Faculty details

Prof.Shyam A B

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering

Email: shyamab[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5024

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About Me: I am a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, India, from October 2023. Before this, from July 2012 to December 2015, I was a faculty member at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) – R K Valley, Andhra Pradesh. I received BTech degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from NSS College of Engineering Palakkad in 2009, ME in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2023. I work in the area of Power Electronics, wherein my research interests are Power Electronic Converters, Wide Band Gap (WBG) based Circuits, Distributed Generation and Microgrids.

Research Interest: Power Electronic Converters, Wide Band Gap (WBG) Based Circuits, Distributed Generation And Microgrids

Teaching

Under-Graduate Courses
No	Course Code	Course Name	L-T-P
1	NEEE101	Electrical Devices and Circuits	3-0-0
2	NEEC102	Basics of Electrical Engineering – I Lab	0-0-2
3	NEEC208	Power System Engineering	3-1-0
4	EEC207	Power System Engineering	3-0-0
5	EEC311	Power System Analysis and Control	3-0-0
6	EEC377	Power and Switchgear Laboratory	0-0-2

Post-Graduate Courses
No	Course Code	Course Name	L-T-P
1	EEC514	Advanced Power System Simulation Laboratory	0-0-3

Academics

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
M.E. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India
B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, India

Position

Academic
No	Position	Institution/Organisation	Duration
1	Assistant Professor	Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad	Oct 2023 – Present
2	Project Scientist	Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Aug 2023 – Oct 2023
3	Lecturer	Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) – R K Valley	Jul 2012 – Dec 2015

Administrative
No	Position	Institution/Organisation	Duration
1	Departmental Under Graduate Committee (DUGC) member	Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad	Oct 2024 – Present
2	Department Faculty Coordinator for Alumni Affairs	Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad	Jun 2024 – Present

Awards and Honors

Best Contributory Paper Award in track Micro-Grid and Distribution System at 9th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS-2021), IIT Kharagpur, 2021
Student Support Grant to present paper at 2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, 2018

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Voltage Regulation and Load Sharing in DC Microgrid Using Single Variable Global Average Estimation,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 336-345, April 2024, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2023.3317800
A. Das, A. Shukla, A. B. Shyam, S. Anand, J. M. Guerreo and S. R. Sahoo, “A Distributed-Controlled Harmonic Virtual Impedance Loop for AC Microgrids,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 3949-3961, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2987290
A. B. Shyam, S. Anand and S. R. Sahoo, “Effect of Communication Delay on Consensus-Based Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 3202-3212, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2978719
A. Ingle, A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Quality-Index Based Distributed Secondary Controller for a Low Voltage DC Microgrid,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 7004-7014, Sept. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2018.2795524
Islam, S., Agarwal, S., Shyam, A. B., Ingle, A., Thomas, S., Anand, S. and Sahoo, S.R. (2018), “Ideal current-based distributed control to compensate line impedance in DC microgrid,” IET Power Electronics, 11: 1178-1186, doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2017.0531

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

A. B. Shyam, A. Das, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Effect of Communication Delay on Steady State Voltage in DC Microgrids,” 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 524-529, doi: 10.1109/NPSC57038.2022.10069847
A. B. Shyam, S. Ranjan Sahoo and S. Anand, “Voltage Regulation Controller in DC Microgrid: Implementation Challenges and Solutions,” IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Brussels, Belgium, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968717
A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo, S. Anand and J. M. Guerrero, “Comparative Study of Various Communication Technologies for Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid,” 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Kharagpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS52420.2021.9670303 (Best Contributory Paper Award)
V. P. Abhiram, A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Stability of DC Microgrid for Different Reduced Communication Topologies,” 2019 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Jaipur, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS48983.2019.9067705
V. P. Abhiram, A. B. Shyam, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Communication Topology Selection for Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid,” 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPEC47332.2019.9034875
D. Dhua, A. B. Shyam, S. Anand and S. R. Sahoo, “Dynamic Overcurrent Saturation of Distributed Sources in a DC Microgrid System,” 2018 20th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2018.8771443
A. B. Shyam, A. Ingle, S. R. Sahoo and S. Anand, “Performance Analysis of Reduced Communication Network in DC Microgrid,” 2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, 2018, pp. 976-981, doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2018.8467839

Projects & Activities

No	Project Title	Funding Agency	Role	Duration
1	Cyber-Resilient Intelligent Control Architecture for Next-Generation DC Microgrids	Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) under Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PM-ECRG) scheme	PI	2026-2029
2	Design and Development of Onboard Charger for Electric Vehicle	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India under Faculty Research Scheme (FRS)	PI	2024-2026

Membership of Scientific Societies

Member IEEE, since Jan 2024
Student Member IEEE, Jan 2017 – Dec 2022

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Outreach Activities

Organized Two days Centenary Webinar on Embracing Control Theory in Modern Real World in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India, 28 – 29 May 2025 (Co-Convener)
Session Chair for 2025 IEEE 1st International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Developments in Electrical Engineering (SSDEE) at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India, 28 Feb – 02 Mar 2025
Speaker in Session 7: “Academia – Building relevant foundation for a sustainable future” at International Standards Summit 2024, Bengaluru on “Energy Sector – Ensuring Excellence, Adaptation and Transformation through Standards”, 04 – 05 Jul 2024

Guidance

No	Name	Title of Thesis	Program	Year of completion	Placement
1	Jai Dhall	EV Motor Drive (tentative)	M.Tech.	Ongoing
2	Phularenu Das Guide: Prof. P K Sadhu	EV Charging and BMS Algorithms (tentative)	Ph.D.	Ongoing
3	Rishabh Kumar	Design and Hardware Implementation of Dual Active Bridge DC-DC Converter for On-Board EV Battery Charger	M.Tech.	2026
4	Mohit Sharma	Designing an AFE Converter for On Board EV Battery Charger	M.Tech.	2026	Carborundum Universal Limited
5	Niraj Sahu	Design And Development of a PFC Based AC-DC Active Front End Converter for On Board EV Battery Charger	M.Tech.	2025	Kalinga Commercial Corporation Limited
6	Bipin Pant	Design And Development of a Dual Active Full Bridge Phase Shifted DC-DC Converter for On Board EV Battery Charger	M.Tech.	2025	Intel Private Limited