Education

Experience

Subjects Taught

• EEV201: Electrical Circuits and Measurements.
• ECE202: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
• EEV211: Electrical Machines I.
• EEV311: Electrcal Machines II.
• EEV333: Electric Drives

Reviewer:

1. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
2.  IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
3.  IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
4.  IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
5. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
6. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
7.  IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.
8. Scientific Reports.
9.  IEEE Conferences  APEC, PEDES etc.

Invited Talk:

1. Presented an Invited talk on " An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Applications for Power Electronics and Drives: Case study for Multiohase Drives", in a 3-days short term course on Recent Advances in Power Converter Control for Three Phase and Multiphase Drives for Electric Vehicles Applications (RAPCCTMDEVA)", from 1st - 3rd December 2023 at IIT Patna.
2. Presented an Invited talk on " Multiphase machines for EV applications",  in a 5-days FDP at Sasi Institute of Technology & Engineering, Near Aerodrome, Tadepalligudem, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh  Dec 19th, 2022.
3. Presented an Expert Lecture on " Multiphase machines and their fault-tolerant control strategies under fault condition", at BHEL R&D, Hyderabad, India on Nov 26th, 2022. 
4. Presented a webinar on ``Applications and Advancements of Power Electronics in an Industry " at  Amrita University Bangalore-2022.
5.  Presented an Invited talk on ``AI Based Fault Diagnosis of Multiphase Drives for the EV Applications" in a 5-days FDP at Geethanjali Engineering College Hyderabad-2022.
6.  Presented a webinar on ``Role of Power Electronics in Industry Applications" at Siksha O Anusandhan University Odisha-2021.

IEEE Activities

1. Served as session volunteer for the IEEE ECCE-Asia 2021 Conference held at Singapore-2021. 

Professional Membership

1. IEEE Member.
2. IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
3. IEEE Industry Application Society.

Google Scholar link:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TE0p94MAAAAJ&hl=en
Journal Publications

U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, M. J. Akhtar, O. Al Zaabi, K. Al Hosani, and R. K. Behera, "Comparison of SVPWM Techniques Under Switching Loss Control for Induction Motor Drive With LC Filters," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1849-1862, March-April 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2022.3231841

B. Chikondra, A. G. Yepes, O. A. Zaabi, K. A. Hosani, J. D. Gandoy, and R. K. Behera, "Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Three-Level NPC VSI-Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drives," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 2022(IF=5.462) DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3224529

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Improved DTC Technique for THL-NPC VSI fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on VVs Assessment Over a Wide Speed Range," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (IF=6.153), vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 1972-1981, Feb. 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2021.3102963 

U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, and R. K. Behera, " Space Vector PWM-Based DTC Scheme with Reduced Common Mode Voltage for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (IF=6.153) vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 114-124, Jan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2021.3092259 

B. Chikondra,  U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "An Improved Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on Virtual Vectors Assessment," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (IF=8.236), vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4598-4609, June 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2020.2992018 

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Performance Comparison of Five-Phase Three-Level NPC to Five-Phase Two-Level VSI," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (IF=3.654), vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 3767-3775, July-Aug. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2020.2988014

Conference Publications

B. Chikondra, O. A. Zaabi, and K. A. Hosani, "Direct Torque Control of Five-Phase Induction Motor Drives with xy Current Regulation Under an Open-Phase Fault-Condition" 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2023 (Accepted).

B. Chikondra, V. Gonuguntla, O. Al Zaabi, R. K. Behera and Kalyana C Veluvolu, “Multiswitch Fault-detection for VSI fed Multiphase Motor Drive Based on Machine Learning" PEDES-2022 Conference MNIT Jaipur in December 2022 (Accepted).

P. Pal, R. K. Behera, B. Chikondra, O. A. Zaabi and K. A. Hosani, "Modified Single Phase Shift Control of DAB Converter for Fast Dynamic Response Under Various Disturbances," IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968770.

U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra,  and R. K. Behera, Novel Model Predictive DTC for Three-to-Five Phase Direct Matrix Converter Fed Induction Motor Drive, IEEE 2021 - Energy Conversion Congress &Exposition - Asia (ECCE Asia 2021), 2021, pp. 1505-1510.

U. R. Muduli,  B. Chikondra, and R. K. Behera, Direct Torque Control of 3x5 Matrix Converter Fed Five-Phase IM Drive using Virtual Vector Concept,'' 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Phoenix, AR, 2021, pp. 765-770.

