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Dr. Sreena Sreekumar
Dr. Sreena Sreekumar
Associate Professor

Dr. Sreena Sreekumar is an accomplished academician currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Adi Shankara Institute since August 22, 2022. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU),  College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET) specializing in Electrical Engineering. Prior to her doctoral studies, she obtained a Master of Engineering (M.E.) degree from Anna University, Chennai, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree from Calicut University, Government Engineering College , Thrissur.

Dr. Sreena’s primary research interests lie in the areas of renewable energy technologies and power systems. Her work focuses on the development and integration of sustainable energy solutions, with an emphasis on improving efficiency, reliability, and environmental impact within power systems. She has contributed to several research projects and publications that address contemporary challenges in the evolving energy sector.

In addition to her research endeavors, Dr. Sreena  is committed to excellence in teaching and mentorship. She actively engages with students and colleagues to foster an environment of academic rigor and innovation. Her expertise in renewable energy and power systems complements the institution’s mission to advance knowledge and promote sustainable development through engineering education.

Qualification details

Ph.D (Renewable Energy)  from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala (KTU)  in July 2022

M.E. (Power system) from Anna University, Chennai in 2006

B.Tech (EEE) fromGovernment Engineering College, Thrissur (GEC) in 2004

Sreekumar, S., Savier, J. S. (2023). A Novel Comparative Approach for Estimating Maximum Penetration Capacity of Grid Connected Solar Photovoltaic System in Distribution Network. Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, 1-18 (SCI).

Sreekumar, S., JS, S. (2021). Investigative scheme to assess ultimate penetration level of grid connected solar photovoltaic systems in distribution network. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 31(10), e12647(SCIE).

Sreekumar, S., Kumar, D. S., Savier, J. S. (2020). A case study on self healing of smart grid with islanding and inverter volt–var function. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 56(5), 5408-5416(SCI).

Adwin, M. S., Aparna Sunil, M. Sanchu, Vishwas V. Pai, Sreena Sreekumar, and K. Akhila.(2025) "Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Energy Management in Kerala." In 2025 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS), pp. 598-603. IEEE, 2025.

Ansa, A. V., Arjun Manoj, Femin Bose, Harish Ramesh Pillai, Sreena Sreekumar, and Deepa Sankar. (2025)"Sustainable Urban Traffic Management: AI and Renewable Energy Integration." In 2025 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS), pp. 290-296. IEEE, 2025.

Sreena Sreekumar, Anitha P, Sreelekshmi Prabhu, Brian roy, Alan babu (2025)"The Circular Economy in practice : A Compilation of case studies on Sustainable Business Opportunities"  accepted and presented in National Power Conference 2025 

Adwin, Sanchu M, Aparna Sunil, Vishwas V Pai,  Sreena Sreekumar, Akhila K"Next generation intelligent energy management through smart meter" accepted and presented in National Power Conference 2025

Sreena Sreekumar and Savier J.S (2022) ‘Economic feasibility analysis of grid connected Solar Photovoltaic system in distribution network’ accepted and presented in National Power Conference 2022 and got Second Best Paper Award

Sreekumar, S., Savier, J. S. (2022, January). Techno-economic evaluation of maximum penetration capacity of grid connected Solar Photo voltaic system with dynamic load and generation. in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Kumar, D. S., Sreekumar, S., Savier, J. S. ( 2020, January). A case study on self healing of smart grid with islanding and inverter Volt-VAR function. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE2020) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Sreekumar, S. (2019, September). Estimation of maximum penetration level of Solar PV and its enhancement by STATCOM. In 2019 International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON) (pp. 99-105). IEEE.

Christy, C. A., Sreekumar, S., Savier, J. S. (2019, March). Impact Assessment of DG in Radial Distribution Networks. In 2019 Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT) (Vol. 1, pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Babu, Athul, Kj Haritha, S. Nandukrishna, Vysakh S. Pillai, K. P. Remya, and Sreena Sreekumar.(2024) "Home Energy Management System in Kerala by using Advanced Metering Infrastructure." In 2024 Second International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power and Renewable Energy (SPECon), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2024.

Mohan, Ashna, Bos Mathew Jos, Sreena Sreekumar, and T. Hima. (2023)"Implementation of Constant Switching Frequency Hysteresis based  Current Control of Solar PV Inverter." In 2023 8th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), pp. 40-44. IEEE, 2023.

Hima, T., S. Radhika Menon, P. S. Swathy, Sandeep Suresh, J. Adarsh, and Sreena Sreekumar. "UAV Incorporating Infrasonic Transmitter for Bird Deterrence and Field Surveillance." In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023.

Sreena Sreekumar, Deepa S. Kumar, and Savier J.S (2021) ‘A Case Study on Self-Healing of Smart Grid with Islanding and Inverter Volt-VAR function’ was presented in the transaction section of  2021 IEEE PES General Meeting during July 25-29 2021, Washington, DC, USA, and published in the IEEE PES General Meeting Proceedings (SCImago Journal Rank 0.345).

Sreena Sreekumar and Savier J.S (2017) ‘ Maximum Penetration level of grid connected solar PV in Power systems’ accepted for poster presentation in the second international conference on large scale grid integration of Renewable energy in India organized by GIZ, USAID, Department of International development ,UK 

Sreena Sreekumar and  Mehabooba (2006)  ‘Co-ordinated tuning of power system stabilizers in multi machine power system’ was presented in the National conference ‘ETES06’ conducted by Department of Electrical & Electronics, Noorul Islam College of Engineering, Thuckaley, Tamil Nadu

 Sreekumar, Sreena,(2024) and J. S. Savier. "Application of Economic Criteria for Determining Maximum Penetration Level of Grid Connected Solar PV System in Distribution Network." In 2024 IEEE Third International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), pp. 745-749. IEEE, 2024.

