Md Waseem Ahmad

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Professional Experience: 

  • Siemens, GTE, July 2008-July 2009.

  • Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, June 2018-Nov 2019.

Contact Details

E-mail: 

waseem@nitk.edu.in
mdwaseemahmad@gmail.com

Mobile: 

+917753058434

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vDskHKQAAAAJ&hl=en
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

0000-0001-5134-2906
Academic Background

• Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 2018.

• M.Tech.  Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2011.

• B.Tech. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2008.

Areas of Interest

  • Fault Diagnostics and Condition Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters

  • Power Electronic Converters for Solar PV Integration.

Significant Projects
  1. Development of integrated health monitoring tools for Solar PV inverter. PI, DST-SERB, 2021-2023.
     
  2. Design and Development of Pertial Procesing Converter for PV application. PI, VGST-Govt. of Karnataka, 2023-2024.
Supervision of Ph.D

Ongoing 03

1. Muhammed Ramees M K P (FT), 2. Nitishkumar (FT), 3. Rajasekhara Reddy Ponduru (PT)

Significant Publications

Patents:

  1. A. Arya, N. Agarwal, MdWaseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Method for Monitoring the health of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor,” Indian Patent No. 399559, Appl. No. 201611008693, Date of Patent application: 12/03/2016, Granted: 20/06/2022.
     
  2. Md Waseem Ahmad, Muhammed Ramees M K P and Mohamed Nadir N., “Open Switch Fault Detection Method For Transformerless Photovoltaic Inverter,” Appl. No. 202341013037, Date of Patent application: 27/02/2023.
     
  3. Md Waseem Ahmad, Mohammad Rizwanur Rahman, Aman Kashyap, Sameer Mujawar, 5. Karma Wangda, Ashish Jain, Mohammad Muhiuddin, Aliullah Zaifullah khan and Kaustubh Kishore Ambekar, “Method of Extracting Intracellular (Ri) and Extracellular (Re) Resistance from a Multi Frequency Bioimpedance Spectroscopy ,” Appl. No. 202341049595, Date of Patent application: 22/07/2023, FER responded.
     
  4. Dharavath Kishan, Nitishkumar, Marupuru Vinod, Md Waseem Ahmad and Bonthapalle Dastagiri Reddy, “Wireless Electric Vehicle Battery Charger With Wide Output Voltage Range ,” Appl. No. 202341045189, Date of Patent application:05/07/2023.

Journals:

  1. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and Md Waseem Ahmad, “An Integrated Approach for Current Balancing and Open-Circuit Fault Diagnosis for Interleaved Boost Converter,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Early Access.
     
  2. Md Sartaj Ahmed, Ravi Raushan and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A Reduced Component Count Self-balance Quadruple Boost Seventeen-level Switched Capacitor Inverter.” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 12,no. 1, pp. 791-802, Feb. 2024.
     
  3. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P and Md Waseem Ahmad, “Advances in Capacitor Health Monitoring Techniques for Power Converters: A Review,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 133540-133576, 2023.
     
  4. B Veena Vani, Dharavath Kishan, Md Waseem Ahmad, and Ch Rama Prakasha Reddy. “An efficient optimization algorithm for electric vehicle routing problem.” IET Power Electronics, 2023.
     
  5. B Veena Vani, Dharavath Kishan, Md Waseem Ahmad , B Naresh Kumar Reddy,“Bat Optimization Model for Electric Vehicle Route Optimization Under Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing. Wireless Pers Communications, 2023.
     
  6. Muhammed Ramees M.K. P, Mohamed Nadir Nasirudeen, Yashkumar A. Saywan, Md Waseem Ahmad, and Hasmat Malik., “A Review of Open-Circuit Switch Fault Diagnostic Methods for Neutral Point Clamped Inverter” Electronics vol.11, no. 19, 2022.
     
