Rate My Professor Sukumar Brahma

Sukumar Brahma is the Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering in the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, a position he has held since August 2018. He also serves as Director of the Clemson University Electric Power Research Association (CUEPRA) since January 2019. Brahma earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 2003, Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1997, and Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India in 1989. Prior to his current roles, he was the William Kersting Endowed Chair Professor at New Mexico State University's Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2014 to 2018, following earlier positions as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor there from 2007 to 2018. He previously served as Assistant Professor at Widener University from 2003 to 2007 and as Lecturer at B.V.M. College of Engineering in India from 1990 to 1999.

Brahma's research focuses on power system protection with distributed and renewable generation, power system modeling and analysis, integration of renewables, microgrid protection, and applications of synchrophasor data. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) since 2020, recognized for contributions to power system protection with distributed and renewable generation. Additional honors include IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer since 2019, Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE PES Piedmont Section in 2020, Donald C. Roush Award for Excellence in Teaching from New Mexico State University in 2016, and multiple best conference paper awards, such as at IEEE PES General Meeting 2023 and North American Power Symposium 2022. He has chaired IEEE PES Power and Energy Education Committee, Lifelong Learning Subcommittee, and Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee, and served as Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery from 2014 to 2020. Key publications include “Source-Agnostic Time-Domain Directional Relay” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2024), “Real-Time Hardware-in-The-Loop Implementation of Protection and Self-Healing of Microgrids” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2023), “A Closed-Form Mathematical Model and Method for Fast Fault Location on a Low Voltage DC Feeder” in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (2022), and “Advancements in Centralized Protection and Control within a Substation” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2016, IEEE PES Prize Paper Award). His work is funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, utilities, and government agencies, and he ranks in the top 0.5% of researchers in the Energy field per a 2023 Stanford/Elsevier analysis.