Research Team

• Completed M.Sc.  in April 2017.  Continuing for Ph.D. with Rama Gokaraju.
• PhD Research: Microgrid Protection.
• Lab Support Engineer (Power System Stream), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan. (September 2013-Current).
• Received NSERC Industrial Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Industrial Sponsor: SaskPower), May 2012-August 2013.
• Obtained Bachelor of Engineering Degree (with Great Distinction), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, June 2012.

• Saskatchewan Innovation Scholarship (2016-17)

• NSERC Discovery Grant Funding (2014-17)

• NSERC Engage Grant Funding (RTDS Technologies, 2015-16)

• Current Research Work: Dynamic Model of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) based Nucelar  Generator for  Analyzing its Flexible Operation, and Power System  Dynamic Studies.

• Funding Support:
  • Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation
  • NSERC DG
  • Department Devolved Scholarship

Research Topic: High Speed Relaying.

Doing MSc Studies Part-time at the University of Saskatchewan. Full-time instructor in the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Regina. Leads the Protection & Relay Testing Laboratory at the University of Regina.

High Speed Relaying Using Least Squares.

• NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship with Littelfuse Startco (IPS-1)

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

High-Speed Digital Distance Relaying for Extra High Voltage Transmission Lines (September 2014-October 2017 Full-time; November 2017-August 2020 Part-time)

Thesis Title: Dynamic Modelling of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors for Electricity & Other Applications.

• Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, June 2017-June 2019. 
• Current Research Work: Hosting Capacity Analysis -- photovoltaic generation, battery energy storage, flexible operation of small modular reactors for remote communities. 
• Funding Support:
  • Received post-doctoral fellowship from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, June 2017-November 2017.
  • Research Assistantship: Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation & NSERC DG (November 2017-June 2019).

• Dissertation on "A New Relaying Method for Third Zone Distance Relay Blocking During Power Swings".

• Reserach on Phasor Estimation Technique to Minimize the Impact of CCVT Transientsin Distance Protection.

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• U of S Graduate Scholarship Recipient.

• Dissertation on "Power System Dynamics Enhancement Through Phase Unbalanced and Adaptive Control Schemes in Series FACTS devices"

• NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship

• Dean's Scholarship

• College of Engineering Haid Scholarship

• College of Engineering Research Top-Up Award

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• NSERC Engage Grant

• Dr. Rai is currently working as Sr. Transmission Planner at BC Hydro, Vancouver, Canada.

• Research on Special Protection Scheme for Voltage Instability Prediction.

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• Thesis on the Impact of Wind Power on Power System Security

• Research on Design and Implementation of ANN Based Phase Comparators for Transmission Line Protection

• NSERC Discovery Grant

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• Reasearch at the University of Saskatchewan on Devloping A Kalman Filtering Technique To Reduce Impact of CCVT Transients on Distance protection Wide Area Protection and Control

• Canadian Commonwealth Student Exchange Program, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

• Dissertation on "A Local Measurement Based Protection Methodology for Initiating Controlled Islanding in Power Systems"

• Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship award (2016)

• NSERC Discovery Grant

• Dissertation on "Multi-Band Subsynchronous Damping Controller for Type III DFIG Wind Turbines with Single Mass and Multi-Mass Rotor Models".

• NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (IPS-1, SaskPower).

• Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship.

• Dissertation on "Fault Location in Grid-Connected Ungrounded PV Systems Using Wavelets".

• NSERC Discovery and Engage Grant

• Dissertation on "Dynamic Phasor Modeling of Type 3 Wind Farm including Multi-mass and LVRT Effects".

• NSERC Discovery Grant

• Dissertation on "Power System Stability Analysis Using Wide Area Measurement System".

• NSERC Grants.

• Research on Real-Time Simulations Approach for Analyzing Voltage Instability Protection in Power Systems

• NSERC Engage Grant

• College of Graduate Studies Dean's Scholarship

• NSERC Discovery Grant

• Research on Experimental Investigation on Transformer Internal Fault Protection

• Thesis on Short Circuit Modeling of Wind Generators

• NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC Engage Grant

• Thesis on Loss Minimization Using Power Flow Controllers

• College of Engineering Scholarships

• ECE Department Teaching Assistantships

• Thesis on A State Deviation Method for Transient Stability Prediction in Large Power Systems Internconnected With Wind Generators

• Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• Research on Experimental Investigations for Proactive Arc Flash Detection Using Voltage & Current Measurements

• Reserach on Generator Phase Backup Protection

• Canadian Commonwealth Student Exchange Program, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India

• Reserach on Loss of Excitation Protection

• Canadian Commonwealth Student Exchange Program, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India

• Thesis on "A Fast Method for Out-of-Step Protection Using State-Plane Trajectories Analysis".

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• Thesis on An Adaptive Add-On Control System for a Unified Power Flow Controller

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• Thesis on A Functional Link Network Adaptive Power System Stabilizer

• Thesis on Damping Power Oscillations Using a Phase Imbalanced Hybrid Series Capacitive Compensation Scheme

• NSERC Discovery Grant

• Thesis on Turn-to-turn Fault Detection in Transformers Using Negative Sequence Currents

• Teaching Assistantships

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• Thesis on Transient Modeling of Sen Transformer

• NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship with Magna Electric Corporation

• Thesis on Out-of-Step Protection Using Energy Equilibrium Criterion in the Time Domain

• Department Devolved Scholarship

• NSERC Discovery Grant.

• Completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in August 2012.

• Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, U.S.A.