{"id":56,"date":"2018-08-31T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sbrahma\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T00:58:21","slug":"brief-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sbrahma\/sample-page\/brief-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>EDUCATION<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ph. D. <\/b>in Electrical Engineering,\u00a0 Clemson University, Clemson, <b>August<\/b><b> 2003<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Master of Technology<\/b>, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, <b>1997<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Bachelor of Engineering<\/b>, Electrical Engineering, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India, <b>1989<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0KEY EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) Chair Visiting Professor<\/strong>, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 2022, &#8211; July 2023.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Director, Clemson University Electric Power Research Association (CUEPRA)<\/strong>, The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, <strong>January, 2019<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> <strong>present<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor<\/strong>, Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, <strong>August 2018 onward<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Kersting Endowed Chair Professor<\/strong>,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Klipsch School of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University,\u00a0<\/span><strong>August 2018 .<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">William Kersting Endowed Chair Associate Professor<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, Klipsch School of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University,\u00a0<b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">January 2014<\/b><\/span><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0\u2013 July 2018.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Associate Professor<\/b>,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Klipsch School of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University,<\/span><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0August 2012\u00a0<b>\u2013 July 2018<\/b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Associate Director<\/strong>, Electric Utility Management Program,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Klipsch School of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University,<\/span><b>\u00a0August 2009\u00a0\u2013 February 2018.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Tenure-track Assistant Professor<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, Klipsch School of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, <\/span><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">July 2007 \u2013 July 2012<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Tenure-track Assistant Professor<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, Department of Electrical Engineering, Widener University, <\/span><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">September 2003 \u2013 June 2007<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Lecturer<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, B.V.M College of Engineering, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India, <\/span><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">December 1990 \u2013 August 1999<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Trainee \/ Assistant Engineer<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, Ahmedabad Electricity Company, Ahmedabad, India, <b>August 1989<\/b><\/span><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0\u2013 December 1990<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE POSITIONS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fellow<\/strong>, IEEE &#8211; citation: <em>for contributions to power system protection with distributed and renewable generation.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Member IEEE PES &#8211; Power System Analysis Computation and Economics (PSACE) Committee; <strong>Past Chair<\/strong>, Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong>Past Chair<\/strong> IEEE PES &#8211; Power and Energy Education Committee; <strong>Past Chair<\/strong>, Lifelong Learning Subcommittee.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Member, IEEE PES Power System Relaying and Control Committee.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Member of 15 Working Groups of IEEE PES Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC);\u00a0<strong>Chair<\/strong>, Working Group C24 &#8211;\u00a0Modification of Commercial Fault Calculation Programs for Wind Turbine Generators.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor<\/strong>, <em>IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery<\/em> &#8211; 2014-2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guest Editor in Chief<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>EEE Transactions on Power Delivery, <\/em>Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System protection, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Technical Reviewer for major Power Systems journals, conferences and NSF panels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>AWARDS\/HONORS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1. Ranked in the top 0.5% of researchers in the field of Energy and ranked 58,551 among researchers in all areas in a citation-based analysis published by Stanford University researchers in Elsevier BV in 2023 .<br \/>2. Clayton Griffin Best Student paper award: 2024 Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference, April, 2024 &#8211; Prabin Adhikari, Daniel Zintsmaster and Sukumar Brahma, \u201cValidation and Hardware Implementation of Source-Agnostic Time-Domain Distance Relay\u201d. <br \/>3. Best conference paper award, IEEE PES General meeting 2023, Orlando, FL: M. Jayamohan, S. Das and S. Brahma, \u201cImpedance Trajectories during Stable and Unstable Power Swings in Presence of PQ Control based PV Generations\u201d.<br \/>4. Best conference poster award, to Daniel Zintsmaster (my advisee): IEEE PES General meeting 2023, Orlando, FL: D. Zintsmaster, M. Gani, S. Brahma, \u201cHardware Implementation of dc Protection Algorithms\u201d.<br \/>5. Best Conference Paper Runner-up Prize, IEEE PES North American Power Symposium 2022, Utah, October 2022 &#8211; S. M. Hossain and S. Brahma, &#8220;Resolving Sub-Cycle Overvoltage Issue in Solar Farms&#8221;.<br \/>6. Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) Visiting Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2022-23.<br \/>7. Advisory Board Member, Idaho National Laboratory, 2020-2022.<br \/>8. IEEE PES Best WG recognition award \u2013 PES TR-71 &#8211; Microgrid Protection Systems, 2022 &#8211; WG member.<br \/>9. Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2021.<br \/>10. Outstanding Engineer Award, IEEE PES Piedmont Section, USA, 2020.<br \/>11. Fellow of the IEEE, January 2020. Citation: for contributions to power system protection with distributed and renewable generation, IEEE.<br \/>12. Best Conference Paper Runner-up Prize, IEEE PES North American Power Symposium 2019, Wichita, KS, October 2019 &#8211; Phani Harsha Gadde, Sukumar Brahma, \u201cRealistic Microgrid Test Bed for Protection and Resiliency Studies\u201d.<br \/>13. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, February 2019, IEEE PES.<br \/>14. Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor in power Engineering, Clemson University, August 15, 2018 onwards.<br \/>15. IEEE PES Distinguished Service Award for Chairing PES Power and Energy Education Committee, 2018.<br \/>16. William Kersting Endowed Chair, New Mexico State University, January 2014 \u2013 August 2018.<br \/>17. Elected Member of the main committee of IEEE Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRCC), January 2016.<br \/>18. Received Donald C. Roush Award for Excellence in Teaching from New Mexico State University in Spring 2016.<br \/>19. IEEE PES Exceptional Reviewer Award, 2016 \u2013 IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.<br \/>20. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Best Paper Award &#8211; IEEE PES PSRC Working Group K15, \u201cAdvancements in Centralized Protection and Control within a Substation,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery \u2013 Vol. 31- 4, pp. 1945 \u2013 1952, August 2016 \u2013 WG member.<br \/>21. IEEE PES WG recognition award \u2013 Outstanding Technical Report for Joint WG (PSRC and Substations Committee): IEEE C37.240 Standard Cybersecurity Requirements for Substation Automation, Protection, and Control Systems \u2013 WG member.<br \/>22. IEEE PES Technical Committee WG recognition award, 2015 \u2013 Technical Report: Use of Synchrophasor Measurements in Protective Relaying Applications, 2014 \u2013 WG member.<br \/>23. IEEE PES Technical Committee WG recognition award \u2013 Fault Contributions from Wind Plants, 2016 \u2013 WG member.<br \/>24. IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award &#8211; IEEE PSRC Working Group K15, \u201cAdvancements in Centralized Protection and Control within a Substation,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery \u2013 Vol. 31- 4, pp. 1945 \u2013 1952, August 2016 \u2013 WG member.<br \/>25. IEEE PES Citation of Appreciation for Chairing Lifelong Learning Subcommittee from 2008-2009.<br \/>26. IEEE PES Citation of Appreciation for Chairing Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee from 2010-2011.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDUCATION Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering,\u00a0 Clemson University, Clemson, August 2003 Master of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1997 Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India, 1989 \u00a0KEY EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) Chair Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 2022, &#8211; July 2023. 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