Subhashish Bhattacharya

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Education background:

• Ph.D – Electrical & Computer Engineering, August 2003, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • “High Power Active Filter Systems” – Advisor: Prof. Deepak Divan
• M.E. – Electrical Engineering, March 1988, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • “Modeling and Simulation of HVDC systems for Dynamic Stability Analysis”
    • – Advisors: Prof. K. Parthasarathy and Prof. K. R. Padiyar
    • – Valedictorian: Awarded the N.R. Khambhati Memorial Medal for best Electrical Engineering student (1987-1988)
• B.E. (Hons) – Electrical Engineering, June 1986, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)–Roorkee, (formerly, University of Roorkee), Roorkee, India
  • Senior Design Project: “Microprocessor based Current Source Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive”
    • [Best senior design project award in the EE dept.]

Professional experience:

• Duke Energy Distinguished Professor, Department of ECE, NC State University, July, 2018-
• Professor, Department of ECE, NC State University, Aug. 16, 2016 – June 30, 2018
• ABB Term Professor, Department of ECE, NC State University, Aug. 16, 2014 – Aug 15, 2016
• PowerAmerica NNMII [DOE funded WBG (Wide-Band Gap Institute] co-PI, from Jan 2014
• ABB Term Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Aug. 16, 2011 – Aug, 15, 2014
• FREEDM Systems Center, NSF–ERC co-PI and founding sub-thrust leader on “Solid State Transformer”; was involved from the beginning (2/2007) in developing NSF FREEDM proposal
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aug 2005–Aug 2011
• Technical Advisor–Engineer (FACTS & HVS Division), SIEMENS Power Transmission & Distribution, FACTS & HVS Division; 8/2003 – 8/2005
• Senior Engineer (FACTS & HVS Division), SIEMENS Power Transmission & Distribution, FACTS & HVS Division; 12/1998 – 7/2003
• Consultant and Part-time Employee, Soft Switching Technologies (SST), Middleton, WI; 9/1996 – 11/1998
• Consultant and Engineering Intern, York International Corp., York, PA; 5/1994 – 8/1996
• [Part of my PhD thesis research on “High Power Active Filter Systems” was commercialized by York International Corporation (now part of Johnson Controls) as “IEEE 519 Filter” for York’s air-conditioner chillers and has been in production since 1996;
• S Bhattacharya, TM Frank, DM Divan, B Banerjee, “Active filter system implementation,” Industry Applications Magazine, IEEE 4 (5), 47-63, 1998]
• Engineering Intern, GE Corporate R & D Center, Niskiyuna, NY; 7/1993 – 10/1993
• Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of ECE – WEMPEC, University of Wisconsin – Madison; 1/1990 – 8/1996

Research Areas:

• Power Electronics; Utility Applications of Power Electronics
• Power Conversion Applications of HV SiC devices; High Power Converter Systems and Control
• Solid State Transformer and High Frequency Magnetics for Power Conversion Applications
• Reliability Assessment of HV SiC Devices for MV Power Converter Applications
• FACTS and Utility Applications of Power Electronics to Power Systems
• Voltage Source Convertor Based HVDC Systems and Multi-Terminal DC Applications
• Active Power Filters for Harmonic Mitigation
• Grid Interconnection of renewable energy sources with energy storage systems

Scholarly and professional honors and awards:

