Kankar Bhattacharya, PhD, PEng, FIEEE

Kankar Bhattacharya, PhD, PEng, FIEEE
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University Research Chair, Professor
Location: EIT 4172, EIT 3036
Phone: 519-888-4567 x37064, 519-888-4016
Status: Active

Biography

Kankar Bhattacharya is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Research Interests

  • 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.

Education

  • 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

Awards

  • 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).

Teaching*

  • ECE 467 - Power Systems Analysis, Operations, and Markets
    • Taught in 2022, 2024
  • ECE 6602PD - Power System Management & Electricity Markets
    • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2023
  • ECE 6607PD - Operation and Control of Restructured Power Systems
    • Taught in 2020, 2022
  • ECE 666 - Power Systems Operation
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • ECE 760 - Special Topics in Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021

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

Selected/Recent Publications

  • 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.

Graduate studies