Dr Neelu Nagpal

    Associate Professor, MAIT

    Senior Member, IEEE

    Office: Room No. 642, Block: 6

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    Web of Science ResearcherID: AFI-4382-2022

     Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1923-2760

Qualification

• Ph.D in Delhi Technological University under the topic “Environment Force Estimation with Stochastic noise and Control for  Robotics”.
• ME in Control & Instrumentation from Delhi College of Engineering with distinction.
• B-Tech in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering in first division.

Experience 

•  Presently working as Associate  Professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Rohini, New Delhi  since August 2006. 
• Lecturer in Northern Indian Engineering College in Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department (Jan 2005-July 2006). 
• Guest Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department in Delhi  College of Engineering. (May 1999-May 2001). 
• Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department of  Pusa Polytechnic (Feb 2000-Feb 2004). 
• Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department of Chottu Ram Rural Institute of Technology. (Aug 1999-Jan 2001)

 Technical Skills

Software: MATLAB, LABVIEW, LATEX

Area of Interest/Specializations

Stochastic & Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, State Estimation, Renewable Energy Sources, Load Frequency Control, Computational Intelligence.

Awards and Recognizations

• Recipient of Commendable 15 years long service award from MAIT on 5^th September, 2021
• Recipient of Commendable Research Award from Delhi Technological University on March 19, 2019.
•  Technical member of IEEE Control System community (http://ieeecss.org/search?keywords=Neelu+)
• Leader of Energy Domain of R&D of IEEE Smart Cities.
• Active Functional (Education, Publication, Marketing) Committee member of IEEE Smart Cities.
• Publication Chair of an IEEE conference, ICIERA, 2021 at MAIT during 22-24 December 2021. 
• Innovation Ambassador MAIT (Foundation Level) recognized by MoE’s innovation cell and AICTE.
•  Received appreciation certificate in theory subject-Circuit and System taught for a class (7 students got 100% marks Final Exam) on 5^th September 2019.
• Core Member and Social Media Coordinator of IIC MAIT till 2022
• Core Member of EDC  MAIT

Faculty Coordinator

• Final Year Project Coordinator Since Aug 2022
• Academic  Batch Coordinator of 2nd year Since Aug 2022
• IEEE IAS MAIT SB Chapter Counselor
• Core committee member of Entrepreneur Development Cell (EDC), MAIT
• Core committee member of Institute Innovation Council (IIC) MAIT
• Department Website Incharge
• Gap and Analysis of Depatment Incharge
• Core member of NBA accreditation committee
• Student Counselor of  Group 4EEE4
• Subject coordinator of NFS Theory and EEC Lab
• Project Guide ( Minor and Major)  of Student Groups
• Stage Management and Decoration Coordinator for MAIT Annual function 
• Lab Incharge LabVIEW Lab

Activities, Achievements and contributions:

• Vice-chair IEEE Smart Cities Ambassador Program for year 2023. https://smartcities.ieee.org/ambassadors/about-ieee-smart-cities-ambassadors-program
• IEEE Smart Cities Ambassador for year 2022. 
• Leader Energy Domain IEEE Smart Cities Council
• Technical Chair of IEEE International conference CCET at Sage University, Bhopal during December 23-24 December, 2022. 
• Session Chair of IEEE International conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI 2022)hosted by Istanbul Atlas University, Istanbul, Turkey during July 15-16, 2022.
• Organising member of SMART'o'QUIZ at MAIT held on March 25, 2022. 
• Organing member of a 2-day online Smart cities hackathon at MAIT during March 25-26, 2022. (https://smartcities.ieee.org/ambassadors/smart-cities-week-2022-program)
• Editor of two volumes of book, “Big Data and AI for Smart Energy Systems”, IEEE River Publisers. (https://www.riverpublishers.com/book_details.php?book_id=1064)
• Track Chair and Session chair of IEEE International conference DELCON during February, 11-13, 2022. 
• Session Chair of International Conference, ICREN 2020, Rome, Italy during November 25-27, 2020.
• Session Chair of International Conference, INDIACON 2020, Delhi, India during December 11-13, 2020.
• Contributing as member of Functional Committee of IEEE Smart cities and involved in its various activities of R&D, Academic and Publication.
• Reviewer of many reputed international Journals such as IEEE Transactions on Indudtrial Informatics, IEEE Access,  IET Journal and conferences likes PEDES-2020, IEEE IAS AM 2019, PICON -2020, RDCAPE-2021, RDCAPE-2019, INDIACOM-2020, MysuruCon, 2021, Micro-2020(Springer).
• Contributing as Counselor of IEEE IAS SB chapter, MAIT, New Delhi from June, 2020 to till date.
• Judge for the event "Hack with MAIT" organized by CSE Department, MAIT on 26-27 October, 2021. 
• Contributed as Member, Organizing Committee of IEEE International Conference on “Power Electronics Intelligent Control and Energy Systems” at DTU, Delhi during June 4^th- 6^th, 2016.
• Contributing as an Evaluator, Moderator, and Paper Setter for Directorate General of Training (DGT) under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India for the last 7 years.
• Contributed as an Evaluator, Moderator, and Paper Setter for EdCIL India Limited, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India from year 2013-2016.
• Contributing as an Evaluator, External Examiner & Paper Setter in Delhi University, GGSIP University & Board of Technical Education, Delhi.
• Contributing as Coordinators for the various college functions and events (Technical, Sports and Cultural) of MAIT, New Delhi.
• Contributing in various departmental activities as Website in-charge, Failure/Gap analysis in-charge of Program Assessment and Quality Improvement Committee, MAIT, New Delhi.
•  Member Organizing Committee of Rotary Blood Donation camp held on 21^st October, 2016 at MAIT.
• Developed & augmented labs in deptt. like Power Electronics & LABVIEW

