Associate Professor

Dr Tousif Khan N

Department of Electrical Engineering

Interests

  1. Control Systems
  2. Power Electronics
  3. Optimization Techniques

Education

2008

The Oxford College of Engineering
Bengaluru
B.E

2010

National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirapalli
M.Tech

2017

Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati
Ph.D.

Experience

  • IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • 2022, Review Editor | Frontiers in Future Transportation Journal.
  • 2022, Associate Editor | Frontiers in Control Engineering Journal.
  • 2022, Reviewer | Journal of the Franklin Institute.
  • 2022, Reviewer | IET Power Electronics
  • 2021, Reviewer | International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems
  • 2021, Reviewer | Neurocomputing
  • 2020, Joint Secretary | Automatic Control and Dynamical Optimization Society (ACDOS)
  • 2020, Reviewer | Journal of Vibration and Control
  • 2020, Reviewer | IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
  • 2020, Associate Editor | IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Malaysia
  • 2020, Reviewer | Frontiers in Neuroscience, Switzerland
  • 2019, Associate Editor | Asian Control Conference, Japan
  • 2019, Reviewer | IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, USA
  • 2019, Reviewer | ISA Transactions, USA
  • 2019, Reviewer | International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Switzerland
  • 2018, Reviewer | Control Engineering Practice, UK
  • 2018, Reviewer | International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, South Korea
  • 2017, Reviewer | IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, USA
  • 2017, Reviewer | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, USA
  • 2017, Reviewer | IET Control Theory & Applications, UK
  • 2016, Reviewer | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, USA
  • 2016, Reviewer | Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, USA
  • 2014, Head of Advisory Council | IEEE Student Branch IIT Guwahati, India
  • 2013, Chairman | IEEE Student Branch IIT Guwahati, India

Research Interest

  • Design and Experimental Validation of Direct Adaptive Control Schemes for Power Electronic Converters feeding Nonlinear Loads.
  • Design and Implementation of Nonlinear Control Schemes for DC/DC Power Converters using Finite Time Observer based Techniques.
  • Development of Sensorless Robust Control Strategies for Power Converters fed drives.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2024 - International Travel Grant Award -DST, Govt. of India
  • Best Paper Award ACODS - 2024
  • 2023 - IEEE Senior Member Grade
  • 2022 - Young Researcher Award by STEM Research Society
  • 2022 - INAE Engineering Teachers Fellowship
  • 2022 - Advisor, IEEE Student Branch, SRM University AP
  • 2020 - APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial International Travel Award
  • 2017 - International Travel Grant Award -DST, Govt. of India
  • 2017 - International Travel Grant Award- IEEE Industrial Application Society, USA
  • 2017 - International Travel Grant Award- CSIR, Govt. of India
  • 2016 - Student Travel Assistantship Fund Award-IIT Guwahati, India.
  • 2016 - International Travel Grant Award-CICS Chennai, Govt. of India
  • 2016 - International Travel Grant Award- IEEE Kolkata Section, India
  • 2015 - Delegate, Youth Delegation to the Republic of China-Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India
  • 2014 - Maulana Azad National Ph.D. Fellowship-MHRD, Government of India
  • 2007 - Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-MHRD, Government of India.

Memberships

  • Senior Member-IEEE
  • Member-Institute of Engineers
  • Member-STEM
  • Member-Indian Science Congress Association
  • Member-Automatic Control and Dynamical Optimization Society
  • Affiliate-International Federation for Automatic Control

Projects

  • Name of the Project: Intelligent Disturbance Observer based Adaptive Control of DC-DC Power Converter for Nonlinear Loads
  • Sponsoring Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST)- Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India
  • Granted amount: 18.30 Lakhs
  • Project Lead & Co-lead: Dr. Tousif Khan N (PI), Prof. Praveen Kumar (Co-PI)
  • Collaborators: IIT Guwahati, India
  • Period of support: 3 Years
  • Name of the Project: “Experimental investigations of Thermal Runaway testing of Lithium-Ion and new battery packs”
  • Sponsoring Agency: Amara Raja Batteries Ltd (ARBL).
  • Granted amount: 27 Lakhs
  • Total project amount: 1.8 Crore
  • Project Lead & Co-lead: Dr. Surfarazhussain S. Halkarni, Dr. Tousif Khan N, Dr. Sujith Kalluri, Dr. Pardha Saradhi Maram, Dr. Laxmi Narayana Patro, Dr. P. Jayaprakash Sharma
  • Collaborators: Amara Raja Batteries Ltd (ARBL)
  • Period of support: 2 Years

