• हिमाचल प्रदेश विश्वविद्यालय
  • Himachal Pradesh University
  • Himachal Pradesh University
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Dr. Manish Kumar

Dr. Manish Kumar

Assistant Professor

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), Summerhill, Shimla-5, India

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SWeDNNoAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manish-Kumar-149

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manish-kumar-ph-d-b297b277/

E-mail: naik.manish17@gmail.com, manishnaik@uithpu.ac.in

 

KEY AREA OF INTEREST AND FIELD OF WORK          

  • Floating solar PV systems and canal-top PV systems
  • Performance and reliability analysis of solar photovoltaic technologies
  • Modeling of PV modules
  • Environmental accelerated testing of PV modules
  • PV modules’ defects characterization using spatial and non-spatial techniques
  • Optimization and sizing of PV systems

 

Student mentorship

During Assistant Professorship at Himachal Pradesh University (HPU):

  1. Guiding Ph.D. student Dheeraj Sharma on developing an artificial intelligence framework for assessing the performance and reliability of PV systems on water bodies.
  2. Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Linear Integrated Circuits, Basic Electronics, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, and IoT.

During Postdoc at IIT Bombay:

  1. Partially guided a Ph.D student (Humaid Mohammed Niyaz) on the topic of Performance analysis of PV systems and estimation of PV module temperature under different environmental conditions.
    • Three manu has been published in the reputed SCI journals
  2. Partially guided a Ph.D student (Roopmati Meena) on the topic of characterization and degradation analysis of field aged PV module.
    • One manus has been published in the reputed SCI journals
    • One manus is submitted in the reputed SCI journals
  3. Guided two M.Tech and one B.Tech students on the topic of potential induced degradation in PV systems and parameters extraction techniques of PV modules for their characterization.

During Ph.D at IIT Roorkee:

  1. Guided M.Tech students on the topic of modelling of PV modules and performance analysis of PV systems under different environmental conditions.
  2. Worked one-on-one with M.Tech students of special needs helping them navigate through the challenges of their PG thesis.
  3. Appointed as department coordinator for the research scholars and PG students to represent their research related issue in front of main administration.

 

Teaching Assistantship

During Postdoc at IIT Bombay:

  1. Demonstrated experiments to PG and PhD students in the PV reliability and NDT laboratory

During Ph.D at IIT Roorkee:

  1. Demonstrated experiments to UG and PG students in the solar energy laboratory.

 

Published Conference Articles:

  1. A. Sharma, J. Kaur, and M. Kumar, "A Technical Review on Emerging Li-Fi Technology," Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation in Clean Energy Technologies (ICET) 2023, MNIT Bhopal, 2023.
  2. M. Kumar, V. S. Nysted, G. Otnes, T. Kjeldstad, N. Roosloot, J. Selj. Impact of Water Waves on the Output Power of Floating PV Systems on Water Bodies. In 2022 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 50th IEEE PVSC, 32th PVSEC & 39th EU PVSEC). Sep 26-30, Milan, Italy
  3. M. Kumar, H. Mohammed, R. Gupta. Analysis of Partial Shading Effect on the Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Module Temperature Distribution. In 2021 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Control Automation and Power Engineering (RDCAPE 2021). IEEE, 7th-8th October 2021, India.
  4. M. Kumar, H. Mohammed, R. Gupta. Comparative Performance Evaluation of Multi-crystalline and Thin-film PV Technologies on the Water Surface. In 2021 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Control Automation and Power Engineering (RDCAPE 2021). IEEE, 7th-8th October 2021, India
  5. M. Kumar, A. Kumar, 2020, Dec. Performance of Solar Photovoltaic systems under the influence of climatic parameters and carbon emission reduction. In 2020 International Conference on Challenges and Applications in Clean Energy (ICCACE-2020). Dec 25-26, NIT Kurukshetra, India.
  6. M. Kumar, A. Kumar, 2018, June. Power Estimation of Photovoltaic System using 4 and 5- parameter Solar Cell Models under Real Outdoor Conditions. In 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC) (pp. 0721-0726). IEEE. June 10-15, Hawaii, USA.
  7. M. Kumar, A. Kumar, 2018, Jan. Effect of environmental parameters on the performance of Solar Photovoltaic systems. In 2018 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication, Mechanical and Computing (IEEE-EECCMC), Jan 28-29, Tamil Nadu, India.
  8. M. Kumar, N. Kumar, S.S. Chandel, 2015. Power prediction of photovoltaic system using four parameter model. In 2015 SARC-International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Computer Science (ICIECS-2015), 29 March 2015, Pune.

Book Chapters:

  1. Manish Kumar, Roopmati Meena, Rajesh Gupta, 2021. Floating photovoltaic systems: an emerging PV technology. Enabling Methodologies for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis
  2. Roopmati Meena, Manish Kumar, Rajesh Gupta, 2021. Reliabilty and degradation analysis of crystalline silicon photovoltaic module. Advancements in Renewable Energy Development, River Press, Denmark and IEEE digital xplore
  3. Ravi Kumar, Manish Kumar, Rajesh Gupta, 2021. Leakage current in solar photovoltaic modules. Advancements in Renewable Energy Development, River Press, Denmark and IEEE digital xplore

 

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