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Associate Professor

Sivaneasan Bala Krishnan

Associate Professor
Deputy Director, SIT Teaching and Learning Academy
PhD (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Biography

Dr Sivaneasan received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2007 and 2012 respectively. In 2011, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Research Engineer and subsequently as a Research Fellow until 2015. He then joined Nanyang Polytechnic as a Lecturer in 2015. In 2019, he joined Singapore Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor and subsequently promoted to an Associate Professor in 2023. He is registered as Chartered Engineer with UK Engineering Council. He is also IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Region 10.

Dr Sivaneasan conducts research and development in the areas of power engineering in particular microgrids and smart grid technologies. He has published more than 45 technical papers. He also co-authored two scholarly book chapter on Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) for a book titled "Energy Storage for Smart Grids: Planning and Operation for Renewable and Variable Energy Resources (VERs)" and on Impact of EV Charging for a book titled "Advanced Concepts and Technologies for Electric Vehicles". In addition, he also won the “Best Innovation in Renewable Energy” award at National Instruments ASEAN Graphical System Design Achievement Awards for his work on a functional smart grid prototype. His work on IIoT based electrical asset management system at a local shipyard won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference in Power Engineering Applications (ICPEA 2022).

Currently, Dr Sivaneasan is actively involved in applied research projects with strategic industry partners to help the organizations implement new technologies that help improve productivity and work efficiency while ensuring a sustainable operation. In total, he has obtained more than SGD12million in research grant funding. His project IP on condition monitoring has been licensed to EA Technology and deployed at 3 industry sites. His current research focuses on advanced metering infrastructure, condition monitoring system, renewable energy technologies, electric vehicles, energy storage systems, building energy management systems, demand response and smart grids. Till date, Dr Sivaneasan has gathered more than ten years of lecturing, tutoring and laboratory supervision experience in numerous electrical engineering modules. He is also a recognized Associate Adult Educator under the Institute for Adult Education. He has taught various industry relevant Continuing Education and Training (CET) programs for working adults and foreign participants.

SIT Appointments

  • Deputy Director, SIT Teaching and Learning Academy
    – Present
  • Associate Professor
    – Present
  • Assistant Professor
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Education

  • PhD (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
    Nanyang Technological University , Singapore
  • BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
    Nanyang Technological University , Singapore

Achievements

  • IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Distinguished Lecturer (Region 10)
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  • Teaching Excellence Award, Singapore Institute of Technology
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference in Power Engineering Applications (ICPEA 2022)
  • Educator Achievement Award, Nanyang Polytechnic
  • Best Innovation in Renewable Energy, National Instruments ASEAN Graphical System Design Achievement Awards

Professional Certification

  • Certificate in Teaching and Learning (Higher Ed)
    Nanyang Polytechic
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Professional Memberships

  • Secretary, IEEE IES Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification
    – Present
  • Member, Working Group (WG) on Smart Grid, Technical Committee on Power System and Utilisation, Enterprise Singapore
    – Present
  • Chartered Engineer, UK Engineering Council
    – Present
  • Committee Member, IEEE Power & Energy Society (Singapore Chapter)
    – Present
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    Present
  • Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology
    Present
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Research Interests

  • Advanced metering infrastructure
  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Electric vehicles
  • Demand response management
  • Condition monitoring system
  • Smart grids
  • Cyber Security for Power Grids
  • Machine learning applications
  • Pulsed electric field

Current Projects

  • FSSD Proj 1-2: Electric Harbour Craft Onboard Microgrid, Propulsion, and Energy Management System Modelling and Validation
    – Present

    funded by Singapore Maritime Institute under the Maritime Transformation Programme

  • Online Monitoring of In-service Cable Insulation Degradation using Residual Current Technique
    – Present

    Changi Airport Group (Industry funded project)

  • Developing Critical Intelligent Modules for Large-scale Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Implementation
    – Present

    EMA EDGE & Strides Digital Funded Project

  • Machine Learning-based Battery Performance Management for Rugged Systems in Tropics
    – Present

    MOE-SIT & ST Engineering Funded Project

  • Hybrid Cloud and Edge-based Energy Management for Distributed Energy Resources
    – Present

    MOE-SIT & VFlowTech Funded Project

  • Design and Development of a Virtual High-Voltage Laboratory for Effective Applied Learning
    – Present

    MOE-SIT Applied Learning and Innovation Grant (ALIGN)

  • Research And Development of Rapid, Non-Invasive and Low-Cost Health Assessment of the Second Life EV Batteries
    – Present

    funded by mVizn Pte. Ltd and Enterprise Singapore

  • Food Ingredient Extraction Programme - Application of Pulsed Electric Field
    – Present

    MOE-AgroCorp funded project

  • PhD/DEng Students
    – Present

    1. Ayyalusamy Vijayakumar, Investigation on Cyber-Physical Security Vulnerabilities in Microgrids, PhD, 2019
    2. Karthickumar Ponnambalam, Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance of Low Voltage Network, PhD, 2021
    3. Tan Lu Han, Research and Development of Rapid, Non-invasive and Low-cost Health Assessment of Second Life EV Batteries, DEng  with MVizn Pte Ltd, 2022

