Dr. Janardan Kundu

Assistant Professor

Specialization

Control Systems, Instrumentation, Electromagnetic Suspension, AMB

Email

janardan.kundu@thapar.edu

Specialization

Control Systems, Instrumentation, Electromagnetic Suspension, AMB

Email

janardan.kundu@thapar.edu

 

Specialization

Control Systems, Instrumentation, Electromagnetic Suspension (EMS, EDS, SCMS), Active Magnetic Bearings (AMB), Electrical Machines (IM, LIM, DSLIM, SRM), Power Electronics, etc. 

Biography: Janardan Kundu is currently working as an Assistant Professor-Research in the Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala, Punjab since 14th August 2025. Before joining TIET Patiala, he was working as a National Post-Doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India. He has also worked as a Project Scientist at IISc Bengaluru during 2023-2024. He has worked on a globally renowned MagLev-Cobra Project under the guidance of Prof. Richard M. Stephan at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His academic visits in foreign countries include USA, Brazil, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Netherlands. He has 4 years teaching experience at Govt. College of Engineering and Technology, Bikaner recruited by MHRD during 2018-2021. He has guided 7 M. Tech students and the reviewer of a few reputed SCI journals and transactions. He has organised a few National/International Workshops/FDPs/Expert lectures on Electromagnetic Levitation in his previous Institute. He has attended almost 5 FDPs, 10 orientation workshops, and different industrial and research training on future skills technologies: robotics and automation, advanced pedagogy & digital tools, etc. by different Govt. agencies e.g., NASSCOM, AICTE, DST, IISc Bengaluru, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, etc.

Education

  1. Post Doc (NPDF) in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
  2. Post Doc in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil in 2024.
  3. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur in 2022.
  4. M. Tech in Electrical Engineering (Control & Instrumentation) from MNNIT Allahabad in 2012.
  5. B. Tech in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from MAKAUT, WB in 2010.

Experience: Total Teaching Experience 4 years

  1. From Jan. 2018 – Sep. 2021: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Govt. College of Engineering & Technology, Bikaner, Rajasthan.
  2. From Jul. 2013 – Dec. 2013: Assistant Professor (contract), Mechatronics and Robotics Department, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, WB.

Teaching Interests:

  1. Control Systems
  2. Electronic Measurement & Instrumentation
  3. Advanced Control System
  4. Electrical Machine Design
  5. Electrical and Electronic Measurements
  6. Industrial Instrumentation
  7. Optimal and Adaptive Control
  8. Modern Control Engineering

Research Interest:

Control Systems, Instrumentation, Electromagnetic Suspension (EMS, EDS, SCMS), Active Magnetic Bearings (AMB), Electrical Machines (IM, LIM, DSLIM, SRM), Power Electronics, etc. 

Publications:

Journals

  1. Janardan Kundu “Design, analysis, set-up fabrication, control and a novel analytical approach of a levitation prototype for a symmetric shaped object” Asian Journal of Control (Wiley) (2022). vol. 25(1), pp. 537-550 https://doi.org/10.1002/asjc.2838 (IF- 3.452).
  1. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Detailed comparative investigations on levitation prototypes of a ball and a rectangular plate of same mass using a novel analytical model and experiments”, Journal of Sadhana (Springer edition), vol. 46, 81 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-021-01611-6 (IF- 1.271).
  1. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, analysis, fabrication, control and comparative study of two different shaped plate levitation prototypes”, Journal of Sadhana (Springer edition), 45,53 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-020-1284-9 (IF- 1.271).
  1. Janardan Kundu “Prototype development and levitation of a large rectangular platform with multi-axis control” International Journal of Automation and Control (Inderscience) (2023), vol. 17(2), pp. 153-170, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAAC.2023.129395 (IF- 2.11).
  1. Janardan Kundu, Vinod Kumar Yadav “Comparative study on mechanical dynamics of four lab developed levitation prototypes” International Journal of Modelling Identification and Control (Inderscience) (2024) IF-1.679. vol. 44(2), pp 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMIC.2024.136635.
  1. Vinod Kumar Yadav, Manikant Kumar, Janardan Kundu and Vikas Sharma "LED: an Optimistic Solution for a Brighter Future" IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected topics in Industrial Electronics (IEEE) (2023) vol. 4(1), pp. 299-308 DOI: 10.1109/JESTIE.2022.3215878 (IF- 4.472). 
  1. Vinod Kumar Yadav, Manikant Gupta, Ganesh Prajapat, Janardan Kundu and Atul Kumar Sharma "Comprehensive Study for Two Stage Isolated LED Driver PFC Topologies" International Journal of Power Electronics (Inderscience) (2022) 18, no. 3, pp. 261-313 (IF- 0.36). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPELEC.2023.133063.
  1. Janardan Kundu, Vinod Kumar Yadav “Design, modelling, set-up fabrication and control of a levitation system for a steel plate” International Journal of Automation and Control (Inderscience) (2022) 17, no. 5, pp. 529-550 (IF- 2.11).   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAAC.2023.133978.
  2. Janardan Kundu, Victor Koledov, Richard M. Stephan, Zigang Deng, Manashita Borah, Binoy Krishna Roy, Svetlana von Gratowski, Avadh Pati and Satadru Kashyap “Design, testing an implementation of a linear state variable feedback controller for providing tracking/regulation of a large platform of a MagLev vehicle” Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering (Sage) (2022) 237(7) pp. 1206–1218.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09596518231153689 (IF- 1.592).
  3. Janardan Kundu “A study on attraction type electromagnetic levitation systems for four different shaped objects” International Journal of Power Electronics (Inderscience) (2024) 19(1) pp. 79-98. DOI: 10.1504/IJPELEC.2024.10057096 (IF-0.36).

