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Dr. Subho Paul

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering IIT (BHU)
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Email: subho.eee@itbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Distribution network optimal power flow, microgrid energy management, power system optimization, AI application in power system
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As part of the Power System Group at IIT BHU, I am always looking for interested undergraduate and qualified postgraduate students to start their research career with my research group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Students with good academic records and related research interests are encouraged to apply for the Ph.D. and Master's degree programs. Once you are admitted to postgraduate programs under IIT BHU, feel free to drop me an email or stop by my office. The research works will primarily focus on power system operation and control, distribution network management, TSO-DSO coordination, microgrids, EV charging station planning and operation, grid resiliency enhancement, etc. A strong mathematical foundation, a solid understanding of power system operations, and coding skills in MATLAB/Python/any other programming language are needed. 

Research-focused undergraduate students from other institutes are encouraged to email their resumes/CVs for possible summer/winter internships. 

Primary research focuses:

  1. Optimal Power Flow Analysis of Less Observable Distribution Network,
  2. Multi-Agent Energy Management in Bulk Distribution Grid,
  3. Resilient Planning of the Distribution Grid,
  4. Optimal Operation and Challenges Related to EV Charging Stations

Research areas:

  1. Distribution network optimal power flow,
  2. demand side management,
  3. microgrid energy management,
  4. smart grid,
  5. power system optimization and resiliency analysis,
  6. application of machine learning and deep learning techniques in power system

1. Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, UP, India: December 2023 - Present

2. Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA: October 2022 - December 2023

3. Research Associate under Indo-US UI-ASSIST project at Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India: October 2021 - September 2022

4. Associate Fellow at Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India: April 2021 - September 2021

1. Ph.D. : Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, July 2016 - November 2021

  • Topic: Residential Area Energy Management Using Demand Regulation and Storage Devices
  • Supervisor: Dr. Narayana Prasad Padhy

2. Master of Engineering (ME): Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, August 2014 - June 2016 (Gold Medalist)

3. Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech): West Bengal University of Technology, July 2009 - May 2013

2024

  1. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A New Iterative Mixed Integer Linear Programming Based Real Time Energy Efficient Management of AC-DC Distribution Networks," in International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier), vol. 157, art. no. 109793, 2024.

2023

  1. Arunava Chatterjee, Subho Paul and Biswarup Ganguly, "Multi-Objective Energy Management of a Smart Home in Real Time Environment," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 138-147, Jan.-Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2022.3209170.

2022

  1. Subho Paul, Nitin Upadhyay and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Residential Appliance Identification Using 1-D Convolutional Neural Network Based on Multiscale Sinusoidal Initializers," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 7444-7453, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TII.2022.3168043.
  2. Soumya Chatterjee, Sayanjit Singha Roy, Arpan Chatterjee, Biswarup Ganguly and Subho Paul, "Recognition of Hydrophobicity Class of Polymeric Insulators Employing Residual Morphological Neural Network and Granulometry-Based Image Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 71, pp. 1-9, 2022, Art no. 5008609, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2022.3164156.
  3. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Real-Time Advanced Energy-Efficient Management of an Active Radial Distribution Network," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 3602-3612, Sept. 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2021.3113038.
  4. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A New Real Time Energy Efficient Management of Radial Unbalance Distribution Networks Through Integration of Load Shedding and CVR," in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 2571-2586, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2021.3112340.

2021

  1. Subho Paul, Abhimanyu Sharma and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Risk Constrained Energy Efficient Optimal Operation of a Converter Governed AC/DC Hybrid Distribution Network With Distributed Energy Resources and Volt-VAR Controlling Devices," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 4263-4277, July-Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2021.3081526.
  2. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Real-Time Energy Management for Smart Homes," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 4177-4188, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2020.3016358.

2020

  1. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Real-Time Bilevel Energy Management of Smart Residential Apartment Building," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 3708-3720, June 2020, doi: 10.1109/TII.2019.2941739.

2019

  1. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Resilient Scheduling Portfolio of Residential Devices and Plug-In Electric Vehicle by Minimizing Conditional Value at Risk," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1566-1578, March 2019, doi: 10.1109/TII.2018.2847742.

 

2024

  1. Subho Paul, Krishna Murari, Narayana Prasad Padhy, and Sukumar Kamalasadan, "Predictor-Corrector Accelerated ADMM Method for the SOCP-Relaxed AC-DC Optimal Power Flow," in 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Seattle, WA, USA, 2024 (Accepted for presentation).  
  2. Subho Paul, Abhimanyu Sharma, Krishna Murari, Md Shamim Hasan, Narayana Prasad Padhy, and Sukumar Kamalasadan, "A Fully Distributed Consensus ADMM Approach for Loss Minimization in AC-DC Radial Distribution Networks," in 2024 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC60005.2024.10472227.