 Eldhose, Basil, Benchacko Chittilappilly, Sangeeth J. Menon, Tomin Bejoy, Deepa Sankar, and Sreena Sreekumar. (2024) "Harnessing Solar Power on Water: A Case Study on the Viability of Photovoltaics in Kerala's Hydroelectric Power Plants." In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Power Control and Renewable Energy (ICSPCRE), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2024.

 

 

 

 

Organised IEEE 4th International conference on Advances in computation ,communication in embedded and secure systems ACCESS’25, as Co-Chair.

Organised Faculty Development Programme on ‘From Green to Hydrogen : Exploring Energy Evolutions ‘ from June 23rd to June 28th 2025

Organised various talks under faculty professional enrichment cell (FPEC CELL) in the Department.

Organised various activities and Expert talk under the Professional Society SEEM

Organised ‘ Prayukthi 25’ Department level project expo in the college

Got CERD fUNDING for student Project during the academic year 2024-25

CERD funded research project under KTU (Ph.D. Research project)

Duration: :December 2017- March 2022
Estimation of maximum penetration level of Solar
PV in distribution system with different system
criteria

Co-ordinated Tuning of Power System Stabilizer in Multi-machine

System (Master of Engineering)
Duration :June 2005-April 2006

 Micro-controller based UPS With PC Interface (Bachelor of

Technology)
Duration : December 2003-April 2004

Pulse Width Modulation Speed Control of DC Motor (Bachelor of

Technology)
Duration : Mini project in 2003

Actively involved in the departmental research group FLARE, contributing to the submission of multiple proposals to various funding agencies.

As Project Coordinator, the academic year marked notable success with the publication of six IEEE conference papers and the filing of two patents (currently under process).

Contributed as NAAC Coordinator in the Department level during NAAC peer team campus visit ensuring smooth coordination and documentation

Formed Energy Audit student team for conducting Energy audit inside the campus under SEEM-IOC

Scribe syndicate member of Department magazine ‘Enlytus’

  • One-week Short term course on Integration of Power Electronics and Renewable energy for E-Mobility (IPEREEM-2024) held during July 22-26th 2024 at Netaji Subas University of Technology, New Delhi ,India
  • 6 days AICTE ATAL Faculty Development Programme on Research Perspectives on smart & sustainable Energy Management Solutions held during 16th to 21st December 2024 at P S G Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Coimbatore
  •  6 days AICTE ATAL Faculty Development Programme on PRISM: Promoting Renewable Integration with Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat from 02/12/2024 to 07/12/2024.
  • Completed EBESCO Training on EBESCO E books /ECM in association with IEEE
  • 6 Days Faculty Development Program on “Applied research in electric vehicle technology and renewable energy integration” organised by Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology from 1st July to 6th July,2024.
  • 6 Days Faculty Development Program on ‘From Green to Hydrogen: Exploring Sustainable Energy Evolution”, organised by Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology from 23rd June to 28th  Julne 2025.
  • Faculty Development Program on ‘Innovative Teaching and Research in the era OF Digital Transformation’, organised by FPEC Cell, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology from 19th  June to 21st June 2025.
  • 1-month online Faculty development Programme on ‘AutoCAD’ by SkillDzire in collaboration with AICTE
  • Completed online NPTEL 12 week course (Jan-Apr 2025) course on ‘Non conventional Energy Resources ‘ from IIT Madras
  • Participated in 5th Annual R10 India council Chapters Global workshop on the theme Resilient Grids :Adapting to energy transition  organised by IEEE PES Kerala chapter on 13th and 14th July 2024
  • Attended the workshop on “Essentials of research” held in the month of July 2018 at College of Engineering, Trivandrum, organized by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University.
  • Attended the workshop conducted in T.K.M. Engineering College, Kollam organized by KSEB Engineers Association on 6th , 7 th of December 2018. The topic debated during the workshop was design and installation of roof top solar power plants.
  • Attended the workshop on „Renewable energy and grid interface technologies‟ held on 25.02.19 at Vivekananda Bhavan, Kanyakumari organized by National power training Institute. The topic debated during the workshop was renewable grid integration issues.
  • Attended five days‟ workshop held in NIT, Calicut during the period 8th April to 12th April 2019 organized by Power and energy group, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT, Calicut. Topic there was „Lagre scale renewable integration: a perspective on power system stability‟.
  • Attended the workshop on „Applied Mathematics for identifying emerging research‟ College of Engineering ,Trivandrum held in the month of December 2017  Selected for attending Workshop cum Green Power Expo-2017 organized by KREEPA (Kerala Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs‟ and Promoters Association) in Kochi association with Ministry of New and Renewable Energy sources, Govt.of India on September 2017.
  • Attended Indo-Japanese Energy Forum at Delhi organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and NEDO in January 2017).
  • Attended training Programme on „VIRTUAL LAB Experiments‟ organized by ITM University and IIT Delhi (2013).Attended the workshop on “Large scale deployment of smart grid technologies: opportunities and way forward” organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Electricity De France (EDF), Delhi, 2012.
  • Attended short term course on “Higher Voltage Engineering and testing”, by Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, and Thiruvananthapuram.
  • Attended National conference on Innovations in Electric vehicle technologies, 7 th March 2019, organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum.
Email Phone Date Of Joining
sreena.eee[@]adishankara.[ac].[in] 0484-2463825 22-08-2022