  7.  A. K. Singh, R. Raushan, R. K. Mandal and Md Waseem Ahmad, “A New Single-Source Nine-Level Quadruple Boost Inverter (NQBI) for PV Application”IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 36246-36253, 2022.
     
  8. M.A. Husain, ,R. Rajput, M.K. Gupta,M. Tabrez, Md Waseem Ahmad, and Bakhsh, F. I. “Design and Implementation of Different Drive Topologies for Control of Induction Motor for Electric Vehicle Application . Distributed Generation & Alternative Energy Journal,vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 999–1026,2022.
     
  9. Hasmat Malik, Md Waseem Ahmad, Majed A. Alotaibi, and Abdulaziz Almutairi,“Development of wide area monitoring system for smart grid application,” Journal of Intelligent Fuzzy Systems vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 827-839, 2022.
     
  10. Md Waseem Ahmad, N. B. Y. Gorla, H. Malik and S. K. Panda, “Non-invasive Model-based Open-Circuit Switch Fault Detection of AC-Bypass Leg Switches in Transformerless PV Inverter,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6671-6680, Dec. 2021.
     
  11. Md Waseem Ahmad, N. B. Y. Gorla, H. Malik and S. K. Panda, “A Fault Diagnosis and Postfault Reconfiguration Scheme for Interleaved Boost Converter in PV-Based System,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol. 36, no. 4,
    pp. 3769-3780, April 2021.
     
  12. Y. Gupta, Md Waseem Ahmad, S. Narale and S. Anand, “Health Estimation of Individual Capacitors in a Bank With Reduced Sensor Requirements,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 7250-7259, Sept. 2019.
     
  13. A. S. Bedi, Aditya P., Md Waseem Ahmad, S. Shinde, K. Rajawat, and S. Anand, “Online Algorithms for Storage Utilization under Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grid,” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier), Vol 101, pp. 50-59 October 2018. 
     
  14.  Nikunj Agarwal, Md Waseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Quasi-Online Technique for Health Monitoring of Capacitor in Single Phase Solar Inverter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 5283-5291, June 2018
     
  15.  Md Waseem Ahmad, Nandha Kumar, Abhinav Arya, and S. Anand, “Non-invasive Technique for DC-link Capacitance Estimation in Single Phase Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 3693-3696, May. 2018.
     
  16. Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, P. Nandha Kumar, and S. Anand,“Low-Frequency Impedance Monitoring and Corresponding Failure Criteria for Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol. 64, no.7, pp. 5657-5666, July. 2017.
     
  17. Abhinav Arya, Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Capacitor impedance estimation utilizing dc-link voltage oscillations in single phase inverter,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, issue 9, pp. 1046-1053, July 2017.
     
  18.  Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Online Monitoring Technique for Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor in Solar PV Based DC System,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 7059-7066, Nov.2016.
     
  19. Nikunj Agarwal, Abhinav Arya, Md Waseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Lifetime Monitoring of Electrolytic Capacitor to Maximize Earnings from Grid Feeding PV System,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 7049-7058, Nov. 2016.

Conferences:

  1. Nitishkumar, D. Kishan,Md Waseem Ahmad and M. Vinod, “Novel 5-Switch Two-Leg Series Resonant Converter for Ultra-Wide Output Voltage Range in Wireless Power Transfer,” IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-6.
     
  2.  R. R. Ponduru, D. Kishan and MdWaseem Ahmad, “Dual Output Symmetrical Voltage Cancellation Controlled Full Bridge Resonant LED Driver,” 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-5.
     
  3. Muhammed Ramees M.K.P., Md Waseem Ahmad and N. B. Y. Gorla, “Sliding Mode Observer Based Open-Circuit Fault Detection in the HERIC PV Inverter,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2022, pp. 1-5.
     
  4. Vani, B.V., Kishan, D., MdWaseem Ahmad,, S. Hanumanthakari,. and B.N.K. Reddy, , “A Technological Research on Electric Vehicles Charging Approaches and Optimization Methods. 2022 IEEE 12th Symposium on Computer Applications Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE) pp. 191-195.
     
