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Subir Majumder, PhD

TEES Senior Research Engineer I, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Contact

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Subir Majumder received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under the cotutelle of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, and the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, and as an engineering scientist in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University. He is currently working as a TEES Senior Research Engineer I in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. Invited by Prof. Le Xie, he has recently joined School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in electrical engineering, while maintaining his primary appointment at the Texas A&M University.

Subir has recently received POSOCO Power System Awards (PPSA) under the Doctoral category and was nominated for Best Ph.D. Thesis award from IITB and was also nominated for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis from UOW. His research interests include electricity markets, power system modelling and planning to address climate change, power grid resiliency, and (learning) algorithms for power & energy systems. He is also interested in the computational aspects of power systems optimization. See...

Location

Office 3.401, SEC
150 Western Ave.,
Boston 02134, MA, USA

Research Vision

Despite variabilities, power grids have embraced renewable energy resources as part of the sustainable energy transition. It has also seen increased demand-side participation through demand responses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources (DERs) integrations. Power grids are also facing rising demand from transportation sector electrification and AI and computing data centers. All of these changes impact power grids by: (i) stressing the grid with new loads with changing generation pattern and consumption behavior; (ii) scalability and resiliency challenges existing computational algorithms as power grids incorporate more self-interested decision-makers with diverse backgrounds, (iii) lacking alignment of incentives for the development of long term climate change mitigation solutions through electricity markets.

My research interests lie at the intersection of these three challenges, focusing on power and energy systems engineering, optimization theory, and electricity markets as identified in Thrust 1-3. My overarching goal is to leverage theoretical analyses supported by real-world data to enhance power systems operations, thereby informing widespread policy decisions for sustainable energy transition and advancing global energy security.

Subir Majumder's Research Interests include:

Applied Power System Economics & Game Theory.
Computational Algorithms for Power Systems Analysis.
Power System Resiliency.

Current Research

Economics of new Resources in Power Systems

S. Majumder, I. Aravena, L. Xie, "An Econometric Analysis of Large Flexible Cryptocurrency-mining Consumers in Electricity Markets," accepted for publication in HICCS 2025.
S. Majumder, S. A. Khaparde, A. P. Agalgaonkar, S. V. Kulkarni, A. K. Srivastava, and S. Perera, “Chance-Constrained Pre-Contingency Joint Self-Scheduling of Energy and Reserve in a VPP ,” IEEE Trans. Power Syst. , vol. 39, no. 1, Feb., 2023.
S. Majumder, S. A. Khaparde, A. P. Agalgaonkar, P. P. Ciufo, S. Perera, and S. V. Kulkarni, “DFT-Based Sizing of Battery Storage Devices to Determine Day-Ahead Minimum Variability Injection Dispatch with Renewable Energy Resources,” IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 626-638, Jan. 2019, also in 2018 IEEE PESGM
S. Majumder and S. A. Khaparde, “Revenue and Ancillary Benefit Maximisation of Multiple Non-collocated Wind Power Producers Considering Uncertainties,” IET Gen. Transm. Distrib., vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 789-797, Jul. 2016.
S. Majumder, “Premium Power Investment Strategy utilising the Economy of Scale of Custom Power Devices,” Elec. Power Syst. Res., vol. 214 Art. No. 108743, Jan. 2023.
S. Majumder, S. A. Khaparde, A. P. Agalgaonkar, S. V. Kulkarni, and S. Perera, “Voltage Sag Mitigation Cluster Formation employing Graph-Partitioning Theory utilising Dynamic Voltage Restorers in Radial Distribution Networks” IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 18-28, Dec. 2020.
S. Majumder, A. P. Agalgaonkar, S. A. Khaparde, P. P. Ciufo, S. Perera, and S. V. Kulkarni, “Allocation of Common-Pool Resources in an Unmonitored Open System,” IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 3912-3920, Sept. 2019.

