Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: Ph.D. IIT Kanpur || M.Tech DTU Delhi || B.E. SGSITS Indore
Area of Interest: Impact of renewable energy source integration on power system stability
Phone No: 7275765537
E-Mail: rathore.puja
Dr. Bhavna Rathore
- About Faculty: Dr. Bhavna Rathore joined the Madhav Institute of Technology and Science (MITS), Gwalior, in 2018 as an Assistant Professor. She is currently working in the Centre for Internet of Things. She received her B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from SGSITS, Indore, and her M.Tech. degree in Power Systems from Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi. She was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2022. Her research interests include smart grids, microgrid operation and control, IoT-based applications in power and energy systems, stability analysis of renewable energy–integrated power systems, power quality, virtual inertia, and intelligent energy management systems. She has more than five years of teaching and research experience and has published seven research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. She also serves as an active reviewer for several prestigious journals and conferences published by IEEE, IET, Springer, and Elsevier.
- Education and Qualification:
Ph.D. (Power Engg.), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Sep-2022)
Thesis Title: Stability Improvement of Microgrids Using Virtual Synchronous Generator Control
Supervisors: Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti (IIT Kanpur) and Prof. Laxmi Srivastava (MITS Gwalior)
Research contribution:
- Analyzed the effect of swing equation parameters such as inertia, damping factor, and reactance on the small-signal stability and transient stability of the VSG.
- A supplementary damping controller-based VSG controller is proposed to improve the damping and small-signal stability.
- Auto-regulated inertia (ARI) control and auto-regulated inertia and damping (ARID) control techniques have been developed to improve the transient response of a microgrid.
- A self-regulated virtual impedance control of a virtual synchronous generator has been developed to limit the fault current and improve the transient stability.
- Analyzed the effect of virtual inertia and damping factor on tie-line power and frequency response of interconnected microgrids.
MTech (Power System), Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India (July 2013)
CGPA:8.41
Thesis Title: Distributed Reactive Power Compensation for Radial Feeder
Supervisor: Prof. Vishal Verma, DTU Delhi
Research contribution:
- Developed a controller for reactive power compensation using STATCOM.
- Developed a current-controlled voltage-regulated control technique to improve the voltage profile of transmission lines using DSTATCOM.
B.Eng. (EE), Department of Electrical Engineering, Shri G. S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India
Percentage: 76.62%
- Work Experience:
Teaching Experience
Position/Designation
Name of Institution
From
To
Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Department
SGSITS Indore
5-July -2010
27-July-2011
Assistant Professor (NPIU), Electrical Engineering Department
MITS Gwalior
04-Sep-2018
30-Sep-2021
Assistant Professor (Ad hoc), Electrical Engineering Department
MITS Gwalior
05-Oct-2021
20-July-2022
Assistant Professor (Regular), Centre for Internet of Things
MITS Gwalior
21-July-2022
Till date
Courses taught:
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, India (Sep-2018 to till date)
- Basics of Internet of Things, Graduate Course, First Year
- Sensor Technology, Graduate Course, First Year
- Microprocessor & Embedded Systems, Graduate Course, Second Year
- IoT in Microgrid, Graduate Course, Graduate Course, Third Year
- Power System-I, Graduate Course, Graduate Course, Second Year
- IoT Architecture & Protocols, Graduate Course, Third Year
Shri G. S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India (Aug-2010-July-2011)
- Basic Electrical Engineering, Graduate course, First Year
- Power System-I, Graduate course, Second Year
- Administrative Experience:
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Class Co-coordinator
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EE/ IVth year students. (2019-2020)
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EE-IoT/ Ist year students. (2020-2021)
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EE-IoT/ IInd year students. (2021-2022)
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EE-IoT/ IIIrd year students. (2022-2023)
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EE-IoT/ IVth year students. (2023-2024)
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EE-IoT/ Ist year students. (2024-2025)
- Class Co-coordinator of B.Tech./EACE/ Ist year students. (2025-2026)
- Centre OBE Coordinator (Feb-2023 to Till Date)
- Centre SWAYAM Coordinator (Dec-2022 to May-2025)
- Centre Feedback Coordinator (July-2024 to May-2025)
- Centre BoS Coordinator (July-2024 to May-2025)
- IoT Hardware Lab Incharge (July-2022 to May-2025)
- Moodle Co-Coordinator (2019-2020): Worked as coordinator of Moodle Team for Electrical Engineering Department
- Web Co-Coordinator (2019-2020): Worked as coordinator of Departmental Web Development Team of Electrical Engineering Department
- E-News Letter Co-Coordinator (2019-2020, 2020-2021): Worked as coordinator of Departmental E-News Letter Team of Electrical Engineering Department
- Annual Progress Report: Departmental Representative (2019-2020, 2020-2021): Worked as a Department Representative to prepare the Department's Annual Progress Report.