  5. M. Naseem, M. A. Husain, J. D. Kumar, and MdWaseem Ahmad, A. F. Minai, and A. A. Khan, “Particle Swarm Optimization based Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique for Solar PV System under Partially Shaded conditionsin 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation, Power and Signal Processing(CAPS), pp. 1-6.
     
  6. Sagar Bhanudas Narale, P. Nandha Kumar, Md Waseem Ahmad, Amit Verma, and Sandeep Anand, “Reliability Comparison of DC Link Capacitor Bank for Different Configurations ” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Technology, ICIT’2019, Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2019.
     
  7. Sagar B. Narale, P Nandha Kumar, Md Waseem Ahmad, D. S. More, and S. Anand, “Mission Profile Based Evaluation Of Capacitor Reliability In Two Stage Grid Feeding Photovoltaic Inverter,” in Proc. 8th National Power Electronics Conference, NPEC’2017, Pune, India, Dec 2017.
     
  8. A. S. Bedi, MdWaseem Ahmad, K. Rajawat and S. Anand, “Optimal utilization of storage systems under real-time pricing,” in Proc. 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Paris, 2017, pp. 1141-1146.
     
  9. Md Waseem Ahmad and S. Anand, “Power Decoupling in Solar PV System using Partial Power Processing Converter,” in Proc. I6th Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives and 10th Int. Conf. on Compatibility and Power Electronics,CPE-POWERENG’2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, June-July 2016.
     
  10. Danny Boby, MdWaseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Correlation of Accelerated Lifetime in Punctured Capacitor with Normal Operating Lifetime,” in Proc. I6th Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives and 10th Int. Conf. on Compatibility and Power Electronics,CPE-POWERENG’2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, June-July 2016.
     
  11. Nikunj Agarwal, Md Waseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Condition Monitoring of DC-Link Capacitor Utilizing Zero State of Solar PV H5 Inverter,in Proc. I6th Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives and 10th Int. Conf. on Compatibility and Power Electronics,CPE-POWERENG’2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, June-July 2016.
     
  12. Rashmi Shukla, Md Waseem Ahmad, Nikunj Agarwal, and S. Anand, “Acceler-ated Ageing of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor,” in Proc. 7th National Power Electronics Conference, NPEC’2015, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2015.
     
  13. Md Waseem Ahmad, Abhinav Arya, and S. Anand, “An Online Technique For Condition Monitoring Of Capacitor In PV System” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Technology, ICIT’2015 Seville, Spain, March 2015.
     
  14.  Abhinav Arya, Md Waseem Ahmad, and S. Anand, “Online Monitoring of Power Extraction Efficiency for Minimizing Payback Period of Solar PV System,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Technology, ICIT’2015, Seville, Spain, March 2015. 
     
  15. Piyush Agrawal, Raj Kumar Yadav, Mohammed Asim, and Md Waseem Ahmad, “Modelling of Audio-visio-Tactile (AVT) Machine.” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies (ACCT), 2012 , pp. 303-308., 2012.
     

Book Chapters

  1. Md Waseem Ahmad and R. Raushan, “Energy Storage System in Microgrid” Smart Grids and Microgrids: Technology Evolution, pp. 27-58.
     
  2. R.K.Bansal, S. Singh, A.K.Singh, Md Waseem Ahmad “Performance Analysis of PV Module Using Pyramid Surface Texturing Approach” In: Malik, H., Ahmad, M.W., Kothari, D. (eds) Intelligent Data Analytics for Power and Energy Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 802. Springer, Singapore.
     
  3. M.K.P. Muhammed Ramees, Md Waseem Ahmad, Aasim, “Transformerless grid-connected inverter for PV integration” In: Power Electronics for Next-Generation Drives and Energy Systems, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Remarks

Detailed CV: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jlbpsL7K1rTRv4xPUd9qWaV24kDyuj45/view?usp=shari...