Specialization

Power Electronics

Email

sridhar.joshi@thapar.edu

Biography

Mr. Sridhar Joshi is currently Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. Mr. Joshi completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. He has 6 years of teaching experience. His current area of research includes Class D audio amplifier, DC-DC converters and Non-linear control techniques of power converters.

Education

• Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur) in Class D audio amplifiers specialization in Power Electronics
• M. Tech in Power Electronics and Drives from MMMEC Gorakhpur
• B.Tech. In Electrical Engineering from Purvanchal University

Experience: Total Teaching Experience 6 years

• August 2003- July 2005: Lecturer., Electrical Engineering Department IET Jaunpur
• July, 2007 to September 2009: Sr. Lecturer, Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, KIT Kanpur
• September, 2009 to December 2009: Sr. Lecturer, Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, SIET Allahabad

Teaching Interests:

• Control System
• Electrical Machines
• Power Electronics
• Network Analysis and Synthesis
• Basic Electrical Engineering

Research Interest:

• Class D audio amplifiers
• Dc-Dc converters
• Non-linear control of converters

Publications:

Journals

1. Joshi, S. Tolani, and P. Sensarma, "Hybrid controller for mid-range mid-power audio application," ISA Transactions, vol. 137, pp. 717-729, June 2023.
2. Joshi, R. Tripathi, M. Badoni, R. Kumar, and P. Khetrapal, "Design and Development of Non-Linearly Controlled Class-D Audio Amplifier," Electronics, vol. 11, 77, 2022.
3. S.Joshi and P.Sensarma, “Hybrid controller for mid power audio application,” IET Power electronics, April 2017, pp. 1-8.
4. S. Tolani, S. Joshi and P. Sensarma, "Dual-Loop Digital Control of a Three-Phase Power Supply Unit With Reduced Sensor Count," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 367-375, Jan.-Feb. 2018.

Conference Paper

1. S. Joshi and P. Sensarma, “Sliding mode controlled half bridge audio amplifier using single power supply,”.IEEE Energy conversion congress and exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, 2014, pp-1256-1262.
2. S. Joshi and P. Sensarma, "Class D audio amplifier with hybrid control," 2015 9th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE-ECCE Asia), Seoul, 2015, pp. 182-189.
3. S. Joshi, S. Tolani and P. Sensarma, "Design of an analog sliding mode controlled audio amplifier," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Trivandrum, India, 2016, pp. 1-6.
4. S. Tolani, S. Joshi and P. Sensarma, "Dual loop digital control of UPS inverter with reduced sensor count," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Trivandrum, India, 2016, pp. 1-6

Patent

1. Sridhar Joshi and Partha Sensarma; IIT Kanpur. "HYBRID CONTROLLED ARRANGEMENT TO ACHIEVE LINEAR ELECTRICAL TO ACOUSTIC CONVERSION AND METHOD THEREOF", Indian Patent. 540501. 2024 May 31.

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

• Best teacher award at KIT Kanpur

Sponsored Project

1. “Development of GaN FET based non-linearly controlled 1000W audio amplifier,” received a grant of Rs 05.00 lac as seed money from TIET Patiala for duration Sept. 2020 to Sept. 2022.

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