Dr. Sunitha R.
Dr. Sunitha R.
Associate Professor
Office Address:
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering National Institute of Technology NIT Campus P.O, Calicut Kerala, India-673601
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Home Address:
No.2, Queens Park Villa, AR Camp Road, Marikunnu P.O Calicut-12
B.Tech- Electrical & Electronics Engg, REC Calicut, 1996.
M.Tech- Energetics , REC Calicut, 1999.
PhD- Power Systems, NIT Calicut, 2014.
Educational Qualifications
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B.Tech- Electrical & Electronics Engg, REC Calicut, 1996.
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M.Tech- Energetics , REC Calicut, 1999.
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PhD- Power Systems, NIT Calicut, 2014.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
A: International Journals
- Subin Koshy, Sunitha R, Elizabeth P Cheriyan, “Enhanced PMU Data Imputation Using Variational Autoencoder : A Novel Approach for Improved Accuracy”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (accepted for publication, July 8th 2025)
- Subin. Koshy, V. Sreehari Venugopal, R. Sunitha, Elizabeth P. Cheriyan and K. Ananthakrishnan, "Dynamic State Estimation of Power Systems Using a Modified Unscented Kalman Filter and Wavelet Transform Considering Missing and Noisy PMU Data," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 144183-144194, 14th August 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3598922
- Zubin. J. B., Sunitha. R. and Gopakumar. Pathirikkat, "Integrated Bidding and Battery Scheduling in a Microgrid for Sealed-Bid Double Auction Power Trading With Peer Microgrids Under Uncertainty and Its Blockchain-Based Implementation," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 117953-117970, 7th July 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586465
- Swathi Krishna, Deepak M, Sunitha R. “Locational Marginal Price Based Scheduling Strategy for Effective Utilisation of Battery Energy Storage in PV Integrated Distribution System, Journal of Energy Storage, Elsevier, Vol. 94, July 2024 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.112102)
- J. B Zubin, Sunitha R, Gopakumar Pathirikkat, “A Novel Method for Fully Distributed Sealed Bid Power Trading in a Network of Islanded Microgrids Using Consortium Blockchains and a Framework for its Implementation”, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 158, July 2024 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2024.109963)
- T P Vishnu, Gopakumar P, Sunitha R, “Simultaneous AC/DC Distribution for the Sustainable Operation of Smart Building Clusters in Hybrid Urban Microgrids”, Energy & Buildings, Elsevier, Vol. 298, November 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113488).
- Rahul S, Sunitha R, "Ambient oscillatory mode assessment in power system using an advanced signal processing method", ISA Transactions, Elsevier, Vol. 142, pp. 399-408, November 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2023.08.012)
- Jacob P Varghese, Nasirul Haque, Sunitha R, Preetha P, "Ageing Characteristics of Epoxy Nanocomposites doped with Silane functionalized Alumina Nanoparticles for High-Voltage Insulation Applications", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol.30, No.5, pp. 2334-2343, October 2023, ( (DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2023.3298871)
- Najda Vadakkeyveettil Mohamed Anwar, Gopakumar Pathirikkat and Sunitha Rajan, “Proactive Defense Strategy against Uncertainty Induced Voltage Disturbance Propagation in Deregulated Market Oriented Greener Grids”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.38, No.3, pp.2224-2233, May 2023 (DOI:10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3192464)
- Rahul S, Sunitha R, “Assessment of Mode Shape in Power System using TVF-EMD and Spectral Analysis”, Electric Power Components and Systems, Vol.50, issue 6-7, pp.349-358, October 2022.
