Key Research Areas

Power System Protection, Renewable Energy Integration in Power Systems, Smart Grids


About

Pratim Kundu received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2018 and 2013, respectively. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Washington State University, Pullman, USA, from 2018 to 2019. His research interests are power system monitoring and control, network protection, smart grids, and renewable energy sources. He works on development of techniques for enhancing the reliability of power system operations using wide area measurements to avoid cascading failures. The research focusses on developing computational algorithms to improve smart grid operations


Recent Publications

1. P. Kundu and A. K. Pradhan, "Supervisory Protection of Islanded Network Using Synchrophasor Data," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1772-1780, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2017.2777873.
2. P. Kundu and A. K. Pradhan, "Supervisory Protection of Islanded Network Using Synchrophasor Data," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1772-1780, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2017.2777873.
3. P. Kundu and A. K. Pradhan, "Real-Time Analysis of Power System Protection Schemes Using Synchronized Data," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 3831-3839, 2018, doi: 10.1109/TII.2018.2798579.
4. P. Kundu and A. K. Pradhan, "Enhanced Protection Security Using the System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS)," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 228-235, 2016, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2015.2459231.
5. P. Kundu and A. K. Pradhan, "Synchrophasor-Assisted Zone 3 Operation," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 660-667, 2014, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2276071.


Course Taught

1. EE201 (Electromechanics)
2. EE303 (Power systems)
3. EE583 (Smart Grids)