Sarasij Das

Electrical Engineering Department

Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560012
Office: +91 8022932374
Mobile: +91 8762007612
e-mail: sarasij@ee.iisc.ernet.in

Career Highlights

Current position: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engg Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Research area: Power System Protection, Smart Grids, Renewable Energy,
Research Funding: Ongoing SERB project with budget 50 lacks INR
Publications: 7 journal & 7 conference articles, 1 technical report, 1 patent

Work Experience
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Designation: Assistant Professor
Duration: Sep 2015 to continuing

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Designation: Assistant Professor
Duration: Mar 2015 to Aug 2015

University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Designation: PostDoctoral Fellow
Duration: Feb 2014 to Feb 2015
Projects: Algorithms development for transformer and shunt reactor protection

Power Research & Development Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Designation: Senior Engineer, Engineer
Duration: Dec 2007 to March 2010
Projects: Network planning; Wind power integration; Calculation of thermal limits for
transmission lines; Water inflow forecasting; Sub-station battery sizing

Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation: Trainee in product design at Global Technology Center India in Bangalore,
Duration: 2nd Aug 2004 to 3rd June 2005
Projects: Assembly and skeleton modeling of power devices using Pro/E, Designed
metal enclosure (NEMA) for molded case circuit breakers, DFMEA,
Education
PhD - University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2010-14
Thesis: Algorithms to Improve Performance of Wide Area Measurement Systems of
Electric Power Systems,
M.Sc (Engg) - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 2005-08
Thesis: Power System Data Compression for Archiving,
BE - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2000-04

Patent
1. Zhiying Zhang, Sarasij Das, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad DadashZadeh, "Systems and
Methods for Detecting Turn-to-Turn Faults in Windings", US Patent filed, Application
number 15/040,549

Research Funding
1. Title: Development of Protection Scheme for AC Microgrids
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Duration: 7 June 2016 to 6 June 2019

Technical Report
1. Sarasij Das and Ramesh Pampana. Draft report on Indian Wind Grid Code, report
submitted to National Institute of Wind Energy, Govt. of India.
http://niwe.res.in/NIWE_OLD/Hindi/Docu/Wind_grid_code_for_India%20.pdf

Summary of Research Experience

Power System Protection: Turn-to-turn fault detection in power transformers and shunt
reactors; Inrush detection in power transformers in lower 2nd harmonic scenario; Phasor
estimation in digital relays;
Smart Grid: Wide Area Monitoring System; Synchrophasor estimation, communication
and applications; Power system data analysis and compression;
Renewable Energy: Protection of AC microgrids; Grid Integration of wind power;

Courses Taught
Power Systems Protection & Relaying in Winter 2014 term at UOIT, Canada
Advanced Power Systems Protection in January 2016 semester at IISc, Bangalore
Journal Publications

1. Sarasij Das, and Tarlochan Sidhu, "Robust Algorithm to Estimate Fault Synchrophasor
from Fault Transient Synchrophasor in PDC", IET Generation, Transmission &
Distribution, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Jan 2015, Pages 124-132.

2. Sarasij Das, and Tarlochan Sidhu, "Detecting Synchrophasors Computed Over

Fault/Switching Transients", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Volume: 8,
Issue: 9, Sept 2014, Pages 1616-1625.

3. Sarasij Das and Tarlochan Sidhu. Application of Compressive Sampling in

Synchrophasor Data Communication in WAMS, IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Informatics, Volume:10 , Issue: 1, Feb. 2014, Pages 450 460.

4. Sarasij Das and Tarlochan Sidhu. A Simple Synchrophasor Estimation Algorithm

Considering IEEE Standard C37.118.1-2011 and Protection Requirements, IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Volume:62 , Issue: 10, Oct. 2013, Pages
2704 2715.

5. Sarasij Das and Nagendra Rao P S. Arithmetic Coding Based Lossless Compression
Schemes for Power System Steady State Operational Data, International Journal of
Electrical Power Energy Systems - Elsevier, Volume 43, Issue 1, December 2012, Pages
4753.

6. Sarasij Das and Nagendra Rao P S. Understanding Power System Behavior through
Mining Archived Operational Data, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power
Systems, Volume 10, Issue 1, April 2009.

7. Sarasij Das, and Tarlochan Sidhu, "Application of Compressive Sampling in Computer-

Based Monitoring of Power Systems", Hindawi Journal on Advances in Computer
Engineering, Volume 2014, Article ID 524740.
Conference Publications

1. Sarasij Das. "Possibility of Phasor Estimation in Digital Relays without Using Anti-Aliasing
Filter and Very High Sampling Rates", 19th Power Systems Computation Conference
(PSCC 2016) , 20-24 June, 2016, Genoa, Italy

2. Sarasij Das. "Sub-Nyquist Rate ADC Sampling in Digital Relays and PMUs: Advantages
and Challenges", 6th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems, 2016 (ICPS
2016), 4-6 March, 2016, New Delhi, India (accepted)

3. Sarasij Das and Tarlochan Sidhu. A New Algorithm to Compute Fault Synchrophasor from
Transient State Synchrophasor in PDC, IEEE PES General Meeting 2013, 21-25 July
2013, Vancouver

4. Sarasij Das and Tarlochan Sidhu. Reconstruction of Phasor Dynamics at Higher Sampling
Rates using Synchrophasors Reported at Sub-Nyquist Rate, Innovative Smart Grid
Technologies (ISGT), 2013 IEEE PES, 24-27 Feb 2013, Washington, D.C

5. Sarasij Das and Nagendra Rao P S. Principal component analysis based compression
scheme for power system steady state operational data, Innovative Smart Grid
Technologies - India (ISGT India), 2011 IEEE PES; Issue Date: 1-3 Dec. 2011; On page(s):
95 - 100, Kollam, Kerala, India

6. Sarasij Das. Ensuring spinning reserve in generation deficient Indian power system ,
Third International Conference on Power Systems, 2009. ICPS'09', 27-29 Dec. 2009, IIT
Kharagpur

7. Sarasij Das and Nagendra Rao P S. Understanding Power System Behavior through
Mining Archived Operational Data, 15th National Power System Conference, 16-18 Dec
2008, IIT Bombay (accepted later in IJEEPS journal from the conference)