- M J Laly, Elizabeth P Cheriyan, R Sunitha and Hassan Haes Alhelou, “Heuristic power flow optimization of hybrid power systems integrated with bulk renewable energy sources and battery storage”, International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, vol.17, pp.1124-1133, July 2022. ( https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctac066)
- Laly M J, Elizabeth P Cheriyan and Sunitha R, "Heuristic Application on Energy Storage System Allocation in Wind Integrated Power System" in Journal of Power Electronics & Power Systems, Vol.12, No.2, June 2022 (https://doi.org/10.37591/.v12i2.6378)
- Jacob P. Varghese, Akash M. Chandran , Prasanna Kumar S. Mural, R. Sunitha, and P. Preetha, “Investigating the Characteristics of Amino Silane Functionalized Alumina Nanoparticles Doped Epoxy Nanocomposite for High-Voltage Insulation”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vo. 21, pp.227-235, May 2022, (DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2022.3172546)
- Rahul S, Sunitha R, “Estimation of mode shape in power systems under ambient conditions using advanced signal processing approach”, Turkish journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol.30, No.4, pp. 1460-1474 (DOI: 10.55730/1300-0632.3859), March 2022)
- Rahul Satheesh, Nashida Chakkungal, Sunitha Rajan, Manu Madhavan, Hassan Haes Alhelou, Identification of Oscillatory Modes in Power System Using Deep Learning Approach, IEEE Access ( Volume: 10), pp.16556 – 16565, February 2022, (DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3149472)
- Rahul S, Sunitha R, “Dominant electromechanical oscillation mode identification using modified variational mode decomposition”, Springer Arabian journal for science engineering and technology, Vol.46, pp. 10007-10021, June 2021, (DOI: 10.1007/s13369-021-05818-x)
- Rohikaa Micky R., Ashok Sankar, Sunitha R, "Synchrophasor data driven islanding detection, localization and prediction for microgrid using energy operator", IEEE Trans. on Power systems, Vol.36, N0. 5, pp. 4052-4065, February 2021. (doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3060763)
- Najda V M, Gopakumara Pathirikkatt, Sunitha R, "Modelling of Inter Area Angular Dynamics and Proactive Defence Strategy in Deregulated Power Grids with Large scale Integration of Renewable Energy Sources" ,IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol 14, No. 15 pp. 2940 – 2950, July 2020, (DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2019.1868)
- Rohikaa Micky R., Ashok Sankar, Sunitha R., “Synchrophasor Based Islanding Detection for Microgrids Using Moving Window Principal Component Analysis and Extended Mathematical Morphology”, IET Renew. Power Gener.,September 2020, Vol. 14 Iss. 12, pp. 2089-2099, (https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-rpg.2019.1240)
- Rohikaa Micky Radhakrishnan. Ashok Sankar, Sunitha Rajan, “A combined islanding detection algorithm for grid connected multiple microgrids for enhanced microgrid utilization”, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, First Published: 14 November 2019, (DOI: 10.1002/2050-7038.12232)
- Jaya C K, Sunitha R, Abraham T Mathew, "Security prediction of high voltage transmission system (HVTS) based on k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier technique", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 5773–5782, June.2019, (DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-181617)
- Sunitha R, Sreerama Kumar R., Abraham T. Mathew, "A Multi-Objective Contingency Constrained Optimal Power Flow based on Composite Security Index Using Genetic Algorithm and Newton Method", International Review on Modelling and Simulations (IREMOS), Vol. 6, no. 6, December 2013
- Sunitha R, Sreerama Kumar R, Abraham Mathew and Veeresh P. Kosaraju, “Cluster Computing Environment for On-line Static Security Assessment of Large Power Systems”, ACEEE Int. Journal on Electrical and Power Engineering vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 66-73, August 2013, (DOI:01.IJEPE.4.2.1283)
- Sunitha R, Sreerama Kumar R., Abraham T. Mathew, “On-line Static Security Assessment Module using Artificial Neural Networks” , IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.28, No.4, pp 4328-4335, November 2013, (DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2267557)
- Sreelekshmi R.S, Sunitha R, “Analysis of Inverter Fed Microgrids For Different Modes Of Operation In Matlab/Simulink”, Int. Journal of Power system operation and energy managemnent, Vol.2, Issue-1,2, March 2013, (DOI: 10.47893/IJPSOEM.2013.1086)
- Sunitha R, Sreerama Kumar R., Abraham T. Mathew, “A Composite Security Index for On-line Static Security Evaluation”, Int. Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor & Francis Journal, Vol.39, No.1, pp 1-14, January 2011, (https://doi.org/10.1080/15325008.2010.492448)
B: Book Chapters
- T P Vishnu, Gopakumar P, Sunitha R, M Jaya Bharata Reddy, “A Resilient Framework to Facilitate Seamless Ancillary Power Support in a Microgrid Cluster”, Synchronized Phasor Measurements for Smart Grids, IET GTD, 2nd ed. (Accepted for Publication 2024 November)
- Najda Vadakkeyveettil Mohamed Anwar, Gopakumar Pathirikkat, and Sunitha Rajan, “Proactive defense system for enhanced resiliency of power grids with microgrids”, Microgrid Cyberphysical Systems: Renewable Energy and Plug-in Vehicle Integration, Edited by Bidyadhar Subudhi Pravat Kumar Ray, Elsevier, June 2022, pp. 179- 202
- Subin Koshy, Rahul, S., Sunitha, R. and Cheriyan, Elizabeth P.. "8 Smart grid–based big data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence: a survey". Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Renewable Energy Systems, edited by Neeraj Priyadarshi, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Kamal Kant Hiran, Jens Bo Holm-Nielson and Ramesh C. Bansal, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 241-278. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714043-008
- Rahul S, Subin Koshy, Sunitha R, "Electromechanical mode estimation in power system using a novel nonstationary approach", Book chapter in Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland, September 2020.
