IIT Gandhinagar | Faculty | Elecrtical Engineering

Naran M. Pindoriya

Assistant Professor

	B.E.: L.D. College of Engineering, Gujarat Univ., Ahmedabad, 2001 M.E.: M.S. Univ. of Baroda, Gujarat, 2003 Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2009
	Email: naran @ iitgn.ac.in Phone: :+91-79-23972324 Fax: +91-79-23972622

Research Interest

Restructuring power systems- Technical and economical issues
Applications of heuristic optimization algorithms in power system
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and their application to load and price forecasting
Integration of renewable energy resources in electricity markets

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar (Nov-2010 to Present)
Research Fellow, Dep. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering,National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore (Jan-2010 to Nov-2010)
Sr. Project Engineer, Department of Electrical Engineering, IITKanpur (Oct-2009 to Dec-2009)
Tutor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IITKanpur (Jul-2007 to May-2009)
Lecturer , Dept. Electrical Engg., CharotarInstitute of Technology-Changa, Gujarat University (May-2003 to Dec-2005)

Selected Recent Publications

Naran M. Pindoriya, Panida Jirutitijaroen, Dipti Srinivasan and Chanan Singh, “Composite reliability evaluation using MCS and least squares support vector classifier”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 2483-2490, Nov. 2011.
N.M. Pindoriya, S.N. Singh and S.K. Singh, “Application of adaptive wavelet neural network to forecast operating reserve requirements in forward ancillary services market”, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1811-1819, March 2011.
N.M. Pindoriya, S.N. Singh and S.K. Singh, “Multi-objective mean-variance-skewness model for generation portfolio allocation in electricity markets”, Electrical Power Systems Research, vol. 80, no. 10, pp. 1314-1321, Oct. 2010.
N.M. Pindoriya, S.N. Singh and S.K. Singh, “Forecasting of short-term electric load using application of wavelet transforms with feed-forward neural network”, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010.
N.M. Pindoriya, S.N. Singh and S.K. Singh, “An adaptive wavelet neural network-based energy price forecasting in electricity markets”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 3, pp.1423-1432, Aug. 2008.