- Departmental Team Member of the National Institutional Ranking Framework Team (2019-2020, 2021-2022)
- NBA and NAAC Team Member for the preparation departmental documents under criteria 3 and criteria 5. (2021-2023)
- Team Member: Institute Data for inclusion of MITS in the OUTLOOK-DRSHTI Survey for The Best Professional Colleges by Outlook Magazine. (2018-2019)
- Worked as Team Member of Track-3 Committee of International Conference “Innovative Solutions for Power & Energy Systems” in “International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICSISCET 2019)” organized by the institute.
- Reviewer for the “International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICSISCET 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)” organized by the MITS Gwalior.
- PC Member for the “International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICSISCET 2022)” organized by the MITS Gwalior.
- Member of Organizing Committee for the “International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICSISCET 2022),” organized by the MITS Gwalior.
- Session Chair for the “International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICSISCET 2022)”.
- Session Coordinator for the “International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICSISCET 2023)”.
- Session Chair for the ISCMCTR - 2023
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- Research Supervision:
PhD Student Information:
S. No
Name of PhD Scholar Enrolment No. Date of first registration Status (Course work / Comprehensive Completed) Supervisor / Co-supervisor Title/area 1 Priyanka Yadav PDEE24O1006 03-09-2024 Comprehensive Completed Dr Bhavna Rathore (Supervisor) Protection Coordination of Relays in Active Distribution Network Dr. Murli Manohar (Co-supervisor) 2 Manish Kumar Jain
PDIO24E1004 27-02-2025 Course work Completed Dr Bhavna Rathore (Supervisor) Context-Aware Explainable Multimodal Deep Learning for Emotion Recognition Using Facial and Vocal Dynamics Dr. Aditya Dubey (Co-supervisor) - Research Projects, Consultancy & Patents:
Research Project:
Project Title: Impact of Renewable Energy Source Integration on Power System Inertia: Challenges and Solutions.
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: AICTE-NPIU (Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS) Research Project under TEQIP III)
CRS Project ID: 1-5729547592
Funding Amount: Rs 17,17,000
Status: Completed
- Analyzed the impact of renewable energy sources integration on power system inertia, fault current and stability.
- Developed virtual inertia control techniques for a microgrid to provide inertial support during transients.
- Designed and developed a virtual impedance-based control technique to limit the fault current in a microgrid.
Project Title: Edge AI-Powered Smart Campus: Automated Attendance & Intelligent Energy Management System
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: MITS Deemed University, Gwalior
Funding Amount: Rs 251,314
Status: Ongoing
- Honors, Award & Recognition:
- Recipient of an Institute Assistantship to pursue a PhD.
- Recipient of a postgraduate scholarship from Government of India to pursue an M.Tech.
- Workshop/Conference/Organized/Attended:
- Served as Conference Secretary for the International Conference on Electrical, Communication, and Computing Technologies (iCONECCT-2025), conducted at MITS, Gwalior, during 26–28 December 2025, in collaboration with NIT Uttarakhand and with technical sponsorship from IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section.
- Successfully organized and served as Course Coordinator for a One-Week FDP on “IoT and Its Applications”, conducted in collaboration with E&ICT Academy, IIT Guwahati, with hands-on sessions on IoT hardware, protocols, cloud platforms, and Edge AI.