- Rohikaa Micky R, Sunitha R, Ashok S, "Techno-economic analysis of WAMS based islanding detection algorithm for microgrids with minimal PMU in smart grid environment" , Book chapter in Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland., September 2020.
C: International / National Conferences
- Zubin J B, Sunitha R, Gopakumar P, “Spatio-Temporal Q-Learning for Optimal Sealed-Bid Generation in Consortium Blockchain-Based Double Auctions for Multi-Microgrid Energy Markets”, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology (IICAIET 2025), 26-28 August 2025, Sabah International Conventional Centre (SICC), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , - ACCEPTED
- Ajaz Hameed, Sunitha Rajan, Ashok Shankar, “Enhancing resilience and prioritizing critical infrastructure through deep reinforcement learning-based network reconfiguration in islanded microgrid networks”, CIRED 2025 conference, 16-19 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
- K G Sreshtamol, Rahul Satheesh, Sunitha R and Hassan Haes Alhelou, Classification of Power Quality Disturbance with Synchrosqueezing and Vision Transformer", 2025 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), Manhattan from April 24-25, 2025
- Anuj Rana, A. N. C, Devesh Shukla and Sunitha R, "Modelling of Cyber Intrusion in Active Distribution Grid Equipped with DVR," 2024 International BIT Conference (BITCON), Dhanbad, India, 07-08 December 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/BITCON63716.2024.10985040.
- Aswathy T K, Gopakumar P, Sunitha R, “Influence of Fast-Moving Cumulus Cloud on Power Quality of Emerging Grid-Tied Solar Farms with Heterogeneous Control Techniques: A Case Study”, 2024 IEEE 11th Power India International Conference (PIICON 2024), 10th -12th December 2024, Malavya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
- Syed Abdul Khader Jeelam Arafath, Sunitha R, Deepesh K V, “Control of Three-Phase Integrated V2G System in Unbalanced Grid Voltage Environments”, 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (IEEE SeFeT 2024), 31 July 2024 – 03 August 2024, Hyderabad, India (Accepted for presentation).
- T. P. Vishnu, G. Pathirikkat and S. Rajan, "Design and Development of Composite AC/DC Distribution Architecture for Emerging Hybrid Power Grid," 2023 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (IEEE SILCON 2023), Silchar, India, Nov. 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SILCON59133.2023.10404250. (NIT Silchar) (Received Best Paper Award)
- Rahul Satheesh, Parthkumar Patel, Akhil V M, Sunitha Rajan, “Analyzing dominant oscillatory modes in power system using unidirectional and bidirectional LSTM Techniques”, 15th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference 2023 (APPEEC 2023), 06-09 December 2023, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- V. M. Najda, P. Gopakumar, and R. Sunitha, “Investigaton on Impact of Fast Moving Cumulus Clouds on Power Quality in Deregulated Powergrid with Large Scale Solar Integration ,” Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (7th IEEE ICRAIE 2022, 1st -3rd December 2022, NITK Surathkal).
- Swathi Krishna, M Deepak, R Sunitha, "Optimal Scheduling of Distribution System with PV and Battery Energy Storage System", 2022 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), April 25 and 26, 2022 at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
- Athul Jose P, Arun V Jose, Deepak M and Sunitha R, "A solution to power balancing in high renewable penetration power system: Use of Abandoned Generating Units", IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES), Vol 1, pp. 456-462, 10-12 March 2022, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Parthkumar Patel; Rahul S; Sunitha R, “Identification of dominant modes in power system using unsupervised learning approaches”, : International Conference for Advancement in Technology (ICONAT), Goa, India, 21-22 Jan. 2022.
