Dr. Rakesh Kumar Misra

Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Phone No(s): 0542-2368727
Email: rkmishra.eee@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Power Systems Operations & Control, Applications of Computational Intelligence in Power Systems

Teaching (Theory/Practical):

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
  • Network Analysis and Synthesis
  • Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
  • Digital Techniques and Instrumentation
  • Power Systems Operation and Control 

List of Ph. D. Thesis Supervised (both completed and ongoing)

  1. Arpita Roy, “Transformer Differential Protection Using Matched Wavelets”, Supervised by D. Singh IIT(BHU) and R.K. Misra IIT(BHU).
  2. Tarun  Maini, “Computational Intelligence Techniques for Feature Selection”, 2019, Supervised by D. Singh IIT(BHU) and R.K. Misra IIT(BHU).
  3. Sujit Mishra,” Feeder Load Balancing in Three Phase Distribution System”, 2020, Supervised by R.K. Misra IIT(BHU) and D. Singh IIT(BHU).
  4. Abhishek Kumar, “Mathematical Algorithms for Power Distribution Systems”, 2019, Supervised by R.K. Misra IIT(BHU) and D. Singh IIT(BHU).
  5. Bablesh Kumar Jha, “Scheduling of PHEVs in Presence of Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution Systems”, 2019, Supervised by D. Singh IIT(BHU) and R.K. Misra IIT(BHU).
  6.  Amit Singh, “Multi-agent Energy Management Systems for Active Distribution System”, 2022, Supervised by D. Singh IIT(BHU) and R.K. Misra IIT(BHU).
  7. Basant Kumar Sethi, “Resilient Scheduling of Smart Buildings under False Data Injection Attack”, 2022, Supervised by D. Singh IIT(BHU) and R.K. Misra IIT(BHU).
  8. Debottam Mukherjee,"Formulation and detection of false data injection attack in modern smart grid", Supervised by R.K. Misra IIT(BHU) and Sandip Ghosh IIT (BHU)
  9. Monika Mishra, " Strategic Interactions in Distribution Network: A Game Theoretic Approach to Peer-to-Peer Energy Transactions" , Supervised by R.K. Misra IIT(BHU) and D. Singh IIT(BHU)
  10. Ankit Pratihasta,(title), Supervised by R.K. Misra IIT(BHU) and R.K. Singh IIT(BHU)

Title: A System and Method for inrush and fault detection for differential protection of transformer

Applicants: Navin Kumar, Arpita Roy, Devender Singh, R. K. Misra

Application No.: 2630/DEL/2015

Date of Filing: August 25, 2015

Patent no.: 512619

Issued on: February 20, 2024.

