Kankar Bhattacharya, PhD, PEng, FIEEE

Dr. Kankar Bhattacharya earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 1993. He began his academic career as a faculty member at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, India, where he taught from 1993 to 1998. He then joined the Department of Electric Power Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he served from 1998 to 2002.

In 2003, Dr. Bhattacharya joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he is currently a Full Professor and Chair of the department. Waterloo has recognized his exceptional achievements and pre-eminence in his field by designating him as a University Research Chair.

Dr. Bhattacharya's research focuses on power system economics and operational aspects, with particular emphasis on improving the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of power systems. His significant contributions to the field were recognized with the 2024 IEEE Canada P.D. Ziogas Electric Power Silver Medal Award.

Beyond his research achievements, Dr. Bhattacharya has received several prestigious awards for his academic contributions. These include the Faculty of Engineering Research Excellence Award, the Faculty of Engineering Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, and the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision. He is also a two-time recipient of the University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award, which underscores his exceptional dedication to research, teaching, and mentorship.

Dr. Bhattacharya is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

• Power system operations, economics and planning.
• Electricity markets, ancillary services and demand response.
• Energy storage systems- integration in power systems and electricity markets.
• Smart loads, smart grids and microgrids.

• 1993, Doctorate, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
• 1988, Master's, Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India
• 1986, Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering, G.B. Pant Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology, India

• 2024: IEEE Canada P.D. Ziogas Electric Power Silver Medal Award
• 2021: CIGRE Pioneer 2020 e-session Achievement Award.
• 2018: CIGRE Technical Council Award for contributions to Study Committee C5: Electricity Markets and Regulation.
• 2017: Fellow IEEE, for contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services.
• 2015: Best Paper Award, T. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids, IEEE Electric Power & Energy Conference (EPEC 2015), London, Ontario, October, 2015.
• 2014: Best Paper Award from Elsevier Science: Optimal Planning and Design of a Renewable Energy Based Supply System for Microgrids, Journal of Renewable Energy, Vol.45, 2012 (Omar Hafez and K. Bhattacharya).
• 2001: ABB Sweden Gunnar Engstrom Foundation Award, for Research in Power System Economics.
• 2001: Best Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society's T&D Conference 2001, Atlanta, USA, "Automatic Balance Services for Frequency Regulation" (with J. Zhong).
• 1996: Runner Up Award for "Application of Operations Research to Development", from International Federation of Operations Research Societies, for the paper, "Transmission Planning for the Indian Power Grid: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach" (with J.Parikh and R.K.Chaturvedi).

• ECE 467 - Power Systems Analysis, Operations, and Markets
  • Taught in 2022, 2024, 2025
• ECE 6602PD - Power System Management & Electricity Markets
  • Taught in 2021, 2023
• ECE 6607PD - Operation and Control of Restructured Power Systems
  • Taught in 2020, 2022
• ECE 666 - Power Systems Operation
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• ECE 760 - Special Topics in Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering
  • Taught in 2020, 2021

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• M. F. Z. de Souza, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, A. Lorca, “Affine Policies and Principal Components Analysis for Self-Scheduling in Compressed Air Energy Storage Facilities”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted.
• N. Padmanabhan, K. Bhattacharya and M. Ahmed, “Procurement of Energy, Primary and Secondary Regulation Reserves in Battery Energy Storage Systems Integrated Real-Time Electricity Markets”, IEEE Systems Journal, accepted.
• F. Calero, C. A. Canizares, K. Bhattacharya, C. Anierobi, I. Calero, M. F. de Souza, M. Farrokhabadi, N. S. Guzman, W. Mendieta, D. Peralta, B. Solanki, N. Padmanabhan and W. Violante, “A Review of Modeling and Applications of Energy Storage Systems in Power Grids”, Proceedings of the IEEE, accepted.
• N. S. Guzman, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, D. Sohm, “Frequency Regulation Model of Bulk Power Systems with Energy Storage”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.37, Issue 2, March 2022, pp.913-926.
• D. Peralta, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Ground Source Heat Pump Modeling, Operation, and Participation in Electricity Markets”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.13, Issue 2, March 2022, pp. 1126-1138.
• I. Calero, C. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, R. Baldick, “Duck-curve Mitigation in Power Grids with High Penetration of PV Generation”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol.13, Issue 1, January 2022, pp.314-329.
• N. S. Guzman, M. Arriaga, C. Cañizares, J. W. Simpson-Porco, D. Sohm and K. Bhattacharya, “Regulation Signal Design and Fast Frequency Control with Energy Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.37, Issue 1, Jan 2022, pp.224-236.
• M. F. Z. de Souza, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Self-Scheduling Models of a CAES Facility under Uncertainties”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, No. 4, July 2021, pp. 3607-3617.
• W. Alharbi and K. Bhattacharya, “Incentive Design for Flexibility Provisions from Residential Energy Hubs in Smart Grid”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, Issue 3, May 2021, pp. 2113-2124.
• F. Calero, C. Cañizares and K. Bhattacharya, “Aggregated BESS Dynamic Models for Active Distribution Network Studies”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, Issue 3, May 2021, pp. 2077-2088.