac[dot]in
Education

PhD (Electrical Engineering) from IIT Kharagpur.

Work Experiences

Teaching: 31 Yrs
Research (R&D Lab): 2 & ½ Yrs
Industry: 1 Year

Research Interest

Modeling & Control of Switch-mode converters and Inverters, Multilevel Inverters & Different Modulation techniques, Electromagnetic Levitation, Active Magnetic Bearing, controller design, Intelligent control, Power Electronics & Machine Drives.

Projects
Title Investigator Co-investigator Sponsered Agency Duration Status

GOVT. AND INDUSTRY- SPONSORED PROJECTS07

0   0 0 Completed

 

Teachings

UG: Control Systems, Advanced Control Systems (Elective), Advanced Power Electronics (Elective)

PG: Advanced Power Electronics –I, Advanced Power Electronics –II

UG Students

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PG Students

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Post-Doctoral Students

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Doctoral Students

Shereya Adhvaryyu

Shereya Adhvaryyu

(PhD Ongoing)

Shereya Adhvaryyu

Shereya Adhvaryyu

(PhD Ongoing)


Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar

(Thesis writing)

Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar

(Thesis writing)


Samudra Panda

Samudra Panda

(Thesis writing)

Samudra Panda

Samudra Panda

(Thesis writing)


Tapas Nandi

Tapas Nandi

(PhD Ongoing)

Tapas Nandi

Tapas Nandi

(PhD Ongoing)


Dhiraj Ray

Dhiraj Ray

(PhD Ongoing)

Dhiraj Ray

Dhiraj Ray

(PhD Ongoing)


Soham Dey

Soham Dey

(PhD Completed)

Soham Dey

Soham Dey

(PhD Completed)


Hanumath Prasad Ikkurti

Hanumath Prasad Ikkurti

(PhD Ongoing)

Hanumath Prasad Ikkurti

Hanumath Prasad Ikkurti

(PhD Ongoing)


Siddheswar Sen

Siddheswar Sen

(PhD Ongoing)

Siddheswar Sen

Siddheswar Sen

(PhD Ongoing)


Kingshuk Mazumder

Kingshuk Mazumder

(PhD Completed)

Kingshuk Mazumder

Kingshuk Mazumder

(PhD Completed)


Rupam Bhaduri

Rupam Bhaduri

(PhD Completed)

Rupam Bhaduri

Rupam Bhaduri

(PhD Completed)


Santu Kumar Giri

Santu Kumar Giri

(PhD Completed)

Santu Kumar Giri

Santu Kumar Giri

(PhD Completed)


Mrinal Kanti Sarkar

Mrinal Kanti Sarkar

(PhD Completed)

Mrinal Kanti Sarkar

Mrinal Kanti Sarkar

(PhD Completed)


Arnab Ghosh

Arnab Ghosh

(PhD Completed)

Arnab Ghosh

Arnab Ghosh

(PhD Completed)


Sumit Pandey

Sumit Pandey

(PhD Completed)

Sumit Pandey

Sumit Pandey

(PhD Completed)


Pabitra Biswas

Pabitra Biswas

(PhD Completed)

Pabitra Biswas

Pabitra Biswas

(PhD Completed)


Dipayan Guha

Dipayan Guha

(PhD Completed)

Dipayan Guha

Dipayan Guha

(PhD Completed)


Tushnik Sarkar

Tushnik Sarkar

(PhD Completed)

Tushnik Sarkar

Tushnik Sarkar

(PhD Completed)


Sourabh Kundu

Sourabh Kundu

(PhD Completed)

Sourabh Kundu

Sourabh Kundu

(PhD Completed)


Sarbani Mukherjee

Sarbani Mukherjee

(PhD Completed)

Sarbani Mukherjee

Sarbani Mukherjee

(PhD Completed)


Niraj Kumar Rana

Niraj Kumar Rana

(PhD Completed)

Niraj Kumar Rana

Niraj Kumar Rana

(PhD Completed)


Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Modelling and Control of Electromagnetic Levitation Devices. Prof. S. Banerjee & Prof. S. Janardhanan (IIT Delhi) DST SERB 4,163,949 Sponsored Completed 2019-05-20 2022-05-19
2 GOVT. AND INDUSTRY- SPONSORED PROJECTS: 07 Prof. S. Banerjee 0 0 Sponsored Completed
3 Design, fabrication and testing of DC electromagnetic levitation systems –suitable for specific industrial applications. Prof. S. Banerjee DR T.K. Saha DST SERB 2,683,200 Sponsored Completed
4 Design, development, fabrication and testing of an electromagnetically levitated system. Prof. S. Banerjee 0 IE 400,000 Sponsored Completed
5 Development of Advanced Control Systems & Machine Drives Lab Prof. S. Banerjee 0 DST 10,800,000 Sponsored Completed
6 Grid Readiness for EV: Enablers and Technological developments (GREET) Prof. S. Banerjee & Dr. A. Bhattacharya 0 ANRF 8,002,032 Sponsored Ongoing

