Electrical Engineering Department

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad

Allahabad-211004 (India)

CV
1. Name: Dr. Ravindra Kumar Singh

2. Designation & Department: Professor, Department of Electrical Engg.

3. Telephone: 91-532-2271624(R),+91-532-2271404(O)

4. Email: rksingh@mnnit.ac.in

5. Subjects of Interests/Specialization: Power Electronics & drives, Power Production AI

Techniques, Image Processing’s control system, DG Integration and Micro Grid .

DEGREES:

Degree Institution Department Year

Indian Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 2002
Kanpur, India
M. Tech. I.T. BHU, BHU, Varanasi Power Electronics 1992
B.C.E. Bhagalpur (Bhagalpur
B. Sc. (Engg.) Electrical Engineering 1987
University)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Date Rank/Position Department Institution/Firm

Motilal Nehru National
Electrical & Computer
2007 onwards Professor Institute of Technology
Engineering
Allahabad, India
Motilal Nehru National
Electrical & Computer
2004 to 2007 Reader/ Asst. Professor Institute of Technology
Engineering
Allahabad, India
M/s Acxiom Corp., Little
2003-2004 Senior Software Engineer Software architecture
Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.
Electrical & Computer Motilal Nehru National
2000 to 2003 Reader/ Asst. Professor Institute of Technology
Engineering
Allahabad, India

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 Electrical & Computer M.N.R. Engg. College,
1995 to 2000 Senior Lecturer
Engineering Allahabad, India
Electrical & Computer M.N.R. Engg. College,
1989 to 1995 Lecturer
Engineering Allahabad, India

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Authored over 75 technical papers and reports.
• Supervised and guided nearly 60 graduate students, 40 post graduate and 10 PhD
scholars.
• Proposed, planned and mentored the M. Tech. Course in “Power Electronics and ASIC
Design” for the institute.
• Developed an advanced laboratory on Image processing, vision and Robotics in Design
Centre, MNNIT Allahabad, India.

HONOURS:

• Received Gold Medal in under graduation.

• Fellow of Institution of engineers (IE), India.
• Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
• Member of Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

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• General Chair, International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded System
(ICPCES 2012), December 2012, MNNIT Allahabad, India.
• Organizing Chair, International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded System
(ICPCES 2010), September 2010, MNNIT Allahabad, India.
• Organizing Chair, International Conference on Computer and Communication
Technology (ICCCT 2010), November 2010, MNNIT Allahabad, India.
• Chairman, IEEE Joint Chapter of Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics & Control
System, MNNIT Allahabad, India.
• Session Chair, International Conference on Computer applications in Electrical
Engineering – Recent Advances (CERA 2005) September 2005, I.I.T. Roorkee, India
• Session Chair, 6th International Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image
Processing (MVIP 2010), October 2010, Isfahan, Iran.
• Students Counsellor, IEE Students Chapter, MNNIT Allahabad
• Coordinator, Workshop on Circuit Simulation using SPICE & VHDL, April 2006, MNNIT
Allahabad.
• Coordinator, Short term course on Matlab & its engineering Application, July 2002,
MNNIT Allahabad.

PUBLICATIONS:

Power Electronics and Drives

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[1] Premananda Pany, R. K. Singh & R. K. Tripathi, “Active Load Current Sharing in Fuel Cell and Battery
fed DC Motor Drive for Electric Vehicle Application” Elsevier journal Energy Conversion and
Management 122 (2016) 195–206.
[2] Ajit Singh, Amit Kumar, Ravindra Kumar Singh, “ Analysis and Design of Single-Inductor –Dual-
Output Converter in Buck and Boost Mode with Voltage Mode Control”, IEEE International
Conference on Power System (ICPS 2016), March 2016.
[3] Amit Kumar, Ajit Singh, Ravindra Kumar Singh, “AC Small Signal Modelling and Analysis of Quasi-
Switched Boost Inverter” IEEE International Conference on Power System (ICPS 2016), March 2016.
[4] Amit Kumar, Ravindra Kumar Singh, “Power Loss Calculation of Diode Assisted Cascade Quasi-Z-
Source Converter with CCM and DCM Operation” IEEE International Conference on Power System
(ICPS 2016), March 2016.
[5] Rajendra Pratap, Ravindra K Singh & Vineeta Agrawal, “SiC Based Single Chip Programmable AC to
DC Power Converter,” Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, December 2014 (SCI)
[6] Naveed Sohail and Ravindra k Singh"Analysis of Variation in Torque Ripple in Switch Reluctance
Motor with Design" IEEE International conference on Power, Control & Embedded System,ICPCES
2014
[7] Hrishitosh Bisht and R.K. Singh “A Novel Simulation Method Using Stateflow for DC-DC converters
“2012 2nd International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPES 2012),
December16-19, 2012, Allahabad, India. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1049-9.
[8] P. Pani, R. K. Singh & R. K. Tripathi ,“Performance analysis of fuel cell fed PMSM drive with
quadratic boost converter for electric vehicle application”, National conference on emerging trend in
electrical and electronics engineering, ETEEE-2011,Nov 26-27. 2011.
[9] R. K. Singh, “Multiphase Inverter Topology and its Modulation Technique for Optimal Harmonic
Output”, (Digest No. 3A-18) in IEEE conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems
(PEDES 2006) for Industrial Growth-2006, New Delhi, India 12-15 December 2006
[10] R. K. Singh, “A Novel Topology for Multiple Output DC-DC Converter for One Cycle Control”, R. K.
Singh (Digest No. 3B-19) in IEEE conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems
(PEDES 2006) for Industrial Growth-2006, New Delhi, India 12-15 December 2006.
[11] R.K. Singh, A. Joshi and A. Ghosh, “A modified two-switch flyback DC-DC Converter Topology,” IEEE
Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC’98) held at The Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA,
February 15-19, 1998.
[12] R.K. Singh, A. Ghosh and A. Joshi, “Bilinear Model based Fuzzy Control of a DC-DC Converter,” IEEE
Region Ten Conference (TENCON 98) held in New Delhi, 17-19 December 1998.

Power System
[1] Choudhary, N.K.; Mohanty, S.R.; Singh, R.K, “Protection coordination of overcurrent relays in
distribution system with DG and superconducting fault current limiter” Power Systems Conference
(NPSC), 2014 Eighteenth National, Issue Date: 18-20 Dec. 2014.
[2] Raviprasad V, Ravindra K S, “Optimal sizing of PV power plant using sizing ratio for powering critical
load with parallel redundant architecture ” IET Chennai 4th International Conference on Sustainable
Energy and Intelligent System (SEISCON 2013), December 12-14, 2013, Chennai, India.
[3] Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari, Soumya Ranjan Mohanty and Ravindra Kumar Singh "Review on Protection
Issues with Penetration of Distributed Generation in Distribution System" The 2014 International
Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON2014), 19-21 March, 2014, Thailand.
[4] Niraj Kumar Choudhary, Soumya Ranjan Mohanty and Ravindra Kumar Singh "A Review on
Microgrid Protection" The 2014 International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON2014), 19-21
March, 2014, Thailand.