Patents

  • Title: Zero Voltage Switching Full-Bridge Converter for Multiple LED Lighting Loads with Reduced Switch Current
  • Indian Patent Application Number: 202241076718
  • Authors: Ramanjaneya Reddy, Tousif Khan N, Lokeshgupta Bhamidi and Aswini Patakamoori
  • Title: AN APPARATUS FOR FAST-CHARGING A BATTERY
  • Indian Patent Application Number: 202241046527
  • Authors: Tousif Khan Nizami, Pendem Manoj Sai, Bollu Puja Manohari, Gorrepati Nithin Sai and Papineni Gopi krishna
  • Title: Zero Voltage Switching Full-Bridge Converter for Multiple LED Lighting Loads with Reduced Switch Current
  • Indian Patent Application Number:202241076718
  • Authors: Ramanjaneya Reddy, Tousif Khan N, Lokeshgupta Bhamidi and Aswini Patakamoori
  • Title: AN APPARATUS FOR FAST-CHARGING A BATTERY
  • Indian Patent Application Number: 202241046527
  • Authors: Tousif Khan Nizami, Pendem Manoj Sai, Bollu Puja Manohari, Gorrepati Nithin Sai and Papineni Gopi krishna

List of Publications

Journals:

  • Nizami, Tousif Khan; Gangula, Sasank Das; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Chakravarty, Arghya; Ahmad, Fareed; Hosseinpour, Alireza; Nonlinear Adaptive Neural Control of Power Converter‐Driven DC Motor System: Design and Experimental Validation Engineering Reports e13025 2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, USA
  • Gangula, Sasank Das; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Chakravarty, Arghya; Ahmad, Fareed; Zernike radial basis neural network control of DC–DC power converter driven permanent magnet DC motor: design and experimental validation Electrical Engineering Jan-14 2024 Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg.
  • Averneni, Vijayasri; Tummuri, Sai Teja; Chakravarty, Arghya; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Modelling and Switching Stability Analysis of Capacitor Current Controlled Coupled Inductor SIDO DC-DC Buck Converter IFAC-PapersOnLine 57 149-154 2024 Elsevier
  • Gangula, Sasank Das; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Experimental Investigation on Backstepping Control of DC-DC Buck Converter Fed Constant Power Load IFAC-PapersOnLine 57 137-142 2024 Elsevier
  • Mangaraj, Mrutyunjaya; Muyeen, SM; Babu, B Chitti; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Singh, Satyavir; Chakravarty, Arghya; Deep reinforced learning-based inductively coupled DSTATCOM under load uncertainties Electrical Engineering 01-Dec 2024 Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg
  • Mangaraj, Mrutyunjaya; Nizami, TK; Babu, B Chitti; Muyeen, SM; Singh, Satyavir; Realization of superconducting-magnetic energy storage supported DSTATCOM using deep Bayesian Active Learning Electrical Engineering 01-Oct 2024 Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg
  • Gangula, Sasank Das; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Chakravarty, Arghya; Self-learning Controller Design for DC–DC Power Converters with Enhanced Dynamic Performance Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems 35 3 532-547 2024 Springer US New York.
  • Patakamoori, Aswini; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Ch, Kasi Ramakrishna Reddy; An efficient soft-switched LED driver for street lighting applications with input regulation IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 11 5 5018-5028 2023 IEEE.
  • Medhi, Jyoti Prakash; Sandeep, R; Datta, Pranami; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Intelligent identification and classification of diabetic retinopathy using fuzzy inference system Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization 11 6 2386-2399 2023 Taylor & Francis.