- Nashida C, RAHUL S and Sunitha R, "Prediction of Electromechanical Oscillatory Parameters in Power Systems Using ANN", 2020 3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies, 5-7 March 2021
- Annmy Thomas, Subin Koshy, Sunitha R, Sixth Biennial International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science and Technology (ICETEST 2020), Thrissur, Kerala, 17th – 20th December 2020.
- Najda.V.M, Gopakumar P, Sunitha R:"Space-Phasor Based Investigation of Dynamic Voltage Stability under the Proliferation of Renewable Sources to Long Transmission Lines", First IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC 2020),VNIT, Nagpur , 25 – 26 September 2020.
- TP Vishnu, P Gopakumar, R Sunitha, "Condition Monitoring of Zigzag Transformers in Composite Transmission Lines for Enhanced Transfer of Combined AC and DC Power", 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Systems Technology (POWERCON), September 2020.
- Mathews Thomas, R Sunitha, M Deepak, "Analysis of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Participating in Primary Frequency Control of Hydrothermal Power System at Varying Generation Schedule",2020 IEEE 9th Power India International Conference (PIICON), 28 Feb.-1 March 2020
- Jacob P Varghese, Avinash Nelson Asokan, Subham Khatua, Preetha P, Sunitha R, "Electric Field Stress Optimization of Permittivity Graded Spacer in UHVAC Gas Insulated System", IEEE TENCON 2019, 17-20, October, 2019, Kochi, Kerala
- Arun V Jose, Sunitha R, Deepak M, "Analysis of variation in steam turbine time constant on dynamic frequency regulation of a deregulated power system", IEEE 2nd international Conference on Power and Energy Applications (ICPEA 2019), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 27-30, April 2019
- Rahul S, Sunitha R, " Nonlinear nonstationary analysis techniques for mode shape estimation in power systems 2 nd International Conference on Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies, i-PACT-2019, (co-sponsored by IEEE-IAS), VIT Vellore, 22-23 March,2019.
- Akhil G Augustine, OD Naidu, Vedanta Pradhan, Sunitha R, " Improvement in fault location accuracy using prony based phasor estimation techniques", International conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 21-22, Feb 2019.
- Najda V. M., Gopakumar P. and Sunitha R, " PMU based Voltage Angular Dynamic Monitoring and Supervision System for Emerging Deregulated Power Grids", Srisakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology Coimbatore, 23-25, January2019
- Sreehari Venugopal V, Sunitha R, "Robust Dynamic State Estimation During Missing of PMU Data", IEEE 4th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), MANGALORE, 27th- 28th Oct 2018.
- Subin Koshy, Sunitha R, Elizabeth P Cheriyan, " A PMU Model for dynamic State Estimation of Power systems", ICEPE 2018 2nd International Conference On Energy Power and Environment, Shillong, Meghalaya, June 1-2, 2018
- Athira R, Vishal Vijayan Nair, Sunitha R, Fault Detection and Visualization Technique for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Components", International Conference on Power, Energy, Control and Transmission Systems, Chennai, February 2018
- Tadi Sudheer Reddy and Sunitha R, "Impedance matching method for voltage stability analysis using Measured data", International conference on Computer Application in Electrical Engineering (CERA 17), October 5-7, 2017, IIT Roorkee.
- Jaya C.K., Sunitha R, Abraham T. Mathew, " Reliability Analysis of 11kV Distribution feeder: A Case Study", International Conference on Energy Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS 2017), August 1-2, 2017, Tamil Nadu
- Tadi Sudheer Reddy and Sunitha R, "Estimation of Voltage stability Margin using Impedance matching method" August 1-2, 2017, International Conference on Energy Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS 2017), August 1-2, 2017, Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu
- Abhishek Sharma and Sunitha R, " Unintentional Islanding Detection in Microgrid", International Conference on Energy Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS 2017), August 1-2, 2017, Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu
- Gaurav Khare, SN Singh, Abheejeet Mohapatra and Sunitha R, " Prediction of Missing PMU Measurement using Artificial Neural Network", National Power Systems Conference (NPSC) December 19-21, 2016, IIT Bhubaneswar.
- Rohikaa Micky. R, Lakshmi.R., Sunitha.R, Ashok.S, "Generation Adequacy Assessment for Microgrid with ESS", IEEE 7th Power India International Conference (PIICON 2016), November 25-27, Rajasthan.