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant Direct Torque Control for Five-Phase Three-Level NPC VSI fed Induction Motor Drive.," 2020IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

R. K. Behera, B. Chikondra, P. Sanjeevikumar, Z. Leonowicz, and D. W. Gao, "Implementation of a High Power PMSG for Wind Power Interface using TLNPC Converter," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe, Madrid, Spain, 2020, pp. 1-6.

U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra,  and R. K. Behera, Virtual Vector based DTC with CMV Reduction for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive,’’ 2020 3rd International Conference on Power, Energy and Environment: Towards Smart Technology (ICEPE), Shillong, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, and R. K. Behera, "Continuous and Discontinuous SVPWM with Switching Loss Control for Five-Phase Two-Level VSI fed Induction Motor Drive" 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "An Improved DTC Technique for Three-Level NPC VSI Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive to Eliminate Common-Mode Voltage," 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2019, pp. 1-6.

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. Kumar Behera, "Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-phase Three-Level NPC Inverter-fed Induction Motor Drive with an Open-Phase Fault," 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 5281-5287.

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for an Inverter-Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive with an Open-Phase Fault," 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE '19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. P.1-P.10.

B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Performance Comparison of Five-Phase Three-Level NPC to Five-Phase Two-Level Voltage Source Inverter," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Chennai, India, 2018, pp.1-6.

1. Member, Institute Admission Committee from NOV  2024 to till date.
2. Member, Institute EWS Committee from Dec 2023 to April 2025.
3. Member Institute Anti-Ragging Committe from July 2024-till date.
4. Member Institue Annual Report Committe from May 2024-till date.
5. Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering examination coordinator from Jan 2024 to till date.
6. Member, DUGC, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NOV 2023- till date.
7. Member, DPGC, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NOV 2023- till date.
8. Member, working Committee KidZee School at RGIPT Sept 2023-till date.

1. Selected for Visiting Research Faculty Fellowship at Khalifa University (May 2025-July 2025).
2. Secured a place in the list of the world's top 0.5% of researcher during 2024, a study conducted by ScholarGPS,USA.
3. Received PM Early Career Research Grant (2025-2028).
4. Received Best Paper Award for the paper entiteled "A Data Driven Energy Efficient Control of Induction Motor Drive with Vector Control"in the PEDES 2024 at NITK Suratkal.
5. Secured a place in the list of the world's top 2% of scientists during 2024, a study conducted by world-renowned Stanford University.
6. 2023: Our publication entitled "Comparison of SVPWM Techniques Under Switching Loss Control for Induction Motor Drive with LC Filters" is listed in the top 1 (popular articles-50) among all published articles in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, May-2023
7. 2022 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (First Indian research paper Since Award EST:1997)
   Prize: Research, education, and innovation prizes
   Description:
   The outstanding paper award for 2022 in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. It is one of the most impactful journal publishes papers with experimentally verified applications of electronics, controls, instrumentation, and computation for the enhancement of industrial systems and processes. Included are power electronics and electric motor drives, system control, signal processing, fault detection and diagnosis, power electronics in renewable energy and power systems, instrumentation, measurement and testing, modeling and simulation, motion control, applications in mechatronics and robotics, sensors and actuators, and applications of artificial intelligence in industrial electronic systems.
   They presented with this award during the 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON-2022), to be held October 17-20 at the congress center SQUARE, Brussels, Belgium. Being selected for this award is a high honor and a tribute to the fine research quality, presentation, and potential impact that the research has on the field.
   The paper entitled "An Improved Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on Virtual Vectors Assessment" was selected out of 1,176 papers published and some 10,000 papers that were submitted to the journal. The selection process for this prize paper was rigorous and went through multiple review levels and votes before the paper was selected for the award.
   Awarded date: 19 Oct 2022
   Degree of recognition: International
   Granting Organization: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
8. EU- Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Sheffield 2022 (Not availed)
9. Best poster presentation award in Research Scholars Day (RSD)-2020 held at IIT Patna-2020
10. Scholarship from MHRD, India, to pursue M.tech and Ph.D. 2013-2021
11. Secured 3rd rank in the class during masters with 77.5% in 2016.
12. Secured 4th rank in the class during graduation with 79.18% in 2012
13. Received the cash prize for the top scorer during 2010-2011 in B.tech 

PhD

1. Arka Dutta (2023 to till date) (IIT(ISM)) External Co-supervisor.

2. Mulakapati Krishna (2024 to till date) Main Supervisor.

Research Fellow:

1. Najbeen Bano (2024-2025).

BTP:

Completed: 8

Summer Research Interns:

1. Anjali Mammidala (NIT AP) (June-July 2024).