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Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering






Biography

Dr. Ranjana Sodhi obtained her B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Hamirpur, in 2005. She has been active in the field of electrical engineering since 2005. After brief stints as a Project Engineer (in voice and next generation networks group) at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, and then as Additional Director (IES batch 2005) in Central Electricity Authority (CEA), New Delhi, she came back to academia to pursue research in the area of power systems. She did her Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in May 2011. Dr. Sodhi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of EE at IIT Ropar. Dr. Sodhi's doctoral research work is around the emerging Synchrophasor technology and its applications towards power system state estimation and voltage stability assessment.

Research Interests

  • Wide area monitoring and control systems
  • Application of optimization techniques to power systems
  • Voltage stability assessment and control

Education

  • Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP, India, 2010
  • B.Tech., National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, HP, India, 2005

Work Experience

  • Visiting Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Jan. 2011 - June 2011.
  • Tutor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2010
  • Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2008

Selected Publications

1. Ranjana Sodhi, S C Srivastava and S N Singh. Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach for Multi-Stage Optimal Placement of PMUs, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 181-190, Feb. 2011.

2. Ranjana Sodhi, S C Srivastava and S N Singh. Optimal PMU Placement Method for Complete Topological and Numerical Observability of Power System, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 80, Issue 9, Sep. 2010, pp. 1154-1159.

3. Ranjana Sodhi, S C Srivastava and S N Singh. A Phasor Assisted Hybrid State Estimator, Electric Power Components and Systems, Vol. 38, Issue 5, March 2010 , pp. 533-544.

4. Ranjana Sodhi, S C Srivastava and S N Singh. A Transient Monitor to Reflect the Quality of Synchrophasors, in Proc. of IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2010, Minneapolis, USA.

5. S C Srivastava and Ranjana Sodhi. Synchrophasors based Wide Area Monitoring System and its Application to Voltage Stability Assessment, in Proc. of Workshop on Threat of Voltage Instability in Power Systems (TVIPS-2009), IT BHU, Dec. 8-10, 2009.

6. Ranjana Sodhi, S C Srivastava and S N Singh. An Improved Phasor Assisted State Estimation, in Proc. of IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2009, Calgary, Canada.

7. Ranjana Sodhi, S C Srivastava and S N Singh. Optimal PMU Placement to Ensure System Observability Under Contingencies, in Proc. of IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2009, Calgary, Canada.

8. Ranjana Sodhi and S C Srivastava. Optimal PMU Placement to Ensure Observability of Power System, in Proc. of National Power System Conference, IIT Bombay, Dec. 2008.

9. S C Srivastava, S N Singh, Ranjana Sodhi Praveen Tripathi, and Seethalekshmi K. Methods for Optimal PMU Placement, Machine Internal State Estimation, Voltage Stability Prediction and Adaptive Distance Relaying, North American SynchroPhasor Initiatives (NASPI) Meeting, 16-17 Oct. 2008, Charlotte, NC.