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[5] Raviprasad V, Ravindra K S, “Optimal sizing of PV array for critical load with parallel
redundant architecture using GA” 1st International Conference on Automation, Control, Energy
and Systems (ACES 2014), Feb 02-03, 2014, West Bengal, India.
[6] V.RAVIPRASAD, TULIKA SHANKER, RAVINDRA. K. S "Power Architectures for
Telecommunications - A Review" has been published in December Issue (Volume1 : Issue2) of "
UACEE International Journal of Advancements in Electronics and Electrical Engineering - IJAEEE"
Page(s): 1 – 5, having ISSN No. "ISSN 2319-7498. and is archived in Seek Digital Library.
[7] Raviprasad V, Ravindra K S, “Feasibility study of a small SPV power plant added to existing
rooftop BTS ” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems
(PEDES 2012), December16-19, 2012, Bengaluru, India. ISBN: 978-1-4673-4507-1
[8] Ashish Kushwaha and R. K. Singh “Reactive Power Compensation for Six Phase Distribution
System using p-q Theory” 2012 2nd International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded
Systems (ICPES 2012), December16-19, 2012, Allahabad, India. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1049-9.
[9] V. Raviprasad, Tulika Shanker, K. S. Ravindra. “Power Architectures for Telecommunications – A
Review”, International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Electrical and Computer Science
Engineering – EEC, Page(s): 70 – 74, 7-8-9 July, 2012. DOI: 10.3850/ 978-981-07-2950-9 397.
[10] Ashish Kushwaha and R. K. Singh “Reactive Power Compensation for Six Phase Distribution System
using p-q Theory” 2012 2nd International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems
(ICPES 2012), December16-19, 2012, Allahabad, India. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1049-9.
[11] Shanker, T.; Singh, R.K.; "Wind energy conversion system: A review,", 2012 IEEE Students
Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES), vol., no., pp.1-6, 16-18 March 2012, DOI:
10.1109/SCES.2012.6199044.
[12] Zakir Hussain, R. K. Singh & S. N. Tiwari “A Novel Algorithm for Four Phase (Multi-phase) Source
Side Load Balancing and Power Factor Correction” International Journal of Recent Trends in
Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 3, May 2009, pp 359-364.
[13] Zakir Husain, R. K. Singh & S.N. Tiwari, “Multi-Phase (6-Phase & 12-Phase) Transmission Lines:
Performance Characteristics”, International Journal Of Mathematics And Computers In Simulation,
Issue 2, Volume 1, 2007, pp 150-159
[14] Zakir Husain, R. K. Singh & S.N. Tiwari, “A new algorithm for load balancing and power factor
correction in Multi Phase (six Phase) load” 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics
Engineering (ICEEE 2007), Mexico, 2007, pp 229-232.
[15] G. Sridhar Reddy and R. K. Singh, “Steady State Impacts of Static Compensators in a Microgrid with
Distributed Generation”, International Conference on Power Systems (organized by IEEE and CPRI),
Bangalore, Dec. 2007.
[16] G. Sridhar Reddy and R. K. Singh, “Modeling and Control of Distributed Generation System”,
International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Electrical Sciences
(organized by IET* and MGR University), Chennai, Dec. 2007.
[17] G. Sridhar Reddy and R. K. Singh, “Distributed Generation based Dynamic Voltage Restorer”,
International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Electrical Sciences
(organized by IET* and MGR University), Chennai, Dec. 2007.
[18] G. Sridhar Reddy and R. K. Singh, “An Improved On-line Neural Network Controller for Multi-variable
Control of UPFC”, IEEE Power India Conference, New Delhi, April 10-12, 2006.
[19] Hari Kishan Reddy D. and Ravindra K. Singh, “Modelling and Simulation of Space Vector Pulse
Width Modulated Six Phase Voltage Source Inverter”, International Conference on Computer
Applications in Electrical Engineering Recent Advances, Roorkee, Sep. 29 – Oct. 1, 2005.
[20] Zakir Husain, R K Singh and S.N. Tiwari, “A New Algorithm for Load Balancing and Power Factor

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 Correction in Multi-phase (Six-phase) Load Circuits”, IEEE 4th International Conference on Electrical
and Electronics Engineering, Mexico. September 5-7, 2007.
[21] Zakir Husain, R K Singh and S.N. Tiwari, “Multi-phase (6-phase & 12 Phase) Power Transmission
system with thyristor controlled series capacitor” Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International
Conference on Application of Electrical Engineering, Turkey, May 27-29, 2007, pp. 246-250

Control System
[1] Anirudha Narain, Dinesh Chandra, Ravindra K.S., “Model Order Reduction using Fuzzy C-
Means Clustering”, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 15 April,
2014. (SCI)
[2] Anirudha Narain, Dinesh Chandra, Ravidra K.S., “Model Order Reduction of Discrete-Time
Systems using Fuzzy C-Means Clustering”,World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology,
Issue 79, July 2013, International Conference 04-05, July,2013.

[3] Nikhil K. Yadav and R. K. Singh “Robust Discrete-time Sliding Mode Controller for uncertain
plant with state-delay” 2012 2nd International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded
Systems (ICPES 2012), December16-19, 2012, Allahabad, India. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1049-9.
[4] N. K. Yadav, and R. K. Singh, “Robust discrete-time nonlinear sliding mode controller with plant
uncertainties”, International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 38-
45, Year, March, 2012.
[5] N. K. Yadav and R. K. Singh, “Robust discrete-time nonlinear sliding mode controller with plant
uncertainties” proceeding of National conference on “Emerging Trends in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering (ETEEE-2011)”, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (KNIT), Sultanpur (U. P.), India,
S.07.11, Nov, 26-27, 2011.
[6] Anil Kumar, R. K. Singh & N. K. Yadav, “New Control Algorithm based on Artificial Intelligence”
International Journal of Information Technology and Knowledge Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan-
June 2009, pp. 49-53.
[7] N. K. Yadava, R K Singh and Anil Kumar, “Model following Fuzzy Control in Missile System,” National
Conference on Electronics and Instrumentation Control System, at Apeejay Engg. College, Faridabad
27th Sep, 2008.
[8] A. Narain and R. K. Singh “Vector Control of induction motor using Fuzzy Logic Controller” in
National Conference on Power Conversion and Industrial Control (PCIC-2003), January 3,4 2003

