Dr. Ritesh Kumar Keshri

Brief Bio

Brief Bio
Ritesh Kumar Keshri (M’08–SM’15), received B.Sc (Engg.) and M.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India, in 2003 and 2007 respectively both in electrical engineering and PhD in Energy Engineering from Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy in March 2014. Since August 2015 he is with Department of Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur. At present Dr. Keshri is an Associate Professor. From 2006 to August 2015 he was with Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BIT Mesra, India as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Keshri received silver medal for being first in M. Tech (electrical) in 2007, Young researcher fellowship from Ministry of University of Italy in 2008, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship for 34 months, from European Union in 2010, first prize as a student team leader of the University of Padova in class-3 of Formula Electric and Hybrid in 2011, 2016 Best paper award of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, and Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship for five years in 2017. His research interests include power electronics and electric drives for electric vehicle propulsion and charging infrastructure.Dr. Keshri has successfully executed project on Wireless Charging, Temperature Regulated Fast Charging Strategy for VRLA battery, Development of PM BLDC Motor Drive and Design of 1kW Synchronous reluctance Motor for Light Electric Vehicles with the Research Grant and Projects from DST and MEITY Government of India. Dr. Keshri is associated with IEEE -IES and –PELS, and contributed as chairs for technical track and special sessions in IECON 2013-19. Dr. Keshri has contributed to technical committee on Transportation Electrification of Industrial Electronics Society (TCTE) IEEE as Conference Activity chair (2017-18), Secretary (2018-19), Vice-Chair (2019-20) and Chair (2020-21) of TCTE.

Ritesh Kumar Keshri (M’08–SM’15), received B.Sc (Engg.) and M.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India, in 2003 and 2007 respectively both in electrical engineering and PhD in Energy Engineering from Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy in March 2014. Since August 2015 he is with Department of Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur. At present Dr. Keshri is an Associate Professor. From 2006 to August 2015 he was with Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BIT Mesra, India as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Keshri received silver medal for being first in M. Tech (electrical) in 2007, Young researcher fellowship from Ministry of University of Italy in 2008, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship for 34 months, from European Union in 2010, first prize as a student team leader of the University of Padova in class-3 of Formula Electric and Hybrid in 2011, 2016 Best paper award of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, and Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship for five years in 2017. His research interests include power electronics and electric drives for electric vehicle propulsion and charging infrastructure.Dr. Keshri has successfully executed project on Wireless Charging, Temperature Regulated Fast Charging Strategy for VRLA battery, Development of PM BLDC Motor Drive and Design of 1kW Synchronous reluctance Motor for Light Electric Vehicles with the Research Grant and Projects from DST and MEITY Government of India. Dr. Keshri is associated with IEEE -IES and –PELS, and contributed as chairs for technical track and special sessions in IECON 2013-19. Dr. Keshri has contributed to technical committee on Transportation Electrification of Industrial Electronics Society (TCTE) IEEE as Conference Activity chair (2017-18), Secretary (2018-19), Vice-Chair (2019-20) and Chair (2020-21) of TCTE.

Education

Sr. No.	Degree	Year	Specialization	University
1	PhD	2014	Electric Vehicle Propulsion	University of Padova, Italy
2	M.Tech	2007	Power System	NIT Jamshedpur, India
3	B.Sc (Engg)	2003	Electrical Engineering	NIT Jamshedpur, India
4	B.Sc (Hons)	1999	Physics	St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi University, India
5	Intermediate Science	1996	Mathematics (PCM)	St. Xavier’s College, BIEC, Patna
6	10th	1994		St. Aloysius High School, BSEB, Patna, India

Contact Details

Phone:	Email:	Address:
8521442797	riteshkeshri@eee.vnit.ac.in	PGE-1/26, Department of Electrical EngineeringVNIT Nagpur, South Ambazari RoadNagpur, PIN- 440010, Maharashatra (India)

Research Interest

Research Interest
Power Electronics and Drives for Electric Vehicle Propulsion and Charging Infrastructure
Traction Motor Drive – PM BLDC, PMSM, SynRM Design, Development and Control
Wireless and the conductive Chargers for Electric Vehicles
PV fed Battery Energy Storage assisted charging station
Plannar Magnetics for Renewable and Electric Vehicle Charging
Battery Management System and Fast Charging Strategies
Onboard and Offboard Energy Management for Electric Vehicles and Grid Interactions
DC to DC converters for Wind and PV Integration