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Modelling and Control of Electromagnetic Levitation Devices. Prof. S. Banerjee & Prof. S. Janardhanan (IIT Delhi) DST SERB 4,163,949 Sponsored Completed 2019-05-20 2022-05-19
2 GOVT. AND INDUSTRY- SPONSORED PROJECTS: 07 Prof. S. Banerjee 0 0 Sponsored Completed
3 Design, fabrication and testing of DC electromagnetic levitation systems –suitable for specific industrial applications. Prof. S. Banerjee DR T.K. Saha DST SERB 2,683,200 Sponsored Completed
4 Design, development, fabrication and testing of an electromagnetically levitated system. Prof. S. Banerjee 0 IE 400,000 Sponsored Completed
5 Development of Advanced Control Systems & Machine Drives Lab Prof. S. Banerjee 0 DST 10,800,000 Sponsored Completed
6 Grid Readiness for EV: Enablers and Technological developments (GREET) Prof. S. Banerjee & Dr. A. Bhattacharya 0 ANRF 8,002,032 Sponsored Ongoing

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
Indexing

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Google Scholar h-index

138

Google Scholar i10-index

34

Scopus h-index
Awards and Recognitions

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National/International Awards, Prizes, Certificates, Fellowships (Name, Year, Agency)

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Fellow, IET(UK),  No. 1100165535

19.03.2020

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) United Kingdom (UK)

Fellow, IE (I), F-118253-2

30.11.2013

Institution of Engineers (India)

Fellow, IETE(I), F-501471

21.02.2019

The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

Fellow, WAST for notable contribution in the field of Power Electronics & Applied Control Systems

2024

West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology

Associate Editor, IET Power Electronics

16.12.2019 to August, 2023

IET (UK)

Associate Editor, IEEE Access

7th Feb, 2020 to 10th October,2023

IEEE(USA)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transportation Electrification Community eNewsletter

21.10.20-31.05.23

IEEE(USA)

Editor, IETE Journal of Research

18.02.2023-25.10.2023

IETE(INDIA)

Associate Editor, Frontiers

28.05.2021-06.12.2023

Frontiers in Future Transportation (Switzerland)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications in power converter in Industrial Power Converters Committee

20.02.25-Continuing

IEEE(USA)

Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics

20.10.25-Continuing

IEEE(USA)

Best Application Paper Award, for “A current-controlled attraction type magnetically levitated system- a simple & novel approach”

19.12,2003

National Systems Conference (NSC-2003)

Best Paper Presentation Award (in the area of Electronic Systems) “A current-controlled attraction type magnetically levitated system- a simple & novel approach”

19.12,2003

National Systems Conference (NSC-2003)

Best Paper of the Oral Presentation session ‘Power & Machines Applications-1 (paper ID:07) “Experimental Comparison of Different Classical Controllers for DC Attraction Levitation System”

22.12.2011

National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC-2011).

Best Paper of the Poster Presentation session (paper ID:11) “Finite Element Analysis of 3-coil AMB”

22.12.2011

National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC-2011)

Best paper award

21.12.2018

3rd Regional Science and Technology Congress (Western Region),2018 DST,WB

Outstanding Paper Award : “Multilevel Inverters & its applications in different fields of Electrical Engineering”

01.03.2019

26th West Bengal State Science & Technology Congress, 2019, DST,WB

Outstanding Paper Award

29.02.2020

27th West Bengal State Science & Technology Congress, 2020, DST,WB

Best Paper in Control System Track, “Optimization Algorithm Based PID Controller Design for a Magnetic Levitation System”

28.02.2020

CALCON,2020, IEEE Kolkata Section

2020, Best Paper Award for the Journal ‘International Journal of Modelling and Simulation’

15.07.2020

Taylor & Francis

Best Paper Award (Paper ID : 802) “A Non-Isolated Multiport Converter with Wide Input Voltage Range to Enhance Ultracapacitor Utilization for Electrified Vehicles”

21.12.2024

11th IEEE PEDES-2024

TATA RAO PRIZE (for overall Best Paper in EE Division), Paper: “Performance of Classical Controllers for an Electromagnetic Levitation System: A comparative Study”

20.12.2013

Institution of Engineers (India)

IETE-BIMAL BOSE AWARD for pioneering work in developing improved modulation strategies for multilevel inverters and designing new switch-mode power converter topologies with higher performance

25.09.2022

The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers

Best M.Tech Project Supervisor: Thesis “Implementation of Modified SHE&SHM PWM technique for Improving performance of 3-ph 7-level CHB Inverter”

2017

NIT Durgapur

Best M.Tech Project Supervisor:Thesis “Design, fabrication and testing of a new high gain Buck-Boost converter with higher efficiency and enhanced performance”

2018

NIT Durgapur

Recognized as a top cited Author in IET Power Electronics, “A non-isolated symmetrical design of voltage lift switched-inductor boost converter with higher gain and low voltage stress across switches”

2022-2023

IET Power Electronics

Recognized as a top cited Author in International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, “Equilibrium optimizer-tuned cascaded FO 3-DOF PID controller in LFC of power system having RES integrated”

