Nishanth Gadiyar

Nishanth Gadiyar is an Electric Machinery Design R&D Staff Member with the Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD). He holds the Alvin M. Weinberg Distinguished Staff Fellowship and is affiliated with the Electric Drives Research Group within the Buildings and Transportation Sciences Division (BTSD). 

His research develops high-performance and sustainable electro-mechanical systems for energy conversion and motion control, with applications to electrified transportation, manufacturing industry, HVAC equipment, semiconductor manufacturing, energy storage using flywheels, and power generation.

Nishanth received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was advised by Prof. Eric Severson at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC).

Note: In Feb 2025, Nishanth changed his name from FNU Nishanth and it’s variants (Nishanth / Nishanth NLN etc) to Nishanth Gadiyar.