Paarth is currently working as a Research Associate. He completed his BTech from IIT Gandhinagar in 2023. Prior to joining SPEL, he worked as a data scientist in Decimal Point Analytics. His research interest lies in the application of machine learning to energy systems. Currently, he is working on fast generalization of data-driven digital twins.
Hima is an AI Research Scientist at SPEL in the AICOE project, currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) with a focus on predictive maintenance and reinforcement learning for industrial systems. She holds a B.E. and M.E. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat Technological University, where she graduated as a State-level Gold Medalist. With over six years of experience in applied Artificial Intelligence, Hima has worked across industrial, academic, and sustainability-driven projects, integrating AI, IoT, and automation for real-world problem-solving. Her expertise spans deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative AI, with specialized work in Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation, semantic search, and Agentic AI systems. She has led and delivered 30+ AI/ML solutions across domains such as energy optimization, drone surveillance, healthcare, defense, and sustainable technology—developing scalable systems including AI-driven flood monitoring, drone-based surveillance, and reinforcement learning–based control frameworks. She has also received multiple national recognitions, including being the Winner of the Smart India Hackathon and securing 2nd Place in the NSG DigiRakshak Hackathon as a Mentor. Driven by interdisciplinary research, Hima aims to bridge AI innovation with real-world infrastructure, contributing toward net-zero transitions, smart manufacturing, and intelligent automation.
Gayathri received Master of Science (by Research) and Doctor of Philosophy dual degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, in July 2025. Her thesis focuses on the stability aspects of renewable integrated systems, with a particular emphasis on
frequency response, transient stability, and small-signal stability. She has gained hands-on experience in Dynamic Security Assessment (DSA) tools and has also been involved in developing and testing hardware testbed for power system monitoring applications. She completed B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Government Engineering College, Thrissur, in 2018. She received a Certificate of Excellence in recognition
of being among the top 5% of candidates in the examination. She is currently working as a project manager in the AICOE project at the Smart Power Electronics Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Her research interests include power system monitoring, power system stability analysis, and renewable integration.
Samsaptak is a Project Scientist with the MAHA-EV project. He has submitted his PhD thesis in Electrical Engineering at IIT Roorkee and holds an M.E. from Jadavpur University and a B.E. from Burdwan University. His product-development portfolio spans heavy-payload and all-terrain autonomous mobility systems (vehicle/robot) with web-app control, a modular and flexible power-electronics test bed for EV converter research, and a hazard-aware BMS stack for early detection and mitigation of mechanically induced thermal runaway. He works extensively across modern software and toolchains, as well as embedded and edge platforms, with hands-on sensor integration and mechanical–electrical hardware design. During his PhD, he co-founded and served as CEO & Director of Arunoday Innovations and Research Pvt. Ltd., securing funding from the Government of India for AV prototyping and delivering concept-to-fielded systems. He also contributed to two sponsored autonomous-vehicle initiatives—Industrial Collaborator on an iHub Divyasampark (IIT Roorkee) project and Researcher on a TMS, New Delhi project—both focused on low-cost AVs for industry. His prior teaching roles include Guest Lecturer at the University of Burdwan and Assistant Professor at MAKAUT, West Bengal. He has guided multiple autonomous and electric-mobility projects and has authored several product patents and IEEE publications. He has also organized tech fests, conferences, and hackathons—handling proposal coordination, progress reporting, technical evaluations, and interfaces with funding agencies. He undertook internships in security and systems workshops with Texas A&M University, ORNL, SNL, PNS (U.S. Dept. of State), and NSSPI. At IIT Roorkee, he helped develop the Control and Autonomous Robotic Systems (CARS) Lab. Overall, he aims to bridge academia and industry by translating rigorous research into reliable, scalable products for sustainable mobility.
Aditya is currently working as a Project Scientist-I for the ANRF MAHA-EV project. He submitted his Ph.D. thesis in 2025 at the Energy Centre, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal. His doctoral research focused on Fault-Tolerant Multilevel Inverters, during which he developed several power converter topologies for renewable energy applications and published his work in reputed international journals. He holds an MTech degree in Electrical Drives from MANIT, Bhopal in 2019, specializing in power electronic converters, and completed his BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from St. Martin’s Engineering College, Hyderabad. His research interests include inverters, fault tolerant multilevel inverters, power converters for renewable energy systems and grid tied systems. He has hands on experience with Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) studies such as dSPACE and Opal-RT, and is proficient in MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, and PSCAD environments.
Ashish is an Electrical Engineer specializing in Power Electronics, Renewable Energy Systems, and Converter Design. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics) from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, 2025, where his research centered on the design and development of high-gain and multiport DC–DC converters for fuel cell–photovoltaic-based DC microgrid applications. His doctoral work contributed significantly to the understanding and optimization of high-performance converter topologies aimed at efficient renewable energy integration. He holds an MTech in Electrical Drives from NIT Bhopal, 2019 and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from REC Banda, 2016. He has six months of experience as a Project Scientist–I at IIT Kanpur. His work focuses on the development of high efficient converters, control implementation using DSP/DSPACE platforms, and experimental validation of advanced converter prototypes. Currently, he is working as a Project Scientist-II for the ANRF MAHA-EV project in the lab.
Sanjeev is the Project Manager for the ANRF MAHA-EV mission at SPEL, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, since 2025. His current research focuses on developing an early warning system as part of a smart EV battery diagnostic system for enhanced EV safety. He was awarded MS + PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from IIT Madras in July 2025 as a Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF). His doctoral thesis focused on developing printed nanomaterial devices based on bismuth ferrite nanocomposites for room-temperature low-powered toxic gas sensing, flexible photodetectors, and EMI shielding applications. These are supported by two research excellence awards, seven international peer-reviewed publications (Q1, Q2), and seven international conferences, with one patent granted in 2024 for indigenous gas sensing technology. Before joining IIT Madras as the inaugural PMRF in 2018, he gained three years of research and teaching experience at Iowa State University and Ames Lab, USA from 2015-2018. He obtained his BTech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur and was the gold medallist of the 2015 batch. Supplemented by expertise in nanomaterials synthesis and gas sensing, his research interest lies in applying multifunctional materials towards sustainable energy storage and harvesting.