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Dr. S. G. Srivani
Professor and Head of the Department
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Faculty of Engineering and Technology
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Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. S. G. Srivani is presently serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru. She is a former Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at RV College of Engineering (RVCE), Bengaluru, where she also served as Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies.
Dr. Srivani has approximately 42 years of experience in teaching and research, including nearly 37 years at RVCE and 3 years at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology (Sir MVIT). She obtained her Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, for her research on adaptive distance-relaying schemes. She has supervised eight doctoral scholars under Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU).
A Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (FIE) and Senior Member of IEEE, Dr. Srivani has published more than 220 research papers in international journals and reputed international conference proceedings and 5 Book Chapters. She has travelled internationally, including to Singapore, London, the USA, Geneva, and Paris, for presenting research papers, chairing technical sessions, and delivering invited talks.
Her intellectual-property portfolio includes four granted patents, including one UK patent, as well as a published patent. She has served as a reviewer for numerous IEEE international conferences and journals, and has reviewed manuscripts for international journals published by Springer Nature, IEEE, and Elsevier. She has also served on various editorial and technical review panels.
Dr. Srivani has successfully led five funded research projects from INAE, NIAS and ISRO as Principal Investigator. Her contributions to teaching, research, and professional service have been recognized through more than 22 professional awards and honours, including the Best Teacher Award 2024 from the RVCE-ISTE Chapter.
Her research interests encompass power-system protection, smart grids, renewable-energy integration, power-electronic converters, electric and hybrid vehicles, intelligent control, and energy management. During her tenure at RVCE, she established the Centre of Competence (CoC) on Smart Vidhyuth and Sustainable Solutions in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She also served as the Faculty Coordinator for the IEEE Power & Energy Society Student Branch (IEEE PES SB) at RVCE and received best chapter award 2025.
Dr. Srivani has been recognized as a technical expert and member of interview and evaluation panels for organizations and initiatives including ISRO and the INAE Mayank Awards. She has also served as a VTU nominee on Boards of Studies (BoS) of reputed institutions. Her extensive contributions to engineering education, research, professional service, and innovation have established her as an experienced academic and researcher in the field of electrical engineering.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Power and Energy Systems
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, 2011
- M.E. in Power Systems
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bengaluru, 1990
- B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bengaluru, 1986
Experience
Total Years of Experience41 years
Academic Experience
| S.No. | Positions Held | Institute | From | To |
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| 1 | Professor and HOD | MSRUAS | 31/08/2026 | Till Date |
| 2 | Professor and HOD, EEE Dept. | RVCE | 1/7/2022 | 31st July 2025 |
| 3 | Professor | RVCE | 1/2/2022 | August 2026 |
| 4 | Associate Dean, PG Studies | RVCE | 1/8/2019 | 15/1/2025 |
| 5 | Associate Professor | RVCE | 1/1/2011 | 31/1/2022 |
| 6 | Assistant Professor / Selection Grade / Senior Grade / Lecturer | RVCE | 20/9/1990 | 31/12/2010 |
| 7 | Lecturer | Sir MVIT | 1/8/1987 | 19/9/1990 |
| 8 | Lecturer | IMPACT Polytechnic | 1/1/1987 | 30/12/1988 |
Research funds
| Sl No. | Project Title | Funding Agency | Grant (Rs.) | PI, Co PI(s) | Status | Year of Sanction |
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| 1 | RES-URSC-2023-018: Field Oriented Control (FOC) based BLDC/Stepper Motor Drive Electronics | ISRO-DOS | Rs. 22,18,112/- | Dr. S. G. Srivani - PI Dr. Abhilash Krishna - Co-PI Dr. Pandry Narendra - Co-PI |
-- | 2025 Feb 12 |
| 2 | Solar based Motorized Fruit and Vegetable Harvesting Device | FINP - INAE - NIAS | 1,85,000 + GST | PI: Dr. S. G. Srivani Co-PI: Dr. Madhu B. R. |
Completed (2023) | 2022 |
| 3 | RES-URSC-2023-018 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 4 | Solar based Mini Air Cooler cum Mosquito Trap | FINP - INAE - NIAS | 2,19,000 + GST | PI: Dr. S. G. Srivani Co-PI: Dr. Adinath Jain |
Completed (2023) | 2022 |
| 5 | Solar Ironing Cart | FINP - INAE - NIAS | 1,05,000 + GST | PI: Dr. S. G. Srivani | Completed (2022) | 2021 |
| 6 | Field Oriented Control (FOC) based BLDC/Stepper Motor Drive Electronics | ISRO | 22,18,112/- | PI: Dr. S. G. Srivani Co-PI: Dr. Abhilash Krishna Co-PI: Dr. Narendra Rao |
Yet to commence | 2024 |
| 7 | Atmospheric Water Well Generator | Greeneria Pvt Ltd | 9,00,000 | Co-PI: Dr. S. G. Srivani | On going | 2024 |
| Total Amount | 31,18,112 /- | |||||
Research Interest
- Power-system protection and adaptive relaying
- Smart grids, synchrophasors and microgrid energy management
- Power electronic converters and renewable-energy integration
- Electric and hybrid vehicles, motor drives and battery systems
- AI/ML and DT, Intelligent control, fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks
- Chandrashekhar, P.K. and Srivani, S.G. (2021) 'An accelerating power-based approach for transient stability assessment', Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 750, pp. 447-454.