- Rohikaa Micky. R, Lakshmi.R., Sunitha.R, Ashok.S, "An Islanding Detection Algorithm for a Microgrid set up based on Decision Trees using Synchrophasor data. International Energy Systems Conference 2016: 21st Century Challenges, June 14-15, 2016, London, UK.
- Sibi Krishnan K., Sunitha R, Prasanth Pathiyil, " Driver classification for hybrid electric vehicles based on fuel consumption index , IEEE International conference on Computation of Power, Energy, Information and Communication April 20-21, 2016, Chennai,
- Sibi Krishnan K., Prasanth Pathiyil, Sunitha R, "Generic battery Model covering self-discharge and internal resistance variation", IEEE 6th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), March 4-6, 2016, IIT Delhi.
- Aravind M N, Anju L S, Sunitha R, " Application of Compressed sampling to Overcome Big data Issues in Synchrophasors", IEEE 6th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), March 4-6, 2016, IIT Delhi.
- Rohikaa Micky. R, Lakshmi.R., Sunitha.R, Ashok.S, " Assessment of Voltage Stability in Microgrid", International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques (ICEEOT), March 03 - 05,2016, Chennai.
- Prasanth Pathiyil, Sibi Krishnan K., Sunitha R, Vishal V. N, " Battery Model for hybrid electric vehicles corrected for self-discharge and internal resistance", IEEE International conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronics, Information, Communication and Bioinformatics, February 27-28, 2016, Chennai.
- Jaya C.K., Sunitha R, Abraham T. Mathew, "State Estimation Using Weighted Least Square Method with Minimum Measurement Data", International Conference on Control, Communication & Computing India (ICCC), 19-21 November 2015, Trivandrum.
- Gaurav Khare, R. Sunitha, Nikhil Sahu, “Optimal PMU placement using matrix modification based Integer Linear Programming”, IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing technologies ICCPCT-2014, March 20-21, 2014, Kumaracoil, Thuckalay, Thamilnadu, India
- Silpa Das C K and Sunitha R, “Steady State Reactive Power Flow Analysis of an Electric Power Transmission System with Increased Penetration of Photovoltaic Generation”, Proceedings of National Conference on recent Advancements in Engineering and Technology (NCORETech-14), L B S College of Engineering, Kasaragod, Kerala, 25-26 February 2014.
- Silpa Das C K and Sunitha R, “The Effect of Increased Penetration of Photovoltaic Generation on Steady State Voltage of a Power Transmission System”, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Trends inEngineering and Technology , Vimal Jyothi EngineeringCollege, Chemperi, Kannur, 28th March 2014.
- Sunitha R, Sreerama Kumar R, Abraham T. Mathew and Veeresh P. Kosaraju, “On-line Power System Static Security Assessment in a Distributed Computing Frame Work”, Fourth International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network, and Computing – CNC 2013, Feb 22-23, 2013, Chennai, India.
- Prasad Reddy Bhimavarapu Sunitha R, “Determining The P-V Curve and Finding The Critical Loading Condition by Using Homotopy Continuation Method”, national conference on Innovative Emerging Strategies in Power Energy & Control (IESPEC-2013), 8th March 2013 Trissur
- Sreelekshmi R.S, Sunitha R, “Analysis of Inverter Fed Microgrids For Different Modes Of Operation In Matlab/Simulink”, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (ICEECS-2012) on. 7th April, 2012,Goa, pp 86-90.
- Maya.B, Sunitha R, "Voltage Security Assessment of Large Power Systems using Modal Analysis" , IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical and Computer Technology (ICETECT), 23-24 March 2011, pp 116-121.
- Maya.B, Sunitha R, "Voltage Security Assessment of Power Systems" , National conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control & Computing (PICC 2010), Thrissur, March 2010.
- Sunitha R, Sreerama Kumar R., Abraham T. Mathew, “Development of a composite security Index for Steady State Security Evaluation”, IEEE International Technical Conference, IEEE TENCON 2009, Nov. 23-26, Singapore.
