Room No. FW1-TF9, Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Bawana Road, Shahbad Daulatpur, Delhi-110042, India.

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India (June 2020 - Present)
• Senior Power Electronics Engineer, Raptor Design Technologies Private Limited, Bangalore, India (December 2018 - March 2020)
• Research Associate, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India (April 2015 to July 2016)

Publications

A. List of SCI Indexed Journals

1. R. Rao P, V. K. Vethanayagam, V. Balasubramanian, and V. V. Ramana, "Modified Current Control for Tracking Global Peak under fast changing Partial Shading Conditions," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (Early Access).
2. ​R. Viswadev, A. Mudlapur, V. V. Ramana, B. Venkatesaperumal, and S. Mishra, “A Novel AC Current Sensorless Hysteresis Control for Grid-Tie Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 2577–2581, 2020.
3. V. V. Ramana, A. Mudlapur, R. V. Damodaran, B. Venkatesaperumal, and S. Mishra, “Global Peak Tracking of Photovoltaic Array Under Mismatching Conditions Using Current Control,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 313–320, 2019.
4. M. Arjun, V. V. Ramana, R. Viswadev, and B. Venkatesaperumal, “Small Signal Model for PV Fed Boost Converter in Continuous and Discontinuous Conduction Modes,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 1192–1196, 2019.
5. M. Arjun, V. V. Ramana, R. Viswadev, and B. Venkatesaperumal, “An Iterative Analytical Solution for Calculating Maximum Power Point in Photovoltaic Systems Under Partial Shading Conditions,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 973–977, 2019.
6. A. Mudlapur, V. V. Ramana, R. V. Damodaran, V. Balasubramanian, and S. Mishra, “Effect of Partial Shading on PV Fed Induction Motor Water Pumping Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1–1, 2018.
7. D. Jena and V. V. Ramana, “Modeling of Photovoltaic System for Uniform And Non-Uniform Irradiance: A Critical Review,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 52, pp. 400–417, 2015.

B. List of Conferences

1. K. Singh and V. V. Ramana, "Design of 50 kW Two Stage off-Board EV Charger using CC-CV Algorithm," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/SeFeT57834.2023.10245552.
2. M. Ojha and V. V. Ramana, "Investigations on Different Global Peak Tracking Algorithms for Extracting Maximum Power from Photovoltaic Systems," 2023 4th International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET), Belgaum, India, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/INCET57972.2023.10170659.
3. D. Gupta and V. V. Ramana, "Solar Power Prediction Based on Recurrent Neural Networks Using LSTM and Dense Layer With ReLU Activation Function," 2023 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT), Hubli, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/CONIT59222.2023.10205605.
4. R. Khurana, S. Arora, P. R. Sharma and V. V. Ramana, "An Online Sensorless Fractional Open Circuit Voltage Based Method for Tracking Maximum Power from Photovoltaic Module," 2023 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT), Hubli, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CONIT59222.2023.10205757.
5. K. Singh and V. V. Ramana, "Design and Analysis of Vienna Rectifier considering System Parasitic for off-Board EV Charging," 2023 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), Thrissur, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PICC57976.2023.10142796.
6. V. V. Ramana, A. Mudlapur, R. V. Damodaran, B. Venkatesaperumal, and S. Mishra, “Efficient Global Peak Tracking of PV System Under Mismatching Conditions Using Searching Technique and Bisection Method,” in 2018 IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT), 2018, pp. 1–6.
7. R. Viswadev, B. Venkatesaperumal, A. Mudlapur, V. V. Ramana, and S. Mishra, “Modified Hysteresis Current Control for Single Phase Solar Grid-Tie Z-Source Inverter,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 2018, pp. 1–5.
8. R. Viswadev, V. V. Ramana, B. Venkatesaperumal, and S. Mishra, “Real and Reactive Power Control Of Solar Grid-Tie Inverter Under Distorted Grid Conditions,” in 2018 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), 2018, pp. 1–6.
9. V. V. Ramana and D. Jena, “Maximum Power Point Tracking of PV Array Under Non-Uniform Irradiance Using Artificial Neural Network,” in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES), 2015, pp. 1–5.
10. D. Jena and V. V. Ramana, “Simple and Accurate Method of Modeling Photovoltaic Module: A Different Approach,” in 2013 International Conference on Green Computing, Communication and Conservation of Energy (ICGCE), 2013, pp. 465–469.

Courses Taught/Teaching at DTU

A. Theory

• Switch Mode Power Converters (PG)
• Controller Design of Power Electronic Converters (PG)
• Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Transformers (UG)
• Soft Computing (UG)
• Introduction to Cloud Computing (UG)

B. Laboratory 

• Switch Mode Power Converters Laboratory (PG)
• Controller Design of Power Electronic Converters Lab (PG)
• Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Transformers Laboratory (UG)
• Power Electronics Laboratory (UG)
• Electrical Drives Laboratory (UG)
• Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (UG)
• Fundamentals of Machine Learning Laboratory (UG)
• Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory (UG)
• Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory (UG)

Awards

Received POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA)-2015 for research work in Master’s Programme organized by Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. (POSOCO) in association with Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FIIT) at IIT Delhi.