- Srivani, S.G. et al. (2020) 'Adaptive protection scheme for renewable integrated microgrid: A case study', in Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems. Springer.
- Excellence Award for UK patent and external recognition, RSST and RVCE, 2025.
- Guru Sanman Award, AISCP Association and Igniting Dreams of Young Minds Foundation, 2025.
- Professional Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Power Plant Engineers, 2024.
- Best Teacher Award, IETE-RVCE Chapter, 2024.
- General Chair and Best Paper Award recipient, 7th IEEE CSITSS, 2023.
- Best Research Presentation for 'PMU Data Analysis and Cyber Security in Smart Grid', ICRAET, Paris, 2023.
- Excellence in academic coordination award by Global Principal Association in Dec 2024
- Professional excellence-women in engineering award by IEEE-WIE-RVCE chapter August 2024
- Lifetime Achievement Award INSO Awards by “International Scientist Award-2022” 2022 April
- Professional Ambassador of IFER by IFERP in 2023
- Outstanding professional award on Engineers day 2024 by JSW and reach the need foundation in Sept.2024
- Professional excellence -women in engineering award IEEE-WIE-RVCE chapter August 2024
International journal papers
- Pandry Narendra Rao, Abhilash Krishna D. G., S. G. Srivani, Pooja, "FOC Controller Design for BLDC Motor with Torque Ripple Minimization Using SVPWM in MATLAB/Simulink", SSRG International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Volume 13, Issue 01, Jan 2026, ISSN: 2348-8379 (Q4 indexed).
- Sulochana I Akkalkot, S. G. Srivani, "Protecting transmission line in STATCOM integrated DFIG system using adaptive distance relay blocking scheme", Evolving Systems, Springer Nature, Volume 17, Article Number 7, Dec 2025, e-ISSN: 1868-6486, p-ISSN: 1868-6478 (Q1 indexed).
- Rohan V, Srivani, "Design and Implementation of Waste Heat Recovery System in MVDC Electric Propulsion", International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Volume 12, Issue 07, Jul 2025, e-ISSN: 2395-0056, p-ISSN: 2395-0072, Impact Factor: 8.315 (Q4 indexed).
- Jayanth A Kanago, S. G. Srivani, Nithin Vincen, "Design and Implementation of an Automated Intelligent Control Panel for Sewage Treatment Plants", IJIRT 183215, International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, August 2025, Volume 12, Issue 3, ISSN: 2349-6002 (Q2 indexed).
- Nithish N, S. G. Srivani, "Design and Development of Hybrid Storage Energy Management in Solar PV Systems", International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Volume 12, Issue 07, Jul 2025, e-ISSN: 2395-0056, p-ISSN: 2395-0072, Impact Factor: 8.315 (Q4 indexed).
- Mustaq Ahmed, Jayanth A Kanago, Hemalatha J.N, Srivani S.G, "Advanced Metering Infrastructure Survey on Security: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Counter measures for a 5kW PV Microgrid", 2025 Emerging Technologies for Intelligent Systems (ETIS), 979-8-3315-0754-1/25/$31.00 ©2025 IEEE, DOI: 10.1109 (Q4 indexed).