- Ravikumar Ravuru, Sunitha R,"Total Transfer Capability Enhancement Using TCSC with RPF Method", International Conference on Power System Analysis, Control and Optimization (PSACO-08) held at Andhra University College of Engineering, Vishakapatnam, 13-15th March, 2008, pp.34-38
- M.J Laly, Sunitha R.,"Dynamic model and controllability Measure of unified Power Flow Controller for damping low frequency oscillations in Power System", Proc. of the third National conference in Recent Trends and Emerging Technologies in Electrical Systems (ELCON'08), National Engineering College, tamilnadu, 13-14 March 2008, pp.15-22
- Priyaja K.V, Sunitha R, “Investigations on the effect of TCSC in to the Voltage Stability Constrained Optimal Power Flow Formulation”, proc. on Fourth national Conference on Cutting Edge Technologies in Power conversion and Industrial drives, Department of EEE, Bannari Amman Insitute of Technology, Sathyamangalam , PP 171-176, February 22-23, 2008
- R. Sunitha, Sinoy Xavior, “Modeling Of STATCOM For Harmonic Elimination”, Proc. of National Conference on Electrical Systems and Control Technology, pp. 44-49, May 3-5, 2007, NIT Calicut
- R. Sreerama Kumar, N.Rajendran, Fayaz. A.M, R. Sunitha, F. Gajendran, “On-line Tuning of conventional power system Stabilizer using fuzzy logic approach”, Proc. of the Int. National conference on computational intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous systems 28, Nov. 2001, Singapore.
- R. Sreerama Kumar., N. Rajendran, R. Sunitha, F. Gajendran, “Online tuning of conventional PSS using artificial neural networks”, Int. AMSE Conf. On Computer Modelling, Simulation and Communication, Jaipur, 1999.
- R.Sreerama Kumar., N. Rajendran, R. Sunitha, F. Gajendran, “Power System stabilizer design: Recent developments and future trends”. Proc. Of the 3rd National seminar on Modern trends in Power, Engineering & Development, August, 1998, Trivandrum, India.
Power System Security
Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and control of Power Systems
Artificial intelligents and Distributed computing techniques for Power system applications
Power System Dynamics and Control
Flexible AC Transmission Systems/ Custom Power
Institute Time Table in-Charge
Advisor, Equal Opportunity Cell.
Institute Liaisen Officer
PG Programme Coordinator of M.Tech. Prgramme in Power Systems
Secretary of Department Consultative Committee (DCC)
Faculty advisor for B.Tech EEE batches
Coordinator of National Board of Accreditation visit for M.Tech. Programmes in Power Systems
Coordinator of Curriculum Planning & Syllabi for PG and UG
Accreditation & Academic Audit-coordinator for EED
Faculty-In-Charge of the Power Systems Lab
Faculty-In-Charge of the PS & PE Real Time Simulation Lab
M.Tech General Coordinator for all streams of EED
Doctoral committee member
Technical Committee Member for TEQIP based projects
Sub Engineer, KSEB (Kuttiadi Power House) from April 1999 to October 1999 (6 months)
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Model Engineering College, Ernakulam from October 1999 to November 2000
Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Department REC Calicut from November2000 to2006
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department NIT Calicut from January 2006 onwards
- Received POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA-2014) under doctoral category for research work on ‘Online Security Assessment of Large Power Systems using Distributed Computing’.
- Certificate of Appreciation for revamping laboratory facility for modernized Power Systems with sophisticated equipments/softwares including Smart Grid Simulator, Digsilent Power Factory, dSPACE, DSATools and Power System Emulator.
- Best Paper Award for Student's paper, (IEEE SILCON 2023),
- Advisory Committee Member Of Universal Engineering College, Trissur
- Ph D thesis evaluation for University of Kerala
- Ph.D Viva Voce Board Member, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University
- Advisory Committee Member of the National Conference on “Advances In Computing Communication Signals Energy And Technology ACCSET21”, Conducted on 26th & 27th May 2021
- Doctoral committee for other universities
- Treasurer IEEE Malabar subsection (From January 2019 to 2020)
- Session Chair for IEEE International Conference - ICPEA 2019, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 2019
- Session Chair for IEEE International Conferences - IEEE SPICES 2015, NIT Calicut
- Book Review: Reviewer for the manuscript of the book “Power System Analysis-A Dynamic Perspective”, to be published by Pearson Education in the year 2017.