2020-2021

International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems

Recipient of International Travel Grant to attend PECon08, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

2008

DST, Govt. of India

Recipient of International Travel Grant to attend 38th IECON, Montreal Canada

2012

DST, Govt. of India

General Chair

October,11-13, 2025

 

IEEE 2nd International Conference on Green Industrial Electronics and Sustainable Technologies (GIEST-2025)

TPC Vice Chair

May, 11-14, 2025

IEEE ECCE Asia-2025

Invited Chair in 19 Technical Sessions

 2007 -2025

19 occasions in National & International Conferences held in India & Aboard **

Placed top 2% scientists in the world

2021,2022,2023,2024,2025

Survey conducted by a team of scientists at Stanford University

 

 

·         **Chaired technical session in 19 (nineteen) National & International Conferences held in India & Aboard & received appreciation certificates.

·         IEEE PEDS-2007 in Bangkok, (ii) NPEC-2011(IIEST Kolkata), (iii) IEEE (IECON 2012)in Montreal, Canada, (iv) IEEE (IECON 2013) in Vienna, Austria, (v) IEEE (IECON 2014) in Texas, Dallas, (vi) IEEE POWER INDIA 2014 (New Delhi), (vii) National Conference PESA 2013 at NIT Rourkela, (viii) IEEE (IECON 2015) in Yokohama-city in Japan, (ix) IEEE ITEC-2017 in Pune, (x) IEEE-iSSSC 2020 in GIET University(online) Odisha, (xi) IEEE-ICPEE 2020 in KIIT University (online) Bhubaneswar, (xii) IEEE (IECON 2021) on S731-SS held in Toronto (online),(xiii) IEEE (IECON 2021) on T134 held in Toronto (online), (xiv)IEEE-iSSSC 2022 in GIET University(online) Odisha, (xv) IEEE ICIDeA 2023 in NIT Manipur (online), (xvi) IEEE GIEST-2024 in NIT Manipur (online), (xvii) & (xviii) Chaired two technical sessions (TT1: Power Converter, TT3: Electrical Machines and Industrial Drives)  in11th IEEE PEDES 2024 at NITK (xix) IEEE-iSSSC 2025 in GIET University Odisha. Organized special sessions at IECON-2021, INDICON-2022, and NE-IECCE-2025;

 

Administrative Responsibilities

Last 5 Years:

Sn

Position

Authority Department/Institute

Duration

1.

Head of EE Department

Director, NIT Durgapur

24.07.2015 to 18.07.2017

2.

Faculty Advisor of Student Gymkhana

Director, NIT Durgapur

12.03.2016 to 12.03.2018

3.

Technical Advisor (Electrical) Maintenance

Dean (P&D), NIT Durgapur

12.01.2016 to 18.07.2017

4.

Lab in Charge of Control Systems & Advanced control  Lab

HOD, EE, NIT Durgapur

17.05.2011 to continuing

5.

Lab in Charge of Power Electronics Lab & Advanced Power Electronics Lab

HOD, EE, NIT Durgapur

17.05.2011 to continuing

6.

Joint Coordinator of Patent cell

Dean(R&C), NIT Durgapur

11.11.2018 continuing

7.

Convener Patent regulation formulation committee

Director, NIT Durgapur

15.03.2018 to continuing

8.

Convener consultation committee for industry institute interaction committee

Director, NIT Durgapur

30.08.2018 to continuing

9.

Chairman, Tender committee of AMC of 33/11 KVA substation 

Dean (P&D), NIT Durgapur

11.11.2016 to 18.07.2017

10

Chief Warden

Director, NIT Durgapur

9th May,2014 to 18th  September,2014 

11

Chairman, Book Disposal Committee, Central Library

Director, NIT Durgapur

From 27th May,2019-continuing

12

Member, to form modalities for Joint Masters Programmes with other universities/Institutes

Director, NIT Durgapur

From August 07,2019 continuing

13

Member, CPDA Committee

Dean (R&C)

From August 08,2018 continuing

14

Expert committee member for vetting tender documents of 33 kv substation.

PIC Maintenance

From 3rd August, 2018

15

Member, to formulate the norms for introduction of distinguished alumni award.

Director, NIT Durgapur

From 23.04.2019

16

Coordinator final nomination committee for the award of Honoris-Causa

Director, NIT Durgapur

From 26.02.2020

17

Advisor, Innovation & Incubation Cell

Director, NIT Durgapur

From 20.07.2020

18

Convener, Research Initiation Grant

Director, NIT Durgapur

From 15.07.2021

19

Chairman, Power Audit & planning and procurement of Air conditioner

Director, NIT Durgapur

From 28.09.2022

20

Chairman for fixation of rate for electricity consumption for residential & commercial uses

Registrar, NIT Durgapur

From 17.07.2023

 

 

Contact

Mobile : +91-9434788129
Email : bansub2004@yahoo.com, bansub2004@gmail.com, subrata.banerjee@ee.nitdgp.ac.in


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