2023

  1. Subho Paul, Biswarup Ganguly, and Soumya Chatterjee, "Nesterov-Type Accelerated ADMM (N-ADMM) with Adaptive Penalty for Three-Phase Distributed OPF under Non-Ideal Data Transfer Scenarios," in 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10430875.
  2. Abhimanyu Sharma, Subho Paul, and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Two-Stage Optimal Operation of SOPs in Active Three-Phase Distribution Systems," in 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10430637.
  3. Sayanjit Singha Roy, Ashish Paramane, Biswarup Ganguly, Arup Das, Subho Paul, and Soumya Chatterjee, "Image Visibility Patch Aided Hydrophobic Class Detection of Silicone Rubber Insulators Employing Bi-LSTM Network," in 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10430514 (Grabbed best paper award).
  4. Subho Paul, Krishna Murari, Narayana Prasad Padhy, and Sukumar Kamalasadan, "A Consensus ADMM Based Fully Distributed Peer-to-Peer Approach for Multi-Objective Residential Community Energy Management," in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ETFG), Wollongong, Australia, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ETFG55873.2023.10407939.
  5. Subho Paul, Nathan Gray, Anamika Dubey, Anjan Bose, Md. Touhiduzzaman, and James Ogle, "Robustness Assessment of Distributed OPF under Communication Non-idealities using Cyber-Physical Co-simulation Framework," in 2023 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Nashville, TN, USA, 2023, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/IAS54024.2023.10406966.
  6. Subho Paul, Gururaj Mirle Vishwanath and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A New Iterative Mixed Integer Linear Programming Algorithm for Energy Management in Active Unbalanced Distribution Networks," in 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253303.
  7. Biswarup Ganguly, Radha Kumari Ray, Arunava Chatterjee and Subho Paul, "A Deep Learning Aided Intelligent Framework for Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machinery," 2023 IEEE Devices for Integrated Circuit (DevIC), Kalyani, India, 2023, pp. 82-86, doi: 10.1109/DevIC57758.2023.10134832.

2022

  1. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Multi-Objective Energy Management of Active Distribution Network Using Multi-Cuts Tighter Outer Approximation," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES56012.2022.10080373.
  2. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A New Real Time Energy Efficient Management of Radial Unbalance Distribution Networks through Integration of Load Shedding and CVR," 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Denver, CO, USA, 2022, pp. 1-1, doi: 10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916854.
  3. Subho Paul, Biswarup Ganguly and Upayan Adhikary, "A Hybrid MILP-GA Algorithm to Optimize Battery Mix System in Active Distribution Networks," 2022 IEEE VLSI Device Circuit and System (VLSI DCS), Kolkata, India, 2022, pp. 123-128, doi: 10.1109/VLSIDCS53788.2022.9811480 (Grabbed best paper award).
  4. Subho Paul, Nitin Upadhyay, Apurti Jain and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "An Intelligent System for Domestic Appliance Identification Using Deep Dense 1-D Convolutional Neural Network," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PESGRE52268.2022.9715896.

2021

  1. Narayana Prasad Padhy and Subho Paul, "Renewable Integrated Multi-Area Smart Optimization Framework for Distribution Network Operators," 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Kharagpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS52420.2021.9670070.
  2. Subho Paul, Rashmi Prasad and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A Sequential MILP Strategy for Energy Efficient Management of Unbalance Distribution Network," 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Washington, DC, USA, 2021, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638019.

2020

  1. Arunava Chatterjee, Subho Paul and Biswarup Ganguly, "Real Time Multi-Objective Energy Management of a Smart Home," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379539.
  2. Biswarup Ganguly, Arpan Chatterjee, Arunava Chatterjee and Subho Paul, "Diagnosis of Stator Winding Fault of Single-Phase Induction Motor Employing Wavelet Induced Residual-Convolutional Neural Network," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379665.
  3. Biswarup Ganguly, Subho Paul and Arunava Chatterjee, "Smart Home Energy Management Considering Worst-Case Scenarios," 2020 IEEE 7th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), Prayagraj, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/UPCON50219.2020.9376549.
  4. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Residential Flat Building Energy Management under Random Energy Price, Solar Power and Load," 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281535.
  5. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Impact Assessment of Real Time Demand Control on Active AC/DC Hybrid Distribution Networks," 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9282152.
  6. Pritam Chandra, Aditya Das, Chitresh Das, Aritra Naskar, Biswarup Ganguly and Subho Paul, "Differential Evolution Algorithm Based Energy Management of Residential Microgrid Under Appliance Scheduling DSM," 2020 IEEE VLSI DEVICE CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM (VLSI DCS), Kolkata, India, 2020, pp. 50-55, doi: 10.1109/VLSIDCS47293.2020.9179893.
  7. Subho Paul, Abhimanyu Sharma and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Optimal Operation of a Converter Governed AC/DC Hybrid Distribution Network with DERs," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE2020), Cochin, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PESGRE45664.2020.9070442.