- V. Telukunta, J. Pradhan, A. Agrawal, M. Singh and S. G. Srivani, "Protection challenges under bulk penetration of renewable energy resources in power systems: A review", CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 365-379, Dec. 2017, DOI: 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2017.00030 (486 Citations - 22/11/2023) (Q2 Indexed).
- S.G. Srivani, V. Srinivasulu, Raghunandan Kuram, "Dynamic Power Synthesis: Multi-Source Renewable Energy Integration for Advanced EV's and HEV's", International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Volume 12, Issue 06, Jun 2025, e-ISSN: 2395-0056, p-ISSN: 2395-0072, Impact Factor: 8.315 (Q4 indexed).
- Rao, P.N., Krishna, D.G.A., Srivani, S.G. and Pooja (2026), "FOC controller design for BLDC motor with torque ripple minimization using SVPWM in MATLAB/Simulink", SSRG International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 13(1).
- Akkalkot, S.I. and Srivani, S.G. (2025), "Protecting transmission line in STATCOM integrated DFIG system using adaptive distance relay blocking scheme", Evolving Systems, 17, Article 7.
- Rao, P.N., Krishna, D.G.A., Srivani, S.G. and Raghunandan, K. (2025), "Design and implementation of a high-gain bidirectional DC-DC converter for electric-vehicle applications", International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.
- Vaikund, H. and Srivani, S.G. (2023), "Demand response-based cost mitigation strategy in renewable energy connected microgrid using intelligent energy management system", Electrical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-023-02034-8
- M. Singh, T. Vishnuvardhan, S. G. Srivani, "Adaptive protection coordination scheme for power networks under penetration of distributed energy resources", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 10(15), pp. 3919-3929, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.0614 (100 Citations - 22/11/2023) (Q1 Indexed).
- Manohar Singh, Vishnuvardhan Telukunta, S.G. Srivani, "Enhanced real time coordination of distance and user defined over current relays", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 98, pp. 430-441, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2017.12.018 (38 Citations - 22/11/2023) (Q1 Indexed).
- Vaikund, H., Srivani, S.G., "Demand response-based cost mitigation strategy in renewable energy connected microgrid using intelligent energy management system", Electrical Engineering (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-023-02034-8 (Q1 Indexed).
- Poola Reddi Kiran, Dr. S.G. Srivani, "Multi output forward converter for space applications", IET Power Electronics Journal, 2013 (Q1 Indexed).
- Dr. S. G. Srivani, Kiruthika K, H. V. Sumana, "PMU Data Analysis and Cyber Security in Smart Grid", Telematique, Vol. 22(1), pp. 2364-2371, 2023.
- Krishnan K., Srivani S.G., "Fault detection in an interconnected power system using optimal number of phasor measurement unit", International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, Vol. 13(4), pp. 2109-2119, 2022, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v13.i4.pp2109-2119.
- Vaikund H., Srivani S.G., "Cost mitigation strategy for microgrid using an advanced energy management system with an intelligent controller", Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 210, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108116 (Q1 Indexed).
- Chandrashekhar P.K., Srivani S.G., "Synchrophasor-Based Online Transient Stability Assessment Using Regression Models", ECTI Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Communications, Vol. 20(2), pp. 143-151, 2022, DOI: 10.37936/ecti-eec.2022202.246763 (Q3 Indexed).
- Chandrashekhar P.K., Srivani S.G., "Online Transient Stability Assessment Using Regression Models", Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 812, pp. 139-148, 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-6970-5_12 (Q3 Indexed).
- Vyas U.B., Shah V.A., Srivani S.G., "Fault detection technique for modified cascaded half-bridge multi-level inverter with polarity changer in PV grid system", SN Applied Sciences, Vol. 3(5), 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04586-5 (Q2 Indexed).
- Shwetha A and Dr. S. G. Srivani, "Speed Control Algorithm of PMSM for compressor Load", International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management, Vol. 3, Issue No. 7, pp. 219-223, July 2021.
- S. R. Jayasimha, J. Usha, and S. G. Srivani Iyengar, "Analysis of Energy Efficient Load Balancing of Virtual Machine in Cloud Environment", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 17, No. 9/10, September/October 2020, pp. 4026-4030, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2020.9013
- Kirthika Devi V.S., Srivani S.G., "A prototype model of an efficient transformerless inverter with DQ controller for grid connected photovoltaic system", Journal of Green Engineering, Vol. 10(6), pp. 2627-2643, 2020.
