Dr Chinnappa Naidu Rani - Universite des Mascareignes

Dr. Rani Chinnappa Naidu received B.E. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Power Systems both from the VIT University, India and received her Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, in 2014.  She has joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northumbria Photovoltaic Applications Centre at the Northumbria University, United Kingdom for a research project on the Stability and Performance of Photovoltaic (STAPP), which involves Eight Universities from UK and India. She received a grant from the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering, UK for her collaborative research project between India and UK for the duration of 3 years (2021 to 2023).

Dr. Rani is presently a Visiting Research Fellow at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.  She has over 2 years of Industry and 20 years of experience in teaching, training, and leading high caliber research in Artificial Intelligence and application of optimization techniques in Solar Photovoltaic systems, Wind energy conversion, power generation dispatch, Biomedical and healthcare Industries.  At present, she is working as an Associate Professor at Universite des Mascareignes, Mauritius and at VIT University, India (sabbatical). She has published an appreciable number of research papers in IEEE Transactions, IET journals, Elsevier journals, Springer proceedings, IEEE conferences and many book chapters. Dr. Rani has been invited and served as an external examiner for many Ph.D. theses from UK, India, Mauritius and France. She has also conducted many conferences and symposiums at international level as an organizing chair. She has edited two book volumes titled Soft Computing for Problem Solving published by Springer Nature and she is a Senior Member in IEEE.

Research

Biography

Dr. Rani Chinnappa Naidu received B.E. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Power Systems both from the VIT University, India and received her Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, in 2014.  She has joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northumbria Photovoltaic Applications Centre at the Northumbria University, United Kingdom for a research project on the Stability and Performance of Photovoltaic (STAPP), which involves Eight Universities from UK and India. She received a grant from the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering, UK for her collaborative research project between India and UK for the duration of 3 years (2021 to 2023).

Dr. Rani is presently a Visiting Research Fellow at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.  She has over 2 years of Industry and 20 years of experience in teaching, training, and leading high caliber research in Artificial Intelligence and application of optimization techniques in Solar Photovoltaic systems, Wind energy conversion, power generation dispatch, Biomedical and healthcare Industries.  At present, she is working as an Associate Professor at Universite des Mascareignes, Mauritius and at VIT University, India (sabbatical). She has published an appreciable number of research papers in IEEE Transactions, IET journals, Elsevier journals, Springer proceedings, IEEE conferences and many book chapters. Dr. Rani has been invited and served as an external examiner for many Ph.D. theses from UK, India, Mauritius and France. She has also conducted many conferences and symposiums at international level as an organizing chair. She has edited two book volumes titled Soft Computing for Problem Solving published by Springer Nature and she is a Senior Member in IEEE.

Dr Chinnappa Naidu Rani

Research/field of study:
Artificial Intelligence, Application of Bio-inspired optimization techniques, Solar Photovoltaic systems, Wind energy conversion, power generation, Biomedical and healthcare optimisation.

Email:
rnaidu@udm.ac.mu

Research

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ktKn8gYAAAAJ&hl=en

Publications

  1. Mathew, Derick, Rani Chinnappa Naidu, Yue Wang, and Krishna Busawon. “Single‐stage microinverter with current sensorless control for BIPV system.” IET Renewable Power Generation15, no. 11 (2021): 2468-2479. [IET, Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 3.894]
  1. Mathew, Derick, Mohamed Emad Farrag, Rani Chinnappa Naidu, Rajesh Kumar Muthu, A. Sivaprakasam, and P. Somasundaram. “Buck-Boost Single-Stage Microinverter for Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems.” Energies 14, no. 23 (2021): 7854. [Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 3.004]
  2. Basha, C. H., & Rani, C. (2020). Design and analysis of transformerless, high step‐up, boost DC‐DC converter with an improved VSS‐RBFA based MPPT controller. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 30(12), e12633. [Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 3.13]
  1. Basha, CH Hussaian, and Rani. “Performance Analysis of MPPT Techniques for Dynamic Irradiation Condition of Solar PV.” International Journal of Fuzzy Systems(2020): 1-22. . [Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 4.406]
  2. Basha, C. H., and Rani. “Different conventional and soft computing MPPT techniques for solar PV systems with high step-up boost converters: A comprehensive analysis.” Energies13.2 (2020): 371. . [Scopus Indexed, Impact factor: 2.702]
  3. Derick Mathew, Rani “Investigation of Single-Stage Transformerless Buck-Boost Microinverters” IET Power Electronics, vol 13 (2020):1487-99. [IET, Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 2.839]
  4. Mathew, D., Rani, C., Kumar, M. R., Wang, Y., Binns, R., & Busawon, K. (2018). Wind-Driven Optimization Technique for Estimation of Solar Photovoltaic Parameters.IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 8(1), 248-256. . [IEEE, Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 3.714])
  5. Derick, M., Rani, C., Rajesh, M., Farrag, M. E., Wang, Y., & Busawon, K. (2017). An improved optimization technique for estimation of solar photovoltaic parameters.Solar Energy, 157, 116-124. . [Scopus Indexed, TR Impact factor: 4.674]

 

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