International Conferences:

  1. Janardan Kundu, Prabhakar Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Design, control and real time simulation of an eddy current brake for high-speed rotating machines” 2025 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025, pp. 1-5, DOI: 1109/IAS62731.2025.11061591.
  2. Janardan Kundu, Prabhakar Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Srivastava “Design, Analysis and Investigations of a Double-Sided Linear Induction Motor and its Possible Application with TF-DSLIM” 2025 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025, pp. 1-5, DOI: 1109/IAS62731.2025.11061520.
  3. Janardan Kundu, Sameer Nandmehar, Rakesh Kumar Srivastava, “Electrodynamic Suspension Design and Force Measurement of Rotating Conducting Disk facing Electromagnet” 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), Bengaluru, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, DOI: 1109/ECCE-Asia63110.2025.11112364.
  4. Janardan Kundu, Prabhakar Kumar, Sonu Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Srivastava, “Design and Feasibility Study of Transverse-flux Double-sided Linear Induction Motor” 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), Bengaluru, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, DOI: 1109/ECCE-Asia63110.2025.11112281.
  5. Prabhakar Kumar, Janardan Kundu, Pravin Kumar, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Rakesh Kumar Srivastava, “Design, Analysis and Fabrication of a Long-primary Short-secondary TF-DSLIM” 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), Bengaluru, India, 2025, pp. 1-4, DOI: 1109/ECCE-Asia63110.2025.11112397.
  6. Pravin Kumar, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Sparsh Rai, Janardan Kundu, Sachidananda Sen “ANN Development and Testing for Fault Detection, Classification, and Location in Solar Array” 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), Bengaluru, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, DOI: 1109/ECCE-Asia63110.2025.11112283.
  7. Janardan Kundu, Vinod Kumar Yadav, “A comparative study of levitation prototypes for two flat steel plates of different masses”, IEEE Industrial Applications Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, October 29-November 02, 2023.DOI: 10.1109/IAS54024.2023.10406435
  1. Janardan Kundu, Vinod Kumar Yadav, "Levitation of a flat steel plate for MagLev vehicles" 3rd IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET 2023) at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar, August 9-12, 2023. DOI: 1109/SeFeT57834.2023.10245285.
  1. Vinod Kumar Yadav, Manikant Kumar, Janardan Kundu, and Ganesh Prajapat "State-of-the-art on Light-Emitting-Diode Drivers and Related Technologies" 3rd IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET 2023) at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar, August 9-12, 2023.DOI: 10.1109/SeFeT57834.2023.10245016.
  1. Janardan Kundu, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Vikas Sharma, "Design, modelling of a levitation system for magnetic bearing" 9th IEEE UP Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON 2022) at IIIT Allahabad, 2-4, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/UPCON56432.2022.9986489.
  2. Janardan Kundu, “Design, Modelling and Implementation of an Attraction type Levitation Prototype with tilt Control”, 5th  IEEE UP Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON-2018), MMMUT Gorakhpur, 02-04, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/UPCON.2018.8596793.
  3. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, analysis and implementation of an electromagnetic levitation system”, IEEE Industrial Applications Society Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, 02-06, 2016.
  4. Janardan Kundu, “Design, analysis, fabrication, control and comparative study of levitation on lab developed prototypes”, 5th India International Science Festival (IISF-19), Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata, India, November. 05-08, 2019.
  5. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, modelling, fabrication and control of a levitation prototype”, 4th India International Science Festival (IISF-18), Indira Gandhi Pratisthan, Lucknow, India, October. 05-08, 2018.
  6. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, Modelling, Fabrication and Control of a single-axis Attraction type Levitation Prototype”, 8th National Power Electronics Conference 2017 (NPEC 2017) at CoEP, Pune. DOI: 1109/NPEC.2017.8310441.
  7. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, modelling, fabrication and control of a levitation prototype with 3-degree freedom control”, 1st India International Science Festival (IISF-15), IIT Delhi, India, 04-08, 2015.
  8. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, modelling, fabrication and control of a levitation prototype for a steel ball”, IEEE Industrial Applications Society Annual Meeting, Texas, USA, 18-22, 2015.
  9. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, “Design, Modelling, Fabrication of a Single-axis Attraction type Levitation Prototype with 3-degree Freedom Control”, 7th National Power Electronics Conference 2015 (NPEC 2015) at IIT Bombay. (https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/npec/Papers/Program/NPEC_2015_paper_8.pdf).
  10. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, Aparajita Sengupta, “Design, modelling, fabrication and control of an attraction type levitation prototype”,  IEEE International Conference (PEDES 2014) on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems Conference at IIT Bombay. DOI: 1109/PEDES.2014.7042050.
  1. Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, Aparajita Sengupta, “Design, Modelling, Fabrication and Testing of an Electromagnetic Coil System for a Levitation Mechanism”, 6th National Power Electronics Conference 2013 (NPEC 2013) at IIT Kanpur.
  2. Janardan Kundu, Richa Negi, “Stability Analysis of Discrete State Time Delay Systems with Actuator Saturation,” 2nd IEEE International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES 2012), MNNIT Allahabad, India, Dec. 17-19, 2012, pp. 1-5.DOI: 10.1109/ICPCES.2012.6508117.
  1. Vinod Kumar Yadav, Vikas Sharma, Ganesh Prajapat, Janardan Kundu, Atul Sharma, K. Gupta, "A Review on Light-Emitting-Diodes Characteristics" IEEE Conference on Intelligent Controller and Computing for Smart Power (ICICCSP 2022), Hyderabad, July 21-23, 2022 DOI: 10.1109/ICICCSP53532.2022.9862375.

