Author

Dr. Sivaji Chakravorti did his bachelor of electrical engineering, master of electrical engineering and PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1983, 1985 and 1993, respectively. He has 29 years of teaching experience and is a full professor in electrical engineering at Jadavpur University since 2002. He teaches electric field analysis at UG and PG levels for more than one and half decades. In 1984, he worked at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as Indian National Science Academy Visiting Fellow. He worked at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, as Humboldt Research Fellow during 1995–1996, 1999 and 2007, respectively. In 1998, he served as development engineer in Siemens AG in Berlin, Germany. He has also worked as Humboldt Research Fellow in ABB Corporate Research at Ladenburg, Germany, in 2002. He worked as US-NSF guest scientist at the Advanced Research Institute of Virginia Tech, Alexandria, Virginia, in 2003, and as guest scientist at Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, in 2005. He is the recipient of the Technical University Munich Ambassador Award in 2013 and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Technology Day Award for best R&D project in 2003. He has published more than 160 research papers, authored two books, edited three books and developed three online courses. He is a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, fellow of National Academy of Sciences India, senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and distinguished lecturer of IEEE Power and Energy Society. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. He was the chairman of IEEE Kolkata section during 2011–2012, chairman of its Power Engineering Chapter during 2003–2006 and the founder chairman of its Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Chapter in 2012–2014. In 2001, he was the vice-chairman of IEEE India Council. He was the Asia Pacific West Chapter Representative of IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE PES) in 2008 and is currently the Global Chapter secretary of IEEE PES (2013–2014). He is actively involved in several sponsored projects funded by US-NSF, AICTE, Ministry of Human Resource Department (Govt. of India), Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) and World Bank. He provides consultancy services in the area of high-voltage engineering to large number of companies and power utilities. He has given many invited talks and has been the key resource person of several workshops in India and abroad.