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Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India
Santanu Kapat received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
From August 2009 to July 2010, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. From August 2010 to July 2019, he was a Research Engineer with GE Global Research, Bengaluru, India. From August 2011 to July 2019, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department (EED), IIT Kharagpur. From July to November 2019, he was with the EED, IIT Delhi (on LIEN from IIT Kharagpur), New Delhi, India. He returned back to IIT Kharagpur in December 2019, where he is currently an Associate Professor with EED. He developed the Embedded Power Management Laboratory, IIT Kharagpur, in 2014. His research interests include high-frequency switched mode power converters, high-performance digital and mixed-signal control, modeling, analysis, tuning, and nonlinear dynamics; and applications to data centers, automotive, LED drivers, dc micro-grid and fast chargers.
Dr. Kapat was a recipient of the INSA Young Scientist Medal and the INAE Young Engineering Award in 2016, and the DAE Young Scientist Research Award in 2014. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics since 2015, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs since 2018, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics since 2020.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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