Shashidhara Mecha Kotian

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Professional Experience: 

  • Assistant Professor (Grade-I) in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at NITK Surathkal
    since 19th December 2019.
  • Assistant Professor at BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus from 1st June 2015 to 18th December 2019.
Contact Details

E-mail: 

shashikotian@nitk.edu.in

Alternate E-mail: 

shashikotian@gmail.com

Telephone: 

+91-824-2473590

Mobile: 

+91-9008418124

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=dVSCjw8AAAAJ&hl=en
Academic Background

• Ph.D. NITK Surathkal, 2015.
• M.Tech. NITK Surathkal, 2010.
• B.E. NITK Surathkal, 2006.

Areas of Interest

Power system dynamics, Wind power integration

Supervision of Ph.D

On-going - 03 ( 02 Full-Time & 01 Part-Time )

Significant Publications
Journals
  1. D. R. Karthik, Narayan S. Manjarekar and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, “Influence of drive train modelling simplification on stability and CCT of a DFIG-integrated power system,” International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 51-69, 2026.
     
  2. D. R. Karthik, Narayan S. Manjarekar and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, “Computation of steady-state operating conditions of a DFIG-based wind energy conversion system considering losses,” Electrical Engineering, vol. 105, pp. 1825-1838, 2023.
     
  3. Shashidhara M. Kotian and K. N. Shubhanga, “Performance of synchronous machine models in a series-capacitor compensated system,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1023-1032, May 2014.
     
  4. Sreenadh Batchu, Shashidhara M. Kotian, and K. N. Shubhanga, “A simulation based analysis of SSR with TCSC,” The journal of Electrical Engineering (Politehnica publishing house, Romania), vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 15-22, December 2013.
     
  5. Shashidhara M. Kotian, Sreenadh Batchu, and Shubhanga K. N., “Sub-synchronous resonance through torsional mode interactions: an analysis,” The journal of CPRI, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 89-96, March 2013.
 
Conference(s)

  1. K Navaneeth, Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, "Application of Wide-Area Power System Stabilizer for Damping of Interarea Oscillations", International Conference on Sustainable Power and Energy Research (ICSPER 2024), 01-03 March, 2024, NIT Warangal,  pp 185-200, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-8634-3_13

  2. A. Lazar, K. Navaneeth and S. M. Kotian, "A Novel Method for Calculating Steady-State Operating Conditions for DFIG-Based Wind Turbines," 2024 3rd Odisha International Conference on Electrical Power Engineering, Communication and Computing Technology (ODICON), Bhubaneswar, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/ODICON62106.2024.10797625. 

  3. K. Navaneeth and S. M. Kotian, "Design of Wide Area Controllers for Synchronous Generators," 2024 International Conference on Smart Systems for applications in Electrical Sciences (ICSSES), Tumakuru, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/ICSSES62373.2024.10561451. 

  4. DR Karthik, Narayan S Manjarekar and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, “Effect of Drive Train Model Simplification on the Stability of Grid-connected DFIG”, IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference (IPRECON 2022), 16-18 December, 2022, Kerala, pp 1-5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IPRECON55716.2022.10059541.
     
  5. Amal Lazar and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, "Stability Analysis of a Grid-Connected DFIG Operating in Subsynchronous and Supersynchronous Conditions", IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference (IPRECON 2022), 16-18 December, 2022, Kerala, pp 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IPRECON55716.2022.10059580.
     
  6. Nitesh Bhatnagar and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, "Analysis of Inter-area Oscillations based Switching Attack in Large Power Systems", IEEE 10th Power India International Conference (PIICON 2022), 25-27 November, 2022, New Delhi, pp 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/PIICON56320.2022.10045264.
     
  7. D. R. Karthik, Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and Narayan S Manjarekar, "An Accurate Method For Steady State Initialization of Doubly Fed Induction Generator", IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), 2-5 January, 2022, Trivandrum, Kerala, pp 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGRE52268.2022.9715802.
     
  8. D. R. Karthik, Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and Narayan S Manjarekar, "A Direct Method for Calculation of Steady-state Operating Conditions of a Doubly Fed Induction Generator", 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), December 16-18, 2021, IIT Kharagpur, pp 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS52420.2021.9670376.
     
  9. D. R. Karthik, Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and Narayan S Manjarekar, "Steady-state Initialization of Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based Wind Turbine Considering Grid Side Filter", 13th IEEE PES Asia Pacific Power & Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 21-23 November, 2021, Trivandrum, Kerala, pp 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/APPEEC50844.2021.9687687.
     
  10. D R Karthik and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, “Initialization of doubly-fed induction generator wind turbines using noniterative method,” IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS) 2019, MNIT Jaipur, Jaipur, December 2019.
     
  11. Jaychandran Padayasi and Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, “Design of supplementary excitation damping controller for mitigation of subsynchronous resonance,” IEEE International Technical Conference (TENCON) 2019, Kochi, Kerala, October 2019.
     
  12. Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and K. N. Shubhanga, “Analytical design of static VAR compensator-based subsynchronous damping controller,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Computing & Control (PICC 2018), Trichur, India, January 2018.
     
  13. Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and K. N. Shubhanga, “Large-signal performance of synchronous machine models in power systems,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2016), Trivandrum, India, December 2016.
     
  14. Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and K. N. Shubhanga, “Design of a subsynchronous damping controller using a dynamic phasor-based model of TCSC,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Power & Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy (PESTSE 2016), Bangalore, India, January 2016. Received "M. H. Rashid" Best Paper Award.
     
  15. Shashidhara Mecha Kotian, Adharapurapu Hema Latha and K. N. Shubhanga, “A toy model to understand subsynchronous resonance and real-time simulation of the model using RTAI-Linux,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT 2015), Kanyakumari, India, December 2015. Received Best Paper Award.
     
  16. Shashidhara Mecha Kotian and K. N. Shubhanga, “Dynamic phasor modelling and simulation,” Proc. of 12th IEEE International India Conference (INDICON 2015), New Delhi, India, December 2015.
     
  17. M. K. Shashidhara and K. N. Shubhanga, “Performance of power system stabilizers in a fixed series capacitor compensated system,” IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Hyderabad, India, pp. 1-5, December 2011.
     
  18. M. K. Shashidhara and K. N. Shubhanga, “Some aspects of power system stabilizer performance in subsynchronous resonance study,” International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPS), IIT Chennai, India, pp. 1-6, December 2011.
Achievements

1. POSOCO Power System Award" awarded by Power System Operation Corporation Limited and Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi under the Doctoral category for the year 2016.
2. M. H. Rashid best paper award for the paper presented at IEEE international conference PESTSE 2016.
3. Best paper award or the paper presented at IEEE international conference ICCICCT 2015.
4. Gold Medal in M.Tech. Power and Energy Systems, NITK Surathkal

Remarks

Detailed CV: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PhfEYdkySRb7sDZTZvZWdx9LRwLErh13/view?usp=shari...