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Dr. Rajib Kumar Mandal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Patna, where he currently serves as the Head of the Department. He joined NIT Patna on June 27, 2011. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Malaviya Regional College of Technology (MACT), Bhopal in 1999, a Master of Engineering degree from Jadavpur University in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Power Systems from the National Institute of Technology, Patna in 2018.
Dr. Mandal's research focuses on power systems, multilevel inverters, microgrids, power electronics for renewable energy applications, and related areas. The institute's IRINS profile lists 86 publications and 9 patents under his name. His ResearchGate profile records 80 publications with 535 citations. His Google Scholar profile confirms affiliation with NIT Patna and research in Power Systems. Key publications include: "Switched-capacitor-based five-level inverter with closed-loop voltage regulation for standalone applications" published in Computers & Electrical Engineering in 2023; "A Novel Redacted Extended Kalman Filter and Fuzzy Logic Controller for State of Charge and State of Health Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries" in ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage in 2024; "Five-Level Switched Capacitor Inverter for Photovoltaic Applications" in Electric Power Components and Systems in 2022; "A New Single-Source Nine-Level Quadruple Boost Inverter with Reduced Device Count for Renewable Energy Applications" in IEEE Access in 2022; "Power Quality Improvement of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System Using Repetitive Control Strategy" in Distributed Generation & Alternative Energy Journal in 2023; "A Five-Level Boosting Inverter for Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Applications" in International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications in 2024; and "A noise-resilient adaptive deep learning framework for photovoltaic MPPT under partial shading" published in 2024. These publications address advancements in inverters, battery estimation, photovoltaic systems, and power quality.
Dr. Mandal serves as Principal Investigator for projects, including a DST SERB funded project on photovoltaic applications and others recruiting Junior Research Fellows. He has contributed to conference organization at NIT Patna, including as Conference Treasurer for APPEEC'21.