Vijaya Chandrakala K. R. M.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics
Amrita University - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
India
Biography
Dr. Vijaya Chandrakala K. R. M. currently serves as Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Electronics, School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus. Her areas of research include Power System. Dr. K.R.M. Vijaya Chandrakala joined Amrita School of Engineering in the year 2009. She did her B. Tech., from NSS College of Engineering and M. Tech., in Electrical Power Systems from Trichur College of Engineering, Kerala. She has been awarded with the Ph. D. Degree from Anna University, Chennai, during the year 2013 on Load Frequency Control of Multi Source Multi Area Hydro Thermal System using Soft Computing Techniques and FACTS Devices. She has two years of teaching experience in postgraduate programs and eleven years in undergraduate programs. Dr. K. R.M. Vijaya Chandrakala is a project group member in DST - VINNOVA Smart Grid project with KTH, Sweden. She has published 06 Articles in peer reviewed impact factor International Journals out of which one is Elsevier. She has also published 09 articles in International / National Conferences. She has attended several short term courses, seminars and conducted FDP on MATLAB for the faculty and student members and delivered several lectures for the faculty, student members (UG/PG) within campus and outside in the area of Electrical Engineering, Power Systems and Soft Computing Techniques. Her research interest includes Power System Control, FACTS Devices and Soft Computing Techniques to Micro and Smart Grid. Dr. K. R.M. Vijaya Chandrakala is a Technical Reviewer of Electrical Power Components and Systems, Taylor and Francis and International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Journals. She has guided several undergraduate and postgraduate projects in inter disciplines and intra University of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham under the area of Power Systems, Power Electronics, FACTS Devices, Embedded Systems, Bio-medical Instrumentation and Soft Computing Technique
Research Interest
Power Systems, Power System Control, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), Soft Computing Techniques to Micro and Smart Grid