Suman Debnath

Suman Debnath

Sr. R&D Staff

I am leading several projects with industry, national labs, and academia members related to Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) Simulations (creating a portfolio of research projects on EMT at ORNL). I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2015. My main research interests include applied mathematics for different power electronics and power systems applications like EMT modeling and simulation algorithms, optimal control, and design of power electronics in various applications such as renewables, HVdc systems, high-power drives, microgrids, solid-state lighting, among others.

Sr. R&D Staff, ORNL, 2023-Present

R&D Staff, ORNL, 2020-2023

Associate R&D Staff, ORNL, 2016-2020

Postdoctoral Research Associate, ORNL, 2015-2016

Intern, PC Krause Associates Inc., 2014

Intern, Texas Instruments, 2008

- IEEE PES best paper award for paper in IEEE PES-GM conference in 2020.

- Elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2019, an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession (≈ 10%).

- IEEE IES award for the best student paper in IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics in 2016.

- Certificate of appreciation for being an exceptional reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery in 2015.

- Honor mention recipient of the Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Program for the years 2013-2015.

- Best poster award in the Building Research Collaborations: Electrical Systems Workshop, 2013.

- Among top 0.5% of more than 200,000 students who had taken the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE 2005).

- Awarded several Department of Energy (DOE) grants worth multi-million in 2018-Present.

Purdue University, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Bachelors and Masters, 2010

Proposal Reviewer
• Power America
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)


Conference Organization
• Program subcommittee member in IEEE ECCE 2017 - 2018
• Tutorial Chair in IEEE WiPDA 2018 - 2020
• Technical Program Chair in IEEE PEDG 2020 - 2021
• Topic Chair in IEEE APEC 2020 - Present
• Session Chair in several IEEE conferences like ITEC, APEC, ECCE 2017 - Present


Technical Committee Activity
• IEEE PES Computing and Analytic Methods Subcommittee (CAMS) member.
• IEEE PELS Technical Committee 5 “Sustainable Energy Systems” member, best paper awards
subcommittee, thrust leader.
• IEEE PELS Technical Committee 8 “Electronic Power Grid Systems” member.

Standards Development
• IEEE high voltage power electronics stations subcommittee (guest) 2016-Present
• UL STP 3001 member 2016-Present
• IEEE Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of Inverter-Based Resources Interconnecting
with Associated Transmission Electric Power Systems (P2800) (guest) 2018-Present
• IEEE-CIGRE B4-82 Use of Real Code in EMT Models 2019-Present
• CIGRE C4-56 Electromagnetic transient simulation models for large-scale system impact studies
in power systems having a high penetration of inverter connected generation (shadow member)
2019-Present
• CIGRE B4-85 Interoperability in HVDC systems based on partially open-source software 2020-
Present
• CIGRE C4-60 Generic EMT-Type Modelling of Inverter-Based Resources for Long Term Planning
Studies 2021-Present


Chair, IEEE PES/PELS ET Section Joint Chapter June, 2017 - September, 2022
• Led in establishing IEEE PES/PELS ET section joint chapter to organize power systems and
electronics events (networking, distinguished lectures).
• Successful completion of first two year with 20 events and ongoing third year with 10+ events.
• Increased participation in Executive Committee to 10+ members. Society membership increased
to 100+.
• Supported women-in-engineering through engagement in the Executive Committee and talks on
women-in-engineering.
• Supported students’ engagement through talks supported at Universities/Colleges, active engagement
with the student chapters through faculty and introduction of liaison between the chapters.
• Awarded one of the high performance chapters world-over by IEEE PES for activities in 2019,
2020, and 2021.


Journal Reviewer & Editor
• Editor in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy January, 2020 - Present
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion June, 2017 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification July, 2016 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications September, 2015 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics July, 2015 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid August, 2014 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics October, 2013 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion February, 2013 - December, 2019
• Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery November, 2012 - December, 2019


Conference Reviewer
• Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), 2014.
• IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2011-2014, 2017-2018.
• IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2016-2018.
• IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices & Applications (WiPDA), 2016, 2018-2019.
• IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), 2017-2018.
• IEEE Power & Energy Society - General Meeting (PES-GM), 2016, 2020.
• IEEE Electronic Power Grid (eGRID), 2018.

• IEEE 2013 - Present
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2014 - Present
• IEEE Power Electronics Society 2015, 2017 - Present
• IEEE Power & Energy Society 2017 - Present
• IEEE Industrial Applications Society 2014

- Opal-RT real-time simulator, RTDS.

- TI C2000 microcontroller (TMS320F28035), C6678 multi-core DSP, DGX (CPU-GPU).

- Solar panels.

- Converters: AC-DC, DC-DC, MMCs.

- Machines: Induction machine, synchronous machine, permanent magnet synchronous machine, DC machine.

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