  • Post-doctoral Supervision
    – Present

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Past Projects

  • Comprehensive Online Condition Monitoring System for Distribution Network Component
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    MOE-SIT Innovation and Capability Fund

  • Micro-grid Digital Twin Development for Effective Energy Management and Deployment
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    EMA EDGE & SPOne Funded Project

  • Partial Discharge (PD) Waveform Identifier
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    SPPG (Industry funded project)

  • IoT based Electrical Asset Management System for Shipyards
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    MOE-SIT & SembCorp Marine Funded Project

  • Smart Nano-grid Architecture Design and Control
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    MOE-SIT & Genplus Funded Project

  • LoRaWAN based Electrical Asset Management System for Shipyards
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    SIT SEED Fund

  • Development of Smart Metering Solution for Shore-to-Ship Power in Green Shipyards
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    SembCorp Marine (Industry funded project)

  • Design and Development of Shore Power Management System
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    SembCorp Marine (Industry funded project)

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Journal Papers

  • R. Ramaswamy, B. Sivaneasan and S. S. J. Leong, "Pulsed Electric Field Technology for Recovery of Proteins from Waste Plant Resources and De-formed Mushrooms: A Review," Processes, vol. 12, no. 2, 342, Feb. 2024.

  • N. Singh, T. Chakrabarti, P. Chakrabarti, M. Margala, A. Gupta, B. Sivaneasan and B. Unhelkar, “A New PSO Technique Used for the Optimization of Multiobjective Economic Emission Dispatch,” Electronics, vol. 12, no. 13, p. 2960, Jul. 2023.

  • N. Singh, T. Chakrabarti, P. Chakrabarti, M. Margala, A. Gupta, S. P. Praveen, B. Sivaneasan and B. Unhelkar, “Novel Heuristic Optimization Technique to Solve Economic Load Dispatch and Economic Emission Load Dispatch Problems,” Electronics, vol. 12, no. 13, p. 2921, Jul. 2023.

  • Donny Soh, B. Sivaneasan, Jacob Abraham, K. X. Lai, K. J. Tseng, Jimmy Fu Yongyi, "Partial Discharge Diagnostics: Data Cleaning and Feature Extraction," Energies, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 508, Jan. 2022.

  • B. Sivaneasan, K. Nandha Kumar, K. T. Tan, and P. L. So, “Preemptive demand response management for buildings,” IEEE Trans. Sustainable Energy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 346-356, Apr. 2015.

  • B. Sivaneasan, E. Gunawan, and P. L. So, “Modeling and performance analysis of automatic meter-reading systems using PLC under impulsive noise interference,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1465–1475, Jul. 2010.

  • B. Sivaneasan, L. K. Siow, P. L. So and H.B. Gooi, “Performance measurement and analysis of WIMAX-LAN communication operating at 5.8 GHz,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1497–1506, Aug. 2013.

  • K. Nandha Kumar, B. Sivaneasan, P. H. Cheah, P. L. So, and D. Z. W. Wang “V2G capacity estimation using dynamic EV scheduling,” IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1051-1060, Mar. 2014.

  • B. Sivaneasan, E. Gunawan, and P. L. So, “A New Routing Protocol for PLC-based AMR Systems,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 2613–2620, Oct. 2011.

  • K. Nandha Kumar, B. Sivaneasan, and P. L. So, “Impact of priority criteria on electric vehicle charge scheduling,” IEEE Trans. Transportation Electrification, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 200-210, Oct. 2015.

  • B. Sivaneasan, Nandha Kumar Kandasamy, M. L. Lim, K. P. Goh, “A new demand response algorithm for solar PV intermittency management,” Applied Energy, vol. 218, pp. 36-45, May. 2018.

  • K. T. Tan, B. Sivaneasan, X. Y. Peng, and P. L. So, “Control and operation of a DC grid based wind power generation system in a microgrid,” IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 496-505, Jun. 2016.

Conferences

  • M. F. Amran, D. R. Thinesh, B. Sivaneasan, A.K. Rathore, Tijmen Salet, Rens ten Klooster, Prasun Chakrabarti, "Impact of Decarbonization Policies on Electric Vehicle Integration and Carbon Emission: A Singapore Case Study," 2023 IEEE International Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC-India), Chennai, India, 2023, pp. 1-5.

  • D. S. Kumar, A. Sharma, B. Sivaneasan and D. Srinivasan, "An Adaptive Numerical Overcurrent Protection Scheme for Microgrids," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6.

  • D. R. Thinesh, Yunyi Zhao, Ryan Kun Keat Peng, B. Sivaneasan, K. T. Tan, K. J. Tseng, and Anurag Sharma, "A Hybrid Online Model for Short-Term Solar Irradiance Forecasting using Minimal Data," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6.

  • Z. Qian, D. R. Thinesh, B. Sivaneasan, K. T. Tan, K. J. Tseng and P. Chakrabarti, "Advancing Low-Power Self-Sustaining IoT Sensors Through CdTe PV-Driven LoRa Communication," IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-6.

