LeaderShip Activities (About My Leadership)
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Built and led multi‑disciplinary research teams producing ~100 publications and ~100 invited talks; supervised 15 M.Tech and 6 PhD candidates (4 completed, 2 ongoing).
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Directed international consultancies and capacity‑building programs (World Bank/ADB/AIT/USAID routed projects) with total international project value ≈ USD 230,000. Led multiple AIT/ADB/World Bank training programs on SCADA, protection, and smart grids.
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Secured competitive awards/fellowships: US DOE / University of Hawai‘i postdoctoral fellowship (REDLab, NSF‑funded research), AIT doctoral fellowship, and multiple national grants (KSCSTE, AICTE).
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Institutional transformation: Head of Department and Director roles (MES College of Engineering; Kerala Technological University affiliated colleges) — led curriculum modernization (new MSc/MEng courses), lab establishment (power system simulator at UTAS Ibra; MATLAB toolbox at Amrita), and NBA accreditation efforts.
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Policy & standards influence: Consultant for USAID Clean Power Asia report on ASEAN grid codes (desk study, 2021); advisory/committee roles with IEEE, editorial boards, and academic boards of studies.
Selected roles
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Civil Status Grade C, Ministry of Higher Education, Sultanate of Oman (2022–Present) — institutional leadership and governance.
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Professor/Head of Department/Director (2011–2022) — academic and administrative leadership.
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Post‑Doctoral Fellow (REDLab), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2014–2015) — smart‑grid research & international consortium work.
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Doctoral Research Scholar, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (2008–2010).
Selected recent/high‑impact outputs
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Book: Forecasting Methods for Renewable Power Generation (Wiley, 2025) — co‑author.
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USAID report (2021): ASEAN grid codes desk study — policy recommendations.
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High Impact Publications in leading smart-grid journals.