Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor of Power EngineeringPh.D., 2003 - Clemson University
Electrical Engineering
Master of Technology, 1997 - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, 1989 - Gujarat University, India
Electrical Engineering
Contact Information
Office: 303 Riggs Hall
Office Phone: 864.656.3376
Fax: 864.656.5917
Email: sbrahma@clemson.edu
Academic
Sukumar Brahma received his Bachelor of Engineering from Gujarat University, Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and Ph.D. from Clemson University, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Clemson University as the Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering in August 2018. Before joining Clemson, he was the William Kersting Endowed Chair Professor at New Mexico State University in the United States. Brahma has chaired the IEEE Power and Energy Society's Power and Energy Education Committee, the Lifelong Learning Subcommittee, and the Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee. He is a member of the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRCC), where he has contributed to and led working groups that produce reports, guides, and standards in the area of power system protection. He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and served as Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System Protection for the journal. His research, widely published and funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, utilities, and other government agencies, has focused on different aspects of power system modeling, analysis, and protection. Brahma is a Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Research Interests
Brahma's research mainly focuses on power system protection. It spans diverse areas of electrical engineering and computer science, integrating signal processing, machine learning, control, and communication to holistically approach emerging problems in the power and energy domain. The current focus is on protection issues in the integration of renewables with power systems and new paradigms in protecting the smart grid, at both transmission and distribution levels.