  • Z. Qian, S. Cao, H. Jiang, B. Sivaneasan, K. T. Tan and K. J. Tseng, "Optimized EMS Real-Time Simulation and Validation for Singapore Pulau Ubin Microgrid," 2022 12th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES), Guangzhou, China, 2022, pp. 401-406.

  • Q. Ziyuan, D. R. Thinesh, V. Ayyalusamy, B. Sivaneasan, K. T. Tan and K. J. Tseng, "A LoRaWAN Based Solar PV Condition Monitoring System," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2022, pp. 1-6.

  • V. Ayyalusamy, B. Sivaneasan, N. Kandasamy, J. F. Xiao, K. Abidi and A. Chandra, "Hybrid Digital Twin Architecture for Power System Cyber Security Analysis," 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, Singapore, 2022, pp. 270-274.

  • D. R. Thinesh, B. Sivaneasan,  K. T. Tan and Purnima Murali Mohan, "IIoT Based Electrical Asset Management System: A LoRaWAN Deployment Study at Shipyard," 2022 IEEE International Conference in Power Engineering Applications (ICPEA 2022), pp. 1-5. (Best Paper Award)

  • N. K. Kandasamy, N. J. B. Mohamed, J. Hao, S. C. Beng, D. S. C. Lock, F. Wei, B. Sivaneasan, and K. T. Tan, "Preemptive Identification of End-of-Life for Stationary Battery Systems," 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), pp. 1-5.

  • K. V. Ravi Kishore, Naga Brahmendra, B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and C. C. Chan, “An APWM soft switched DC-DC converter for PV and EV,” in Proc. 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Jun. 2014.

  • B. Sivaneasan, M. L. Lim, and K. P. Goh, “Overcoming Solar PV Intermittency using Demand Response Management in Buildings,” in Energy Procedia, 2017.

  • J. S. Ren, K. T. Tan, B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and E. Gunawan, “Energy management of a multi-agent based multi-microgrid system,” in Proc. IEEE Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), Dec. 2014, pp. 1-6.

  • B. Sivaneasan, K. Nandha Kumar, P. L. So, and E. Gunawan, “A hybrid PLC-WiMAX based communication system for advanced metering infrastructure,” in Proc. 10th International Power and Energy Conference (IPEC), Vietnam, Dec. 2012.

  • B. Sivaneasan, C. Y. Yu, and K. P. Goh, “Solar Forecasting using ANN with Fuzzy Logic Pre-processing,” in Energy Procedia, 2017.

  • K. Nandha Kumar, B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and D. Z. W. Wang, “Methodology for optimizing the number of electric vehicles deployed under a smart grid,” in Proc. 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013, pp. 4647-4652, Nov. 2013.

  • B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and E. Gunawan, “Modeling and performance analysis of automatic meter reading system using power line communication,” in Proc. 11th IEEE International Conf. on Communication Systems, China, Nov. 2008, pp. 1446-1450.

  • K. Nandha Kumar, B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, H. B. Gooi, N. Jadhav, R. Singh, and C. Marnay, “A sustainable campus with PEVs and microgrids,” in Proc. ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, USA, Jul. 2012, pp. 128-139.

  • B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and E. Gunawan, “A hybrid contention-polling protocol for PLC-based AMR systems,” in Proc. 9th IPEC Conf., Singapore, Oct. 2010, pp.1152-1157.

  • K. Nandha Kumar, P. H. Cheah, B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and D. Z. W. Wang, “Electric vehicle charging profile prediction for efficient energy management in buildings,” in Proc. 10th International Power and Energy Conference (IPEC), Vietnam, Dec. 2012.

  • B. Sivaneasan, P. L. So, and E. Gunawan, “A simple routing protocol for PLC-based AMR systems,” in Proc. IEEE Region 10 TENCON Conf., Singapore, Nov. 2009, pp.1-5.

  • B. Sivaneasan, K. Thachinamoorthi, and K. P. Goh, “Interruptible load scheme: Demand response management for buildings,” in Proc. IEEE TENCON Conf., Singapore, Nov. 2016.

Books

  • K. Nandha Kumar, B. Sivaneasan, K. T. Tan, J. S. Ren, and P. L. So. Chapter on “Electric Vehicles as Energy Storage: V2G Capacity Estimation” in the book titled Energy Storage for Smart Grids: Planning and Operation for Renewable and Variable Energy Resources (VERs), Elsevier, Oct. 2014.

  • B. Sivaneasan, K. Nandha Kumar, K. T. Tan, and D. R. Thinesh, Chapter on “Energy Storage in EVs and Mitigating Impact of EV Charging on Power Grid ” in the book titled Advanced Concepts and Technologies for Electric Vehicles, CRC Press, Jan. 2024.

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Teaching Modules

Electrical Power Engineering, BEng (Hons)

  • EPE3315 - Electrical Installations Design for Built Environment

Past

  • Smart Grids
  • Power Transmission & Distribution
  • Electrical Circuit Analysis
  • Electric Principles
  • Harvesting Green Energy
  • Electronics
  • Power System Analysis and Control
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