Other
[1] Sakshi Gupta & Ravindra Kumar Singh, “Mathematical Morphology based Face Segmentation and
Facial Feature Extraction for Facial Expression Recognition” IEEE conference on International
conference on futuristic trend in computational analysis and knowledge management, 2015.
[2] Rajendra Pratap, Ravindra K Singh & Vineeta Agrawal, “SiC Based Single Chip Programmable AC to
DC Power Converter,” Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, December 2014 (SCI)
[3] Vivek Gupta, R.S. Gupta and Ravindra Kumar Singh; “Quantum Mechanical Effects in Si-Nanowire
Transistor”; VSRD- IJEECE, Vol. III (IV), April 2013 / 184. (SCI)
[4] VIVEK GUPTA, R S GUPTA, RAVINDRA KUMAR SINGH, “Temperature Effects on Performance of
Gate All Around Si Nanowire transistor” in International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering
& Technology (ICRTET 2012).Proceeding ISBN: 978-81-925922-0-6, 28 Nov.2012.

[5] Vivek Gupta, R S Gupta, Ravindra K S, “A NEGF Approach for Surrounding Gate Si-Nanowire
MOSFET’s” National conference on “Emerging Technology & System Design” organized by, SRMS

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 college of Engineering & Tech. Bareilly on 15th April, 2012.
[6] Rajendra Prasad, Vineeta Agarwam, Ravindra K S, “SPICE Model development for SiC Power
MOSFET” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems
(PEDES 2012), December16-19, 2012, Bengaluru, India. ISBN: 978-1-4673-4507-1.
[7] Pavan Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Maurya, Ravindra Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Mishra “A semi
automatic plant identification based on digital leaf and flower Images” Proceeding of IEEE
International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management (IEEE-ICAESM
2012) , Nagapattanam, Tamilnadu
[8] Sanjay Maurya, Pavan Mishra, Ravindra Singh and Arun Mishra “Image Enhancement by Spline
Interpolation and Adaptive Power Spectrum Cut-off ” Proceeding of IEEE International Conference
on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management (IEEE-ICAESM 2012) , Nagapattanam,
Tamilnadu
[9] Sanjay Kumar Maurya, Ravindra K S and Arun Misra “Hybrid Image Restoration using SWT
based Denoising and Regularization in Frequency Domain” 2012 2nd International Conference on
Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPES 2012), December16-19, 2012, Allahabad, India.
ISBN: 978-1-4673-1049-9.
[10] Richa, R.K.Singh Polynomial based Design of CIC Compensation Filter used in Software Defined
Radio for Multirate Signal Processing, International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)
Volume 39– No.17, February 2012.
[11] Pavan Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Maurya, Ravindra Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Mishra “An
Intensity Variation based Image Interpolation by Selective Threshold” Proceeding of International
Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT-2012), Rajkot, Rajsthan
[12] VIVEK GUPTA, R S GUPTA, RAVINDRA KUMAR SINGH, “Temperature Effects on
[13] Performance of Gate All Around Si Nanowire transistor” in International Conference on Recent
Trends in Engineering & Technology (ICRTET 2012).Proceeding ISBN: 978-81-925922-0-6, 28
Nov.2012.
[14] VIVEK GUPTA, R S GUPTA, RAVINDRA KUMAR SINGH, “A NEGF Approach for
[15] Surrounding Gate Si-Nanowire MOSFET’s” National conference on “Emerging Technology & System
Design” organized, SRMS college of Engg & Tech. Bareilly on 15th April, 2012.
[16] Pavan Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Maurya, Ravindra Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Mishra “SVM Based
Automatic Plant Identification with Digital Images of Leaf and Flower” Proceeding of National
Conference on Artifical Intelegent And Agents: Theory & Application held at Department of
Computer Science Engineering, Institute Of Technology, BHU, Varanasi. 9 th. -11 th. December
2011
[17] R.K.Singh, Richa " Efficient Decimation Filter design for multirate DSP Applications" First
International Conference On Advances in Computing and Communication"(Sponsered by IEEE-MTTS
and NIT Hamirpur),Hamirpur ,2011,pp 313-317.
[18] Pitam Singh, Shiv Datt Kumar, R. K. Singh, “A Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach to Multiobjective
Linear Plus Linaer Fractional Programming Problem", WSEAS Proceedings of American Conference
on Applied Mathematics -2011 at Puerto Morelos, Mexico, pp. 29 - 35.
[19] Pitam Singh, Shiv Datt Kumar, R. K. Singh " Approach for Multiobjective Linear Plus Linear Fractional
Programming Problem", International Electronic journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume
NO.3(2010)pp. 104 - 110.
[20] Pitam Singh, Shiv Datt Kumar, R. K. Singh " Fuzzy Method Multiobjective Linear Plus Linear
Fractional Programming Problem" International Mathematical Form Vol.5, no.60(2010)pp. 2971 -
2983.