Book Chapter:

  1. Janardan Kundu, Apoorva Choumal, "Prototype Development of an Electromagnetic Levitation System for Maglev Vehicle" Industrial Control Systems, WILEY, First published: 13 March 2024, Print ISBN: 9781119829256 Online ISBN: 9781119829430 DOI:10.1002/9781119829430 © 2024 Scrivener Publishing LLC.

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

  1. Recipient of “IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE), USA” in 2025.
  2. AMTGP Travel Award to visit IEEE-IAS Annual Meeting at Dallas, Portland, Nashville, Phoenix (USA), Taiwan in 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025.
  3. Expert lectures in IITs, NITs and foreign Institutes e.g., University of Manitoba, Canada, Rio De Janeiro Federal University, Brazil.
  4. Best paper award in 9th IEEE UP Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON 2022), Dec. 2-4, 2022 at IIIT Allahabad. 
  5. Best poster award in 3rd IEEE International conference on sustainable energy and future electric transportation (SeFeT 2023), 9-12th August, 2023, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar.
  6. 2nd Prize in Young Scientists' Meet by Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India at India International Science Festival (IISF), IIT Delhi in 2015.
  7. 1st Prize for technical session in Research Scholars’ Day organized by the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India in 2016.
  8. IEEE-IAS Student Branch Chapter Chair of Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology, Shibpur Student Branch, Kolkata Section (R10) during 2016-2020.
  9. Govt. of India Fellowship Received: NPDF, CSIR-SRF, UGC BSR-SRF, TEQIP, MHRD.

Details of Sponsored Projects (PI):

  1. Principal Investigator (PI) in an AICTE, Govt. of India funded R&D project on "Design, analysis, fabrication and control of attraction type electromagnetic levitation prototypes" of INR 14,46,000/- with the collaboration with IIT Roorkee & MNIT Jaipur from 01/07/19-30/09/21. Grant No: 1-5726320303. (Completed)
  1. Principal Investigator (PI) in DST-SERB (NPDF) R&D project on “Design, testing and implementation of active magnetic bearing for high-speed rotating machines" of INR 29,80,000/- at IISc Bengaluru. Grant No: PDF/2023/002512. (Completed)

He is associated with the following National/multi-national projects-

  1. “MagLev Cobra”- a magnetically suspended train at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
  2. Design, testing, and implementation of active magnetic bearings (AMB) for high-speed rotating machines at IISc Bengaluru.
  3. High-Performance Magnetic Field Sensors Based on WBG materials and High Bandwidth Current Sensors for WBG Based Power Converters at IISc Bengaluru.
  4. Development of Indigenous Simulation Model for Design Validation of OHE Pantograph Interaction at IISc Bengaluru.
  5. Design of Transverse-flux double-sided Linear Induction Motor (DSLIM) at IIT BHU.
  6. Hyperloop design at IIT Madras.

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