IEEE and IET Journals    
1    Pratihasta, Ankit Kumar, Rajeev Kumar Singh, and Rakesh Kumar Mishra. "A Novel Battery-Supercapacitor Energy Storage System Topology with Improved Transient Response for Rapid DC Link Restoration." IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (2025).
2    Padmanabhan, NK Anantha, Ankit Kumar Pratihasta, Naman Tanwar, Rajeev Kumar Singh, Rakesh Kumar Misra, and Sanjay Kumar Singh. "Interpretable Hybrid CDTCN-GRU Model for Supercapacitor Life Prediction." IEEE Sensors Journal (2025).
3    Mishra, Monika; Singh, Amit; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; " Two-Tier Peer-to-Peer Transactive Energy Market.” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2024, IEEE.
4    Mishra, Monika; Singh, Amit; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Maulik, Avirup; " A Scalable and Computational Efficient Peer-to-Peer Energy Management Scheme " IEEE Access, 11, 21686-21698, 2023, IEEE.
5    Mishra, Monika; Singh, Amit; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; " Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading with Active Participation of Distributed Generation " IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023, IEEE.
6    Sethi, Basant Kumar; Singh, Amit; Mohanty, SR; Singh, Devender; Misra, RK; " Game Theoretic Smart Residential Buildings Energy Management System Under False Data Injection Attack " IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10, 1, 110-119, 2022, IEEE.
7    Singh, Amit; Sethi, Basant Kumar; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; " Shapley Value Method and Stochastic Dantzig–Wolfe Decomposition for Decentralized Scheduling of Multimicrogrid " IEEE Systems Journal, 16, 2, 2672-2683, 2021, IEEE.
8    Singh, Amit; Sethi, Basant Kumar; Kumar, Abhishek; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; " Three-level hierarchical management of active distribution system with multi microgrid " IEEE Systems Journal, 17, 1, 605-616, 2022, IEEE.
9    Kumar, Abhishek; Das, Swagatam; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; " A υ-Constrained Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy With Broyden-Based Mutation for Constrained Optimization " IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021, IEEE
10    Singh, Devender; Misra, RK; Singh, Deependra; " Effect of load models in distributed generation planning " IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 22, 4, 2204-2212, 2007, IEEE.
11    Kumar Jha, Bablesh; Singh, Amit; Kumar, Abhishek; Kumar Dheer, Dharmendra; Singh, Devender; Kumar Misra, Rakesh; " Day ahead scheduling of PHEVs and D‐BESSs in the presence of DGs in the distribution system " IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, 10, 2, 170-184, 2020, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
12    Singh, D; Misra, RK; " Multi-objective feeder reconfiguration in different tariff structures " IET generation, transmission & distribution, 4, 8, 974-988, 2010, IET Digital Library.
13    Roy, A., Singh, D., Misra, R. K., & Singh, A.; " Differential Protection Scheme for Power Transformers Using Matched Wavelets " IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2019
14    Kumar, Abhishek; Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Dheer, Dharmendra Kumar; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; " Nested backward/forward sweep algorithm for power flow analysis of droop regulated islanded microgrids " ,IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 13, 14, 3086-3095, 2019, IET Digital Library.
15    Singh, Amit; Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh K; " Optimal scheduling of PHEVs and D-BESSs in the presence of DGs in a distribution system " IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 13, 22, 5019-5032, 2019, IET.
16    Kumar, Abhishek; Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; " Current injection-based Newton–Raphson power-flow algorithm for droop-based islanded microgrids " IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 13, 23, 5271-5283, 2019, IET.
Other Journals:    
1    Mishra, Monika; Singh, Amit; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Enhancing network-constrained P2P energy sharing through virtual communities", Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 101276, 2024, Elsevier.
2    Sethi, Basant Kumar; Singh, Amit; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh; "Optimal energy management of smart buildings under cyber attack", International Journal of Energy Research, 45, 19895-19908, 2021, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Chichester, UK.
3    Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Singh, Amit; Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Phase unbalance and PAR constrained optimal active and reactive power scheduling of Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 125, 106443, 2021, Elsevier.
4    Kumar, Abhishek; Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; "A New Current Injection Based Power Flow Formulation", Electric Power Components and Systems, 48, 268-280, 2020, Taylor & Francis.
5    Sethi, Basant K; Mukherjee, Debottam; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Mohanty, SR; "Smart home energy management system under false data injection attack", International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 30, e12411, 2020, Wiley Online Library.
6    Kumar, Abhishek; Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Dheer, Dharmendra Kumar; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "A Nested-Iterative Newton-Raphson based Power Flow Formulation for Droop-based Islanded Microgrids", Electric Power Systems Research, 180, 106131, 2020, Elsevier.
7    Jha, Bablesh K; Kumar, Abhishek; Dheer, Dharmendra K; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh K; "A modified current injection load flow method under different load model of EV for distribution system", International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 30, e12284, 2020, Wiley Online Library.
