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Prof. A V Giridhar

PhD (IIT Madras, Chennai)

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Room No:   +91-870-2462240
giridhar@nitw.ac.in Edit Profile Bio Sketch

Research Areas

 Condition Monitoring & Diagnosis of Power Equipment 

 High Voltage Engineering, Pulsed Power Technology 

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  • Additional Responsibilities
  • HVDC & FACTS(EE401)
  • Dissertation Work Part - A(EE6349)
  • Flexible AC Transmission Systems(EE26036)
  • High Voltage Engineering(EE463)
  • Industrial Instrumentation and Automation(EE313)
  • Instrumentation and Automation(EE5214)
  • Micro Processors & Microcontrollers(EE304)
  • Seminar(EE398)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(EE6399)
  • Seminar - II(EE5298)
  • Digital Signal Processing lab(EE5155)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6411-0693
  • Google Scholar ID: id-Ir6gAAAAJ


  • Short Term Residential Load Forecasting Using Temporal Weather Based Embedding Stacked LSTMs, By SRINIVASA RAGHAVAN VANGIPURAM, Dr. GIRIDHAR A V, IEEE, IEEE LATIN AMERICA TRANSACTIONS (Accepted), vol., pp., 2025
  • An Ultra High Gain Switched-Capacitor Boost DC-DC Converter with Reduced Ripple Current, By M F Baba, A V Giridhar, B L Narasimharaju, Harish S Krishnamoorthy, IEEE, IEEE LATIN AMERICA TRANSACTIONS, vol.22, pp.920-932, 2024
  • Active switched‐capacitor based ultra‐voltage gain quadratic boost DC‐DC converters, By M. F. Baba, A. V. Giridhar, B. L. Narasimharaju, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol., pp.1389-1416, 2023
  • A Wide Voltage Range Bidirectional High Voltage Transfer Ratio Quadratic Boost DC-DC converter for EVs with Hybrid Energy Sources, By M. F. Baba, A. V. Giridhar, B. L. Narasimharaju, IEEE, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol.5, pp.521-530, 2023
  • Design and Development of High-Voltage High-Pulse Power Supply Using FPGA for Dynamic Impedance Matching, By KK Rai, AV Giridhar, DR Jahagirdhar, A Rai, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol.51, pp.1389-1416, 2023
  • Nonisolated high gain hybrid switched-inductor DC-DC converter with common switch grounding, By M. F. Baba, A. V. Giridhar, B. L. Narasimharaju, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol.50 (8), pp.2810-2828, 2022
  • Investigation on the Effect of Cable Length on Pulse Shape of High Voltage High Pulse Power Supply, By Krishna Kumar Rai, A.V. Giridhar, D.R. Jahagirdhar, Ashish Rai, and Akash Kumar Paul, DRDO, Defence Science Journal, vol.243-249, pp.72(2), 2022
  • A Compact Log Periodic Planar Dipole UHF Array Sensor for Partial Discharge Measurements, By Meka Kalyan Chakravarthi, A V Giridhar, Gande Arun Kumar, DVSS Siva Sarma, IEEE, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.21 (24), pp.27748-27756, 2021
  • Understanding the incipient discharge activity in liquid nitrogen under AC voltage by adopting UHF technique, By Sarathi, R., A. V. Giridhar, and K. Sethupathi, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol.18 (3), pp.707-713, 2011
  • Investigation of Partial Discharge Activity of Conducting Particles in Liquid Nitrogen under DC voltages using UHF Technique, By Sarathi, R., A. V. Giridhar, Abirami, M., and K. Sethupathi, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, , vol.15 (3), pp.655-662, 2008

Vetting of EM design & drawings pertaining to TAMAS MVS

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor NCC Limited
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 115050
  • Status Ongoing

Construction of permanent campus for Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Visakhapatnam

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor KPC Projects Ltd, Hyderabad.
  • Duration 21 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 826826
  • Status Ongoing

Non-invasive Fault Diagnosis of Propulsion Motors used in Electric Vehicles (Course ID: 2412132) (17th – 21st Feb 2025)

  • Role Coordinator
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN), MoE-GoI-IITH
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 664000
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of New High Gain Transformer-less Inverter Topology for PV Based Grid Tie Applications

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor MHRD
  • Duration 54 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 6800000
  • Status Completed

Medium Voltage Multilevel Inverters for High Power Industrial Drives for Manufacturing and Solar Generation Applications

  • Role Co-Coordinator
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN), MoE-GoI-IITKgp
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 608000
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of High Efficient Switched Reluctance Motor based Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Water Pumping System (WPS)

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor IMPRINT-India Phase-IIC.1,MoE(MHRD)
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 7900000
  • Status Completed

Testing Rubber Hand Gloves Samples upto 33kV.

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor Consultancy Agency: TSNPDCL (Telangana State Northern Power
  • Duration 4 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 0
  • Status Completed


B. JAYASRI

  • Area of Research: High Gain DC-DC Converters

M Prashanth

  • Area of Research: Fault Tolerant SRM Drives

Srinivasa Raghavan Vangipuram

  • Area of Research: Occupant centric control of appliances in Building Energy Management Systems

Y Dharmesh

  • Area of Research: Nano Dielectrics
  • BEST PAPER AWARD IEEE SeFet 2024
  • Session's Best Paper Award IEEE ICPEE 2021
  • Coordinator-Sustainable Hydrogen and Fuel Cells COE (Continuing from July, 2024)
  • Member, Admission Committee (Admissions UG) (Continuing from October, 2023)
  • PIC, Time Table (Continuing from June, 2023)
  • Chairman, Project Evaluation Committee (SEG) (July, 2022 - June, 2023)
  • Faculty Incharge: Embedded Systems Lab (Continuing from February, 2021)
  • Lab Coordinator (Automation Lab) -Digital Manufacturing & Automation COE (Continuing from February, 2021)
  • NCC Care Taker (February, 2021 - May, 2021)
  • Faculty Advisor, EEA (July, 2019 - June, 2020)
  • Substations- Operation & Maintenance (August, 2018 - December, 2019)
  • Electrical Works Committee (July, 2018 - June, 2021)
  • Faculty Incharge: Power Systems Lab (October, 2014 - July, 2018)
  • Faculty Coordinator (Institute), Training & Placement Section (December, 2012 - May, 2019)