• From July 2010 to June 2013 and January 2016 to December 2017 worked as Assistant Professor at KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.
   
• Since 2018, Assistant Professor at NIT Calicut.

Delivered the talks on the following various topics:

• Solar PV grid tied and off-grid system
• Internet of Things and Its Applications
• Smart Grid and Management
• Advancement in Power Converters
• Recent Research Challenges in Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Storage System

8. Received Best Paper Award in IEEE international Engineering Congress held at Taylor's University in Malaysia - Dec, 2022.

7. Best Paper Award in SCES 2020 held at NIT Allahabad.

6. Dr. Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award in Power Electronics & Drives, 2018 in NPSC-2018 at National Institute of Technology Trichy, Dec., 14-16, 2018

5. Best Faculty Award, 2017 at Junior Grade in Shri P K das Memorial Award, Nehru group of Institutions, India, Dec., 15, 2017.

4. Best Paper Award in International Conference on Advance Computing & Communication Systems (ICACCS – 2014), Dec. 19-21, 2013.

3. Best selected Paper Award in International Conference on Electronic Systems (ICES-2011), January 7-9, 2011.

2. Best Paper Award in National Conference on Innovation, Technology & Knowledge Economy, Feb. 24-25, 2011.

1. First Prize in Essay contest in IEEE student chapter organized by IEEE UP Section – 2016.

• Application of Power converters to Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems.
   
• Analysis and topological approach in DC-DC and DC-AC converters.
   
• XSG and VHDL code for the hardware-in-loop system.
   
• Electric Vehicles and Its charging Infrastructure and Peak demand control.
   
• Energy Management in DC and AC Microgrid.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8063-7527

Google Scholar Citation:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=ohvHlOwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Patent:

1. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “A novel cascaded multilevel isolated bidirectional dc-dc converter and its operation thereof”, Application No. 201611034814 at 12/10/2016.

Book Chapter:

1. V. Karthikeyan, S. Rajasekar and Vipin das, “Grid-connected and off-grid Solar Photovoltaic system,” Published by Springer International, April 2017, pp 125-157, online ISBN: 978-3-319-50197-0(DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50197-0_5).

2. Abhishek Awasthi, V. Karthikeyan and. Rajasekar, “Energy Storage Systems in Solar-Wind Hybrid Renewable Systems,” Published by Springer International, April 2017, pp 189-222, online ISBN: 978-3-319-50197-0 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50197-0_7).

3. Vipin Das, V. Karthikeyan and. Rajasekar, “Energy Grid Management, Optimization and Economic Analysis of Microgrid,” Published by Springer International, April 2017, pp 289-325, online ISBN: 978-3-319-50197-0(DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50197-0_10).

4. Aneeja KJ, Bekkam Krishna, Karthikeyan V. Design and Development of a Hybrid DC-DC Converter for Solar-Battery-Based Standalone Milk Vending Machine. In Optimal Planning of Smart Grid with Renewable Energy Resources 2022 (pp. 110-144). IGI Global International.

5. Pragaspathy, S, V. Karthikeyan, and Bekkam Krishna, "Photovoltaic-Based Hybrid Integration of DC Microgrid into Public Ported Electric Vehicle", CRC Press, 2022.

SCI-Journals only:

27. T. S. Bheemraj, Y. Anil Kumar, V. Karthikeyan and S. Pragaspathy, "A Hybrid Structured High Step-Up DC–DC Converter for Integration of Energy Storage Systems in Military Applications," in IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems Ii: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 1545-1549, April 2023.

26. Bheemraj, T. S., and V. Karthikeyan. "PSO based universal phase shift modulation scheme for DAB converter to eliminate backflow power in energy storage applications." International Journal of Circuit Theory And Applications, WILEY, 2023.

25. Bheemraj, T. S., V. Karthikeyan, and S. Kumaravel. "A quintuple phase shift modulation scheme in multilevel dual active bridge converter for battery energy storage system." International Journal of Circuit Theory And Applications, WILEY 51.4, 1665-1684, Nov. 2022.

24. Bheemraj, T. S., Dandu Prajapathi, V. Karthikeyan, and S. Kumaravel. "A Novel High Gain Non-Isolated Three-Port DC–DC Converter for DC Microgrid Applications." Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, March, 2023.

23. Bhanu, K. S., Tripathi, A., Krishna, B., & Karthikeyan, V. (2022). Implementation on smart vehicle management system using IOT technology. International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 11(1), 2022.

22. Bekkam Krishna, V. Karthikeyan. “Ultra-Voltage Gain Step-Up DC-DC Converter for Renewable Energy Micro-Source Applications”. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Sep., 2021. [DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2021.3116076].

21. Bekkam Krishna and V. Karthikeyan, "Active Switched-Inductor Network Step-Up DC–DC Converter with Wide Range of Voltage-Gain at the Lower Range of Duty Cycles," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics In Industrial Electronics, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 431-441, Oct. 2021.

20. Bekkam Krishna, G. Lithesh, and V. Karthikeyan. “A Novel High-Gain Bi-Directional DC-DC Converter for EV On-Broad Charger Applications” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, March, 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/cta.3268].

