Contact Details:

Assitant Professor,

Department of Electrical Engineering, Schoool of Engineering, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India

Pin: 784028

Tel: 03712-275292;

M/WA: 91-9864049378;

E-mail: bjsece@tezu.ernet.in

Curruculum Vitae:

Teaching

� Power system interconnection and control

� Advanced power electronics and drives

� Electrical Circuit Analysis

� Electrical Machines –II

Barnam Jyoti Saharia

Educational Qualifications:

� Ph.D. pursuing (Tezpur University, Department of Energy)

� M.TECH (in Electrical Engineering) with specialization in Power Electronics and Drives from NIT AGARTALA , 2014 

� B.E (Honors in Electrical Engg.) from Assam Engineering College, Jalukbari, Guwahati under Gauhati University, 2010

Research Interests/ Areas of Specialization:

� Power Electronic converters for Renewable Energy Applications

� Hybrid PV-Wind Energy System Modeling and Optimization

Research Publications

� Barnam Jyoti Sahari and Nabin Sarmah, "A Soft Computing Approach for Optimal Design of a DC-DC Buck Converter", In: Deka B., Maji P., Mitra S., Bhattacharyya D., Bora P., Pal S. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. PReMI 2019, LNCS 11941,vol 11941, pp. 297–305, 2019, Springer, Cham.

� B. J Saharia, H. Brahma, N. Sarmah "A review of algorithms for control and optimization for energy management of hybrid renewable energy systems� Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy,vol.10, pp. 053502, 2018, doi: 10.1063/1.5032146 American Institute of Physics (AIP).

� B. J. Saharia and M. Manas, "Viability Analysis of Photovoltaic/Wind Hybrid Distributed Generation in an Isolated Community of Northeastern India," Distributed Generation & Alternative Energy Journal, vol. 32, pp. 49-80, 2017, Taylor and Francis.

� B. J. Saharia, M. Manas and B. K. Talukdar, "Comparative evaluation of photovoltaic MPP trackers: A simulated approach," Cogent Engineering, vol. 3, p. 1137206, 2016/12/31 2016.

� B. J. Saharia and K.K. Saharia , "Simulated Study on Non-isolated DC-DC Converters for MPP Tracking for Photovoltaic Power Systems," Journal of Energy Engineering, vol. 142, p. 04015001, 2015, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

� S Bhattacharjee and B. J. Saharia, "A comparative study on converter topologies for maximum power point tracking application in photovoltaic generation," Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, vol. 6, p. 053140, 2014, AIP.

Papers in Conference Proceedings:

� J Mahanta,B.J. Saharia, N Sarmah, �Comparative Performance Analysis of Chopper circuits in MPPT for Solar PV applications�, In Proceeding of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Current Trends toward Converging Technologies, Coimbatore, India, pp 1-6. 1-3 March 2018.

� B. J. Saharia, M. Manas, and S. Sen. "Comparative Study on Buck and Buck-Boost DC-DC Converters for MPP Tracking for Photovoltaic Power Systems," in 2016 Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT), 2016, pp. 382-387.

� W. Nazir, R. Ranjana, H. J. Das, and B. J. Saharia, "Design and development of a low cost circuitry for Appliance Automation in educational institutions," in 2016 IEEE 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), 2016, pp. 1-5.

� B. J. Saharia, Zaheeruddin, M. Manas, and A. Ganguly, "Optimal sizing and cost assesment of hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for Assam Engineering College," in 2015 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), 2015, pp. 1-6.

� B. J. Saharia, and B. K. Talukdar, "Theoretical study on performance constraints of a DC-DC buck-boost converter," in 2015 International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Sustainable Growth (ICEPE), 2015, pp. 1-4.

Other Publications (Book Chapter)��

� Barnam Jyoti Sahari and Nabin Sarmah, "A Soft Computing Approach for Optimal Design of a DC-DC Buck Converter", In: Deka B., Maji P., Mitra S., Bhattacharyya D., Bora P., Pal S. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. PReMI 2019, LNCS 11941,vol 11941, pp. 297–305, 2019, Springer, Cham.

Fellowships and Awards:

� MHRD scholarship for GATE qualified candidates leading to Post Graduate study for completion of M.TECH in Electrical Engineering (period 2012-2014).

Alumni ASSOCIATION:

� Is a life member of the Assam Engineering College Alumni Association, (Executive committee member of the association for the period 2011-2013)

� Is a member of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala Alumni (Batch of 2014).