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Mr. Praveen Kumar Varanasi

Assistant Professor

  • School/College

    Faculty of Engineering and Technology

  • Department

    Department of Electrical Engineering

Mr. Praveen Kumar Varanasi works as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at RUAS. His research interest involves the study of DC-DC Power Converters, Renewable Energy Systems, Development of MPPT controllers, Multilevel Inverters, PWM control techniques. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Master’s degree in Power Electronics and Drives. He is currently working for his Ph.D. degree in the field of Power Electronic applications to Renewable Energy Syatems at M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    MS Ramaiah University, Bengaluru, Pursuing

  • M.Tech in Power Electronics and Drives

    SVCE, Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, 2012

  • B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    VITS, Affiliated to JNT University, Anantapur, 2010

Experience

Total Years of Experience

9 Years

Academic Experience

M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore: From July 2015 to till now

  • DC-DC Power Converters, Renewable Energy Systems, Development of MPPT controllers, Multilevel Inverters, PWM control techniques

  • Kumar, V., Duraiswamy, P. and Nagaraja Rao, S., 2022, February. Intelligent Control-Based Boost Converter Interfaced with Three-Level Diode Clamped Inverter. In Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control: ICI2C 2021 (pp. 597-608). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
  • Nagaraja Rao, S. and Praveen Kumar, V., 2021. An Enhanced Boost Z-Source Inverter Topology for Electrical Vehicle Applications. In Advances in Energy Technology: Select Proceedings of EMSME 2020 (pp. 557-570). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
  • Aditya Gagan Hedge, Praveen & Shama Ravichandran, ​“Design and development of harness testing equipment for automotive applications”, 2022, Vol. 1, pp. 773 – 786, Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics.

  • GATE Qualified in 2012

International Conference Papers
  • Rao, S.N., Veerabhadra and Kumar, P., 2020, October. Performance analysis of Z-source inverter topologies for renewable energy sources and fuel cell applications. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER) (pp. 165-170). IEEE.
International Journal Papers
  • Rao, S., Varanasi, P., Anisetty, S. and Manjunatha, B. (2022) Implementation of cascaded H-bridge DC-link inverter for marine electric propulsion drives. Energy Harvesting and Systems. https://doi.org/10.1515/ehs-2022-0049.
  • Nagaraja Rao, S., Anisetty, S.K., Manjunatha, B.M., Kiran Kumar, B.M., Praveen Kumar, V. and Pranupa, S., 2022. Interleaved high-gain boost converter powered by solar energy using hybrid-based MPP tracking technique. Clean Energy, 6(3), pp.460-475.
  • Rao, S.N. and Kumar, V.P., 2018. Comparative analysis of switched capacitor based multilevel inverters with self voltage balancing. Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, 10(9), pp.1841-1855.

  • MISTE – Life Member

Admission 2025

ADDRESS

Vidya Soudha (Heritage Block)

M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences,

Gnanagangothri Campus

New BEL Road

MSR Nagar, Bangalore - 560054