19. Bekkam Krishna, P. Uma Maheswar Rao, and V. Karthikeyan. “High‐gain single‐switch single‐input dual‐output DC‐DC converter with reduced switching stress” international journal of circuit theory and application, Feb. 2022. [DOI:10.1002/cta.3240].

18. Krishna, B., Anusha, D., Karthikeyan V. "Ultra-Fast DC Charger with Improved Power Quality and Optimal Algorithmic Approach to Enable V2G and G2V". Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 29(12), Sep. 2021.

17. Bhanu, Kumari Subrata, Aman Tripathi, Bekkam Krishna, and V. Karthikeyan. "Implementation on Smart Vehicle Management System using IoT Technology." International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems Vol. 11, no. 1, March 2022.

16. Krishna, Bekkam, T. S. Bheemraj, and V. Karthikeyan. "Optimized Active Power Management in Solar PV-Fed Transformerless Grid-Connected System for Rural Electrified Microgrid." Journal of Circuits, Systems And Computers Vol. 03, pp. 3-9, March 2021.

15. G. Gurukumar, Kumaravel S., V. Karthikeyan and E. Babaei, “Switched Capacitor-Inductor network based Ultra-Gain DC-DC Converter using Single Switch," IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, Nov. 2019 (doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2019.0077).

14. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Distributed Power Flow Control using Cascaded Multilevel Isolated Bidirectional DC-DC Converter with Multi-phase Shift Modulation," IET Power Electronics, Nov. 2019 (doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2019.0077)

13. V. Karthikeyan, Kumaravel S., G. Gurukumar and E. Babaei, “Regenerative Switched-Inductor/Capacitor type DC-DC Converter with Large Voltage Gain for PV Applications,” IET Power Electronics, Oct. 2019 (DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2019.0408).

12. G. Gurukumar, Kumaravel S., Sivaprasad A. and V. Karthikeyan, “Dual input super boost DC–DC converter for solar powered electric vehicle “IET Power Electronics, Vol – 12, pp 86-84 Aug. 2019.

11. V. Karthikeyan, Kumaravel S., G. Gurukumar "High Step-Up Gain DC-DC Converter with Switched Capacitor and Regenerative Boost Configuration for Solar PV Applications," IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems--Ii: Express Briefs, January 2019 (doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2892144).

10. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “FRS-DAB Converter for Elimination of Circulation Power Flow at Input and Output Ends”, in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 2135-2144, March 2018.

9. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Multiple-Input Configuration of Isolated Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for power flow Control in Energy Storage Application”, in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 2-11, Jan. 2018.

8. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Zero Circulating Current Modulation for Isolated Bidirectional Dual-Active-Bridge DC-DC Converter”, in IET Power Electronics, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp.1553-1561, June 2016.

7. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Varying phase angle control in isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter for integrating battery storage and solar PV system in standalone mode”, in IET Power Electronics, pp. 1755-4535, Nov-2016.

6. Vipin Das, V. Karthikeyan and Rajasekar, “Recent Advances and Challenges of Fuel Cell Based Power System Architectures and Control – A Review”, International Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, Vol – 73, pp. 10-18, June-2017.

5. V. Karthikeyan and all, “A modified boost rectifier for elimination of circulating current in power factor correction applications,” Microelectronics Reliability Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 69, pp 29-35, Feb. 2017.

4. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Light-Load Efficiency Improvement by Extending ZVS range for DAB-Bidirectional DC-DC Converter”, in International Journal of Energy, Elsevier, Vol – 130, pp. 15-21, April-2017.

3. A. Awasthi, V. Karthikeyan and F. Blaabjerg and all, “Optimal Planning of Electric Vehicle Charging Station at the Distribution System Using Hybrid Optimization Algorithm”, International Journal of Energy, Elsevier, Vol – 133, pp.  70-78, May 2017.

2. V. Karthikeyan, S. Rajasekar, B. Chitti Babu and Praveen Yadav, “HCC-based interleaved boost converter with optimal switching frequency control of wind energy conversion system for DC microgrid application,” IET Journal of Engineering, Vol - 8, pp. 495-505, Aug 2017.

1. S. Tamilselvi, L. Baskar, A.Padmanaban, V. Karthikeyan and S. Rajasekar, “Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for designing energy efficient distribution transformers,” Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, Vol - 42, pp. 10-124, Jan 2018.

IEEE Conference Publications:

23. Babu, PKV Prasad, Pragaspathy, V. Karthikeyan, and M. Sudagar. "An Intelligent Controller-based Water Pumping Applications Driven by Solar Power." In IEEE 2023 5th International Conference on Inventive Research in Computing Applications (ICIRCA), pp. 1555-1559, 2023.

22. A. Bhatt and V. Karthikeyan, "Digital Twin Framework and its Application for Protection Functions Testing of Relays," 2022 3rd International Conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems (ICESC), Coimbatore, India, 2022, pp. 682-687, doi: 10.1109/ICESC54411.2022.9885475.

21. Pragaspathy, S., Karthikeyan, V, Korlepara, K. P. Analysis and appropriate choice of power converters for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In IEEE Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy (ICAIS) (pp. 1554-1558), 2022.