 Conference/FDP/Events/Program/Workshop/Activities Organized

• Organiser of "SmartoHack" Series 2 under the flagship of IEEE Smart Cities held on October 16-17, 2023.
• Organised Special Session III Innovative Intelligent Techniques in Real-world Engineering Applications in Springer Conference, SIGMAA2023 to be held on Dec. 15-16, 2023.
• Coordinator of Webinar under IIC-MAIT and EDC-MAIT activity on topic, "IPR & IP Management for Startups" held on March 12, 2022.
• Coordinator of Webinar under IIC-MAIT and EDC-MAIT activity on topic, "Enterprenuership and Innovation as Carrer Opportumnity" held on February 22,  2022
• Coordinator of one week FDP organized in MAIT on topic, “Latest Technologies and their Applications in Electrical Engineering and Future Energy” in August 16-20, 2021.
• Coordinator of STTP cum workshop organized in MAIT on topic, “Renewable Energy Systems” held on June4, 2021.
• Webinar arranged under IIC MAIT activity on topic, “Innovation and Patents Practice” held on March 12, 2021.
• Coordinator of Webinar arranged under IIC MAIT activity on topic, “Panel Discussion with Students Entrepreneurs” held on   28^th August, 2021.
• Core Organizing Committee member of one day International webinar on Entrepreneurship in Technical Start-ups at MAIT, New Delhi on 7^th August, 2020.
• Core Member Organizing Committee of IEEE International Conference on “Power Electronics Intelligent Control and Energy Systems” at DTU, Delhi during June 4 - 6, 2016.
• Organized Department Student Farewell in year 2016, 2017.

Conferences, Seminars, Workshop, Development Program attended

• Attended  online as Session Chair IEEE International conferenceon Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI 2022)hosted by Istanbul Atlas University, Istanbul, Turkey during July 15-16, 2022.
  
