Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Naran M. Pindoriya

Department : Electrical Engineering

Research Interests

● Restructured power systems – operation and management
● Smart distribution grid and microgrids
● Grid integration of decentralized energy resources and energy management
● Load demand and electricity price forecasting

Professional Summary

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Apr 2018 to present)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Nov 2010 to Apr 2018)
Research Fellow, Dep. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering,National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore (Jan 2010 to Nov 2010)
Sr. Project Engineer, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Oct 2009 to Dec 2009)
Tutor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (July 2007 to May 2009)
Lecturer, Dept. Electrical Engg., Charotar Institute of Technology-Changa, Gujarat University (May 2003 to Dec 2005)

Publications

1. P.B.S. Kiran and Naran M. Pindoriya, “DLMP Calculation and Congestion Minimization with EV Aggregator Loading in a Distribution Network Using Bi-Level Program”, IEEE Systems Journal (Early Access Article), June 2020.
2. Batchu Rajasekhar, Wayes Tushar, Clement Lork, Yuren Zhou, Chau Yuen, Naran Pindoriya, and Kristin L Wood, “A Survey of Computational Intelligence Techniques for Air-conditioners Energy Management”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol.4, no.4, pp. 555 – 570, Aug 2020.
3. Batchu Rajasekhar and Naran M. Pindoriya, “Heuristic Approach for Transactive Energy Management in Active Distribution Systems”, IET Smart Grid, vol. 3 no. 3, pp. 406 – 418, June 2020.
4. Kushan A. Choksi, Sonal Jain, and Naran M. Pindoriya, “Feature Based Clustering Technique for Investigation of Domestic Load Profiles and Probabilistic Variation Assessment: Smart Meter Dataset“, Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, vol. 22, June 2020.
5. Dhanapala Prudhviraj, P.B.S. Kiran, and Naran M. Pindoriya, ” Stochastic Energy Management of a Mircrogrid with Nodal Pricing”, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, vol. 8, no. 1, Jan. 2020.