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)
1	Development of Wireless Charger for Light Electric Vehicles	MEITY/NAMPET Ph-3	PI	10-12-2020	115
2	Renewable Energy EMPOWERing European and InDian communities (RE-EMPOWERED)	DST/HORIZON 202O	PI	30-06-2021	64.915
3	High Frequency Planner Magnetics for Renewable Energy System and Electric Vehicle Battery Charging	DST/SERD	PI	19-08-2021	66.42518
4	Development of Wireless Charger for Autonomous Vehicles	DST/ECR	PI	23-03-2017	37.4458
5	Young Faculty Research Fellowship (For the Development of Fast Charging Strategies for Electric Vehicle Batteries)	MEITY/YFRF	PI	15-01-2018	49

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)

Description	Author(s)	Publisher	ISBN	Year
Modelling of Series Resonant Inverter: Modelling Simulation and Harmonic Analysis of a Series Resonant Inverter: Considering Transformer Parameter. pp. 1-88	R Keshri	Saarbrücken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing	978-3-8383-6586-2	2012

Sr. No.	Patent Title	Application No.	Date	Present Staus
1	“A High Torque Density Synchronous Reluctance Motor”, Indian Patent	Journal no. 04/2021, pp. 3148.	22/01/2021	Hearing is over
2	“Hybrid control of Resonant Converter for DC Grid Applications”, Indian Patent	Journal no. 08/2016	19/02/2016	Awarded

Title	Funding Agency	Host Institute	Dates	No. of Participants

Sr. No.	Responsibility	Year
1	Local Coordinator, VNIT Nagpur for Global Initiative for Academic Networking (GIAN) Program	2024 – till date
2	Prof-in-charge, Tesla Club of Innovation	2016 – till date
3	Coordinator, Centre for Advanced Mobility, VNIT Nagpur	Dec 2022-till date
4	Trainining and Placement, Department Coordinator	2018 -till date
5	Department Plan Grant Coordinator	2021 – till date
6	PhD Cordinator, Electrical Engineering Department	2019-2024
7	Department Web cordinator	2022-2024
8	Hostel Warden	2015 – 2019

