About PROF. SANTANU KAPAT

Prof. Santanu Kapat received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE) from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar with the ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA during 2009 to 2010, and a Research Engineer with GE Global Research, Bengaluru from 2010 to 2011. Since August 2011, he has been with the EE Department (EEO), IIT Kharagpur, where he is presently an Associate Professor. From July to November 2019, he was with the EEO, IIT Delhi (on LIEN from IIT Kharagpur) . His research interests include power management converters and high-performance digital control, applications to 48V-to Direct converters, data center, LED drivers, DC micro-grid, fast chargers and BMS. Dr. Kapat was the recipient of the INSA Young Scientist and INAE Young Engineering Award in 2016, and DAE Young Scientist Research Award in 2014. He has been serving as the Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-II, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.