8    Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Mishra, Sujeet; Das, Swagatam; "The spherical search algorithm for bound-constrained global optimization problems", Applied Soft Computing, 85, 105734, 2019, Elsevier.
9    Jha, Bablesh Kumar; Kumar, Abhishek; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; "Coordinated effect of PHEVs with DGs on distribution network", International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 29, e2800, 2019.
10    Maini, Tarun; Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Intelligent fuzzy rough set based feature selection using swarm algorithms with improved initialization", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 37, 1155-1164, 2019, IOS Press.
11    Maini, Tarun; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Kumar, Abhishek; "Rough Set Based Feature Selection Using Swarm Algorithms with Improved Initialization", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 15, 2350-2354, 2018, American Scientific Publishers.
12    Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh K; "Load type impact on distribution system reconfiguration", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 42, 583-592, 2012, Elsevier.
13    Singh, D; Misra, RK; Singh, VK; Pandey, RK; "Bad data pre-filter for state estimation", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 32, 1165-1174, 2010, Elsevier
Conferences:    
1    Pratihasta, A. K., Misra, R. K., & Singh, R. K. (2023, October). Minimum Phase Converter-Based Hybrid Energy Storage System for Electric Vehicles and DC Loads. In IECON 2023-49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
2    Mishra, Monika; Singh, Amit; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Virtual Community based Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading", 2023 5th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Flexible Green Energy Technologies (ICEPE), 45444, 2023, IEEE
3    Mishra, Monika; Singh, Amit; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Stochastic Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading with Price and Incentive Mechanism", 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), , , 761-766, 2022, IEEE
4    Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Das, Swagatam; "Testing a multi-operator based differential evolution algorithm on the 100-digit challenge for single objective numerical optimization", 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 34-40, 2019, IEEE
5    Abhishek Kumar, Tarun Maini, Rakesh Kumar Misra, Devender Singh; "Butterfly Constrained Optimizer for Constrained Optimization Problems", Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions-Volume II, 477-486, 2019, Springer, Singapore
6    Mishra, Sujeet; Kumar, Abhishek; Singh, Devender; Kumar Misra, Rakesh; "Butterfly optimizer for placement and sizing of distributed generation for feeder phase balancing", Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions-Volume II: ICCI-2017, 519-530, 2019, Springer Singapore
7    Maini, Tarun; Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Fuzzy rough set-based feature selection with improved seed population in PSO and IDS", Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions-Volume II: ICCI-2017, 137-149, 2019, Springer Singapore
8    Kumar, Abhishek; Maini, Tarun; Kumar Misra, Rakesh; Singh, Devender; "Butterfly constrained optimizer for constrained optimization problems", Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions-Volume II: ICCI-2017, 477-486, 2019, Springer Singapore
9    Roy, Arpita; Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh K; "Differential Evolution-Based Matched Wavelet for Differential Protection of Transformer", Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions-Volume II: ICCI-2017, 531-541, 2019, Springer Singapore
10    Maini, Tarun; Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, RakeshKumar; Singh, Devender; "Rough set based feature selection using swarm intelligence with distributed sampled initialisation", 2017 6th International Conference on Computer Applications In Electrical Engineering-Recent Advances (CERA), 92-97, 2017, IEEE
11    Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Improving the local search capability of effective butterfly optimizer using covariance matrix adapted retreat phase", 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1835-1842, 2017, IEEE
12    Maini, Tarun; Kumar, Abhishek; Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; "Feature selection with intelligent dynamic swarm and fuzzy rough set", 2017 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), 384-388, 2017, IEEE
13    Abhishek Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Misra, Devender Singh; "Butterfly optimizer", 2015 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence: theories, applications and future directions (WCI), 45444, 2015,
14    Maini, Tarun; Misra, RK; Singh, D; "Optimal feature selection using elitist genetic algorithm", 2015 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions (WCI), 45413, 2015, IEEE
15    Singh, Devender; Misra, Rakesh K; "Load model impact in distribution system reconfiguration part II: Methodology and simulation results", 16th National Power Systems Conf. India, 147-152, 2010,
16    Sing, D; Misra, Rakesh K; "Load Model Impact in Distribution System Reconfiguration Part I: Problem Analysis and Reformulation", 16th National Power Systems Conference, 139-146, 2010.
17    Misra, R. K., & Singh, S. P. (2004). Steady-state security analysis using artificial neural network. Electric Power Components and Systems, 32(11), 1063-1081.
Book Chapters    
1    Misra, Rakesh Kumar; Singh, Devender; Kumar, Abhishek; "Spherical search algorithm: A metaheuristic for bound-constrained optimization", Optimization, Variational Analysis and Applications: IFSOVAA-2020, Varanasi, India, February 2–4, 421-441, 2021, Springer Singapore.