  • Gangula, Sasank Das; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Chakravarty, Arghya; Singh, Priyanka; Adaptive neural network control of DC–DC power converter Expert Systems with Applications, 229, 120362, 2023.
  • Meesala, R.E.K., Udumula, R.R., Nizami, T.K., Hosseinpour, A.: Development of enhanced direct torque control for surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor drive operation. IET Power Electron. 00, 1– 14 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1049/pel2.12504
  • Aswini Patakamoori, Ramanjaneya Reddy Udumula, Tousif Khan Nizami, Kasi Ramakrishna Reddy and Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, "Soft-switched full-bridge converter for LED lighting applications with reduced switch current", International Journal of Circuit Theory and Application . 2022;1–18, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3494.
  • Nizami, T.K., Chakravarty, A., Mahanta, C., Iqbal, A., Hosseinpour, A.: Enhanced dynamic performance in DC–DC converter-PMDC motor combination through an intelligent non-linear adaptive control scheme. IET Power Electron. 00, 1– 10 (2022).
  • Tousif Khan Nizami, Sasank Das Gangula, Ramanjaneya Reddy, Harsh S. Dhiman, "Legendre Neural Network based Intelligent Control of DC-DC Step Down Converter-PMDC Motor Combination", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2022.
  • Tousif Khan Nizami, Arghya Chakravarty, Chitralekha Mahanta, "Time bound online uncertainty estimation based adaptive control design for DC–DC buck converters with experimental validation", IFAC Journal of Systems and Control, Volume 15, 2021.
  • Tousif Khan Nizami, Arghya Chakravarty, "Laguerre Neural Network Driven Adaptive Control of DC-DC Step Down Converter", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2020.
  • Neural Network Integrated Adaptive Backstepping Control of DC-DC Boost Converter- Tousif Khan Nizami and Arghya Chakravarty, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Elsevier, 53(1), 549-554, 2020.
  • Erratum to Analysis and Experimental Investigation into a Finite Time Current Observer Based Adaptive Backstepping Control of Buck Converters- Tousif Khan Nizami, Arghya Chakravarty and Chitralekha Mahanta - Journal of the Franklin Institute, Elsevier, 356(7), 4190 (2019)
  • Analysis and Experimental Investigation into a Finite Time Current Observer Based Adaptive Backstepping Control of Buck Converters- Tousif Khan Nizami, Arghya Chakravarty and Chitralekha Mahanta - Journal of the Franklin Institute, Elsevier, 355(12), 4996-5017 (2018)
  • Neuro-Adaptive Backstepping Control for Cascaded Buck Converter PMDC Motor Combination- Tousif Khan Nizami, Arghya Chakravarty, Chitralekha Mahanta- Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier, 58, 78-87 (2017).
  • A Fast Learning Neuro Adaptive Control of Buck Converter driven PMDC Motor: Design, Analysis and Validation- Tousif Khan Nizami, Arghya Chakravarty, Chitralekha Mahanta- IFAC-PapersOnLine, Elsevier, 50(1), 37-42, (2017).
  • Adaptive Compensation of Actuator Failures using Multiple Models- Arghya Chakravarty, Tousif Khan Nizami, Indrani Kar and Chitralekha Mahanta- IFAC-PapersOnLine, Elsevier, 50(1), 10350-10356 (2017).
  • An Intelligent Adaptive Control of DC-DC Buck Converters- Tousif Khan Nizami and Chitralekha Mahanta- Journal of the Franklin Institute, Elsevier- 353(12), 2588-2613 (2016).