• Attended  as Session Chair IEEE International conference CCET at Sage University, Bhopal during December 23-24 December, 2022.
• Attended  as Session chair IEEE International conference DELCON during February, 11-13, 2022.
• Completed 1 Professional Development Hours IEEE Educational Activity Course on “Fast EV Chargers Using Three-phase LLC Converters” on April 18, 2020.
• Completed 1 Professional Development Hours IEEE Educational Activity Course on “Smart Battery Energy Management and Health Conscious Fast Charging for Future Transport by Dr. Sheldon Williamson" on June 2, 2020.
•  Completed 1 Professional Development Hours IEEE Educational Activity Course on “Wireless Charging for Autonomous Electrified Micro-mobility Devices: A Real-world Solution for Smart Cities to be Pandemic-ready” on 30 June 2020.
• Participated in the Webinar on “An IoT based Architecture for Flexibility Service Provision in Smart Grids presented by Dr. Pierluigi Siano” organized by IEEE Lahore Section on November 2, 2020.
• One week E-Faculty Development Programme on “Stress and Health Issues Due to COVID-19: Management and Technical Solutions” organized by MAIT, New Delhi during July 6-10, 2020.
• Participated in the “International Symposium on COVID 19 and beyond: The new normal in HEI’s” organized by IQAC of J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad on June 10, 2020. 
• Participated in the webinar series on “Understanding Power System Simulation Concepts through Case Studies” organized by IEEE PES-IAS Chapter Delhi Section and PES India Chapters Council held from  June, 22- 26, 2020.
• Participated in the Webinar on “Power Electronics Converters for Electric Vehicles New Generation Low Cost Solutions” organized by IEEE & IEEE-IAS on June 24, 2020.
• Participated in the Webinar on “Writing Quality Technical Papers presented by Dr. G. Vincent” organised by IEEE IA/ IE/ PELS Jt. Chapter Kerala Section on April, 25, 2020.
• Participated in the Webinar on “Integrated Battery Chargers for Electric Vehicles presented by Dr. R Sudharshan Kaarthik” organised by IEEE IA/ IE/ PELS Jt. Chapter Kerala Section on April, 13, 2020.
• Two Week ISTE STTP on Electrical Power System conducted by IITK from 12^th June, 17 to 15^th July, 2017 at MAIT, New Delhi.
•  FDP on Green Energy Clean organized by EEE Department from 23th July, 2018 to 18^th July, 18 at MAIT, New Delhi.
• Training program on SCADA, Renewable Energy & Smart Grid organized by NPTI, Faridabad from 20^th March, 17 to 22^nd March, 2017 at MAIT, New Delhi.
• Short term course on Wireless and Mobile Communication conducted by NIITTR, Chandigarh from 22^nd Aug, 18-2^nd Sept 2016, at GND Polytechnic. Delhi.
• IEEE International Conference on “Power Electronics Intelligent Control and Energy Systems” at Delhi Technological University during 4^th- 6^th June, 2016.
• TEQIP sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Nature Inspired Algorithm and their Application”  at Delhi Technological University during 13^th -17^th  July, 2015.
• Two week ISTE workshop on “Control Systems” conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi during 2^nd -12^th December, 2014.
• National Conference on “Recent Trends in Energy, System and Control” at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra during 15-16^th March, 2013.
• National Seminar on “Recent Trends on Electrical Power Systems”, sponsored by DRDO, Delhi at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi on 1^st March, 2013.
• Two week Staff Development Programme on Power Station Operation and Control sponsored by AICTE from 20^th June to 31^st  July 2009.
• Participated in Two-day workshop on “Power Quality” organized by IEEE PES-IAS Delhi chapter during 21^st – 22^nd November, 2008.
• Short term training program on Faculty Awareness Camps on Entrepreneurship sponsored by ISTE-NSTEDB , at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi  during  June 9^th -16^th , 2008. 
• Conference on Technology for Rural India: Challenges and Perspective and was Rapporteur at New Delhi places from May 31^st to June 1^st, 2008.

Publications

Journals/Transactions:

1.  D Lakshmi, Ravi Shekhar Tiwari, Neelu Nagpal, Neelam Kassarwani, G Vishnuvarthanan, Abhishek Srivastava, Comparative Study on Forecasting of Schedule Generation in Delhi Region for the Resilient Power Grid Using Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2023.331664
2. P. Khetarpal, N. Nagpal, M. S. Al-Numay, P. Siano, Y. Arya and N. Kassarwani, "Power Quality Disturbances Detection and Classification Based on Deep Convolution Auto-Encoder Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 46026-46038, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3274732.
3. H. H. Alhelou, N. Nagpal, N. Kassarwani and P. Siano, Decentralized Optimized Integral Sliding Mode-Based Load Frequency Control for Interconnected Multi-Area Power Systems, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 32296-32307, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3262790.
4. Lakshmi D., Neelu Nagpal, S. Chandrasekaran, Jude Hemanth D., A quantum-based approach for offensive security against cyber attacks in electrical infrastructure, Applied Soft Computing, Volume 136, 2023, 110071, ISSN 1568-4946, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2023.110071.
5. H. Haes Alhelou, H. Parthasarathy, N.  Nagpal, V. Agarwal, H. Nagpal, P. Siano,  Decentralised Stochastic Disturbance Observer Based Optimal Fequency Control Method for Interconnected Power Systems with High Renewable Shares, ,EEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, doi: 10.1109/TII.2021.3107396.
6. N Nagpal, V Agarwal, B Bhushan, Real-Time State Observer Based Controller for Stochastic Robotic Manipulator, IEEE Transactions of Industrial Applications, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 1806-1822, 2018. 
7.  N Nagpal, B Bhushan, V Agarwal, Estimation of Stochastic Environment Force for Master-Slave Robotic System, Sadhna, Springer, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 889-899, 2018. 
8. Debarati Pal, Himanshu Kumar, Kavita Joshi, Neelu Nagpal, IoT Based Smart Parking and Green Charging System, International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering and Management (IJSREM) , Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan - 2022.
9. S. Sharma, a. Bhatia, U.K.Jha, N. Nagpal, R. Sharma, Effect of Disturbnce on Two Area Hydropower Interconnected Sytem, MAIT Journal of Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-5, 2018.
10. G. K. Jindal, N. Nagpal, B. Das, A. Gupta, M. Kumar, Smart Soil Testing, MAIT Journal of Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 82-89,  2018. 