- Doctoral Committee (external) member of PhD student of Kannur Engineering College
- Reviewer of Various International Journals (IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Access, International Journal of Sustainable Energy, ISA Transactions, International Journal Electric Power Components and Systems (Taylor & Francis), International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, IET Generation Transmission & Distribution Journal, International Transactions on Electrical Power, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, IETE Journal of Research)
- Reviewer of various International/ National Conferences
- Expert Lecture for various short term/ Faculty development programs/workshops conducted by EED, NIT Calicut
- NAMPET Phase-II funded project on “Security Assessment of Microgrids in isolated and in grid connected mode.” (May 2015 – December 2016)
- Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Project on Power System Security Assessment (2007- 2011: Funding Agency: NIT Calicut)
- Faculty Research Project (FRP) on "Investigations on Power Quality Issues of Motor Under Different Starting Conditions". (Ref. No: NITC/Dean(C&SR)/FRP/06-07/03, Completed in 2007, Funding Agency: NIT Calicut)
- Faculty Research Project (FRP) on "Power Quality problems in Educational Institutions and its mitigation Techniques". (Project No.CREC/BNN/FRP/EED/01/00, Completed in 2002, Funding Agency: NIT Calicut)
Senior Member, IEEE
Life Member, ISTE
Member, IEEE Power & Energy Society
- SERB-Karyashala High-end workshops on "Application of Artificial Intelligence in Power System Operation & Control", 25-31 July 2022.
- ATAL FDP on "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Power System Operation & Control", November 13-19, 2021
- National Workshop on "Large Scale Renewable Integration: A Perspective on Power System Stability (LSRIPPS 2019)", April 8-12, 2019
- FDP on "Real Time Monitoring, Protection And Control of Power Systems (RTMPC 2018)", May 21-26, 2018
- FDP on “Security assessment and Power management in Smart Grid”, 15/6/2015 to 19/6/2015, NIT Calicut.
- Two day Workshop on “Power System Modelling and Simulation” for KSEB Engineers, April 4-5, 2014
Completed:
- Assessment and Prediction of Power System Security Level using Markov Model and k-NN Classifier Technique (Jaya C. K, Completed 2019: Main Guide)
- Synchrophasor Data Driven Islanding Detection Strategies and a Defensive Scheme for Microgids (Rohikaa Micky R, Completed 2021: Main Guide)
- Investigation on the Nature of Subtle Features of EMG Signals in Healthy and Disease Conditions (Subhash K M, Completed- April 2022 : Co-Guide)
- Assessment of Dominant Oscillatory modes in Power Systems using Advanced Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Rahul S, Completed - November 2022: Main Guide)
- Optimal and Stable Operation of Hybrid Power Systems Integrated with Bulk Renewable Energy Sourses and Storage Systems (M J Laly, Completed in March 2023: Main Guide)
- Proactive Defence against propagating disturbance and its Real time Mitigation in Emerging Deregulated Power Grid (Najda V M, Completed on 10/08/2023: Co-Guide )
- Investigating the Effects of Surface Functionalization Agents on the Performance and Ageing of Epoxy Alumina Nanocomposites (Jacob Varghese, Completed on 10/07/2024: Co-Guide)
- Composite Transmission based Emergency Demand Response Framework for Emerging Deregulated Power Grids (Vishnu T P, Completed on 29/07/2025 Co-Guide)
- A Framework for Fully Decentralized Sealed Bid Double Auction Power Trading Between Microgrids in a Multi-Microgrid Network using Consortium Blockchains (Zubin J B -Submitted on 19/08/2025: Main Guide)
On-going:
- Power System Dynamic State Estimation under Missing and Noisy PMU Data using Variational Autoencoder based Imputation and Wavelet- enhanced Modified Unscented Kalman Filter (Subin Koshy : Main Guide)
- Optimal Planning and Operation of Power System with Renewable Energy and Demand Side Management (Swathi Krishna: Co-Guide)
- Microservices Based Software Architecture for Digital Relays (Ajaz Hameed: Main Guide)
- Renewable energy forecasting, scheduling, and grid integration issues (Shine Raj: Main Guide)
- Adaptive Control Framework for Enhanced Stability and Power Quality in Solar Farms with Diverse inverter Control Architectures (Aswathi T K: Co-Guide)
- Study on Grid Impact from EV Charging in Kerala, and its Interlinkages with Renewable Energy Adoption (Asha P A: Main Guide)
Patent Filed: 1
Title: Qualitative Method for Self-Healing of Propagating Voltage Disturbances in Power Grids Proliferated with Converter-Interfaced Resources. Patent Application No. 202341029909. Filed on 25/04/2023 (Published on 26/05/2023)
M.Tech Projects: Completed : 49 Ongoing : 6
B.Tech Projects Completed: 31