Computational Algorithms for Power Systems

S. Majumder, L. Dong, F. Doudi, Y. Cai, C. Tian, D. Kalathi, K. Ding, A. A. Thatte, Le Xie, "Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models in the Electric Energy Sector," Joule, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1544-1549, Jun. 2024.
M. Zeid, S. Majumder, H. Ibrahim, P. Enjeti, L. Xie, C. Tian, "Predicting DC-Link Capacitor Voltage and Current Ripple in AC-DC Rectifier Circuits Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Models," accepted IECON 2024.
D. Kim, S. Majumder, L. Xie, " Line-Post Insulator Fault Classification Model Using Deep Convolutional GAN-Based Synthetic Images," in NAPS, 2023.
S. Majumder, A. Vosughi, H. M. Mustafa, T. E. Warner, and A. K. Srivastava, “On the Cyber-Physical Needs of DER-based Voltage Control Algorithms,” IEEE Access, 2023.
P. S. Sarker, S. Majumder, Md. F. Rafy, A. K. Srivastava, “Impact Analysis of Cyber-Events on Distributed Voltage Control with Active Power Curtailment," in PEDES, 2022.
P. S. Sarker, N. Patari, B. Ha, S. Majumder, and A. K. Srivastava, “Cyber-Power Testbed for Analyzing Distributed Control Performance during Cyber-Events,” in MSCPES, May 2022.

Climate-Aware Power System Analysis

L. Xie, S. Majumder, T. Huang, Q. Zhang, P. Chang, D. J. Hill, M. Shahidehpour, "The Role of Electric Grid Research in Addressing Climate Change," Nat. Clim. Change (Accepted).
S. Majumder, G. Kandaperumal, S. Pandey, A. K. Srivastava, and C. Koplin, “Pre-Event Two-Stage Proactive Control for Enhanced Resiliency ,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 83281-83296, 2022.
S. U. Kadir, S. Majumder, A. K. Srivastava, A. D. Chhokra, H. Neema, A. Dubey, A. Laszka, "Reinforcement-Learning-Based Proactive Control for Enabling Power Grid Resilience to Wildfire," IEEE Trans. Indus. Inform., vol 20, no. 1, Apr. 2023.

Teaching (Assistantship)

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

University of Wollongong

Smart Grids
Energy Management
Introduction to Electrical Systems
Power Systems
Fundamentals of Energy Engineering

Power Electronics and Drives
Power Engineering 1

Fellowships and Awards

POSOCO Power System Awards (PPSA), Doctoral category, 2020.
Recommended for the Best PhD Thesis award, IITB, 2020.
Recommended for special commendation for an Outstanding PhD Thesis, UOW, 2020.
University Postgraduate Award (UPA) and Institute Postgraduate Tuition Award (IPTA), University of Wollongong, Australia, 2016-2017.

Services

Member, IEEE, IEEE Power and Energy Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, Membership Number 92396111.
Member, Institute of Engineers (India), Membership Number M-1773615.
Member, American Economic Association, Membership Number 000468735.
Member, IEEE WG on Modern & Future Distribution System Planning, IEEE WG on Natural Disaster Mitigation Methods and Operation Technology .
Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Power Del., IEEE Access, IEEE Trans. Sust. Energy, IEEE Trans. Power Syst., IEEE Trans, Indus. Inform., Energies, Energy Policy.
Proctor, IEEE xTreme 2017, Judge, 14th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, WVU, 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, WVU, 2022 IEEE PES GM Student Poster Competition.
Assisted in conducting Master of Electrical Power Engineering program at UOW, Apr. 2017.
Web Administrator at IEEE UOW student branch, 2016-2017.
Co-lead technical sessions group in National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC) held at IIT Bombay, Dec. 2015.

News

Dec. 5, 2024	I will be attending PSERC Dec IAB and workshop with EPRI on Climate Resilience at Arizona State University. I will be presenting a poster. I hope to see some of you there.
Nov. 11, 2024	Invited by Prof. Le Xie, I have moved to Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Sep. 6, 2024	I presented in the Energy & Power Group seminar " Behavior of Large Cryptocurrency-Mining Firms in Electricity Markets: A Texas Econometric Analysis" at Texas A&M University.
Aug. 17, 2024	Our article titled " An Econometric Analysis of Large Flexible Cryptocurrency-mining Consumers in Electricity Markets" has been accepted for publication in HICCS 2025.
Jul. 3, 2024	Our article titled " The Role of Electric Grid Research in Addressing Climate Change" has been accepted for publication in Nature Climate Change.
Jul. 3, 2024	Our article titled " Predicting DC-Link Capacitor Voltage and Current Ripple in AC-DC Rectifier Circuits Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Models" has been accepted for publication in IECON 2024.
Jun. 19, 2024	Two news articles featuring our LLM paper have been published at Texas A&M and Harvard websites.

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Subir Majum​der, PhD

TEES Senior Research Engineer I, ​Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

Postdoctoral Fellow, ​Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences