Education Background

Viswanathan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur in 2021. There, he also actively participated in the Energy and Fuel User’s Association of India chapter as a vice president and technical head. In 2023, he received his M.S. degree in Sustainable Electric Power Engineering and Electromobility from Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola (Chalmers University of Technology) in Sweden. His research focused on the second life study of on-board charging power supply from vehicles at Volvo Group Trucks Technology.

Research Interests

• Smart & Sustainable Communities
  
• Renewable Energy
• Modeling and Simulation
• Modelica
• Electric Vehicle (EV)
• Power Electronics
• Smart Grids

Research Projects

• 10/2020- 09/2024: DOE – Optimal Co-Design of Integrated Thermal-Electrical Networks and Control Systems for Grid-interactive Efficient District (GED) Energy Systems (with RPI, UT Austin,LBNL, NREL & Amzur technologies)
• 08/2022- Present: Smart, Sustainable and Resilient (SSR) Home Test Facility
•  05/2024 – Present: NSF/DOS – Net Zero Carbon Communities (NZCC) Application In Makassar City

Major Awards

• Harry G. Miller Fellowships in Engineering, PSU, 2024
• Gordon D. Kissinger Graduate Research Fellowship, PSU, 2024
• Marlene & Joseph Borda Architectural Engineering Graduates Travel Fellowship, 2024
• Marlene and Joseph Borda Scholarship, PSU, 2023
• College of Engineering Scholarship, PSU, 2023

Journal Papers

• Navamani, D., Lavanya, A., Geetha, A., & Ganesh, V. (2023). Pathway to investigate and assess the performance of solar ON-Grid plant. International Journal of Ambient Energy, 44(1), 186-200.
• Lavanya, A., Navamani, D., Geetha, A., Ganesh, V., Sathik, M. J., Vijayakumar, K., & Ravichandran, D. (2023). Smart energy monitoring and power quality performance based evaluation of 100-kW grid tied PV system. Heliyon.
• Anuradha, C., Vijayalakshmi, S., Ganesh, V., & Ramapraba, P. S. (2023). Grid integration of wind energy using fuzzy logic algorithm. In Handbook of Smart Energy Systems (pp. 1-18). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Book Chapters

• Ganesh, V., Krishna, V. A., Senthilmurugan, S., & Hemavathi, S. (2023). Modeling of Electric Vehicle DC Fast Charger. In Electric Transportation Systems in Smart Power Grids (pp. 269-292). CRC Press.
• Ganesh, V., Solamalai, S., & Anand, A. (2023) Role of IoT in Integration of Smart Home and Smart Grid. Internet of Things: Applications for Sustainable Development, 29.

Conference Papers

• V. Ganesh, Z. He, and W. Zuo, “Advancements in Building-to-Grid Interactions: Thermo-Electric Coupling Models of Motor-driven Devices,” in Proceedings of the American Modelica Conference 2024, Storrs, Connecticut, USA, October 14-16, 2024.
• V. Ganesh, Z. He, W. Zuo 2024. “Priority-base Control vs Demand Shaving Control: A Performance Comparison for Residential Building.” 1st International Conference of Net Zero Carbon Built Environment (ZCBE). July 3-5, Nottingham, UK.
• Anuradha, C., Vijayalakshmi, S., Ganesh, V., & Subramani, V. (2022). Losses and efficiency calculation for multi-port converter. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2516, No. 1). AIP Publishing.
  

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