WKU SEAS Faculty

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, New York, USA (2021)

• M.Tech., Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India (2014)

• B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India (2011)

Research Interests

Power System Protection; Power System Reliability; Inverter-Interfaced Renewable Energy Resources; Signal Processing; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Power Systems.

• P. K. Bera, S. R. Pani, “Recurrence plot and change quantile-based deep supervised and semi-supervised protection for transmission lines connected to photovoltaic plants,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025.

• P. K. Bera, S. R. Pani, C. Isik, R. C. Bansal, “A Hybrid Intelligent Protection for Transmission Lines Connected to PV Farms based on Linear Trends,” Electric Power Systems Research, 2024.

• P. K. Bera, V. Kumar, S. R. Pani, O. P. Malik, “Autoregressive Coefficients based Intelligent Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to Type-3 Wind Farms,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2023.

• P. K. Bera, C. Isik, V. Kumar, “Discrimination of Internal Faults and Other Transients in an Interconnected System with Power Transformers and Phase Angle Regulators,” IEEE Systems Journal, 2021.

• P. K. Bera, C. Isik, “A Data Mining Based Protection and Classification of Transients for Two-Core Symmetric Phase Angle Regulators,” IEEE Access, 2021.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=04Y0XWcAAAAJ

• Senior Member, IEEE.

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Power Electronics.

Fall courses: Electromagnetics I (EE 473), Power Systems II (EE 432), AI Applications in Power Systems (EE 433), Senior Project (ENGR 490, ENGR 491), Signals and Linear Systems (EE 420).

Spring courses: Introduction to Power Systems (EE 431), Electrical Engineering Design III (EE 300), Senior Project (ENGR 490, ENGR 491), Signals and Linear Systems (EE 420).