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[21] Pitam Singh, Shiv Datt Kumar, R. K. Singh, " Fuzzy Efficient and Pareto Optimal Solution for
Multiobjective Linear Plus Linear Fractional Programming Problem", IEEE Proceedings of ICCCT-
2010 at MNNIT, Allhabad, India, pp. 536 - 543.
[22] Singh, Pitam and Singh, R. K., "Fuzzy method for multiobjective linear plus linear fractional
programming problem," Int. Math. Forum 5 (2010), no. 57-60, 2971--2983; MR2745230
[23] R.K.Singh, Richa, Amit Katiyar "Design and Implementation of CIC based Decimation filter for
Improved frequency Response"International Conference in Emerging Trends in Electronic and
Photonic Devices and Systems"(ELECTRO-2009)(organised by IT-BHU Varanasi),Varanasi,2009,
Proceedings available on IEEEXplore digital Library.
[24] D. S. Kushwaha, R. K. Singh and A. K. Misra, “Cognitive Web based software development process:
towards a more reliable approach”, ACM SIGSOFT software engineering notes, Vol. 31, No. 4, July
2006.
[25] D. S. Kushwaha and R. K. Singh, “CICM: A Robust Method to Measure Cognitive Complexity of
Procedural and Object-Oriented Programs”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 10, Volume 5,
October 2006.
[26] Soumya Suravita, P. Ranjan and R.K. Singh, “Improved Performance of Agent Based Placement Cell
System – A Performance Efficient Role Clustering Technique”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers,
Issue 10, Volume 5, October 2006, pp 2245-2254.
[27] Soumya Suravita, P. Ranjan and R.K. Singh, “Improved Performance of Agent Based Placement Cell
System – A Performance Efficient Role Clustering Technique”, Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS
International Conference on Computers, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, July 13-15, 2006 (pp683-
692).
[28] D.S. Kushwaha and R. K. Singh, “Cognitive Information Complexity Measure of Object-Oriented
Program”, Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Computers, Vouliagmeni,
Athens, Greece, July 13-15, 2006
[29] Subham Roy Choudhury, Dr.R.K.Singh and Manoj Jain, “Implementing Soft decision Viterbi decoder-
A novel approach”, 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems And Computers, Oct 30-Nov 2,
2005, California, IEEE signal Processing Society.
[30] Prem Sonkar, Dr.R.K.Singh, “High Speed and Low Chip Area Multiplication Using Fast Carry Skip
Adder”, 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems And Computers, Oct 30-Nov 2, 2005,
California, IEEE signal Processing Society.
[31] Sunil Budumuru and Dr.R.K.Singh, “Reconfigurable Digital Filter for FPGA Implementation- A Study
with Different Multiplier Architectures”, 9th WSEAS International Conference CSCC (Circuits,
Systems, Communications and Computers 2005), Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, July 2005.
[32] Sunil Budumuru and R K Singh, “Reconfigurable Digital FIR Filter for FPGA Implementation-A Study
with Different Multiplier Architectures,” 8th International Conference on Information Technology,
OIT 2005, held in December 2005.
[33] R.K. Singh, Harish Chaudhari and A. K. Misra, “ Restoration of Motion Degraded Images,”
Conference on Digital Signal Processing and Computer Vision (DIGIVISION ’99) held at J.K. Institute
of Applied Physics and Technology, Allahabad, 12-14 March 1999 in Collaboration with Institution of
electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).
[34] RK. Singh, Agrawal, R. Tripathi and A. K. Misra,” A Novel video compression Technique using Sub-
band coding,” Conference on Digital Signal Processing and Computer Vision (DIGIVISION ’99) held
at J.K. Institute of Applied Physics and Technology, Allahabad, 12-14 March 1999 with IETE.