Subir Majumder, PhD, CEng(India)

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

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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 Smart Grid Demonstration and Research Investigation Laboratory at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, and as an engineering scientist in the Lane 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.

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 Cyber-Physical Power Systems Modeling, Resilient Operations, Power System Economics, and the Smart Grid. He is also interested in the computational aspects of power systems optimization. See...

Location

053C WEB,
Texas A&M University
Bryan, TX 77801

Research Vision

The requirement for modernization of electricity grids stems primarily from the need for efficient allocation and utilization of clean generating resources. Alongside, electricity networks are steadily growing to include various self-interested decision-making entities. Solutions to these challenges require careful design and implementation of novel algorithms while accounting for various technical, economic, and social complexities of real-world scenarios. As more and more of these utility-maximizing entities participate along with possible malicious actors for decision-making, I envision the operation of the power system would grow up following decentralized and distributed architecture. These architectures facilitate coordination with limited communication, preserving privacy while allowing the self-interested agents to re-organize following an event. I aim to utilize theoretical analyses to understand the behaviour of these entities and develop newer algorithms and tools to facilitate overall decision-making. I am highly motivated and have been diligently working to gather the necessary skill-sets for becoming capable of contributing to grid modernization.

Subir Majumder's Research Interests include:

Applied Power System Economics & Game Theory.
Applied Power System Optimization.
Power System Operations & Planning.
Power System Resiliency.

Current Research

Economics of Renewable Energy Resources

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. , 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. 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, A. P. Agalgaonkar, S. A. Khaparde, S. Perera, S. V. Kulkarni, and P. P. Ciufo, “ Allowable Delay Heuristic in Provision of Primary Frequency Reserve in the Future Power System,” IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 1231-1241, Aug. 2019.
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, S. A. Khaparde, A. P. Agalgaonkar, S. V. Kulkarni, S. Perera, and P. P. Ciufo, “Hybrid Storage System Sizing for Minimum Daily Variability Injection,” in TENSYMP, Jun. 2019.
S. Knudsen, S. Majumder, and A. K. Srivastava, “Securely implementing and managing neighborhood solar with storage and peer to peer transactive energy,” in Cigre Annual Meeting., Aug. 2022.
S. Majumder, A. K. Srivastava, “Resilience-driven Integration of Distributed Energy Resource (DER): Holistic Value Analysis,“ IEEE Smart Grid eBulletin, Sep. 2022.
S. Majumder, A. K. Srivastava, “Resilience-driven Integration of Distributed Energy Resource (DER): Coordinating DER Services for Value,“ IEEE Smart Grid eBulletin, Sep. 2022.
Bridgit Hartland-Johnson et al., "State level smart grids road-map for Maharashtra", India, Technical Report.

Economics of Power Quality Mitigation Solutions

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.
S. Majumder, S. A. Khaparde, V. Pradhan, A. P. Agalgaonkar, and S. Perera, “Optimal Voltage Sag Mitigation Solution Provision using Customers Approximate Marginal Willingness-to-Pay Function,” in IEEE PowerTech, Jun. 2021.
S. Majumder, S. A. Khaparde, V. Pradhan, S. V. Kulkarni, A. P. Agalgaonkar, S. Perera, and P. P. Ciufo, “A Critical Review on the Methods for Calculating the Risk of Process Failure because of Voltage Sags,” in POWERCON, Oct. 2016.

Voltage Control/Optimization Approaches

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, Accepted .
A. Vosughi, A. Tamimi, A. B. King, S. Majumder, and A. K. Srivastava, “Cyber-physical Vulnerability and Resiliency Analysis for DER Integration: A Review, Challenges and Research Needs,” Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev., vol. 168, Art. no. 112794, 2022.
J. Adan, S. Majumder, and A. K. Srivastava, “Distributed Optimisation Approaches with Discrete Variables in the Power Distribution Systems,“ in NAPS, 2022.
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.

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 CAMS WG on Computational Challenges & Solutions for Implementing Distributed Optimization, IEEE TF on Operational Tools for Enabling Resiliency, BPSO Sub-committee, PSOPE Committee.
Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Power Del., IEEE Access, IEEE Trans. Sust. Energy, IEEE Trans. Power Syst., IEEE Trans, Indus. Inform., Energies, PESGM 2018.
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.

Jul. 01, 2023	Our paper titled "Line-Post Insulator Fault Classification Model using Deep Convolutional GAN-based Synthetic Images" has been accepted for presentation in NAPS 2023
Apr. 16, 2023	Our paper titled "On the Cyber-Physical Needs of DER-based Voltage Control/Optimization Algorithms in Active Distribution Network" has been accepted in IEEE Access
Mar. 21, 2023	Our paper titled "Reinforcement Learning based Proactive Control for Enabling Power Grid Resilience to Wildfire" has been accepted in IEEE Trans. Indus. Inform.
Jan. 16, 2023	Our paper titled "Chance-Constrained Pre-Contingency Joint Self-Scheduling of Energy and Reserve in a VPP" has been accepted in IEEE Trans. Power Syst.

Subir Majum​der, PhD, CEng(India)

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