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Santanu Kapat, PhD (he/him/his)

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

SANTANU KAPAT (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
Dr. Kapat was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA during 2009 to 2010, and a Research Engineer with GE Global Research, Bengaluru, India from 2010 to 2011. Since August 2011, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department (EED), IIT Kharagpur, where he is presently a Professor. From July to November 2019, he was with the EED, IIT Delhi (on LIEN from IIT Kharagpur), India. His research interests include high-frequency switched mode power converters, high-performance digital and nonlinear control and nonlinear dynamics, applications to 48V-to-PoL converters, data center, LED driving, dc micro-grid, fast chargers and battery management systems.
Dr. Kapat was a recipient of the INSA Young Scientist Medal and the INAE Young Engineering Award in 2016, and the DAE Young Scientist Research Award in 2014. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS POWER ELECTRONICS and IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS.

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