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Apurv Kumar Yadav
Assistant Professor
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Teaching Engagements

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Research Interests
Motor drives with wide-bandgap (WBG) devices, Wide-bandgap enabled converters, Inductive power transfer, Induction motor drives, Multiphase motor drives, Multilevel inverters, dynamic wireless power transfer
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Educational Details
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA
2018
PhD, Induction motor drives
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA
2015
M.Tech with Distinction, Electronic Design and Technology
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, INDIA
2011
B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
High Frequency GaN based Electronic Power Conditioner for Solid State Power Amplifier 14 Oct 2025 Power Electronics 2566800 ISRO, India
Trapping GaN potential Heterogeneously integrated packaging of GaN devices for Low voltage high current electric vehicle drives 01 Dec 2025 Power Electronics I am Co-PI in this project 10648000 SPARC Kharagpur, India Prof. Prashant Surana, Prof. Biplab Sarkar
The Smart Energy Metering and Billing System (SEMB): Enhancing EV Charging Infrastructure for Efficiency and Accessibility 14 Aug 2025 Power Electronics 1518000 IBITF IIT Bhilai, IIT Bhilai, IIT Dhanbad, India Prashant Surana
Integration of Power (Tidal, Wind and Solar) Generation at Offshore Platform 07 May 2024 Renewable Energy I am Co-PI in this 15,48,000 Sun Petrochemicals Private Limited (SunPetro, Mumbai), India Prof. Deepkiran, Prof. Abdul Saleem Mir, Prof. Siba Kumar patro
A solar-battery based smart and modular power supply integrated with local grid system 04 Sep 2023 Power Electronics I am a Co-PI in this project 39,54,000 STARS-MOE, India Anubrata Dey
Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System for Contactless Fast Charging of Electric Vehicles 13 Oct 2022 Power Electronics 33 lacs DST-SERB NA
Investigations on SiC-based Current Source Inverter with Pre-stage Converter for NextGen EV Motor Drives 08 Aug 2022 Power Electronics 20 Lacs Faculty Initiation grant, IITR NA