- Kirthika Devi V.S., Srivani S.G., "Performance analysis of modified incremental conductance algorithm for photovoltaic system", Journal of Green Engineering, Vol. 10(5), pp. 2304-2322, 2020.
- Akkalkot S.I., Srivani S.G., "Dynamic stability analysis using DFIG based windfarm and statcom for the security of the power system", Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 12, pp. 1865-1876, 2020, DOI: 10.5373/JARDCS/V12SP4/20201673.
- Kiruthika K., Srivani S.G., "Optimal PMU placement using enhanced PSO algorithm", Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 12, pp. 1877-1882, 2020, DOI: 10.5373/JARDCS/V12SP4/20201674.
- PK Chandrashekhar, SG Srivani, "Synchronized Measurements based Online Transient Stability Assessment using Gaussian Process Regression", Power Research - A Journal of CPRI, pp. 129-135, 2020.
- V. S. Kirthika Devi and S.G. Srivani, "A DQ synchronous reference frame current control for grid connected photo voltaic system using single phase cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter", International Journal Engineering and Advanced Technology, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Dec 2019, DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.B3174.129219.
- S.G. Srivani and Yashaswini H N, "Architecture of Femto Cell and its Performance Analysis under Load Testing", International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication (IJEEDC), ISSN (p): 2320-2084, ISSN (e): 2321-2950, Vol. 7, Issue 11, Nov 2019.
- Yashaswini H N, S.G. Srivani, "Design and Implementation of Interleaved Buck Converter in Network Communication for Femtocell Technology", International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Engineering Research (IJETER), Vol. 07, Issue 05, May 2019.
- Yashaswini H N, S.G. Srivani, "Performance Analysis of Interleaved Buck Converter for Switching and Conduction Losses for Femtocell Technology", International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), Vol. 08, Issue 05, May 2019.
- R. O.C, V. S. Kirthika Devi, and G. Srivani, S., "Performance Analysis of Single Phase Closed Loop System for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter Using Renewable Source", Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, pp. 1757-1766, 2018.
- P. K. Chandrashekhar, S. G. Srivani, S. Shyam Sundar, Rashmi, "Dynamic Stability Enhancement of Power System Using Fuzzy Power System Stabilizer Under Different Loading Conditions", Power Research - A Journal of CPRI, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2014.
- Dr. Srivani S.G, P. Reddi Kiran, "Efficient Current Limiting Technique for Voltage Mode Controlled DC-DC Converters", International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 4(10), 2013.
- S.G. Srivani, "Wavelet-DFT based Hybrid Adaptive Algorithm to Fast Distance relaying in Series Compensated Transmission Lines", International Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 11(3), pp. 1-9, 2011.
- SG Srivani, "An integrated adaptive distance relaying scheme in series compensated transmission lines", Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 11(1), 2011.
- K.P. Vittal, S.G. Srivani, "Integrated Adaptive Distance Relaying Scheme in Series Compensated Lines", International Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 11(1), pp. 104-112, 2010.
- Chandrasekhar Reddy Atla, S.G. Srivani, K. Panduranga Vittal, "Adaptive vs. Conventional Digital Distance Relay Performance in the Protection of Double Circuit Transmission Lines", Electrical India, pp. 76-86, 2010.
- K. Panduranga Vittal, S.G. Srivani, "Three zone quadrilateral adaptive distance relay for the protection of parallel transmission line with mutual coupling", International Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 10(4), pp. 79-88, 2010.
- V. S. Kirthika Devi and S. G. Srivani, "Modified phase shifted PWM for cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter", 2017 Third International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronics, Information, Communication and Bio-Informatics (AEEICB), Chennai, India, 2017, pp. 89-94, DOI: 10.1109/AEEICB.2017.7972389 (34 Citations - 22/11/2023).
- Fellow, Institution of Engineers (FIE)
- Senior Member, IEEE; faculty advisor, IEEE Power & Energy Society RVCE Student Branch
- Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education
- Professional Ambassador, Institute for Engineering Research and Publication
- Professional Ambassador, IFERP, New Delhi
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