Subhransu Ranjay Samantaray

Subhransu Ranjay Samantaray received a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, India in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Power System Engineering from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, in 2007.

Dr. Samantaray holds the position of Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India. He visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Canada as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in 2008 and 2009-10. His major research interests include intelligent protection for transmission systems (including FACTs) and microgrid protection with distributed generation and dynamic security assessment in large power networks.

He is the recipient of the 2007 Orissa Bigyan Academy Young Scientists Award, the 2008 Indian National Academy of Engineering Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, the 2009 Institute of Engineers (India) Young Engineers Award, the 2010 Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award and the 2012 IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award. He serves as Editor of IET, Generation, Transmission & Distribution and Electric Power Components and Systems.