Publications
A Capacitor Voltage Balancing Strategy for Single DC-Source NPC Inverter Fed Symmetrical Six-Phase Induction Motor Drives For Electric Vehicles
2026
Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
A Modular Multiphase Wireless Power Transfer System with Enhanced Misalignment Performance for EV Charging
2026
Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
A Propulsion System Integrated Inductive Wireless Charger for Electric Vehicles
2026
Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
Power loss and Efficiency Comparison of 2-level and 3-level NPC Inverter fed Drives Employing Passive dv/dt Filter
2026
Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
A Generalized Algorithm for Designing the Passive dv/dt Filter for Integrated Motor Drive
2026
Shmabhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
A New LRCC Based dv/dt Filter for Integrated Motor Drive
2026
Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Dual-Inverter Driven Inductive Power Transfer System With Variable Reactance Network for Enhanced Misalignment Tolerance
2025
Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transations on Industrial Electronics
Mitigation of Voltage Unbalancing in the Series-Connected GaN Switches Using Gate Current Injection Method
2025
Siddartha Suyal and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
A New PWM Scheme for H7 Current Source Inverter with Minimal Switching
2025
Ashish kumar and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Small Signal Modeling of LCC-S Compensated Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System Using Extended Describing Function Method
2025
Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Steady-state modeling of a dual-active bridge AC-DC converter considering circuit non-idealities and intra-cycle transient effects
2021
Akshay Singh, Apurv Kumar Yadav and Alireza Khaligh | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Minimization of switched capacitor voltage ripple in a multilevel dodecagonal voltage space vector structures for drives
2020
Mohammed Imithias, Krishnaraj R, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar , Loganathan Umanand, and Carlo Cecati | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
A switched capacitive filter based harmonic elimination technique by generating a 30-sided voltage space vector structure for IM drives
2020
Rakesh R, Krishnaraj R, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar , Loganathan Umanand, and Kouki Matsuse | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Multilevel 24-sided polygonal voltage space vector structure generation for an IM drive using a single DC source
2019
Krishnaraj R, K. Gopakumar, Mathews Boby, Apurv Kumar Yadav, Leopoldo G Franquelo, and Sheldon S. Williamson | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
A 5-level inverter scheme using single DC link with reduced number of floating capacitors and switches for Open-end IM drives
2020
Mriganka Ghosh mazumdar, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar , Krishnaraj R, Loganathan Umanand, and Leopoldo G Franquelo | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
A Twelve concentric multilevel twenty-four sided polygonal voltage space vector structure for variable speed drives
2019
Krishnaraj R, K. Gopakumar, Apurv Kumar Yadav, Loganathan Umanand, Mariusz Malinowski and Wojciech Jarzyna | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
A hybrid seven-level inverter using low voltage devices and operation with single DC-link
2019
Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar , Krishnaraj R, Loganathan Umanand, Subhashish Bhattacharya and Wojciech Jarzyna | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Instantaneous Balancing of Neutral Point Voltages for Stacked DC-link Capacitors of Multilevel Inverter for Dual Inverter fed Induction Motor Drives
2019
Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar, Krishnaraj R, Loganathan Umanand, Kouki Matsuse and Hisao Kubota | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Generation of High Resolution 12-Sided Voltage Space Vector Structure Using Low Voltage Stacked and Cascaded Basic Inverter Cells
2018
Apurv Kumar Yadav, M. Boby, Sumit Pramanick, K. Gopakumar, Loganathan Umanand and Leopoldo G Franquelo | IEEE
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Honors And Awards
Honors
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Impact Factor: 7.2)
2021
Associate Editor
Vellore Institute of Technology University
2011
Merit scholarship for best academic performance
Vellore Institute of Technology University
2010
Merit scholarship for best academic performance
Vellore Institute of Technology University
2009
Merit scholarship for best academic performance
Vellore Institute of Technology University
2008
Merit scholarship for best academic performance
MemberShips
IEEE
01 Jan 2020 - Present
Member
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Design of WBG Devices based Power Converters ( EEN-673 )
Autumn
Power Electronics ( EEC303 )
Spring
Charging Infrastructure ( EEN-505 )
Spring
Electric Drives ( EEN-302 )
Spring
Engineering Analysis and Design ( EEN-291 )
Autumn
Students
SuperVisions
GaN based Integrated Motor Drive
18 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Shambhunath Dutta (PMRF)
Wireless power transfer
01 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Sukumar Das
WBG devices based motor drives
01 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Ashish Kumar
Inductive Power Transfer
01 Aug 2022 - 01 May 2027
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Adarsh Dubey
WBG based Motor Drives
01 Aug 2022 - 31 May 2027
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Siddharth Suyal
Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer, India
29 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2029
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Kushal Verma
Multilevel dual active bridge converter, India
01 Jul 2024 - 01 Jul 2029
Other Supervisors: I am Co-supervisor with prof. Anubrata Dey as supervisor, Scholar: Arghadeep Hazra
High Frequency DC-DC Converters using Planar magnetics, India
01 Apr 2026 - 31 Mar 2031
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Rakesh Kumar
Multilevel DC-DC Converters, India
01 May 2026 - 30 Apr 2031
Other Supervisors: With Prof. Prashant Surana as Co-supervisor, Scholar: Souvik Pramanik
Miscellaneous
Administrative Positions
Convener
25 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
Department faculty search committee (DFSC)
Faculty Advisor
01 Aug 2022 - 01 Jun 2025
M.Tech (Electric Vehicle Technology)
FC Timetable
05 May 2025 - Present
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty Coordinator
22 Oct 2022 - Present
Electric Vehicle Technology Lab
SPARK 2026 Organizing Committee Member
03 Nov 2025 - Present
IIT Roorkee, India
Faculty Coordinator
01 Mar 2022 - 01 Dec 2024
Power Electronics Lab
Member
06 Jul 2021 - Present
Department Web Management Committee
Member
25 Feb 2022 - Present
Project implementation group, FIST-2021
Coordinator
31 Jan 2022 - 26 Sep 2024
Electrical Engineering Student Society
Research Publications

·         Journals

 

1.       Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "A Capacitor Voltage Balancing Strategy for Single DC-Source NPC Inverter Fed Symmetrical Six-Phase Induction Motor Drives For Electric Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Early Access).

