The winners of the programme, who will be hosted for two years at the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, are: Dr Mohan Rao Ungarala from the University of Quebec in Canada and Dr Dipesh Shah from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology - Vasad University in India.
Dr. Mohan Rao Ungarala will start a research project at the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering in collaboration with Prof. Paweł Rózga. Dr Dipesh Shah will carry out research at the Institute of Automatic Control together with Prof. Andrzej Bartoszewicz.
Foreign scientists staying in Poland will receive a monthly scholarship of PLN 10,000 under the Programme. This amount may be increased if they come accompanied by a spouse or minor children.
This is what their tutors say about the winners of the Ulam NAWA Programme.
As explained by Prof. Paweł Rózga
- Dr Mohan Rao Ungarala has been affiliated with the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi since 2018. His research interests include high voltage engineering with a particular focus on the analysis of ageing processes of power infrastructure components. It is in this field that he will carry out his internship in the high voltage team of the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering. The research project, which will start in October 2022, will be carried out in close collaboration with the University of Quebec. It will involve the study of new high-performance liquid and solid insulation materials for power transformer applications. Special attention will be given to biodegradable materials, which will be studied in a thermally simulated accelerated ageing process.
Dr Ungaral's involvement in the work conducted by Prof. Rózga, is not accidental
- I have been collaborating with the University of Quebec for several years, which has resulted, among other things, in the resumption of the IEEE Technical Committee on Liquid Dielectrics, of which I am vice-chair and Dr. M.R. Ungurala is secretary. We have also prepared a joint review article published in October 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation - says Prof. Rózga, TUL.
Prof. Andrzej Bartoszewicz, the tutor of the scientist from India, emphasising that Lodz University of Technology has a signed agreement with the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology says
- Dr Dipesh Shah has already visited the Institute of Automatic Control several years ago. He is currently coming with his wife and daughter in early March and will stay in our university till the end of February 2024. His arrival under the Ulam NAWA Programme will enable us to continue and develop our common scientific interests. We will conduct research on sliding control by computer network of dynamic objects, sliding control triggered by events etc.
Dr Shah is not the only scientist from India visiting the Institute of Automatic Control.
- In November 2021, we hosted Mr Tamen Thapa Sarkar and in early January 2022, Gautam Sethia from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati located in the state of Assam arrived. Both PhD students are working on similar topics as Dipesh Shah. With them we are mainly working on sliding control of power electronic converters, adds Prof Bartoszewicz.
