arupdas.eee | Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)

Dr. Arup Kumar Das

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering IIT (BHU)

Phone No(s): 9734539014, 7586892951

Email: arupdas.eee@itbhu.ac.in

Area of Interest: Power system asset management, Application of artificial intelligence in condition monitoring of power equipment, Vision based condition monitoring of electrical equipment, Applied signal and image processing, Partial discharge measurement and analysis, Insulation engineering, Cryogenic dielectrics

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I welcome motivated undergraduate and postgraduate students to join the High Voltage Engineering Research Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Our group provides an excellent platform to begin or advance your research career in the field of High voltage engineering, Condition monitoring of power equipment, Advanced electrical insulation technologies and related areas.

Students with strong academic backgrounds and a genuine interest in high voltage systems and advanced electrical insulation technologies are encouraged to apply for the M.Tech. and Ph.D. programs at IIT (BHU). Once admitted, interested candidates may contact me via email or visit my office to discuss possible research collaborations.

Our current research primarily focuses on:

Asset management and reliability of high voltage and power equipment
Condition monitoring and diagnostics of electrical insulation systems
Cryogenic dielectrics and advanced insulating materials
Signal and image–based condition assessment techniques
Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in high voltage engineering

A strong foundation in mathematics and proficiency in programming (MATLAB, Python, or similar platforms) are desirable for research in these areas.

In addition, research-oriented undergraduate students from other institutes are encouraged to apply for summer or winter internships by sending their CV/resume via email.

Jadavpur University, Kolkata:

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Engineering (2019-2022)

Thesis Title: “Studies on Some Condition Monitoring Methodologies for Surge Arrester”

Jadavpur University, Kolkata:

Master of Engineering (M.E.), Electrical Engineering, (2017 – 2019)

CGPA: 9.06/10 (First class First, Gold medalist)

Thesis Title: “Dielectric response analysis for condition assessment of XLPE power cable”

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, Kolkata:

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering, (2011 – 2015)

DGPA: 8.26/10

Assistant Professor: Electrical Department, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Uttar Pradesh, India

(Dec 2024-Present)

Responsibilities: Teaching, Research, and mentoring

Assistant Professor: Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Department, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritanagar, Ettimadai, Tamil Nadu, India

(August 2024-Dec 2024)

Responsibilities: Teaching, Research, and mentoring

Postdoctoral Research scholar: Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States

(January 2023-July 2024)

Responsibilities: Research, Industrial collaborative work, laboratory setup and mentoring

Industrial collaboration with ASG Superconductors SpA

Involved Projects: Dr. Cheetham’s startup grant (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering), Insulation design of HTS cable for power grid application (ASG Superconductors SpA), Office of Naval Research grant (US NAVY), NASA University Leadership Initiative (NASA), Department of Energy Grant (DOE), Integrated Zero-Emission Aviation (IZEA) (NASA)

Assistant Professor: University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India

(August 2022-January 2023)

Responsibilities: Teaching, Research, and mentoring

Subjects Taken:

UG: Basic Electrical Engineering, Programming for Problem Solving

UG: Basic Electrical Laboratory and Programming for Problem Solving Laboratory

National Doctoral Senior Research Fellow: High Voltage Laboratory, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

(August 2021-July 2022)

Responsibilities: Research, laboratory setup and teaching assistantship

Project: Studies on Some Condition Monitoring Methodologies for Surge Arrester

Funded by: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

National Doctoral Junior Research Fellow: High Voltage Laboratory, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

(August 2019-July 2021)

Responsibilities: Research, laboratory setup and teaching assistantship

Project: Studies on Some Condition Monitoring Methodologies for Surge Arrester

Funded by: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

Accepted/ Published (28)

IEEE Transactions/Journals/Letters (22)

