Best Researcher Award (Electrical Engineering)

Dr. Yawer Abbas Khan received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Srinagar, India, in 2012, M. Tech degree in Power Systems in 2017 and PhD Degree in Advanced Electrical Drives both from NIT Patna under PhD-Dual Degree Program. He is currently associated with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, CBIT Hyderabad, India. He received MHRD Fellowship for undergoing M. Tech – Ph. D Dual Degree program in EE Department at NIT Patna. His research interests include Sensorless Control of Electrical Drives, Special Machines, Design of Electrical Machines, FACT Devices, and Power quality issues. He has published a number of papers in the peer reviewed journals and conferences. He is recipient of Best paper award in an IEEE conference and served as an invited key note speaker in the workshop entitled “Impacts of LATEX and MATLAB in Engineering and Research (WILMER-2017)”, at Silli Polytechnic Silli, Ranchi, Jharkhand Sponsored by Jharkhand Council on Science & Technology (JCST), Govt. of Jharkhand. He has also worked as a Volunteer in the short-term course (STC) on “Institute-Industry Interaction” at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Patna, under the aegis of TEQIP-II. He also serves as an active reviewer for many reputed journals and conferences like IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IET Electric Power Applications, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Industry Applications, Electrical Engineering, Springer Verlag, Measurements (Elsevier), IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, (IJE Taylor Francis), IECON, TENCON etc. He has also been associated as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering of reputed institutes of the country like NIT Srinagar, Kashmir University (NC), IUST Awantipora, BIET Hyderabad.