2.       Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "A Modular Multiphase Wireless Power Transfer System with Enhanced Misalignment Performance for EV Charging," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (Early Access).

3.       Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "A Propulsion System Integrated Inductive Wireless Charger for Electric Vehicles," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (Early Access).

4.       Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "Power loss and Efficiency Comparison of 2-level and 3-level NPC Inverter fed Drives Employing Passive dv/dt Filter," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (Early Access).

5.       Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "A Generalized Algorithm for Designing the Passive  dv/dt  Filter for Integrated Motor Drive," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (Early Access).

6.       Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "A New LRCC Based dv/dt Filter for Integrated Motor Drive," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 8293-8304, June 2026.

7.       Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "Dual-Inverter Driven Inductive Power Transfer System With Variable Reactance Network for Enhanced Misalignment Tolerance," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 5443-5454, April 2026.

8.       Siddhartha Suyal and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "Mitigation of Voltage Unbalancing in the Series-Connected GaN Switches Using Gate Current Injection Method," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Page No:- 12621-12631, Volume:72, Issue:12 , Dec. 2025.

9.       Ashish Kumar and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "A New PWM Scheme for H7 Current Source Inverter With Minimal Switching," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Page No:- 6470-6481, Volume:13, Issue:5 , Oct. 2025.

10.   Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav*, "Small Signal Modeling of LCC-S Compensated Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System Using Extended Describing Function Method," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Page No:- 7431-7442, Volume:61, Issue:5 , Sept.-Oct. 2025.

11.   Akshay Singh*, Apurv Kumar Yadav and Alireza Khaligh, "Steady-State Modeling of a Dual-Active Bridge AC–DC Converter Considering Circuit Nonidealities and Intracycle Transient Effects," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Page No:- 11276-11287, Volume:36, Issue:10 , Oct. 2021.

12.   Rakesh R, Krishnaraj R, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar* , Loganathan Umanand, and Kouki Matsuse, “A switched capacitive filter based harmonic elimination technique by generating a 30-sided voltage space vector structure for IM drives, ” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Page No:- 2402-2410, Volume:35 , Issue:3 , March.2020.

13.   Mriganka Ghosh mazumdar, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar*, Krishnaraj R, Loganathan Umanand, and Leopoldo G Franquelo, “A 5-level inverter scheme using single DC link with reduced number of floating capacitors and switches for Open-end IM drives, ” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Page No:- 960-968, Volume:67 , Issue:2 , Feb.2020.

14.   Mohammed Imithias, Krishnaraj R, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar*, Loganathan Umanand, and Carlo Cecati, “Minimization of switched capacitor voltage ripple in a multilevel dodecagonal voltage space vector structures for drives , ” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Page No:- 126-135, Volume: 67, Issue:1 , Jan. 2020.

 

15.   Krishnaraj R, K. Gopakumar*, Apurv Kumar Yadav, Loganathan Umanand, Mariusz Malinowski and Wojciech Jarzyna, “A Twelve concentric multilevel twenty-four sided polygonal voltage space vector structure for variable speed drives , ” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Page No:- 9906-9915, Volume: 34, Issue:10 , Oct. 2019.

16.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar*, Krishnaraj R, Loganathan Umanand, Subhashish Bhattacharya and Wojciech Jarzyna , “A hybrid seven-level inverter using low voltage devices and operation with single DC-link, ” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Page No:- 9844- 9853, Volume:34, Issue:10 , Oct. 2019.

