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Address:
Hostel-12, D-218,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai 400 076.
Mobile No.:
Email:
+91-9967637166
vishalvekhande@gmail.com
vekhande@ee.iitb.ac.in
Date of Birth:
Nationality:
Indian
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Examination
University
Institute
Year
CPI/%
Defense expected
in March, 2015
9.64
Mumbai
(mum.digitaluniversity.ac)
Specialization: B.E. (Electrical)
VJTI, Mumbai
(www.vjti.ac.in)
2005
62
Intermediate/+2
Mumbai Board
2001
83.17
Matriculation
Mumbai Board
1999
86.13
Merit Reward for outstanding performance in Commissioning & Execution of projects for Siemens
Building Technology Division, Siemens Ltd.
IIT Bombay Heritage Fund Scholarship for securing CPI 10/10 in semester-I of M.Tech.
Joint student travel grant of IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) and IEEE Power Electronics
Society (PELS) for attending the 2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, USA.
Best TA award for the undergraduate course on Power Electronics of Autumn semester 2012-13.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engg., IIT Bombay
Served as a Teaching Assistant for various undergraduate and postgraduate courses e.g. Power
Electronics, Introduction to Electrical Systems, Electrical Machine Analysis and Control.
The responsibilities included preparation of the course material, assignments, tutorials and exam
papers, and evaluation.
Worked for the IIT Indore, India faculty selection process held in the month of August 2010.
[July10 July13]
[July07 July10]
Role included scheduling, coordinating and conducting undergraduate lab activities which involved
approx. 200 students and 20 Teaching Assistants in each semester.
Designed and implemented 2 new experiments for undergraduate and postgraduate lab sessions.
Upgraded undergraduate lab manuals.
Lab equipments testing and repair.
[July05 July07]
Execution Engineer
Executed Building Automation and Fire Alarm System projects.
Planned material procurement and managed commercial activities.
Led a team of approx. 10 contract workers; coordinated with more than 10 other agencies.
Commissioning Engineer
Programmed and commissioned Direct Digital Controllers for Building Automation system.
Configured Graphical User Interface for Building Management System computer.
Commissioned one of the largest Variable Air Volume (VAV) control systems in India.
Received Merit Reward for outstanding performance in Commissioning & Execution of
projects in Chennai and Bangalore.
Trained 3 junior engineers to commission the Building Automation system.
DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Current-fed Converter Topologies for Interconnecting Solar Photovoltaic, AC and DC Grids
Guided by Prof. B. G. Fernandes
M.TECH. PROJECT
Operation of Indirect Matrix Converter under Unbalanced Source Voltage and Load Current
Conditions
Guided by Prof. B. G. Fernandes
Indirect Matrix Converter (IMC) is an AC-DC-AC converter without DC link capacitor; it has
bidirectional power flow capability with adjustable input power factor.
Detailed theoretical analysis is performed for the harmonic content of the input current when
unbalanced voltages are applied at the input terminals of IMC, and unbalanced currents are drawn
from the output terminals.
A control strategy is proposed, where the modulation index of the inverter section of the IMC is
dynamically varied to eliminate the harmonic components from the input currents caused due to
unbalanced input voltages.
Effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified on a laboratory scale prototype using
TMS320F28335 DSP.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal publications
V. Y. Vekhande, N. Kothari and B. G. Fernandes, Switching state vector selection strategies for
paralleled multilevel current-fed inverter under unequal dc-link currents condition, IEEE
Trans. Power Electron., vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1998-2009, Apr. 2015.
Conference proceedings
V. Y. Vekhande, R. Vandana and B. G. Fernandes, Interphase transformer-based three-phase sevenlevel current-fed inverter, in Proc. Nat. Power Electron. Conf. (NPEC), India, Dec. 2013.
V. Y. Vekhande and B. G. Fernandes, Central seven-level current-fed inverter with module integrated
DC-DC converters for grid-connected PV plant, in Proc. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conf. (PVSC),
USA, Jun. 2014, pp. 3719-3724.
C, C++
MATLAB\Simulink, PSIM, CCStudio, PVSyst, SABER
Eagle
8051
TMS320F28335, TMS320VC33
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Part of a 15 member team participating in the Mahindra Solar Rise challenge. Leading the Power
Electronics group.
Delivered lectures on simulation tools (SABER, PVSyst); organized by National Centre for
Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government
of India.
Delivered lectures on various power electronics related topics to the participants from academia and
industry; organized by NCPRE and SEMI India.
Conducted drives and power electronics lab sessions for officials from Indian Railways under
Continuing Education Program; organized by IIT Bombay.
POSITIONS HELD
Placement Coordinator, Institute Placement Team
[April09 March10]
Worked in a team of 43 placement nominees with a common objective to ensure campus placement for
1200 students.
Role included managing company accounts, negotiating offers and planning interview schedule.
Conceptualized the idea of stream representatives, group preparation activity and online test system.
Other
Coordinator for the three days National Power System Conference 2008 hosted by IIT Bombay.
Coordinated the Welcome and Valedictory Functions of PEPS group for year 2008.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Completed basic module of the Chinese Language course of Beijing Jiaotong University.
Participated in PG CULT 2009 Photography event.
Have been an avid trekker since last 15 years.
REFERENCES
Prof. B. G. Fernandes
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai 400 076.
E-mail: bgf[AT]ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone: (+91-22)2576-7428
Prof. K. Chatterjee
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai 400 076.
E-mail: kishore[AT]ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone: (+91-22)2576-7472
Vishal Y. Vekhande