Sl No.	Authors	Tittle	Name of Journals	Volume	Page	Year	Web Link
1	A. K. Das, M. T. M. K. Niazi, N. Guvvala, P. Mensah, S. Pamidi, and P. Cheetham	Finite Element Method-Aided Investigation of DC Transient Electric Field at Cryogenic Temperature for Aviation Application	Applied Sciences	16		2026	https://doi.org/10.3390/app16020656
2	A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee, S. K. Ojha, J.C. Pandey and S. Chakravorti,	Estimation of Moisture Content in Metal Oxide Surge Arrester Based on Frequency Distribution Analysis of Dielectric Relaxation Current	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	In press	-	2025	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11214539
3	A. K. Das, N. Guvvala, P. Cheetham and S. V. Pamidi	Measurement and Modelling of Time Domain Dielectric Response of Insulating Materials at Cryogenic Temperature	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	32	3253-3260	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2025.3574654
4	E. Manzo, W.A. Touza, G.Bednarz, N. Guvvala, A. K. Das, P. Cheetham and S. V. Pamidi	Evaluation of Polyethylene as Lapped Tape Electrical Insulation for Helium Gas Cooled HTS Power Cables	IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity	35	5	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2025.3544617
5	S.S. Roy, A. Paramane, B. Ganguly, A. K. Das, S. Paul, and S. Chatterjee	Condition Monitoring of Polymetric Insulators: A Remote Diagnostic Framework with Improved Intermediate Hydrophobicity Grade Detection	IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications	61	5251-5260	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2025.3542723
6	A. Mullings, P. Meansah, A. K. Das, N. Guvvala, C. H. Kim, S. V. Pamidi and P. Cheetham	Performance Enhancements of HTS Power Cables by Minimizing the Electric Field Enhancements for Electric Transport Applications	Superconductor Science and Technology	37	-	2024	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/ad6d9a
7	M.T. Nazir, N. Guvvala, A. K. Das, C. H. Kim, S. V. Pamidi and P. Cheetham	Evaluation of Lapped Tape Electrical Insulation for Gaseous Helium Cooled High Temperature Superconducting Power Cable	IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification	11	1816-1824	2024	https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2024.3409777
8	T. Nazir, A. Khalid, T. Phung, A. K. Das, P. Cheetham and A. Paramane	Electrical Tracking, Erosion and Fire Retardancy Performance of Silicone Rubber Insulation Containing Aluminum Trihydrate, Graphene and Glass Fibre Additive	CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems,	9	1918-1925	2023	https://doi.org/10.17775/CSEEJPES.2022.08120
9	R. Das, A. K. Das, B. Chakraborty,, S. Chatterjee, S. Dalai, B. Chatterjee, and K. Bhattacharyya	Mathematical Morphology-Aided Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network-Based Partial Discharge Pulse Sequence Classification	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science	51	3454-3461	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2023.3330891
10	R. Das, A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee, A. K. Pradhan, S. Biswas, S. Dalai, B. Chatterjee and K. Bhattacharyya	A Novel Deep Learning Framework to Identify and Locate Single and Multiple Partial Discharge Events	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	30	2633-2641	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2023.3289482
11	S. S. Roy, A. Paramane, J. Singh, A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee and X. Chen	Automated Space Charge Classification Inside ±500 kV HVDC Cable Insulation Using Fusion of Super pixel and Deep Features For Remote Condition Assessment,	IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement	72	1-8	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2023.3266523
12	A. K. Das, S. Das, A. K. Pradhan, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	RPCNNet: A Deep Learning Approach to Sense Minor Stator Winding Inter-Turn Fault Severity in Induction Motor under Variable Load Condition	IEEE Sensors Journal	23	3965-3972	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2023.3234467
13	S. S. Roy, A. Paramane, J. Singh, S. Chatterjee and A. K. Das	Accurate Sensing of Insulator Surface Contamination Using Customized Convolutional Neural Network	IEEE Sensors Letters	7	1-4	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2022.3232506