17.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar*, Krishnaraj R, Loganathan Umanand, Kouki Matsuse and Hisao Kubota “Instantaneous Balancing of Neutral Point Voltages for Stacked DC-link Capacitors of Multilevel Inverter for Dual Inverter fed Induction Motor Drives,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Page No:- 2505-2514, Volume:34 , Issue:3 , March 2019.

18.   Krishnaraj R, K. Gopakumar*, Mathews Boby, Apurv Kumar Yadav, Leopoldo G Franquelo, and Sheldon S. Williamson, “Multilevel 24-sided polygonal voltage space vector structure generation for an IM drive using a single DC source , ” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Page No:- 1023-1031, Volume: 66 , Issue:2 , Feb. 2019 .

19.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, M. Boby, Sumit Pramanick, K. Gopakumar*, Loganathan Umanand and Leopoldo G Franquelo , “Generation of High Resolution 12-Sided Voltage Space Vector Structure Using Low Voltage Stacked and Cascaded Basic Inverter Cells, ” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Page No:- 7349- 7358, Volume:33 , Issue:9 , Sept. 2018.

 

·         Conferences

 

1.       Siddhartha Suyal and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "An Active Current Source Gate Driver-Based Voltage Balancing of Series-Connected Devices," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Dharwad, India, 2025, pp. 1-5.

2.       Ashish Kumar and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Four-Quadrant Control of CSI fed PMSM Drive for EV Applications with Improved Efficiency," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Dharwad, India, 2025, pp. 1-6.

3.       Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Thermal Analysis of Multiphase Electromagnetic Coupler for High Power Contactless Charging System Considering Core and Shielding Effects," 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Goa, India, 2025, pp. 1-5.

4.       Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Sensitivity Analysis of LCC-S Based Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System Under Compensating Parameter Variation," 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Goa, India, 2025, pp.1-5.

5.       Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Design of an RLC dv/dt Filter for WBG Devices Enabled Integrated Motor Drives," presented in 2025 IEEE 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Jaipur, India, 2025, Page No: 1-6.

6.       Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "A Technique to Minimize the Neutral Point Voltage Variation and Capacitor Size for 3-level NPC Inverter fed Motor Drives," presented in 2025 IEEE 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Jaipur, India, 2025, Page No: 1-6.

7.       Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "A Multiphase Non-Overlapping Bipolar Electromagnetic Coupler for High Power Contactless Charging of Electric Vehicles," presented in 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), Bengaluru, India, 2025, Page No: 1-6.

8.       Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "A Single-Stage Admittance Control Network Based Misalignment Tolerant Inductive Power Transfer System for EV Application," presented in 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), Bengaluru, India, 2025, Page No: 1-6.

9.       Siddhartha Suyal and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Active Gate Driving Technique for the Voltage Balancing of Series Connected GaN Devices for Higher Voltage Application," presented in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mangalore, India, 2024, Page No: 1-6.

10.   Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "A Passive  Filter for Integrated Induction Motor Drive Fed from 3-Phase 2-Level GaN Based Inverter," presented in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mangalore, India, 2024, Page No: 1-5.

11.   Siddhartha Suyal, Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Loss Comparison of GaN, SiC, and IGBT Based Inverters for Low Voltage High Current Two-Wheeler EV Applications," presented in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mangalore, India, 2024, Page No: 1-6.

12.   Ashish Kumar and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Effect of Parasitic Inductance on Switching Transition for Four-Quadrant SiC-Based Current Source Inverter," presented in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mangalore, India, 2024, Page No: 1-6.

13.   Kumar Maddi, Adarsh Dubey, Karthik Singh Parihar, Jahangeer Ahmad Dar, Apurv Kumar Yadav and Mukesh Kumar Pathak, "A Control Technique for Achieving ZVS and Minimum Conduction Loss in DAB by Varying Input DC Link Voltage for EV Applications," presented in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mangalore, India, 2024, Page No: 1-6.

14.   Shashank Mishra, Anubrata Dey and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Design of an Integrated Solar-Battery Based Power Supply Connected to Local Grid," presented in 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2024, Page No: 1-6.