- Organized a two-day "Peer-Learning Workshop on Laboratory Practices for Internet of Things" from January 11 to 12, 2024.
- Member of the organizing team of an FDP on "Renewable Energy Sources Integration into the Power System" from June 22 to 26, 2022.
- Organized a one-day workshop for department faculties on "Computation of Citations & H-Index in (i) Web of Science and (ii) Scopus” on September 9, 2021.
- Organized a two-day online training on "PSCAD software" for department faculties from September 25 to 26, 2020.
- Publications:
Journal Publications
- B. Rathore, S. Chakrabarti and L. Srivastava, “ARI and ARID control of virtual synchronous generator for frequency response improvement," in IET Renew Power Gener. 2021; 15: 664– 675. https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.12054
- B, Rathore, S. Chakrabarti and L. Srivastava, "A Self-Regulated Virtual Impedance control of VSG in a microgrid," in Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 197, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2021.107289
Conference Proceedings
- Disha Thakur, Bhavna Rathore, Murli Manohar, Precise Solar Power Prediction in Smart Energy Grids Using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques, 3rd International Student Conference on Multidisciplinary and Current Technical Research (ISCMCTR), 2025.
- Dhruv, Anubhav Rajawat, Bhavna Rathore, Developing an IoT-Based Smart Health Monitoring System, International Conference on Multidisciplinary and Current Technical Research (ISCMCTR), 2025.
- Shubhankar Vyas, Vatsalya Shivhare, Bhavna Rathore, Designing an IoT-Based Smart Energy Monitoring System, 3rd International Student Conference on Multidisciplinary and Current Technical Research (ISCMCTR), 2025.
- Pratik Chouragadey, Lubhanshu Kawadkar, Bhavna Rathore, Comparative Analysis of Communication Protocols: MQTT, HTTP, TCP, UDP, and WebSocket, International Conference on Electrical, Communication, and Computing Technologies (iCONECCT-2025).
- Pratik Chouragadey, Bhavna Rathore, IoT-Based Precision Irrigation System Using Multi-Sensor Nodes for Enhanced Field Monitoring, 7th International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering & Technology (ICSISCET 2025)
- Pratik Chouragadey, Bhavna Rathore, Gaurav Khare, Smart Home Automation with MQTT Using ESP32 and Node-RED, 2025 Fourth International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), Raipur, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPC2T63847.2025.10958730.
- N. Mittal, B. Rathore, Y. Sawle," Approach for Automatic Irrigation with Farm Security Using Arduino", in International Conference SIGMAA-2023
- Prachi Mafidar Joshi, Bhavna Rathore and H. K. Verma, "Metaheuristic optimization techniques’ application to Economic Dispatch problem- A Review", In: Raju Pal and Praveen Kumar Shukla (eds), SCRS Conference Proceedings on Intelligent Systems, SCRS, India, 2022, pp. 349-357. https://doi.org/10.52458/978-93-91842-08-6-35
- B. Rathore, L. Srivastava, N. Gupta, S. P. Singh, R Sagwal, “A Comprehensive Study on AC Microgrid Control Strategies at Primary Control Level," in International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering & Technology-2019.
- B. Rathore, S. Chakrabarti and S. Anand, "Frequency response improvement in micro grid using optimized VSG control," 2016 National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2016.7858916.
- M. Ashraf, B. Rathore and S. Chakrabarti, "Performance analysis of static network reduction methods commonly used in power systems," 2014 Eighteenth National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), 2014, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2014.7103837.
- Vishal Verma and Bhavna Rathore, “D-FACTs: Indian Perspective” In National Conference “Power & Energy system for Tomorrow” NEEC-2011, DTU (New Delhi).
Book Chapter
- Rathore, L. Srivastava, N. Gupta, S. P. Singh, R Sagwal, “A Comprehensive Study on AC Microgrid Control Strategies at Primary Control Level," in Intelligent Computing Applications for Sustainable Real-World Systems