 Book Chapters:

1. Devanjali Rehlan, Kiran Khatter, Neelu Nagpal, Blockchain based Solution for Electricity Supply Chain in Smart Grids. Applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Smart Energy Systems: Volume 2 - Energy Planning, Operations, Control and Market Perspectives, IEEE River Publishers, ISBN: 9788770228268

2. N.  Aggarwal, A. N. Mahajan, N.  Nagpal, Dynamic State Estimation of a Multi-source Isolated Power System Using Unscented Kalman Filter, Springer Book Series, In book: International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications,  doi:10.1007/978-981-19-3679-1_10

3. N.  Nagpal, H. Nagpal, B. Bhushan, V. Agarwal, Tracking Control of 4-DOF  Robotic Arem Using Krill Herd Optimized Fuzzy Logic Controller, Vol. 697, Springer book series, Singapore, pp. 629-643, 2019. 
4. M. Kumar, A. Gupta, N. Nagpal,  Tracking Control of Robot Using Intelligent-Computed Torque Control, Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Engineering, Vol. 697, Springer book series, Singapore, pp. 619-628, 2019.

      Conferences

1. A. Sharma, P. Khetarpal, N. Nagpal and R. Sharma, “Monitoring and protection of induction motors against abnormal industrial conditions using PLC”, 4th International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication, organized by University of Delhi, New Delhi, India in association with National Institute of Technology Patna, India and University of Valladolid, Spain on 20th-21st February, 2021.
2. N. Nagpal, P. Siano, P. Khetarpal, S. Kaur, H. Nagpal, “Short-Term Electricity Demand Prediction Using Modified Hidden Markov Model”, pp. 90-90, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy 2020, Rome, Italy, held online on November 25-27, 2020, ISSN 2609-374X.
3. R. S. Yadav, G. Singla, M. Verma, N. Nagpal, R. Sharma, “Analysis of Cascade Failure and DG placement for its Mitigation”, pp. 94-94, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy 2020, Rome, Italy, held online on November 25-27, 2020, ISSN 2609-374X.
4. P. Khetarpal, N. Nagpal, R. Narang, L. Jaggi, S. Yadav, “Application of IoT (Internet of things) and Big data technology in smart grid and renewable energy integration”, pp. 95-95, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy 2020, Rome, Italy, held online on November 25-27, 2020, ISSN 2609-374X.
5. G. Singla, V. Yadav, M. Verma, R. Sharma, N. Nagpal, “Emerging Electrified Transportation in India: Challenges and Proposed Solutions”, 3rd International Conference on Energy Systems, Drives and Automations (online), December, 30th-31st, 2020, accepted.
6. N. Nagpal, B. Bhushan, V. Agarwal, “Intelligent Control of Four DOF Robotic Arm” publishedIEEE International Conference on “Power Electronics Intelligent Control and Energy Systems” at Delhi Technological University during June 4^th- 6^th, 2016.
7. N. Nagpal and J. Ohri, “Stability Analysis of Impedance type Haptic Interface ”, published inProceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Signal Processing, Communications and Computers Recent Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Italy, ISBN: 978-1-61804-228-6, 2014
8. N. Nagpal and J.  Ohri, “Stability Analysis of Haptic Interface using Jury Stability Criterion” in National Conference on “Recent Trends in Energy, System and Control” during 15-16^th March, 2013 at NIT, Kurukshetra.