• Duke Energy Distinguished Professor, Department of ECE, NC State University, July, 2018
• Selected as NCSU University Chancellor’s Faculty Scholar, Jan 2015 – Dec 2019 [18 total chosen from across all colleges at NCSU]
• ABB Term Professor, Department of ECE, Aug 16, 2014 – Aug 15, 2016
• ABB Term Associate Professor, Aug 16, 2011 – Aug 15, 2014
• Nominated by ECE dept for Alcoa Foundation Award 2018
• Nominated by the ECE dept for RJ Reynolds Award 2017
• Best Paper Award IEEE PELS TC6 2018:
  • S. Hazra, S. Bhattacharya, K. Hatua; “Gate Driver Design Considerations for Silicon Carbide MOSFETs Including Series Connected Devices” has been selected for the IEEE PELS TC6 Emerging Technology Best Paper Award. The paper was accepted for the ECCE 2017 High-Performance and Emerging Technologies Track-K.
  • Second Place Prize Paper Award in 2016 for all papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2016 (award presented at IEEE ECCE 2017 conference); S. Hazra, S. Bhattacharya, et al., “High Switching Performance of 1700-V, 50-A SiC Power MOSFET Over Si IGBT/BiMOSFET for Advanced Power Conversion Applications,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 4742-4754, July 2016
  • Nominated by ECE dept for Alcoa Foundation Award 2016
  • Ankan De (PhD student) received the IEEE Suozzi INTELEC(R) Fellowship of $15K for the proposal “Three Phase Three Switch Soft Switching High Frequency Link Rectifier for Telecommunication Power Supply Application” in 2013 – this is based on his PhD research
  • IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission & Distribution Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award, 2005
  • Awarded the best prize paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Athens, Greece, July 1995 for the paper titled “Active Filter Solutions for Utility Interface” by Subhashish Bhattacharya, Deepak Divan and Ben Banerjee.
  • Awarded the N.R. Khambhati Memorial Medal for best Electrical Engineering student (1987-1988), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India for Valedictorian in M.E. Electrical Engg.
  • Best senior design project award, B.S. (EE, Hons), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 1986

Professional service on campus:

• Teaching courses, Capstone project mentor and advisor for MS-EPSE, Aug 2012 – present
• Teaching courses, Capstone project mentor and advisor for MS-WBG, starting Spring 2016
• Mentored (Advisor) and recruited NCSU ECE dept UG valedictorians for MS and PhD for the past several years [Daniel Fregosi (2009; for PhD, graduated), Priyadarshini Asokan (2010; for MST, graduated), Heather Vaughn (2011; for MS-EPSE, graduated), Akash Gujarati (2012; for MS, graduated)]; other NCSU ECE dept UG students – Richard Byron Beddingfield (2011 as UG REU; MS-EPSE, now graduated PhD student in June 2018); Eric Green (2010 as UG REU; MS-EPSE, current PhD student); Nicholas Parks (2008 as ECE UG REU, Senior design, joined MS and graduated in 2012); Justin Smith (2008 as ECE UG REU, Senior design, joined MS with Prof Baran and graduated in 2013)]

• Awarded “FREEDM Systems Center Industry Champion” in 2010 for recruiting industry members for FREEDM and ATEC center
• Faculty member (co-PI) of DOE NNMII PowerAmerica since Jan 2014 – present
• Faculty member of FREEDM and ATEC outreach, REU, RET, and HS student mentoring
• Faculty member of NSF ERC FREEDM Center–subthrust leader “Solid State Transformer(SST)”
• Faculty member of ATEC center –Advanced Transportation Energy Center– for PHEV research
• Faculty member of NSF I/UCRC ASTREC – Adv. Space Tech. Research & Engineering Center
• ECE faculty advisor for “EcoCAR” project – Development of Hybrid & PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle) – advised ECE senior design project for EcoCAR (3 ECE UG students) for 2years
• Mentor of many ECE UG research students and FREEDM REU students, from 2006 – present [Recruited 12+ NCSU ECE UGs for MS & PhD through ECE UG research and FREEDM REU]
• Member of ECE Department Graduate Admissions Committee, Sept. 2008 – Aug. 2011
• Member of the NCSU – TERI cooperation on “Lighting a Billion Lives” (LaBl) campaign, 2008
• Member of Faculty Search Committee, PES area, 2006 – present
• Member of PES area PhD qualifying exam, 2006 – present
• Member of ECE Department Outreach and Open House Committee, Aug. 2005 – Aug. 2011
• Member of ECE Department Assessment Committee, from Feb 2007 – Aug. 2011
• Member of ECE Department UG Research Committee, 2006– 5/2008; Aug 2014 – present

Professional service off campus:

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics; from 2008 – present
• Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; from 2000 – present
• Reviewer for IEEE Conferences – ECCE, IECON, APEC conferences every year; earlier reviewer for IEEE IAS, IEEE PESC conferences; from 1999 – present
• Reviewer of ARPA-E, DOE proposals since 2011
• Reviewer of DOE SBIR – STTR proposals in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

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