Professional Activities

 

·         Senior Member IEEE

 

·         Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 2003-2008

 

·         Chair, IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Working Group 15.05.17, “HVDC and FACTS Bibliography” 2004 - continuing

 

·         Member, Editorial Board, IEEE PES Letters 2003- continuing

 

·         Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (IJEEPS) 2004-2008

 

·         Member, IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Substations Committee, Working Group I4, “SVC Substations”, 2003- continuing

 

·         Member, IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Substations Committee, Working Group I5, “Voltage Source Converters”,

 

·         Member, International Advisory Committee, 13th National Power Systems Conference, India, Dec. 2006

 

·         Member CIGRE, Canada, since 2007

 

 

Conferences /  Courses  / Tutorials / Conducted

 

·         Panelist in the Panel Session on “FACTS Fundamentals” to be held in 2010 IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition - 20-22 April 2010, New Orleans, LA, USA.

 

·         Co-instructor for the IEEE Substations Committee Tutorial on “Static Var Compensators” to be delivered in 2010 IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition - 20-22 April 2010, New Orleans, LA, USA.

 

·         Panelist in the Panel Session on “FACTS” for the IEEE PES Power System Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, USA, March 15-18, 2009

 

·         Panelist in the Panel Session on "Research and education for integration of renewable energy
sources into power systems" for the IEEE PES General Meeting 2009 in Calgary. 

 

·         Co-instructor for the IEEE Substations Committee Tutorial on “Static Var Compensators” delivered in the IEEE PES General Meeting in Pittsburg in June 2008

 

·         Co-instructor for the IEEE Substations Committee Tutorial on “Static Var Compensators” delivered in 2008 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition in Chicago in April 2008

 

·         Co-instructor for the IEEE Substations Committee Tutorial on “Static Var Compensators” delivered in IEEE Substations Committee Annual Meeting in Bellevue (Seattle), WA, USA, April 2007

 

·         Taught an on-line graduate level course on “ Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) Models, Control and Applications” conducted by the Advanced Training Centre in Electric Power Engineering at the University of Waterloo, for utility engineers from Hydro One Inc., Toronto, in Fall 2007

 

·         Organized the Indo-Canada Conference on “Sustainable Non-Grid Renewable Electric Power Generation for Rural Electrification” on 31st May 2007. This Conference was sponsored by Shastri Indo-Canada Institute, Calgary, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore, India.

 

·         Delivered a five-day Intensive Graduate Course on “FACTS and Wind Power Generation” under  World Bank Technical Education program at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, during 20-25 August 2007

 

·         Conducted a two-day Day World Bank Technical Education Program Workshop on “Wind Power Integration in Power Systems” at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, during 28-29 August 2007

 

·         Delivered a Tutorial on “Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)” in 13th National Power Systems Conference, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, December 2006

 

·         Taught an on-line graduate level course on “ Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) Models, Control and Applications” conducted by the Advanced Training Centre in Electric Power Engineering at the University of Waterloo, for utility engineers from Hydro One Inc., Toronto, in 2006

 

·         Co-instructor for the IEEE Substations Committee Tutorial on “Static Var Compensators” delivered in the IEEE PES General Meeting in San Francisco in June 2005

 

  • Conducted a 3-day Short Term Training Program on “Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)” in July 2005 at Bhopal, India, for faculty members of various Indian Engineering Universities

 

·         Co-delivered a Tutorial on “Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)” in IEEE sponsored International Conference on Power Systems - Challenges to Electric Utilities in the New Millennium, Nepal, Nov. 2004

 

·         Conducted a three week intensive course on “FACTS” for graduate students at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in Aug. 2005

 

·         Co-delivered a one-day Tutorial on “Flexible AC Transmission Systems  (FACTS)” at the 10th National Power Systems Conference at Vadodara, India in Oct. 1998

 

  • Organized and team taught (with two faculty members) a six day in-house Intensive Course on "Reactive Power Control, Static Var Systems and HVDC Systems" for engineers and officers of M.P. Electricity Board and BHEL at Jabalpur, India, in March 1992

 

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Rajiv K. Varma, Ph.D.

TEB 233 Thompson Engineering Building
University of Western Ontario, London, ON       N6A 5B9
Telephone: 519 661-2111 x85111
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email: rkvarma@uwo.ca