15.   Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Generalized Analytical Modeling for Switching Loss Estimation of SiC MOSFET at Wide Operating Range," presented in 2024 IEEE International Communications Energy Conference (INTELEC), Bengaluru, India, 2024, Page No: 1-6.

16.   Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "An Integrated Battery Charging System Utilizing Inductive Power Transfer and Traction Motor Drive System for EVs," presented in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, Page No: 1-6.

17.   Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Power Loss Comparison of Si-IGBT SiC-MOSFET And GaN Based 3-level Diode Clamped Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive," presented in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, Page No: 1-6.

18.   Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "A LCC-Series Based Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System Employing Duty Ratio Control," presented in 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, Page No: 1-6.

19.   Shambhunath Dutta, Sakshi Negi, Apurv Kumar Yadav and Avanish Tripathi, "A New Carrier Based PWM for a 3-Phase 5-Level Neutral Point Clamped Inverter," presented in 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, Page No: 1-6.

20.   Daniel Zakzewski, Rakesh Resalayyan, Apurv Kumar Yadav and Alireza Khaligh, "Analytical Model for Device Currents in 5-Level Active Neutral Point Clamped Converter," presented in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC), Venice, Italy, 2023, Page No: 1-6.

21.   Ashish Kumar and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "A New Switching Scheme for H7 Current Source Inverter with Integrated Soft Switching Transitions," presented in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2022, Page No: 1-6.

22.   R. V. Chavali, A. Dey, B. Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav, "Performance evaluation of Two Hysteresis Current Controllers’ PWM Techniques for a Grid Connected VSI," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2022, pp. 1-6.

23.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, Arun Sankar and Alireza Khaligh, "A Three Stage Architecture for a High Voltage Step-Down Wireless Charging System," presented in 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2020, Page No: 1002-1007.

24.   M. Ghosh Majumder, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar, L. Umanand, K. R. R. and L. G. Franquelo, "A 5-Level Inverter Topology Using a Single DC-Link With Reduced Switch Count for Open-End Induction Motor Drives," presented in 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE '19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, Page No: P.1-P.7.

25.   Rakesh R., Apurv Kumar Yadav, Krishna Raj R., K. Gopakumar and L. Umanand, "A 30-sided Polygonal Space Vector Structure With Modular Low Voltage Capacitor fed Cascaded H-bridge for IM drive," presented in 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019, Page No: 2079-2084.

26.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar, Krishna Raj R, L. Umanand, Subhashish Battacharya and Wojciech Jarzyna, “A hybrid seven level inverter topology formed by cascading T-type and Active Neutral Point Clamped Inverter for Induction Motor Drives”, presented in IECON 2018 – 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington DC, USA, 2018, Page No: 4423-4428.

27.   R. Krishna Raj, K. Gopakumar, Apurv Kumar Yadav, L. Umanand , Mariusz Malinowski and Wojciech Jarzyna, "A Thirteen Level Twenty-four Sided Polygonal Voltage Space Vector Structure for Drives," presented in IECON 2018 – 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington DC, USA, 2018, Page No: 4441-4446.

28.   Mohammed Imthias, Krishna Raj R, Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar and Carlo Cecati,“Fast Capacitor Balancing Scheme for Low Voltage Cascaded H-bridges in Multilevel Dodecagonal Space Vector Structure”, presented in 2018 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Cairns, Australia, Page No: 133-139.

29.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, K. Gopakumar, Krishna Raj R, L. Umanand, K. Matsuse, H. Kubota, “A Stacked 7-level Common Mode Voltage Eliminated Inverter Scheme with Single DC-link for Open-End Induction Motor Drive,” presented in PCIM Europe, Nuremberg, Germany, 2018, Page No: 1214-1220.

30.   R. Krishna Raj, K. Gopakumar, M. Boby, Apurv Kumar Yadav, L. G. Franquelo and S. Williamson, "Six Concentric Multilevel Twenty-four Sided Voltage Space Vector Structure for IM Drives," presented in IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, China, 2017, Page No: 2178-2183.