Book Chapter:

  • Pendem, M.S., Nizami, T.K., Singh, P., Honnurvali, M.S. (2023). Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimization-Based Control of DC-DC Boost Converter. In: Kumar, R., Verma, A.K., Sharma, T.K., Verma, O.P., Sharma, S. (eds) Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 627. Springer, Singapore.
  • Gangula, S.D., Nizami, T.K., Ramanjaneya Reddy, U., Singh, P. (2023). Real-Time Implementation of Laguerre Neural Network-Based Adaptive Control of DC-DC Converter. In: Kumar, R., Verma, A.K., Sharma, T.K., Verma, O.P., Sharma, S. (eds) Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 627. Springer, Singapore.
  • Aswini Patakamoori, Ramanjaneya Reddy Udumula, Tousif Khan Nizami, Ravi Eswar Kodumur Meesala, “Comparative Analysis of Resonant Converter Topologies for Multiple Load Light Emitting Diode Applications” Book: Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives, Springer Singapore, Vol. 973, Series ISSN: 1876-1100.
  • Manoj Sai, P., Nithin Sai, G., Nizami, T.K., Puja Manohari, B., Gopi Krishna, P. (2022). Design of Fast Battery Charging Circuit for Li-Ion Batteries. In: Kumar, R., Ahn, C.W., Sharma, T.K., Verma, O.P., Agarwal, A. (eds) Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 425. Springer, Singapore.
  • Manoj Sai, P., Baji, M.D.S., Lakshmi, S., Nizami, T.K. (2022). Exhaustive Search Approach to Place PV in Radial Distribution Network for Power Loss Minimization. In: Kumar, R., Ahn, C.W., Sharma, T.K., Verma, O.P., Agarwal, A. (eds) Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 425. Springer, Singapore. (Best Paper Award)
  • Neve, D., Joshi, S., Dhiman, H.S., Nizami, T.K. (2022). Global Horizontal Solar Irradiance Forecasting Based on Data-Driven and Feature Selection Techniques. In: Kumar, R., Ahn, C.W., Sharma, T.K., Verma, O.P., Agarwal, A. (eds) Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 425. Springer, Singapore.
  • Hybrid Backstepping Control of DC-DC Buck Converters- Tousif Khan N. and C. Mahanta- Systems Thinking Approach for Social Problems, volume 327 of the series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, 129-141 (2015).

Conferences:

