Ramanathan Thiagarajan

20192023

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Ramanathan Thiagarajan is a researcher with the Power Systems Engineering Center at NREL since Feb. 2018. He has experience in design, testing, and characterization of power converters from low voltage to medium voltage scale from tens to hundreds of kilowatts of power. He has worked in multiple U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts on the topic of reliability of photovoltaic inverters from modeling to hardware design to standards development. He also works with power utilities for addressing challenges associated with grid integration of renewables. He has served as the hardware lead for multiple projects involving development of a test bed to characterizing inverter response to grid disturbances. His expertise lies at the intersection of power systems and power electronics.

Research Interests

Renewable grid integration

Inverter testing

Wide band gap power converter

Medium voltage power converter

PV inverter reliability

Grid forming inverters

Power electronics

Professional Experience

Post graduate intern, NREL, June 2017 - February 2018

Graduate Research Assistant, Arizona State University, October 2015-April 2017

Development Engineer, Vellore Institute of Technology, India, January 2013 - June 2015

Education/Academic Qualification

Bachelor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University

Master, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University

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