Shailesh Kumar

Shailesh Kumar

Designation:

Assistant Professor (Contractual)

Specialization:

Power Systems

Email:

shailesh@thapar.edu

Biography

Mr. Shailesh Kumar is working with Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala since 2013. She has submitted her PhD degree in Design of humidity sensor for condition monitoring of power transformer from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in December 2020. Her research interests include Development of sensing technology for the sensors and transducers and condition monitoring of power transformer.

Education

  • Ph.D. (TIET-Submitted) in Electrical Engineering specialisation in Power system
  • M. Tech in Electrical Power System Management , Jamia Millia Islamia First class (8.33 CGPA)
  • B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering / Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, West Bengal / First class (7.66 CGPA)

Experience: Total Teaching Experience 8 years 7 month

  • January 2012 - June 2013: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Raj Kumar Goel Engineering College Ghaziabad.
  • 1 July 2013 - 14 January 2020: Lecturer (Contractual), Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department, TIET, Ptiala.
  • 15 January2020 - Till date Assistant Professor (Contractual-1), Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department, TIET, Ptiala.

Teaching Interests:

  • High voltage engineering
  • Switch gear and protection
  • Transmission and Distribution of Power
  • Network Theory and Analysis
  • Control Systems

Research Interest:

  • Development of capacitive moisture sensor
  • Condition monitoring of power transformer
  • Design of electronics circuit for the capacitive sensor
  • Modeeling and simulation of capacitve sensor

Publications:

Journals

  1. Shailesh Kumar, L. Kumar, Tarikul Islam and K.K.Raina, “Condition Monitoring of Transformer Breather Using a Capacitive Moisture Sensor”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019 (Accepted), doi: 10.1109/TIE.2019.2952817.. [SCI Impact Factor 7.503]. .
  2. Shailesh Kumar, Tarikul Islam and Kuldeep Kumar Raina, “Study of long term drift of aluminium oxide thin film capacitive moisture sensor”, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, 18 (2018):.180-188. [SCIE Impact factor 1.5] . Shailesh Kumar, Tarikul Islam and Kuldeep Kumar Raina, “Modelling of breather for transformer health assessment”, IET Science Measurement and Technology, 11 (2017), 194-203. [SCI Impact factor 1.89] .
  3. Shailesh Kumar, L. Kumar, T. Islam and Kuldeep Kumar Raina, “Electrical Circuit Model of an Aged Ceramic Humidity Sensor” Materials Today: Proceeding- Journal –Elsevier, 18 (2019) 822-829. (SCOPUS) .

International Conferences

  1. Shailesh Kumar, Tarikul Islam and K.K.Raina, “A Moisture-in-Breather Model for Transformer Health Monitoring”, presented in 12th Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON) Dec. 17-20, 2015, organized by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. .
  2. Shailesh Kumar, L. Kumar, T. Islam and Kuldeep Kumar Raina, “Electrical Circuit Model of an Aged Ceramic Humidity Sensor”, Presented in International Conference on Nanotechnology: Ideas, Innovations & Initiatives, Dec. 6-8, 2017,organised by IIT Roorkee. .
  3. Shailesh Kumar, Tarikul Islam and K.K.Raina, Kamalendu Sengupta, Tariqul Islam, “Design and Fabrication oh Humidity Sensor for Condition Monitoring of Breather of Transformer”, International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems, 21-23, Nov. 2019 , organized by IIT Chennai. .
  4. Amandeep Singh Ghatora and Shailesh Kumar, “Simulation of current limit controller for plug in hybrid electric vehicle application”, presented in 7th India International Conference on Power Electronics, Nov. 17-19, 2016, organized by Thapar University Patiala.
  5. Lokesh Kumar, Shailesh Kumar, S.A. Khan, “Electrical Characterization of γ-Al2O3 thin film parallel plate capacitive sensor for low moisture detection”, presented in International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD), December19-22, 2011, organized by IIT Kanpur.

National Conferences

  1. T. Islam, S. Kumar, L Kumar, and A. Kumar, “Automatic control of firing angle of line converter using sol-gel thin film capacitive humidity sensor”, Presented in National symposium on materials and processing , Oct.10-12, 2012, organized by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC) Mumbai.

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

  • Received Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) assistantship from Government of India during M.Tech.
  • Qualified GATE exam in 2008. All India Rank: 2528
  • For a significant contribution under the theme Sensors and Actuators was conferred First Position in Oral presentation at ICN:3I2017, held at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India during 06-08 Dec., 2017

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