Assistant Professor

Dr Surla Vishnu Kanchana Naresh

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Interests

  • Power Electronic Converters
  • Electric Drives and Control
  • Reliability Assessment of Power Converters

Education

2015

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada
B.Tech

2017

National Institute of Technology Goa
India
M.Tech

2023

National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh
India
PhD

Experience

  • July 2025 - till date || Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering || SRM University Andhra Pradesh, India.

  • Dec 2024 – May 2025 || Senior Power Electronics Engineer || CastNX Private Limited, Madhya Pradesh, India.

  • Aug 2023 – Oct 2024 || Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering || United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates.

  • Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 || Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering || Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Research Interest

  • Design and Development of Power Electronic Converters: DC-DC converters, Microinverters, Fault-Tolerant multilevel inverters, Bidirectional converters.
  • Mission-Profile Based Reliability Assessment of Power Electronic Converters.
  • Artificial Intelligence Aided Control and Lifetime Analysis of Power Electronic Systems.

Awards & Fellowships

  • (2023-2024) – Postdoctoral Fellowship – National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirates.

  • (2019-2023) – Institute Fellowship for Ph.D – MHRD, Government of India.

  • (2015-2017) – Institute Fellowship for M.Tech – MHRD, Government of India.

Memberships

  • Member – IEEE

  • Member - IET

Publications

Journal Articles

  • B. Kumar, S. Peddapati, S. V. K. Naresh, and H. Shareef, “A Novel Asymmetric Space Vector Modulation Technique for Performance-Optimized Boost Integrated T-type Multilevel Inverter,” AEU- International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 201, no. 155952, pp. 1-14, July. 2025. 10.1016/j.aeue.2025.155952 [SCI, Q2, IF:3.0.]"
  • S. V. K. Naresh, H. Shareef, B. Kumar, and S. Peddapati., “An Ultra High Gain Quadratic Boost Converter with Reduced Electric Stress for Photovoltaic Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 1-13, July-Aug. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2025.3550107. [SCI, Q1, IF:4.2]
  • V. Ramanarayana, K.N. Rao, B. Kumar, and S. V. K. Naresh., “A Single-Phase Five-Level Multilevel Inverter with Rated Power Fault-Tolerant Feature,” AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 190, no. 155645, pp. 1-14, Feb. 2025.  DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2024.155645 [SCI, Q2, IF:3.0].
  • S. V. K. Naresh, H. Shareef, B. Kumar, and S. Peddapati., “Family of Capacitor- Diode Network Extended High Gain Quadratic Boost Converters for Microgrid Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 1418-1430, Jan. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2024.3462855. [SCI, Q1, IF: 6.6]
  • Naresh S. V. K., Peddapati S, and Alghaythi ML, “A Non-isolated High Quadratic Step-Up Converter for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Applications,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 3841-3864, Aug. 2023. DOI:10.1002/cta.3610 [SCI, Q2, IF:1.8].
  • S. Naresh, and S. Peddapati, and M. L. Alghaythi, "A Novel High Quadratic Gain Boost Converter for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Applications," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 637-647, Feb. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JESTIE.2023.3248449 [ESCI]
  • S. V. K. Naresh, and S. Peddapati., "Mission Profile Based Reliability Analysis of Power Converters in Grid Integrated PV- Battery System," Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 480-495, Feb. 2023. DOI: 10.1080/15325008.2023.2179689 [SCI, Q2, IF:1.7].
  • V. S. Prasadarao K, S. Peddapati and S. Naresh, "A New Fault-Tolerant MLI—Investigating Its Skipped Level Performance," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1432-1442, Feb. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3062259. [SCI, Q1, IF:7.6].
  • S. V. K. Naresh, S. Peddapati and M. L. Alghaythi, "Non-Isolated High Gain Quadratic Boost Converter Based on Inductor’s Asymmetric Input Voltage," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 162108-162121, 2021. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3133581.  [SCI, Q1, IF:3.4].
  • Naresh S. V. K., and Peddapati S, “New family of transformer-less quadratic buck-boost converters with wide conversion ratio,” International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1-21, Nov. 2021; e13061. DOI 10.1002/2050-7038.13061 [SCI, Q2, IF:1.9]
  • Naresh S. V. K., and Peddapati S., “Complementary switching enabled cascaded boost-buck-boost (BS-BB) and buck-boost-buck (BB-BU) converters,” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 2736-2753, Sep. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3034     [SCI, Q2, IF:1.8].

Book Chapters

  • S.V.K. Naresh, S. Peddapati. (2023) “Non-isolated Quadratic Bidirectional DC-DC Converters for Renewable Energy Applications. In: Advanced Power Electronics Converters for Future Renewable Energy Systems", CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. DOI: 10.1201/9781003323471-5.   (Scopus Indexed)
  • Peddapati S., Naresh S. (2022) “Quadratic Boost Converter for Green Energy Applications. In: DC—DC Converters for Future Renewable Energy Systems. Energy Systems” in Electrical Engineering. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4388-0_9. (Scopus Indexed)

Conference Proceedings

INTERNATIONAL

  • S.V.K. Naresh, H Shareef, A.R. Paul, and B. Kumar, “A New Single-Phase High Gain Microinverter for Photovoltaic Applications” 2024 IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEACon), Malaysia, 2024, pp. 37-41. DOI: 10.1109/IEACon61321.2024.10797240.
  • S.V.K. Naresh, et al., "Mission-Profile Based Reliability Assessment of Grid Integrated Photovoltaic System Installed in the United Arab Emirates," 2024 IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference (IEACon), Malaysia, 2024, pp. 42-46. DOI: 10.1109/IEACon61321.2024.10797280
  • S. Naresh and S. Peddapati, "Comparative Analysis of Quadratic Buck-Boost Converters: Topology, Electric Stress, Reliability," IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Canada, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON48115.2021.9589610.
  • S. V. Vaidyanadhan, G. Guru Sumanth, S. Peddapati and S. Naresh, "Inductor Switched Series Loaded Resonant Converter for LED Applications," IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Canada, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON48115.2021.9589310.

NATIONAL

  • S.V.K. Naresh, H. Shareef, and S. Peddapati, " An Ultra High Gain Quadratic Boost Converter with Low Electric Stress and Lower Inductor Currents for Photovoltaic Applications," 2024 Second International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), Raipur, India, pp. 13-18, 2024. doi: 10.1109/ICPC2T60072.2024.10474935
  • S. Naresh and S. Peddapati, " New Continuous Input Buck-Boost Converter with Quadratic Voltage Conversion Ratio," 2021 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Jaipur, India, pp. 1-6, 2021. doi: 10.1109/NPEC52100.2021.9672480.
  • S. Naresh and S. Peddapati, "Comparative Analysis of Voltage Multiplier Cell Based Non-Isolated Step-Up Converters," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379441.
  • S. Naresh, S. Peddapati and V. S. P. K, "Comparison of Double Gain Continuous Input Non-Isolated Boost Converters," 2020 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES), Prayagraj, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SCES50439.2020.9236763.
  • S. Naresh, S. Peddapati and V. S. P. K, "Comparison of Double Gain Continuous Input Non-Isolated Boost Converters," 2020 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES), Prayagraj, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SCES50439.2020.9236763.
  • V. S. P. K, S. Peddapati and S. V. K. Naresh, "A Single Phase Seven-level MLI with Reduced Number of Switches Employing a PV Fed SIMO DC-DC Converter," 2020 IEEE Students Conference on Engineering & Systems (SCES), Prayagraj, India, 2020, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/SCES50439.2020.9236755.

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