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Dr. Somanath Majhi

Professor
Department of EEE
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Assam, India, Pin- 781039

About.

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Education

B. Engg and M. Engg from SAMBALPUR University, Odisha, INDIA
D. Phil in Control Systems Engineering from University of SUSSEX, England, UK

Scholastic Achievements

Humbolt Research Fellowship	May 2002 - August 2003
Commonwealth Scholarship	October 1996 - September 1999
GATE Scholarship	July 1988 - January 1990
National Scholarship	July 1981 - May 1988
National Rural Talent Scholarship	July 1977 - May 1981

Employment

Professor (HAG/Level 15) - IIT Guwahati	Since September 2013
Professor - IIT Guwahati	August 2007 - August 2013
Associate Professor - IIT Guwahati	June 2004 - August 2007
Assistant Professor - IIT Guwahati	November 1999 - June 2004
Sr. Lecturer/Lecturer - IGIT Sarang, Talcher, Odisha	March 1990 - November 1999

Research Interests

Control Structures
System Identification/Modelling
Automatic Tuning of Controller
Control Theory Applications

Teaching Experiences at IITG.

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Electrical Sciences	B.Tech. (Core, 1st Sem)	Theory
Basic Electronics	B.Tech.(Core, 1st Sem)	Theory
Basic Electronics Lab.	B.Tech. (Core, 2nd Sem).	Laboratory
Control Systems	B.Tech.	Theory / Laboratory
Introduction to Electrical Engineering Lab.	B.Tech. (ECE/MECH)	Laboratory
Advanced Control Systems (Core)	B.Tech. (EEE)	Theory
Instrumentation and Control Lab.	B.Tech.	Laboratory
Advanced Control Systems (Elective)	B.Tech.(EEE/ECE)	Theory
Power Electronics	B.Tech.	Theory
Industrial Electronics	B.Tech.	Theory / Laboratory
Computer Control	B.Tech./M.Tech./Ph.D.	Theory / Laboratory
Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems	B.Tech./M.Tech./Ph.D.	Theory
Linear Systems Theory	M.Tech./Ph.D.	Theory
Applied Control Lab.	M.Tech./Ph.D.	Laboratory
Nonlinear Systems Analysis	M.Tech.	Theory
Nonlinear Systems and Control	M.Tech.	Theory
Optimal Control	M.Tech.	Theory

Books and Courses.

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Books

Advanced Control Theory - A Relay Feedback Approach - Cengage India/Cengage Asia Ltd., 2009

PID Control in the Third Millennium (Chapter titled Control Structures for Time Delay Systems) - Springer London, 2012.

Digital Control Systems ( CD Cell, QIP, IIT Guwahati, 2011)

Developed Courses

Video Course: Advanced Control Systems - NPTEL Phase II, MHRD, 2013 (S. Majhi) - Link

Web Course: Digital Control Systems - NPTEL Phase II, MHRD, 2013 (I. Kar and S. Majhi) - Link

Web Course: Introduction to Hybrid & Electric Vehicles - NPTEL Phase II, MHRD, 2013 (P. Kumar and S. Majhi) - Link

PhD Supervision.

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PhD Theses guided independently:     (Theses titles and scholars)
1. Limit Cycle Approach for Identification and Control of Industrial Processes (Scholar: Dr. P.K. Padhy)
2. Controller Design Methods for Linear Systems with Emphasis on Integrating Processes (Scholar: Dr. A. Ali)
3. Relay Feedback Method for Process Modelling (Scholar: Dr. U.V. Mehta)
4. Improved Control Structures and Methodologies for Linear Processes with Delay (Scholar: Dr. D. Padhan)
5. State Space Based Load Frequency Control of Multi-Area Power Systems (Scholar: Dr. K.P. Singh Parmar)
6. Identification of Process Dynamics using Relay with Hysteresis (Scholar: Dr. Bajarangbali)
7. Identification Schemes for Modelling of Dead Time Processes-A Limit Cycle Approach (Scholar: Dr. S. Pandey)
8. Dead-time Dynamics Modelling and Identification of a Class of Processes-A Real-time Approach (Scholar: Dr. P. Ghorai)
9. Identification of Block Oriented Nonlinear Models using Relay (Scholar: Dr. T. Meher)
10. Generalized Predictive Control of DC-DC Buck Converter (Scholar: Dr. K. Manjari)


PhD Theses guided jointly:
1. (Dr. P Kumar, Dr. S Majhi) The Solar Assisted Smart Public Transportation System and its Coordination with the Grid (Scholar: Dr. M.B. Naik)
2. (Dr. I Kar, Dr. S Majhi) Design and Implementation of Consensus in Multi-agent Systems with Input and Communication Time-Delays (Scholar: Dr. Y.V. Karteek)
3. (Dr. S Majhi, Dr. A.K. Gogoi) Identification of Process Models using Relay Feedback Response (Scholar: Dr. V.R. Kasi)
4. (Dr. S Majhi, Dr. C Mahanta) Auto-tuning of Fractional Order PID Controllers for a Class of Processes with Time Delay (Scholar: Dr. G. Baruah)
5. (Dr. S Krishnaswamy, Dr. S Majhi) Control Over Erasure Communication Network (Scholar: Dr. A. Mazumdar)
6. (Dr. S Majhi, Dr. H Nemade) Design and Implementation of DC-DC Converters with Improved Step-up/down Conversion Ratio and Reduced Voltage Stress (Scholar: Dr. M. Biswas)
7. (Dr. S Majhi, Dr. S K Nayak) Development of Robust State of Charge Estimation Algorithms for Lithium-ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles (Scholar: Dr. G Sethia)
8. (Dr. S Krishnaswamy, Dr. S Majhi) Finite-Horizon Model Order Reduction of Linear Systems based on Minimization of Appropriate Error Criteria (Scholar: Ms. Kasturi Das)