Sivaji Chakravorti

Biography

He is a full-time faculty member of Electrical Engineering Department of Jadavpur University from 1985, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering (presently on Lien). In 1984 he worked at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, as Indian National Science Academy Visiting Fellow. He did postdoctoral research at the Technical University Munich, Germany, as Humboldt Research Fellow in 1995-96 and 1999, respectively. In 1998 he served as Development Engineer in the Power Transmission and Distribution Department of Siemens AG in Berlin, Germany. He further worked as Humboldt Research Fellow in ABB Corporate Research at Ladenburg, Germany, in 2002. He was US-NSF guest scientist at the Advanced Research Institute of Virginia Tech, USA, in 2003, AvH Guest Scientist at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, in 2005 and again at the Technical University Munich, Germany in 2007. He has published more than 75 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals including 56 papers in IEEE Transactions, 26 papers in refereed Indian journals and presented more than 80 papers in different international and national conferences/seminars. He is the Chairman of IEEE India Council for 2017-2018. He has one US patent and two software copyrights to his credit. He has authored three books and edited three books. He has developed three online courses on numerical electric field computation. Prof. Chakravorti is Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India, Senior Member of IEEE (USA), Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology, Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. He was Chairman-Elect of IEEE India Council for 2015-2016, was the Chairman of IEEE Kolkata Section during 2011-2012, Chairman of its Power Engineering Chapter during 2003-2006 and the founder Chairman of its Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Chapter in 2012-2015. In 2001 he was the Vice-Chairman of IEEE India Council. He was the Asia Pacific West Representative of IEEE Power and Energy Society in 2008 and is the Global Chapter Secretary of IEEE PES in 2013-2015 and is currently the global AdCom member of IEEE DEIS for 2016-2018. He is an IEEE Power and Energy Society Distinguished Lecturer since 2005. He was a member of The Court of Jadavpur University during 2006-2010. He is a regular referee for many international journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, IET Proceedings etc. He is the recipient of ‘Technical University-Munich Ambassador Award’ in 2013, ‘Technology Day Award’ from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2003 and the ‘Outstanding Chapter Engineer Award’ from IEEE Power & Energy Society in 2007. He is also the recipient of several other awards like the Jadavpur University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit in both Bachelors and Masters examinations, The Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Memorial Medal of the Institution of Engineers (India) in 1995-96, The Indian Ministry of Energy: Department of Power Prize in 1994-95 and the Third Millennium Medal of IEEE Calcutta Section in 2000. He is actively involved in several sponsored projects funded by DST (Govt. of India), US-NSF, AICTE, MHRD (Govt. of India) and the World Bank. His current fields of interest are high voltage field computation, condition monitoring of transformers, optimization of high voltage systems and lifelong learning techniques.

Research Interest

high voltage field computation, condition monitoring of transformers, optimization of high voltage systems and lifelong learning techniques