Year	Awards

S.No.	Paper Citation

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	S.M. Rao, R.J. Satputaley, R.K. Keshri, and G. Buja, “Performance Evaluation of MLI based DVR in Grid fed EV Fast Charging Station”, in in IEEE Trans. on Energy Conv. [early access], Nov 2023
2	K Shahare, A Mitra, D Naware, R Keshri, HM Suryawanshi, “Performance analysis and comparison of various techniques for short-term load forecasting,” in Elsevier Energy Reports, vol. 9, pp. 799-808, Mar 2023.
3	K.D. Rao, S. Ghosh and R.K. Keshri, “A Resilient Temperature Suppressed Optimal Charging Strategy for Ultracapacitors to Attain Desired State of Charge,” in IEEE Trans. on Energy Conv., vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 1600-1610, Sep 2022.
4	S.G. Kadwane, S.P. Ashtankar, N.Y. Funde, R.K. Keshri, “Design and Implementation of a Quadratic Converter for the Grid-Tied System Using Symmetrical Shoot-Through PWM,” in IETE Journal of Research, 1-10, Nov 2022.
5	S. Lavety, R.K. Keshri, and M.A. Chaudhari, “Multi-Step Constant Current-Constant Voltage Charging Strategy for a Valve Regulated Lead-Acid Battery,” in IEEE Trans. on Indus. Applications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp.6494-6503, Dec. 2021.
6	S. Lavety, R.K. Keshri, and M.A. Chaudhari, “Non-Linear Model and Parameter Extraction for Charge/discharge Behavior of Valve Regulated Lead-Acid Battery”, in IEEE Trans. on Energy Conv., vol. 36, no.4, pp.2600-2611, Feb. 2021.
7	P. Tripathy, P.R. Thakura, V. Laxmi, and R.K. Keshri, Stand‐alone PV water pumping system based on high‐gain resonant inverter fed induction motor serving two‐head for permanent water supply,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (2021).
8	P. Tripathy, P.R. Thakura, R.K. Keshri, S. Ghosh, and J.M. Guerrero, “25 Years of Single-Stage Buck-Boost Inverters: Development and Challenges”, in IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
9	C. Ma, R. Bojoi, A. Damiano, S. Bayhan, G. Buttichi, T.I. Strasser, and R. Keshri, “The IEEE IES Technical Committee Cluster of Energy”, in IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, vol. 15, no.1, pp.89-103, March 2021.
10	P.R. Tripathi, V. Laxmi, R.K. Keshri, A. Bhargav, and T.S. Ustun, “A Novel Fundamental Frequency Switching Operation for Conventional VSI to Enable Single-Stage High-Gain Boost Inversion with ANN Tuned QWS Controller,” in Electronics vol. 10, no. 20 (2021): 2499.
11	P.R. Tripathi, V. Laxmi, R.K. Keshri, A.V. Jha, A. Bhargav, N. Bizon, and P. Thounthong, “A Three-Phase Resonant Boost Inverter Fed Brushless DC Motor Drive for Electric Vehicles,” in Electronics vol. 10, no. 15 (2021): 1799.
12	S. Lavety, R.K. Keshri, and M.A. Chaudhari, “A dynamic battery model and parameter extraction for discharge behavior of a valve regulated lead-acid battery,” in Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 33, no. 102031, pp. 1-9, January – 2021.
13	S. Panda, R.K. Keshri, A. Tessarolo, G. Tiwari, and M. Mezzarobba, “Design refinements of synchronous reluctance motor utilising non-magnetic radial ribs for traction applications,” in IET Electric Power Applications, Vol. 14 no. 12, pp. 2480 – 2489, November- 2020.
14	S. Lavety, R.K. Keshri, and M.A. Chaudhari, “Evaluation of Charging Strategies for Valve Regulated Lead-Acid Battery,” in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 164747 – 164761, September-2020.
15	R. Vaka and R.K. Keshri, “A Reconfigurable WPT System for Load Independent Constant Current and Voltage Output with Transmitting Side Control,” in IET Electric Power Applications, Vol. 14 no. 4, pp. 685-694, Feb- 2020.
16	M.S. Trivedi and R.K. Keshri, “Evaluation of Predictive Current Control Techniques for PM BLDC Motor in Stationary Plane”, in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 46217-46228, January- 2020.
17	R. Vaka, R. K. Keshri, “Evaluation and Selection of Shielding Methods for Wireless Charging of e-Rickshaw,” in Electrical Engineering, vol 102, pp. 1005-1019, January- 2020
18	S. Panda and R. K. Keshri, “Reduced Rib Synchronous Reluctance Motor for Traction Applications,” in Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 19, no. 4. pp 83-90, December- 2019.
19	M.S. Trivedi and R.K. Keshri, “Comparative Evaluation of a-b-c and Stationary Frame of Reference for Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Drive Applied for Generation of Switching Pattern,” in Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, vol. 27, pp. 4715-4730, December- 2019.
20	V. Ravikiran and R.K. Keshri, “Design Considerations for Enhanced Coupling Coefficient and Misalignment tolerance Using Asymmetrical Circular Coils for WPT System”, in Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (Springer), vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 1949-1959, Mar 2019.2017
21	S.G. Kadwane, U.K. Shinde, S.P. Gawande, and R.K. Keshri, “Symmetrical Shoot-Through Based Decoupled Control of Z-Source Inverter,” IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 11298 – 11306, 2017
22	V. Ravikiran and R.K. Keshri, “Review on Contactless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicle Charging,” in Energies Journal, vol.10, 636, pp. 2-20, 2017.
23	U.K. Shinde, S.G. Kadwane, R.K. Keshri, and S.P. Gawande, “Dual Mode Controller-Based Solar Photovoltaic Simulator for True PV Characteristics,” in Candian Jour. of Electrical and Computer Engg., vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 237-245, 2017.
24	G. Buja, R. Keshri, and M. Bertoluzzo, “Torque Ripple-Free Operation of PM BLDC Drives With Petal-Wave Current Supply”, IEEE Industrial Electronics Technology News, Extended Abstract, March 2016. http://ies-iten.com/index.php
25	G. Buja, R. Keshri, and M. Bertoluzzo, “Sinusoidal vs. Square-Wave Current Supply of PM Brushless DC Drives: a Convenience Analysis”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 7339-7349, November 2015.
26	G. Buja, R. Keshri, and M. Bertoluzzo, “Torque Ripple-Free Operation of PM BLDC Drives with Petal-Wave Current Supply”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 4034-4043, July 2015.
27	R. Keshri, M. Bertoluzzo, and G. Buja, “Integration of a Photovoltaic Panel with an Electric City Car,” Jour. of Electric Power Comp. and Sys. Taylor & Francis, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 481-495, 2014.
28	G. Buja, R. Menis, and R. Keshri, “Vector analysis of the current commutation in PM BLDC drives,” Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Tech Sciences, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 829-836, 2013.