Prof. D. Bhagwan Das

D. Bhagwan Das obtained B.Sc.(Engineering) in Electrical from DEI, Dayalbagh in 1990, M.Tech. (Power Systems) from IIT, Delhi in 1992 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Soft Computing Applications in Power System Optimization) from DEI, Dayalbagh in 1999. He is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in DEI, Dayalbagh. His research interests include Embedded Systems, FPGAs/SOC applications in designing various controllers for Solar Electric Power Plants, Power System Protection, Wide Area Measurement Systems, hardware realization of Fuzzy Controllers, ANN and Evolutionary Algorithms on FPGA chip for real life, real-time problems, application of Evolutionary Algorithms for Power System Optimization, Modeling, Simulation and optimization of VCR Diesel Engines for different blends of Bio-diesel. He is involved in the design and commissioning of 515kWp Distributed Solar Electric Power Plants in Dayalbagh Educational Institute. He is an active researcher and carried out several Research and development projects funded by AICTE, UGC and MHRD. He also has a collaborative project with BHEL, Bangalore on the design of a comprehensive control strategy and its implementation on FPGA based system for Solar Electric Power Plants. He has also designed and developed a solar powered Van. He has received AK Sinha Memorial Prize for securing highest CGPA in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Delhi in 1992, ISCA Young Scientist Award in Engineering Sciences in 2002 and several Best Paper Awards in Conferences. He has widely published in a number of International and National Journals.