Giri Venkataramanan

Giri Venkataramanan, Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Professor in Engineering Education (Fellow, IEEE) studied electrical engineering degree at the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Madras, Chennai, India, in 1986, the M.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison), Madison, WI, USA, in 1992. He began his academic career at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, before joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 1999. He has been actively conducting research in the areas of power converter topologies, control, microgrids, wind power systems, and utility-scale power electronic systems. He currently serves as the Director of the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC), Madison. His current research interests include power electronics with educational activism both inside and outside the classroom, developing hands-on student projects aimed at increasing learning effectiveness and addressing energy development issues.  Dr. Venkataramanan is the recipient of several major awards recognizing his preeminence as an engineering educator including the Gerald Holdridge Teaching Award, the Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvey Spangler Award for Innovative Teaching and Learning Practices, Ragnar Onstad Award for Service to Society, and the UW-Madison Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. 

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Research Interests

• Power Converter Circuits, Topologies, Modeling, Dynamics, Design and Control
• Power Electronics in Electric Utilities – wind/solar power, storage, microgrids, transmission systems, power quality
• Industrial Drives – permanent magnet and induction motors
• Energy Sustainability and Technology Access