14	S. S. Roy, A. Paramane, J. Singh, F. Meng, C. Dai, A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee, X. Chen and Y. Tanaka	Remote Condition Monitoring of HVDC Cable Insulation Using Deep Learning-Aided Space Charge Classification	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	30	377-384	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2022.321417
15	A. K. Das, S. Deb, D. Dey, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	Multi Synchrosqueezing Transform based improved Time-frequency representation to Sense Contamination Severity of Overhead Line Insulator	IEEE Sensors Journal	22	12098-12106	2022	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2022.3174217
16	A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee, A. K. Pradhan, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	Estimation of Moisture Content in XLPE Cable Insulation using Electric Modulus,	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation,	29	1030-1037	2022	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2022.3173485
17	P. Ghosh, A. K. Das, S. Dalai and S. Chatterjee	The Effects of Non-Standard Lightning Impulse on Electrical Insulation: A Review	Electrical Engineering (Spinger)	104	4239-4254	2022	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-022-01616-2
18	A. K. Das, S. Deb, S. Chatterjee, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	Convolutional neural network and Bi-directional long short memory hybrid deep network aided infrared image classification framework for non-contact monitoring of overhead insulators	IET signal Processing	16	722-732	2022	https://doi.org/10.1049/sil2.12130
19	A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	Cross Spectrum Aided Surface Condition Assessment of Metal Oxide Surge Arrester Employing Convolutional Neural Network	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	28	2134-2143	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2021.009747
20	A. K. Das, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	A Novel Approach to Estimate the Quantity of Ingressed Moisture Content inside Metal Oxide Surge Arrester using Dielectric Modulus Technique	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	28	2178-2185	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2021.009796
21	A. K. Das, D. Dey, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee	Fusion of Deep Features With Superpixel Based Local Handcrafted Features for Surface Condition Assessment of Metal Oxide Surge Arrester Using Infrared Thermal Images	IEEE Sensors Letters	5	1-4	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2021.3123097
22	A. K. Das, D. Dey, B. Chatterjee and S. Dalai	A Transfer Learning Approach to Sense the Degree of Surface Pollution for Metal Oxide Surge Arrester Employing Infrared Thermal Imaging	IEEE Sensors Journal	21	16961-16968	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3079570
23	A. K. Das and S. Dalai	Recent Development in Condition Monitoring Methodologies of MOSA Employing Leakage Current Signal: A Review	IEEE Sensors Journal	21	14559-14568	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3073536
24	K. Nandi, A. K. Das, R. Ghosh, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee	Hyperbolic Window S-Transform Aided Deep Neural Network Model-Based Power Quality Monitoring Framework in Electrical Power System	IEEE Sensors Journal	21	13695-13703	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3071935
25	K. Sit, A. K. Das, D. Mukherjee, N. Haque, S. Deb, A. K. Pradhan, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee	Condition Monitoring of Overhead Polymeric Insulators Employing Hyperbolic Window Stockwell Transform of Surface Leakage Current Signals	IEEE Sensors Journal	21	10957-10964	2021	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3061797
26	A. K. Das, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee	Deep learning-based surface contamination severity prediction of metal oxide surge arrester in power system	IET Science, Measurement & Technology	15	376-384	2021	https://doi.org/10.1049/smt2.12039
27	A. K. Das, B. Ghosh, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee	Sensing Surface Contamination of Metal Oxide Surge Arrester Through Resistive Leakage Current Signal Analysis by Mathematical Morphology,	IEEE Sensors Journal	20	9460-9468	2020	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2020.008789
28	A. K. Das, N. Haque, A. K. Pradhan, S. Dalai, B. Chatterjee and A. Mukherjee	Estimation of Moisture Content in XLPE Insulation in Medium Voltage Cable by Frequency Domain Spectroscopy	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation	27	1811-1819	2020	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.2986677

