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Bhuvaneswari Gurumoorthy

Mahindra University, Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Hyderabad Campus, University of Minnesota

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0228-3687
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Prof. G. Bhuvaneswari graduated with a B.E. degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University Madras in 1985 and with M. Tech. & Ph.D. degrees (in 1988 and 1992, respectively) from IIT Madras. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras for over one year; then she moved to the USA where she worked in the Electrical Utility Company ComEd at Chicago, for about 3 years. After this, she returned to India and joined IIT Delhi where she worked as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering from August 1997 to March 2021. She has been working as a Professor in Mahindra University’s Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department since March 2021. Her areas of specialization are Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Drives and their application areas like power supply, power quality, HVDC, electric drives, electric vehicles, battery charging and renewable energy. She has successfully steered sponsored and consultancy projects worth of Rs. 7 crores from various organizations like DRDO, DST, CSIR, MHRD, KVIC, BHEL and Copper-alliance etc and guided more than 15 PhD scholars and 75 Master’s students.

Prof. Bhuvaneswari is the only Indian woman engineer who has been elected as the International Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA. She is an elected Fellow of IEEE-USA, IET-UK, Institution of Engineers-India, Indian National Academy of Engineering, and IETE-India. She is the recipient of the IEEE Wanda-Reder Pioneer in Power Award in 2018, IEEE Outstanding Power Engineer Award from IEEE Delhi section in 2016 and Bimal K. Bose award from IETE in 2011. She was the founder coordinator of Sumant Sinha Renew Centre of Excellence in Energy and Environment in IIT Delhi from Dec 2016-April 2019. She was playing an active role in IEEE Delhi section; she has been the Chair of IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter during 2010-11 and 2018-19. Under her stewardship, this chapter received the Best Chapter Award in 2011 from the IEEE Headquarters. She is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics and the Transactions of the INAE. She has over 200 publications in National and International journals and peer-reviewed conferences.

Employment

  • Mahindra University Professor
    2021 - Present
  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Hyderabad Campus Visiting Professor
    2014 - 2016
  • University of Minnesota Visiting Faculty
    2008 - 2008
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Professor
    1997 - 2021
  • Commonwealth Edison Co Systems Analyst
    1994 - 1997
  • College of Engineering Guindy Anna University Lecturer
    1992 - 1993
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras Senior Project Officer
    1988 - 1992

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