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Parimalasundar Ezhilvannan

Also known as: E. Parimalasundar, Parimalasundar E, P. Ezhilvannan

Saveetha University, Mohan Babu University, Anna University, Chennai

Research areas: Engineering · Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Multilevel Inverters and Converters · Advanced DC-DC Converters · Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6124-2685
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Dr. Parimalasundar Ezhilvannan is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai (2016), with a thesis on fault diagnosis of cascaded multilevel inverters. He has 17 years of teaching and research experience, including nearly 10 years of post-Ph.D. university teaching and research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His papers are published under the name E. Parimalasundar.

He has authored 127 Scopus-indexed publications, including 61 journal articles, 34 publications in the Web of Science Core Collection and 11 papers in Scientific Reports, with a Scopus h-index of 30 and over 1,690 citations (October 2026). He is an inventor on 8 published Indian patent applications and is listed in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list (single-year category) for three consecutive years: 2024, 2025 and 2026.

His research covers power electronic converters and multilevel inverters, converter fault diagnosis, electric drives, renewable energy and smart grid integration, electric vehicles, and IoT-based applications in energy systems, areas central to clean-energy and smart-city development.

He previously served as Professor and Deputy Dean (Research) at Mohan Babu University, Tirupati, where he was convener of the university Ph.D. program and a member of the University Research Board and Board of Studies. He has contributed to outcome-based education and to accreditation activities for ABET, IET (UK), NBA and NAAC, has helped set up teaching and research laboratories, and currently supervises four Ph.D. scholars.

He is Principal Investigator of a project funded by the 16th WxBunka Award of the WNI WxBunka Foundation, Japan (2026), on AI-IoT local weather sensing and forecasting, and has completed a funded research project on multilevel inverter fault diagnosis for electric vehicle and renewable energy applications. He holds an M.E. in Power Electronics and Drives (First Class, 2009) from PSG College of Technology and a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (First Class, 2007) from Government College of Engineering, Bargur, both under Anna University. He was named NPTEL Discipline Star in Computer Science and Engineering (2025).

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  • AI–IoT Enabled Local Weather Sensing and Forecasting Prototype for Disaster Preparedness and Climate Resilience WNI WxBunka Foundation
    2026 - 2027
  • Fault Diagnosis of Multilevel Inverter for Electric Vehicle and Renewable Energy Applications Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust
    2019 - 2022

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