A. K. Das, S. Barua, S. Deb, K. Sit and S. Dalai, "Infrared Thermal Image Aided Deep Transfer Learning Approach to Sense Contamination Grade for Non-contact monitoring of Overhead Line Insulator," 2025 IEEE 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Jaipur, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SEFET65155.2025.11255620.
A. K. Das et al., "Recurrence Quantification Analysis of DC Discharge Activity for Gaseous Helium-Cooled High-Temperature Superconducting Power Cables," 2025 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 720-723, doi: 10.1109/CEIDP61707.2025.11218367
S. Chatterjee, S. Das and A. K. Das, "Investigations on the Dielectric Properties of Mineral Oil and Natural Ester Mixed Liquid Insulation for Power Transformers," 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON), Kolkata, India, 2024, pp. 102-105, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CATCON60527.2024.10831312 (Presented, Presenting author)
H. Hussain, M. T. Nazir and A. K. Das, "Electric field modeling of 11KV XLPE cable with rectangular voids at multiple locations," 2024 IEEE 34th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Sydney, Australia, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/AUPEC62273.2024.10807550
A. K. Das, N. Guvvala, S. Pamidi and P. Cheetham, "Electrical Conductivity Measurement of Dielectric Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures," 2024 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2024, pp. 456-459, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC58847.2024.10579428 (Presented, Presenting author)
C. Hall, J. Francois, S. Bernadin, A. K. Das, N. Guvvala, S. V. Pamidi and P. Cheetham, "Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Electrostatic Discharge Materials," 2024 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2024, pp. 405-408, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC58847.2024.10579452 (Presented, Presenting author)
S. S. Roy, A. Paramane, B. Ganguly, A. K. Das, S. Paul and S. Chatterjee, “Image Visibility Patch Aided Hydrophobic Class Detection of Silicone Rubber Insulators Employing Bi-LSTM Network,” 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10430514
M. Tariq Nazir, A. Khalid, A. K. Das, K. L. Wong and B. Toan Phung, "Electrical tracking and combustibility performance of RTV silicone rubber composite insulation," 23rd International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH 2023), Glasgow, UK, 2023, pp. 507-511, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.0569
K. Nandi, B. Chatterjee, P. Das, S. Dalai and A. K. Das, "Detection of Multiple Power Quality Disturbances using Stockwell Transform and Convolutional Neural Network in Electrical Power System," 2023 IEEE 3rd Applied Signal Processing Conference (ASPCON), India, 2023, pp. 206-210, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPCON59071.2023.10396286
S. S. Roy, A. Paramane, J. Singh, S. Chatterjee and A. K. Das, "Hydrophobicity Grade Detection of Polymeric Insulator Using Image Visibility Graph," 2022 IEEE 6th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON), Durgapur, India, 2022, pp. 187-191, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CATCON56237.2022.10077665
R. Das, A. K. Das, S. Chatterjee, S. Biswas, S. Dalai, B. Chatterjee and K. Bhattacharyya, "Time frequency Representation Aided Deep Transfer Learning Approach for Localization and Identification of Single and Multiple Partial Discharge Events," 2022 IEEE 6th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON), Durgapur, India, 2022, pp. 161-165, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CATCON56237.2022.10077662 (Presenting author)
N. Mondal, S. Chatterjee, N. Haque, A. K. Das, S. Dalai, B. Chatterjee and S. Chakravorti " Estimation of Epoxy-Mica Insulation Ageing Through Havriliak-Negami Relaxation Model on Dielectric Modulus Spectrum," 2022 IEEE 6th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON), Durgapur, India, 2022, pp. 283-287, DOI: 10.1109/CATCON56237.2022.10077695.
A. K. Das, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee, “An experimental study to investigate the condition of Metal Oxide Surge Arrester (MOA) under polluted environment,” 2020 IEEE International Conference for Convergence in Engineering (ICCE), Kolkata, India, 2020, pp. 175-179, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE50343.2020.9290743 (Presenting author)
A. K. Das, S. Dalai and B. Chatterjee, “Cross Stockwell Transform aided Random Forest based Surface Condition Identification of Metal Oxide Surge Arrester Employing Leakage Current Signal,” 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2020, pp. 1775-1778, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP50017.2020.9230802 (Presenting author)
A. K. Das, A. K. Pradhan, S. Dalai, B. Chatterjee and A. Mukherjee, “Studies on the effects of temperature on XLPE cable insulation through Polarization and Depolarization Current (PDC),” 2019 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Kolkata, India, 2019, pp. 831-835. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP46218.2019.8971340 (Presenting author)

