1. Curriculum Vitae
First name Suresh Rajan
Last name Pillai
Address Rütscher straße 121, Zi: 0213
52072 Aachen Germany
Date of Birth 21st
May 1988
Nationality Indian
Phone number +4917672131523
Email suru.pillai@gmail.com
Research/Work Experience
September
2009 to
July 2013
Power System Engineer in "Power Research and Development Consultants”
(PRDC), Bangalore, India.
 Conducted power system studies for utilities and industrial power plants. Studies included
load flow, short circuit, transient stability, reactor adequacy studies, harmonic analysis and
relay coordination studies in Mipower (power system analysis software).
 Performed transmission planning studies (for years 2011 to 2016) for eastern Indian state
of West Bengal. Studies included
 Peak load studies - to assess/plan the 220 and 400 kV transmission network
requirements checking loading of transmission lines and substations considering the
forecasted peak load for each year. Also, considering effect of different contingencies
(N-1, N-2) as prescribed in Indian Grid code.
 Light load studies - to assess the reactor requirements for future substations under
these conditions
 Short circuit studies - to assess requirement of breaker capacities for planned
substations
 Transient stability studies - to study effect of sudden large disturbances on the
planned network as per grid code guidelines (like faults on major transmission lines,
large generator outages, load throw off, assessing critical clearing time of generators)
 Power system expansion studies for Jindal South West Steel Limited, Bellary, Karnataka
 Studies included over current phase relay coordination studies for the medium voltage
distribution network (large steel plant in India) of the plant.
 Performed power evacuation studies for power companies considering technical,
commercial and regulatory aspects of power transmission.
 Data collection at site, discussions with clients, preparation of reports and presentations.

2. May 2014
to April 2016
Institute of Automation of Complex Power Systems at E.ON Energy Research Center,
RWTH Aachen, Germany
Student job (May 2014 - June 2015) -10 to 15 hours/week
 Modelling of distributed generators (DG) in Real time digital simulator (RTDS) and
studying the effects of their integration in to IEEE 14 bus system.
 Modelling and analysis of two area Kundur power system network in Opal-RT real time
software
Master Thesis (November 2015 – May 2016) titled –‘Design and implementation of
state estimation algorithm for hybrid ac-dc grids’
 Develop a generalised weighted least square ac and dc state estimator in Matlab flexible
w.r.t. number of buses in ac and dc systems, configuration of measurement sets and control
mode of converter, configuration of converter (monopolar/bipolar)
 Refine the results of ac and dc state estimators by updating the boundary conditions
between hybrid grids considering principles of propagation of uncertainty.
 Identify critical measurements and perform tests to study and improvise on the
observability aspect of ac-dc grids.
 Develop a demo platform using Python-Matlab interface where Python displays/updates
the results of state estimation results from Matlab every few seconds.
Education
September 2013
to present
 RWTH Aachen University, Germany, M.Sc. in Electrical Power Engineering.
Overall grade with Master Thesis: around 1.55 (awaiting final results)
June 2005
to May 2009
 Amrita University, Bangalore, India, Bachelor of Technology-Electrical and Electronics.
Overall grade 7.9/10 CGPA.
Publications
1. ‘A State Estimation Algorithm for Hybrid AC/DC Networks with Multi terminal DC grids’
(submitted to IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) 2016, Ljubljana).
2. Paper planned for IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements (AMPS 2016).
Personal skills
Languages  Fluent-English and regional Indian languages- Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam.
 German (Intermediate language proficiency - B1 level).
Software
skills
 RTDS, Matlab, Opal-RT, Python, Mipower (Power System Analysis Software).
 Completed EDX-MIT online course on ‘Introduction to Computer Science and Programme
using Python’ in August, 2015.
Awards,
Achievements,
other
interests
 Awarded Best Employee of Power System Department at PRDC 2011-12.(quarter-1)
 Former volunteer of Youth for Service, India a Non-profit Organization where I was a
weekend English Tutor for underprivileged students at a school in Bangalore.
 Learning Python programming, making simple basic games in it.
Aachen, 11th
May, 2016