National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

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EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Power Systems
Areas of Interest
  • High Voltage Engineering
  • Dielectic and Electrical Insulation Research in HV Power System Equipment
  • Signal and Image Processing, AI, ML Technique in HV Engineering
  • On-line Diagnostic Monitoring of Outdoor Insulation and High Voltage Power Cable
  • Nano Dielectics, Nano Fluids for High Voltage Power Equipments
  • High Impedance Fault Detection and Location in Power System
  • Power Quality Issues in Power System
  • Application of ICT in Remote Monitoring of High Voltage Power Equipment

Subrata Karmakar
सुब्रत कर्मकार Professor, Electrical Engineering

karmakars@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2411

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PUBLICATIONS

5

SPONSORED PROJECTS

7

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

3

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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Subrata Karmakar

Professor

Electrical Engineering

Room Number: EE-133

Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

Ph.D. (NIT Durgapur)

Laboratory Development
  • Partial Discharge Laboratory,  Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST,   PD Meter, 100 kV Power Frequency Test Setup, Measuring Capacitor, Coupling Capacitor, Acoustic PD Detection System,
  • Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Research Laboratory,  Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), DST,   40 kV Power Frequency Test Setup, 10 kV High Voltage Power Amplifier, Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), High Speed Camera, High Frequency Current Transformer, High Voltage Cable Termination Unit, Condition Monitoring of Liquid Insulation, Nano Dielectrics, Solid Insulation, etc.,

Smart Microgrid Laboratory Design, Development, and Demonstration for Net-Zero Energy Operation NIT
  • Co-Investigator
  • 24
  • Running   Sponsored
Establishing of Lightening Detection Sensor (LDS) Network. NRSC
  • Principal Investigator
  • 72
  • Running   Sponsored
Diagnostic Monitoring and Identification of Failure Root Causes of Aged High Voltage Power Cable. Science & Engineering Research Board(SERB)
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Shunt active power filter based on cascade multilevel inverter with single DC Source CSIR
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
On-Line digonostic monitoring of high voltage power system equipment SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored

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Total Publications: 60
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R. Sahoo, S. Panigrahy, R. Sahoo, and S. Karmakar,"Classifying electrical tree growth stages in XLPE cable insulation using vision transformer with window sequence merging mechanism", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol.33, no.1, pp.549 - 557, IEEE 2026, 10.1109/TDEI.2025.3589912       Article

R. Sahoo, S. Panigrahy, R. Sahoo, and S. Karmakar,"Classifying electrical tree growth stages in XLPE cable insulation using vision transformer with window sequence merging mechanism", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol.33, no.1, pp.549-557, lEEE 2026, 10.1109/TDEI.2025.3589912       Article

D. Chowdhury, S. Panigrahy, and S. Karmakar,"Condition monitoring of transmission line vibration dampers using YOLOv12 model", in 2025 International Conference on Power Electronics Converters for Transportation and Energy Applications (PECTEA), pp.1-6, IEEE, June 2025, 10.1109/PECTEA61788.2025.11076497       Inproceedings

R. Sahoo, S. Panigrahy, and S. Karmakar,"A multimodal multitask deep learning framework for condition assessment of underground cable insulation", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.74, pp.1-10, IEEE, November 2025, 10.1109/TIM.2025.3617411       Article

D. Chowdhury, S. Panigrahy, and S. Karmakar,"Condition monitoring of transmission line vibration dampers using YOLOv12 Model", in 2025 International Conference on Power Electronics Converters for Transportation and Energy Applications (PECTEA), pp.1-6, IEEE 2025, 10.1109/PECTEA61788.2025.11076497       Inproceedings

Diagnostic Monitoring of High Voltage Power Equipment (DMHVPE-2024) Electrical Engineering (Short-term Course)
Latest Advances and Challenges in Power System (LACPS-2023) Electrical Engineering (Short-term Course)
Condition Assessment of Power System Equipment (CAPSE-2023) Electrical Engineering (Short-term Course)

  • Basic Electrical Engineering {Theory}
  • Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Insulation in Power System Equipment {Theory}
  • Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Insulation in Power System Equipments {Theory}
  • Estimation of Signals and Systems {Theory}
  • Extra High Voltage Transmission {Theory}
  • High Voltage DC Transmission {Theory}
  • High Voltage Engineering {Theory}
  • High Voltage Engineering and HVDC Transmission {Theory}
  • Network Analysis {Theory}
  • Non linear Control Systems {Theory}
  • Power Generation Systems {Theory}
  • Utilization of Electrical Energy {Theory}
  • Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
  • Control System Laboratory {Practical}
  • Electrical Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
  • Electrical Engineering Laboratory – I {Practical}
  • Electrical Engineering Laboratory-I {Practical}
  • Electrical System Simulation Laboratory {Practical}
  • High Voltage Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
  • Instrumentation Laboratory {Practical}
  • Power System Laboratory {Practical}
  • Power System Laboratory – I {Practical}
  • Power Systems Design Laboratory {Practical}
  • Power Systems Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
  • Power Systems Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [7]
Advanced Techniques for Condition Monitoring and Degradation Assessment of Transmission Line Outdoor Insulators
Satyajit Panigrahy
Enrolled: Jan 2020
Graduated :  Feb 2026
Supervisor
Comprehensive Analysis of PD Measurement, Condition Assessment, and Electrical Tree Growth Characteristics in Polymeric Cable Insulation
Rakesh Sahoo
Enrolled: Jul 2019
Graduated :  Sep 2024
Supervisor
Investigation of Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Based SAF with Alternative Configurations Under Ideal and Nonideal Grid Voltage Conditions
Ashish Ranjan Dash
Enrolled: Nov 2014
Graduated :  Dec 2019
Co-Supervisor
Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Transformers using Spectrophotometric Dissolved Gas Analysis and Acoustic Emission Techniques
Hussain K
Enrolled: Jul 2013
Graduated :  Feb 2019
Supervisor
Detection and Localization of Faults in Distribution System Using Frequency and Time-Frequency Domain Analysis
Himadri Lala
Enrolled: Jul 2013
Graduated :  Jun 2019
Supervisor
High Voltage Engineering, and Power Systems
Suchibrata Dash
Enrolled: Jul 2026
Continuing
Supervisor
High Voltage Engineering
Raseswar Sahoo
Enrolled: Jul 2023
Continuing
Supervisor

Memberships / Fellowships
  • MIEEE (USA), MIEEE-DEIS, MIEEE-PES, AMIE (India), LMILA ,   

  • Chairperson - IT Infrastructure