Sl. No.	Award Details	Agency	Year
1.	Best Research Paper Award	IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC)	2023
2.	Outstanding Young Researcher Award	IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter, Kolkata	2022
3.	University Gold Medal	Jadavpur University	2019

Lecture:

EE-222: Electromagnetics for Power Apparatus (Even semester)
EO101: Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits (Even Semester)
EE319: Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits and Systems (Odd Semester)

Publication Chair and Technical Program Committee Member of 12th "IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON-2025)
Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE ASPCON 2024
Technical Session Chair of IEEE 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET 2025)
Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE CATCON 2024

Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE ASPCON 2023

Technical Program Committee Member of IEEE AUPEC 2024

Reviewer of the following journals:

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Access Journal
IEEE Sensors Letter
ISA Transactions
High Voltage (IET)
Scientific Reports (Nature)

Reviewer of the following conferences:

2021 IEEE 5th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON 2021)
2022 IEEE 6th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON 2022)
International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Smart Technologies in Electrical Engineering (CISTEE-2023)
2023 IEEE 3rd Applied Signal Processing Conference (ASPCON 2023)
IEEE R10 TENSYMP2024
2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON 2024)

PhD Thesis supervision:

No	Student Name	Title of the Thesis	Role	Co-supervisor	Affiliation	Status
1	Mr. Moufidou Mohamed	Advanced Techniques for Condition Monitoring of Metal Oxide Surge Arrester	Sole Supervisor	-	IIT (BHU)	Ongoing

M.Tech Thesis supervision:

No	Student Name	Title of the Thesis	Role	Co-supervisor	Status	Year	Affiliation
1	Mr. Shobhan Barua	Insight the Impact of Thermal Aging on Dielectric Property of Silicon Rubber Insulation	Sole Supervisor	-	Ongoing	2025	IIT (BHU)
2	Mr. Nishitosh Kumar Ranjan	Studies on the Effect of Thermal Aging on Dielectric Properties of High-Performance Polymer Dielectrics	Sole Supervisor	-	Ongoing	2025	IIT (BHU)
3	Mr. Chandan Kumar	Condition Assessment of XLPE Underground Power Cables Based on Leakage Current Signature	Sole Supervisor	-	Ongoing	2025	IIT (BHU)

B.Tech Projects:

Student

Name

Title of the Project

Duration

Status

Mr. Saptak Saha and Mr. Sanyam Malani

Development of Automated Framework for Vision-based Condition Monitoring of Overhead Polymeric Insulators

Jan 2025 -Ongoing

Ongoing

Interns:

No	Student Name	Internship Topic	Duration	Affiliation	Status
1	Mr. Soumyadip Dutta	Optimal Lapped Tape Insulation Configuration of GHe cooled HTS DC Cable for Aviation Application	May -Jul 2025	NIT Durgapur	Completed
2	Mr. Amit Layek	Partial Discharge Measurement of Insulation System	May -Jul 2025	NIT Durgapur	Completed
3	Mr. Sayanjyoti Kodali	Insulation Design of HTS Cable based on Finite Element Method	May -Jul 2025	NIT Durgapur	Completed
4	Mr. Dibyendu Guru	Effect of LN2 Bubbling on Electric Field Enhancement in HTS Power Cable: A Finite Element Approach	May -Jul 2025	NIT Durgapur	Completed