31.   Apurv Kumar Yadav, M. Boby, Sumit Pramanick, K. Gopakumar and Leopoldo G Franquelo, “Multilevel Dodecagonal Space Vector Generation Using Stacked Inverter Cells for IM Drives”, presented in 2017 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Edinburgh, UK, Page No: 329-334.

 

·         Patents

·         Granted

  •       Title of the invention: “AnaActive date driving system and method for the voltage balancing of series connected GaN Devices for Higher Voltage Application”, Indian Patent No. 586723, Granted on 10/04/2026.  Name of Inventors (Authors): Siddhartha Suyal, Shambhunath Dutta, and Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav

 

·         Filed and published

  •       Title of the invention: “Misalignment tolerant inductive contactless charging system for electric vehicle”. Application No. IN202511024626A, Name of Inventors (Authors): Adarsh Dubey, and Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav. Date of Publication: 04/04/2025. FER submitted on 07/05/2026.
  •       Title of the invention: “A multiphase electromagnetic coupler for contactless charging of electric vehicles” Application No. 202411054537, Name of Inventors (Authors):  Sukumar Das, and Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav. Date of Publication: 09/08/2024. FER submitted on 11/06/2026.
Research Scholar Group

 

PhD

  • Souvik Pramanik (co-supervision with Prof. Prashant Surana): Multilevel DC-DC Converters 
  • Rakesh Kumar: High Frequency DC-DC Converters using Planar magnetics (Area of work)
  • Arghadeep Hazra (co-supervision with Prof. Anubrata Dey): Multilevel dual active bridge converter
  • Kushal Verma: Dynamic wireless power transfer
  • Siddhartha Suyal: GaN based motor drives
  • Adarsh Dubey: Inductive power transfer systems
  • Sukumar Das: Wireless chargers for EV batteries
  • Ashish Kumar: WBG devices based Motor Drive
  • Shambhunath Dutta (an PMRF Awardee): GaN based Integrated Motor Drive

Postgraduate Student

  • Kumar Maddi: Designing of 6.6kW On-Board Charger
  • Avish Goel: Passive dv/dt Filter for 3-Phase Two-Level SiC Based Inverter fed Motor Drive
  • Balappa Mallappa Ukkli: Investigations on SiC Based Current Source Inverter with Pre-Stage Converter for IPMSM Motor Drive
  • V. Satheesh Kumar Reddy: Design of Planar Transformer with Multiport Using Multi Layer Single PCB

Undergraduate Student

  • Nalin Sharma, Naman Joshi, Patel Sahil Samirkumar, and Som Pratap Singh, final year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “GaN Based Traction Inverter for Low Voltage High Current Electric Vehicle“. 
  • Peeyush Kumar, Shubham, Vishal Babu, and Yash, final year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “Design and Development of AC-DC Converters for EV Chargers“. The team also won Won "Professional Development And Innovation Award (Best Innovator UG)" at convocation 2024 
  • Piyush Chittora, Harshvardhan, Mohit Guleria and Siddharth Sharma, final year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “Design and development of inductive power transfer system for EV chargers“. 
  • Ashutosh Verma, Aditya Agrawal, Prateek Agrawal, and Tanisha Gupta, final year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “Design and analysis of 48V Rectifier system for telecom applications “.
  • Agrim Agarwal, Saksham Sinha, Suthar Nisarg Manishbhai, and Abhishek Saroniya, final year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “Design and Development of Contactless Charger for Electric Three-Wheelers“.
  •   Rishab Jain, Anurag Srivastava, Punit Kumar, Lovish Balana, Akshat Jain, Ribhav Hans and Dharmendra Choudhary, third year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “Development of Cyber Resilient Features for EV Battery Chargers “.
  • Adarsh kumar singh, Hemant kumar meena, Anubhav Jangra, and Jatin Bansal, final year undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. Project title: “Design and development of generalized control board (PCB) using DSP based micro controller “, Co-supervision with Prof. Anubrata Dey.