  • Ahmad, Fareed; Alsenani, Theyab R; Bilal, Mohd; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Technical and Economical Assessment of Renewable Energy-Based Electric Vehicle Charging with Energy Storage System, Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures and its Challenges page-87, Springer Nature.
  • Ahmad, Fareed; Alsenani, Theyab R; Bilal, Mohd; Nizami, Tousif Khan; of Renewable Energy-Based Electric Vehicle Charging with Energy Storage System Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures and its Challenges, 87, Springer Nature.
  • Patakamoori, Aswini; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Ch, Kasi Ramakrishna Reddy; A Novel Zero Voltage Switching Full Bridge Converter for Multiple Load Battery Fed LED Driver Applications 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET) 01-May 2024, IEEE
  • Gangula, Sasank Das; Mukhtar, Adnan; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Chakravarty, Arghya; Udumula, Ramanjaneya Reddy; Real Time Implementation of Buck Converter Using Optimized Type Compensators 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 01-Aug 2024, IEEE
  • Ahmad, Fareed; Tapre, Pawan C; Bakhsh, Farhad Ilahi; Bilal, Mohd; Iqbal, Atif; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Ansari, Ubaid S; Techno-Economic Approach for the Optimal Deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 01-Jun 2024 IEEE.
  • Averneni, Vijayasri; Chakravarty, Arghya; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Tummuri, Sai Teja; Small Signal Modelling and Load Regulation Analysis of Capacitor Current Ripple Controlled Coupled Inductor SIDO Buck Converter 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 01-Aug 2024 IEEE
  • Dhiman, Harsh S; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Wind turbine blade erosion detection using visual inspection and transfer learning 2024 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), 01-Jun2024, IEEE
  • Kumar, Vendra Durga Ratna; Muchina, Fadzai Ethel; Singh, Priyanka; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Advancing Brain Tumor Classification: Exploring Two Deep Learning Architectures for Improved Accuracy 2024 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 171-176, 2024, IEEE
  • Choudhary, Choudhary Shyam Prakasha; Singh, Priyanka Singh; Kilari, K Jyothsna Devi; Nizami, Tousif Khan Nizami; Shaik, Mohamed Shaik Honnurvali; Ensuring Integrity and security of medical image transmission in IoMTusing highly imperceptible and robust watermarking approach, 2023.
  • Ahmad, Fareed; Alsenani, Theyab R; Bilal, Mohd; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Technical and Economical Assessment of Renewable Energy-Based Electric Vehicle Charging with Energy Storage System Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures and its Challenges, 87.
  • Ahmad, Fareed; Alsenani, Theyab R; Bilal, Mohd; Nizami, Tousif Khan; of Renewable Energy-Based Electric Vehicle Charging with Energy Storage System Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures and its Challengesn 87 Springer Nature
  • Gangula, Sasank Das; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Ramanjaneya Reddy, U; Singh, Priyanka; Real-time implementation of laguerre neural network-based adaptive control of dc-dc converter Soft computing: Theories and applications: Proceedings of SoCTA 2022, 721-731 2023 Springer Nature Singapore Singapore.
  • Pendem, Manoj Sai; Nizami, Tousif Khan; Singh, Priyanka; Honnurvali, Mohamed Shaik; Coronavirus herd immunity optimization-based control of DC-DC boost converter Soft Computing: Theories and Applications: Proceedings of SoCTA 2022, 787-797 2023, Springer Nature Singapore Singapore.
  • Fast Neuro-Adaptive Control of DC-DC Buck Converters: Design and Implementation- Tousif Khan Nizami and Chitralekha Mahanta- IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, USA, February 23-24, (2017).
  • A Single Layer Hermite Neural Network Based Direct Adaptive Control of DC-DC Buck Converter- Tousif Khan Nizami and Chitralekha Mahanta- IEEE 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence, Dubai, November 23-25, (2016).
  • Real Time Implementation of an Adaptive Backstepping Control of Buck Converter PMDC Motor Combinations- Arghya Chakravarty, Tousif Khan Nizami and Chitralekha Mahanta- IEEE Indian Control Conference, Guwahati, India, January 4-6, (2017).
  • Relay Approach for Parameter Extraction of Li-ion Battery and SOC Estimation using Finite Time Observer- Tousif Khan Nizami, Venkata Karteek Yanumula, Arghya Chakravarty, Nawab Alam and Sisir Kumar Nayak- IEEE Indian Control Conference, Guwahati, India, January 4-6, (2017).
  • Single Layer Type II Chebyshev Neural Network Based Adaptive Backstepping Control of DC-DC Buck Converter- Tousif Khan Nizami and Chitralekha Mahanta,- IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), India, December 16-18, (2016).
  • Finite time current observer based adaptive backstepping control of buck converters- Tousif Khan Nizami Arghya Chakravarty and Chitralekha Mahanta- IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), India, December, (2015).
  • Voltage regulation enhancement in a Buck type DC-DC converter using queen bee evolution based Genetic Algorithm- Tousif Khan Nizami and K. Sundareswaran-IEEE 6th India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), India (2014).
  • Adaptive backstepping control for DC-DC buck converters using Chebyshev neural network- Tousif Khan Nizami and Chitralekha Mahanta- IEEE India Conference INDICON, India, December, (2014).
  • Design and Development of Feedback Controller for Buck Converter using Artificial Immune System- Tousif Khan Nizami and K. Sundareswaran- 39th National Systems Conference, India, December, (2015).

Events with Collaborators:

  • Chair of “Sustainable EV Charging Infrastructure and Smart Grid: Policies, Planning, and Implementation" track in the upcoming prestigious international conference International Conference on Sustainable Power and Energy Research 2025 to be held at NIT Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir during July 2025.
  • Technical Program Committee of the prestigious International Conference on Control, Automation, Diagnosis (ICCAD’25), to be held in Barcelona, Spain during July 1-3, 2025.

Editor:

  • Nature Scientific Reports Journal as an Editorial Board Member. Nature Scientific Reports is a Q1 journal with 3.8 Impact Factor.
  • Guest Editor Frontiers in Control Engineering Journal.
  • 2019, Associate Editor | Asian Control Conference, Japan
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