Nagesh Prabhu

About

Dr. Nagesh Prabhu, Vice Principal and Professor of EEE at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte has received Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from Karnataka Polytechnic, Mangalore. He has earned A.M.I.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Institution of Engineers, India, in 1991, M. Tech. from KREC (Presently National Institute of Technology Karnataka) Suratkal, in 1995 and Ph.D. degree in Power Systems & Power Electronics from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 2005.
Dr. Prabhu is passionate for teaching as a career and served in the academic field since 1986 at various capacities and has a total 39 years of teaching and research experience.

He has obtained the research grants from various sources including CPRI- MOP, Govt. of INDIA ,AICTE- NEW DELHI and KCTU, GOK, India, to carryout research in the area of FACTS and Wideband Gap Power Electronics Technology.

His research interests are mainly in the area of power system dynamics and control, HVDC & FACTS, custom power controllers for the enhancement of Power Quality and Integration of FACTS with Smart Electrical Energy Networks (SEEN). He has over 60 research publications including IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Elsevier Science (Electric Power System Research and Power & Energy Systems) and other International and National Conferences. He has received the best paper award from IIT Roorkee, India for the research on “Analysis of Subsynchronous Resonance with VSC based HVDC transmission systems” during December 2006. He has guided four research scholars for their PhD degree from JNTU, Hyderabad and VTU Belagavi.

He is a regular reviewer for
1. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
2. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
3. International Journal of Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier)
4. International Journal of Electric Power System Research (Elsevier)
5. Ain Shams Engineering Journal (Elsevier)
6. International Journal of IET – Generation Transmission & Distribution
7. Journal of Power Electronics, Korea
8. International Journal of control, Singapore
9. International Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Elsevier)
10. Springer Journal on Electrical Engineering
11. IEEE Access

He is a senior member of IEEE, Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Member of IEEE PES Bangalore Section, Life Member of ISTE and Fellow of Indian Society of Lighting Engineers.

Expertise and Specialty Keywords: Power system dynamics and control, HVDC & FACTS, custom power controllers, Power Quality and Integration of FACTS with Micro Grids, Application of AI and ML to Power Systems

Employment

• NMAM Institute of Technology Vice Principal
  2025 - Present
• Nitte University
  2022 - 2025
• NMAM Institute of Technology PG Coordinator for NMAMIT, Professor, EEE
  2021 - 2022
• NMAM Institute of Technology Professor & Head
  2013 - 2021
• Canara Engineering College Principal
  2009 - 2013
• NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology Professor
  2008 - 2009
• Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr.Rangarajan Dr.Sakunthala Engineering College Vice Principal and Dean EEE
  2007 - 2008
• Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr.Rangarajan Dr.Sakunthala Engineering College Professor and Dean of EEE
  2006 - 2007
• Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering Asst. Professor
  2005 - 2006
• Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering Sr. Lecturer
  1998 - 2005
• NMAM Institute of Technology Sr. Lecturer
  1995 - 1998
• NMAM Institute of Technology Lecturer
  1991 - 1995
• NMAM Institute of Technology Asst. Lecturer
  1991 - 1991
• NMAM Institute of Technology Lab Demonstrator
  1986 - 1991

Education

• KREC/ presently National Institute of Technology Karnataka M.Tech
  1993 - 1995
• Institution of Engineers AMIE
  1989 - 1991
• Karnataka Polytechnic DEE
  1983 - 1986

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (52)

• Multiloop PI Controller Optimization and Low-Frequency Oscillation Analysis in VSC-HVDC Systems
  IEEE Access 2026 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3724408
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• A Robust VMD-Based Modified Multivariable Output Error Statespace Method for Detection of Low-Frequency Oscillations From Noisy Signals of WAMS
  IEEE Access 2025 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3519113
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• Performance Analysis of Data-Driven Techniques for Detection and Identification of Low Frequency Oscillations in Multimachine Power System
  IEEE Access 2021 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3115708
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• Adaptive Distance Protection for Transmission Lines Incorporating SSSC With Energy Storage Device
  IEEE Access 2020 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019173
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• Preface
  Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2020
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• Wavelet transform-based protection of transmission line incorporating SSSC with energy storage device
  Electrical Engineering 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s00202-020-00978-9
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• Control of catastrophic bifurcations of SSR in a hybrid series compensated system
  Nonlinear Dynamics 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s11071-018-4608-0
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• Emulated reactance and resistance by a sssc incorporating energy storage device
  International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2019 DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i2.pp.840-850
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• Low frequency oscillation detection in smart power system using refined prony analysis for optimal allocation of supplementary modulation controller
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics, ICOEI 2019 2019 DOI: 10.1109/ICOEI.2019.8862704
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• Performance Analysis of Fuel Cell DSTATCOM
  5th International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems, ICEES 2019 2019 DOI: 10.1109/ICEES.2019.8719291
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