Intern

  • Gursimran Singh, an undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, INDIA. Work: “Design and Development of inductive power transfer system for charging EV batteries”.
  •         Rishabh Yadav, Undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering at Delhi Technological Univeristy, New Delhi, INDIA. Work: “Impact of circuit parasitics on switching loss for WBG enabled power converters”.

 

 

Professional Background

1. May 2021– till date: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, INDIA.

2. Feb. 2019 – May 2021: Post-doctoral associate, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.                                                                     

3. Aug. 2018 – Jan.2019: Research Associate, Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA.                                                                                  

4.  July2011 – July 2013: Deputy Manager, Product Development, Ashok Leyland Limited, Vellivoyalchavadi, Chennai, INDIA.                                                                                                 

 

Courses Taught
  • Instructor for “Design of WBG based Power Converters (EEN-673)” in Spring-2023 (Jan to May 2023) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA.
  • Instructor for “Charging Infrastructure (EEN-505)” in Autumn-2022 (Aug to Dec 2022) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA.
  • Instructor for “Electric Drives (EEN-302)” in Spring-2022 (Jan to May 2022) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA.
  • Instructor for “Engineering Analysis and Design (EEN-291)” in Autumn-2021 (Aug to Nov. 2021) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA.
  • Instructor for “Advance Design Lab on Electric Cars (ENEE498K)” in spring-2020 (Jan to May 2020) at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
  • Instructor for “Electric Car Design (ENEE408K)” in fall-2020 (Aug. to Dec. 2020) at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
  • Co- Instructor for “Advance Design Lab on Electric Cars (ENEE498K)” in spring-2021 (Jan to May 2021) at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. 
Technical seminar and presentation
  • 1.       Gave a technical talk on “Design of Passive dv/dt filters for WBG based integrated motor drives incorporating the loading effect of motor impedance” organized by Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bhilai on 30th June 2026.

    2.       Gave a technical talk on “GaN Based Power Converters: its challenges and series connection of GaN devices” organized by PELS Taipei section chapter at Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan on 09th Jan 2026.

    3.       Gave an invited talk on “Inductive Wireless Power Transfer” in the Hybrid STC on "Electric Vehicles: Issues and Challenges" organized by G.B. Pant Institute of Engineering & Technology on 06th June 2025.

    4.       Conducted a targeted training on “Electric Drives” at R&DE, DRDO Pune from 21st Oct. 2024 to 23rd Oct 2024 along with Prof. Anubrata Dey and Prof. Prashant Surana.

    5.       Gave a technical talk on “Design and Challenges with Inductive Power Transfer Based Contactless Charging of Electric Vehicles” organized by Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bhilai on 20th June 2024.

    6.       Gave an invited talk on “Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless Charging of Electric Vehicles” in the Workshop on Power Electronics for Transport Decarbonization at IIT Delhi, INDIA on 12th July 2024.

    7.       Conducted a training program on “Gate Driver Design for Wide band gap Devices” at BHEL R&D, Hyderabad INDIA on 10th Feb. 2024.

    8.       Gave an invited talk on “Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless EV Charging” in the FDP on “Recent Advancements in Electric Vehicle Technologies”, organized by the E-Mobility Research Centre, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, INDIA on 28th Dec 2023.

    9.       Gave an invited talk on “Design and Challenges of Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless Charging System” in the EV workshop, organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 19th July 2023.

    10.   Gave an invited talk on “Design of WBG Devices-Based Power Electronics Converters” in the online STC titled “Wide Band Gap Devices Enabled Power Converters – Opportunities and Challenges” organized by NIT Puducherry under the aegis of C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram and NAMPET Phase-III, an Initiative of MeitY on 24th September 2022.

    11.   Gave an invited talk on “Principles and Design of Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless Charging” in the 2-week online internship program on “Electric Vehicles and Mobility”, under the aegis of Electronics & ICT Academy, MNIT Jaipur on 23rd March 2022.

    12.   Gave a technical talk on “WBG based Power Electronics Converterorganized by IEEE IAS Student Branch Chapter, IIT Roorkee on 11th September 2021.