2019

  1. Subho Paul, Narayana Prasad Padhy, Santanu K. Mishra and Anurag K. Srivastava, "UUCA: Utility-User Cooperative Algorithm for Flexible Load Scheduling in Distribution System," 2019 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Jaipur, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS48983.2019.9067337 (Grabbed best paper award for the session Distribution System Analysis).
  2. Subho Paul and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Approach for Synergetic Source-Storage-Load Dispatch in a Residential Microgrid," 2019 20th International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP), New Delhi, India, 2019, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ISAP48318.2019.9065963.
  3. Subho Paul, Narendra Babu Y and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Day Ahead Bi-Level Direct Load Control in Smart Residential Apartment Building: A Stackelberg Game Approach," 2019 International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), New Delhi, India, 2019, pp. 691-696.

2018

  1. Subho Paul, Archana Tamrakar and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Demand Side Management Based Optimal Scheduling Portfolio of a Microgrid in Linear Programming Platform," 2018 20th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2018.8771711.
  2. Subho Paul, Sachin Choudhary and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "A Review on Residential Area Demand Response Analysis in Smart Grid Era," 2018 IEEE 8th Power India International Conference (PIICON), Kurukshetra, India, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/POWERI.2018.8704412.

Book Chapters

2023

  1. Vishal Kumar Gaur and Subho Paul, "Communication and Measurement Technologies for Smart Grid" in Big Data Analytics Framework for Smart Grids, pp. 112-141, CRC Press, 2023, eBook ISBN: 9781032665399.

 

 

 

    Lecture:

    1. EE222: Electromagnetics for Power Apparatus (Spring semester of session 2023-2024)

    Laboratory:

    1. EE343: Power System Analysis and Control (Spring semester of session 2023-2024)
    1. Received Grid India Power System Award 2024 (GIPSA-24) (formerly known as POSOCO power system award) under the Doctoral category for outstanding work
    2. Best paper award in 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC 2023), KIIT Bhubaneswar, India
    3. Best paper award in 2022 IEEE VLSI Device Circuit and System (VLSI DCS), Kolkata, India
    4. Best paper award for the session Distribution System Analysis (DSA) in 2019 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS 2019), Jaipur, India
    5. University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit in 2016 at the Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
    1. Publicity Committee member in 11th IEEE Power India International Conference (PIICON-2024), Dec. 12-12, 2024 in MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (https://piicon2024.org/committee)
    2. Technical Program Committee member in 2024 21st Control Instrumentation Systems Conference (CISCON 2024), IEEE, Aug. 02-03, 2024 in Manipal, Karnataka, India (https://conference.manipal.edu/ciscon/Committee)
    3. Technical Program Co-chair in 5th Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference (EPREC-2024), May 24-26, 2024 in NIT Jamshedpur, India (https://www.eprec.co.in/organizing-committee)
    4. Technical Program Committee member in 2023 8th International Conference on Energy System, Electricity and Power (ESEP 2023), Nov. 17-19, 2023 in Changchun, China (http://www.ic-esep.net/Committee)

    Membership:

    1. Member of IEEE, USA

     

    Reviewer:

    1. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
    2. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
    3. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
    4. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
    5. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
    6. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
    7. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    8. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution
    9. Electric Power Components and Systems (Taylor and Francis)
    10. Energy (Elsevier)
    11. Electrical Engineering (Springer)
    12. IEEE PESGM 2017-2024 and other national/international conferences

     

     

     

      B-Tech Projects:

      • Samarth Sasane and Satyam Pandey
        • Topic: Optimal Distributed Coordination between Distribution Network Resources
        • Duration: January 2024 - Ongoing

       

      • Mahi Bansal and Atmadeep Bhattacharya
        • Topic: Optimal Planning of EV Charging Stations in Active Distribution Networks
        • Duration: January 2024 - Ongoing