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BALAMURUGAN SUKUMAR

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Anna University, Annamalai University

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1024-0625

About

Dr. S. Balamurugan has joined Amrita School of Engineering in the year 2008. He obtained his B. E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the year 2001 and M. E. degree in Power Systems in the year 2002 from Annamalai University, Chidambaram with First Class –Distinction. He has been awarded with Ph. D. from Anna University, Chennai in 2010.

Dr. Balamurugan S., has been awarded ‘National Innovative Teacher Award‘ by the Honourable Minister of HRD, Shri. Prakash Javadekar, at a national awards ceremony conducted in New Delhi. The award included Rs. 75,000 cash prize and a silver medal with citation. The coveted prize came to Dr. Balamurugan in recognition of his distinguished accomplishment, the path-breaking pedagogical initiative of “Laboratory Model-Based Teaching of Power Systems”.

Dr. S. Balamurugan is the President of Institution Innovation Council at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. The council is an initiative from Innovation Cell of MHRD. He also serves as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the Smart India Hackathon -2019 at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore.

Dr. Balamurugan has started his teaching career in the year 2002. In his credit, he has 31 international journal and 55 international / national conference publications. He has delivered 70 Guest Lecture, Keynote Address and Seminar in various institutions in the area of Power System, Energy Management, Deregulated System, Smart Grid, Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithm, MATLAB, PSCAD and ETAP.

He is heading the Power System Operation and Control Tag in EEE department. Currently he is involved in the development of hardware based Power Systems Lab. Dr. Balamurugan has organized 26 Workshops and Faculty Development Program in the field of Power System, MATLAB, Soft Computing Techniques, etc. Currently he is guiding number of Ph. D., M. Tech. and B. Tech. students in the area of Power System Operation and Control, Deregulated Power System, Smart Grid, Power Electronics Applications to Power Systems, Soft Computing and Gas Turbine Control.

Employment

  • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Professor & Chairperson
    2008 - Present

Education

  • Anna University Ph.D.
    2004 - 2010
  • Annamalai University M.E., (Power Systems)
    2001 - 2002
  • Annamalai University B.E.,
    1997 - 2001

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (37)