Profile Version as on 01/06/2025
Santhosh Paramasivam is a visionary Academic Researcher & Faculty Member with 15 years of experience dedicated to green & sustainable solutions. Currently, he is a Faculty Member and Researcher in the Industrial and Information Engineering division of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari (UniCA), Italy, working on the RETURN Project (multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate) funded by PNRR, Italian Ministry of University and Research. His current research focuses on AI-based analysis of Energy Storage Devices, WSN for environmental monitoring and Sustainable Energy Harvesting. His research outcomes at UniCA are extensively appreciated and documented through 10 peerreviewed publication (Conferences / Journals) establishing collaboration across the globe and received 3 grants/funding since Oct 2023. He is an active reviewer for IEEE and Elsevier Journals and a invited speaker at international conferences and FDPs. His sustained contributions have earned him the distinction of IEEE Senior Member in 2025.
His journey towards green and sustainable solutions began with his UG thesis, "Renewable Energy Locomotive," which was a proposal for powering EV based on thermionic generation. This innovative work earned him the Best Paper Award in 2009 @ Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India sponsored conference on Trends and Developments in Renewable Energy Sources. He pursued his Graduate thesis on "Performance Study of Induction Motor using dsPIC" analyzing controllers and converters for AC induction motors, advancing this research towards converter topologies for BLDC motors, culminating in his PhD thesis "Certain Investigations on Brushless DC Motor with DC-DC Converter Topologies." His multifaceted career extends beyond research into industry, where he served as a Sr. Manager @ ElectroSolve India Pvt. Ltd., specializing in developing realtime test solutions for the automotive and EMS industries. He holds multiple Industrial certifications from B&R Automation, National Instruments and Infosys. He has published 4 patents spanning innovations such as an IoT-based monitoring system using LoRa and LoRaWAN, a smart vehicle automation and tracking system utilizing WSNs, an AI-driven no-ball detection system for cricket, and an IoT-based UV air sterilizer.