Associate Professor and Head

Dr. Tousif Khan N

Department of Electrical Engineering

Interests

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

Faculty Details

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

  • 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

List of Publications

Journals:

  • 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).

International Conferences:

  • 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).

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