EXPERIENCE

• Working as Associate Professor (9000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 2022 till date.
• Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-I (8000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 2018 to July 2022.
• Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-II (6000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from Dec. 2014 to June 2018.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata from July 2004 to Jan. 2009.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Modelling
• Estimation and Control
• Batteries and Supercapacitors
• Electric Vehicle
• Energy Storage
• Energy management
• Renewable Energy
• Wearable Devices
• Fractional Order Systems and Applications

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2014.

PROJECTS

1. “Development of Health Diagnostic Framework for Onboard Electric Vehicle Batteries and Repurposing of Retired Batteries,” Duration:2022-2025. Sponsoring Agency: SERB, DST, GOI. Roll: PI
2.  “Development of battery supercapacitor hybrid energy storage for standalone solar photovoltaic power systems.” Sponsored by: DST, GOI Duration: 2016-2021 Roll: PI

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

• Renewable Energy Systems (UG)
• Modern Control Systems (PG)
• Optimization Methods in Engineering (UG)
• Power Plant Instrumentation (UG)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Senior Member, IEEE

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

• Member, Health Centre Committee
• Member OF DPMC, DUPC EIE

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL

1. S. Bansal, P. Nambisan, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Effect of Supercapacitor Modelling and Unit Cell Capacitance Selection Towards Economic Sizing of Energy Storage System in Electric Vehicle,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol.51, 2022.
2. P. Nambisan and M. Khanra, “Optimal Energy Management of Battery Supercapacitor aided Solar PV Powered Agricultural Feed Mill using Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2021.
3. P. Nambisan, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Real-Time Optimal Fast Charging of Li-ion batteries with Varying Temperature and Charging Behaviour Constraints,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 41, 2021.
4. P. Saha, V. Ramadesigan, M. Khanra, “An Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of Conventional State-of-Health Diagnosis Schemes for Second-use Supercapacitors,” 2021
5. S. Bansal, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Energy Storage Sizing in Plug-in Electric Vehicles: Driving Cycle Uncertainty Effect Analysis and Machine Learning Based Sizing,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 41, 2021.
6. P. Saha, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Second-Life Applications of Supercapacitors: Effective Capacitance Prognosis and Aging,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 496, 2021.
7. S. Dey and M. Khanra, “Cybersecurity of Plug-in Electric Vehicles:Cyber Attack Detection During Charging,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 2020.
8. P. Saha, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Accurate estimation of state-of-charge of supercapacitor under uncertain leakage and open circuit voltage map,” Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 434, 2019.
9. P. Saha, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Modeling and State-of-Charge Estimation of Supercapacitor Considering Leakage Effect,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, January 2019
10. A. Adhikary, M. Khanra, J. Pal and K. Biswas, “Realization of Fractional Order Elements – a Review,” INAE Letters, Springer, vol. 2, no.2, 2017.
11. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Reduced order approximation of MIMO fractional order systems,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 451-458, 2013.
12. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Use of squared magnitude function in approximation and hardware implementation of SISO fractional order systems,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 350, No. 7, pp. 1753-1767, 2013.
13. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order transfer function with multiple fractional powered terms,” Asian Journal of Control, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 723-735, 2013.

CONFERENCE

1. M. Saha, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Performance Comparison of Nonlinear State Estimators for State-of-Charge Estimation of Supercapacitor,” IEEE International Conference on Control, Measurement, and Instrumentation, Kolkata, India, Jan. 2021.
2. P. Saha and M. Khanra, “Online Estimation of State-of-Charge, State-of-Health and Temperature of Supercapacitor,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS 2020), Oct. 2020.
3. P. Nambisan, S. Bansal, and M. Khanra, “Economic Performance of Solar Assisted Battery and Supercapacitor based E-Rickshaw,” IEEE International conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2020), Cochin, Kerala, India, 2-4 January 2020.
4. P. Saha, K. Roy, P. Nambisan, and M. Khanra, “Generalized self-discharge model for a series of supercapacitors,” TENCON, 17-20 October 2019, Kochi, Kerala, India.
5. S. Dey, Y Shi, K Smith, and M. Khanra, “Safer batteries via active fault tolerant control,” in proceedings of American Control Conference, 2019.
6. S. Bansal, P. Nambisan, and M. Khanra, “Optimal Sizing and Cost Analysis of Battery/Supercapacitor Alone and in Combination for E-Rickshaw Application,” in proceedings of Indian Control Conference, 2019
7. P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Equivalent Circuit Model of Supercapacitor for Self-Discharge Analysis – A Comparative Study,” International conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System (SCOPES)-2016), Peralakhemundi, Odisha, India, Oct. 2-5, 2016
8. M. Tripathy, M. Khanra, K. Biswas, and S. Sen, “Noise modelling of fractional capacitor and noise performance analysis of Fractional Order Filter,” International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 2015), Hong Kong, China, Dec. 1-4, 2015
9. A. Adhikary, M. Khanra, S. Sen, and K. Biswas, “Realization of a carbon nanotube based electrochemical fractor,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS-2015, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 May 2015
10. M. Khanra, K. Biswas, and J. Pal, “Circuit proposition for realization of approximated fractional order systems,” IEEE International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA’ 14), Catania, Italy, 23-25 June 2014.
11. A. Adhikary, K. Biswas, M. Khanra, “Design of FPGA based digital controller for 2nd and higher order systems,” in Students’ Conference on Engineering and Systems, SCES-2012, Allahabad, India, 16-18 Mar. 2012.
12. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order differentiator,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Process Automation Control and Computing, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, 20-22 July 2011.
13. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Rational approximation of fractional operator – A comparative study,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems, Allahabad, India, 29th Nov. – 1st Dec. 2010.
14. M. Khanra, B. Goswami, and K. Biswas, “ A comprehensive study on fractional order differentiator and integrator”, Proceedings of XXXII National Systems Conference (NSC08), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, 17 – 19 Dec., 2008.

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

• One week Workshop on “Energy Storage for Sustainable Development,” funded by ATAL-AICTE, 26-30 Sept. 2020.
• One week Workshop on “Technology and the (Post-) Human Condition,” 03-07 Dec 2018.
• One week Workshop on “Intelligent Sensing, Instrumentation & Control,” Jan. 2017.
• Special session “Fractor and Fractional Order Systems” in International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) at Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 May 2015.
• ne week training program on Industrial Process Operators’ Simulator by Sim Infosystems, Chennai at NIT Silchar, August 2015.