20. A. K. Shrivastava, K. V. Karthikeyan and S. M, "Early Diabetes Prediction using Random Forest," 2022 3rd International Conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems (ICESC), Coimbatore, India, 2022, pp. 1154-1159, doi: 10.1109/ICESC54411.2022.9885683.

19. Kumar, K., Talluri, M. T., Krishna, B., & Karthikeyan, V. “A Novel Approach for Speed Estimation along with Vehicle Detection Counting”. In 2022 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES) (pp. 1-5), July 2022.

18. Kumar, C. P., Pragaspathy, S., Karthikeyan, V., & Prakash, K. D. (2021, March). Power quality improvement for a hybrid renewable farm using UPQC. In IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems (ICAIS) (pp. 1483-1488), 2021.

17. G. Lithesh, B. Krishna and V. Karthikeyan, "Review and Comparative Study of Bi-Directional DC-DC Converters," 2021 IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference (IPRECON), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IPRECON52453.2021.9640712.

16. C. P. Kumar, S. Pragaspathy, V. Karthikeyan and K. N. S. Durga Prakash, "Power Quality Improvement for a Hybrid Renewable Farm Using UPQC," 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems (ICAIS), 2021, pp. 1483-1488, doi: 10.1109/ICAIS50930.2021.9396048.

15. S. Arya, M. T. Talluri and V. Karthikeyan, "An IoT Enabled Electric Tricycle Monitoring System," 2020 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SCES50439.2020.9236699.

14. M. T. Talluri, S. S. Arya, A. Tripathi and V. Karthikeyan, "IoT based Multipurpose Uniform Water Showering Mechanism for Urban Agriculture," 2020 IEEE First International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC49749.2020.9297664.

13. T. S. Bheemraj, B. Krishna, V. Karthikeyan and S. Kumaravel, "High Accurate Dual Loop Controller for Power Regulation in DAB DC-DC Converter for Solar PV Applications," 2019 International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), 2019, pp. 355-359.

12. V. Karthikeyan, S. Rajasekar, S. Pragaspathy and Frede Blaabjerg, “Core Loss Estimation of Magnetic Links in DAB Converter Operated in High-Frequency Non-Sinusoidal Flux Waveforms,” PEDES 2018, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Dec 2018, pp. 1-5.

11. V. Karthikeyan, S. Rajasekar, S. Pragaspathy and Frede Blaabjerg, “A High Efficient DAB Converter under Heavy Load Conditions Using Inner Phase Shift Control,” PEDES 2018, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Dec 2018, pp. 1-6.

10. Rahul Sharma, Vivek Kumar, Shweta Sharma, V. Karthikeyan and Kumaravel S, “High Efficient Solar PV fed Grid Connected system,” PEDES 2018, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Dec 2018. pp. 1-6.

9. Kumaravel S, V. Karthikeyan and Gurukumar, Dual-Input Dual-Output DC-DC Converter for DC Microgrid Application, PEDES 2018, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Dec 2018, pp. 1-6.

8. S. Rajasekar, V. Karthikeyan and N. Kumaresan, “Experimental Validation of CCM and DCM Operations of Semi-Bridgeless Boost Rectifier for Power Quality Improvement in UPS System,” 20th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), NIT Trichy, Dec 2018 (in Press).

7. Kumaravel S, V. Karthikeyan and Gurukumar, "Novel Non-isolated Modified Interleaved DC-DC Converter to Integrate Ultracapacitor and Battery Sources for Electric Vehicle Application, 20th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), NIT Trichy, Dec 2018 (in Press).

6.  V. Karthikeyan, Vipin Das and Frede Blaabjerg, “Implementation of MPPT Control in Fuel Cell Fed High Step-up Ratio DC-DC Converter,” in ICPEICES, Delhi Technological University, Oct 2018 (in Press).

5.  V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Closed-loop control of isolated dual active bridge converter using dual phase shift modulation,” in IECON 2015, Japan - pp. 2800-2805.

4.  P. Haritha, V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Universal Maximum Power Point Tracking in Wind-Solar Hybrid system for Battery storage Application”, in IEEE International Conference on embedded systems 3-5^th July 2014.

3. V. Karthikeyan and Rajesh Gupta, “Performance Study of Bidirectional DC-DC Converter”, in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems, pp. 1-5, Dec 2013.

2. A. Awasthi, V. Karthikeyan, S. Rajasekar, P. Sanjeevikumar, Pierluigi Siano, Ahmet H.Ertas, "Dual Mode Control of Inverter to Integrate Solar-Wind Hybrid fed DC-Grid with Distributed AC grid”, in Conf. Proc. of 16 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Environment and Electrical Engg., Florence (Italy), 7-10 Jun. 2016.

1.  Apoorv Yadav, Abhishek Awasthi, V. Karthikeyan and Asheesh Kumar Singh, “Small Signal Modeling and Stability Analysis of N-Phase Interleaved Boost Converter” IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics Engineering (UPCON - 2016), IIT Bhu. 9-11, Dec. 2016

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