Dr. R. Sarathi is a Professor of High voltage engineering with IIT Madras. He has rich and varied experience of over 20 years in research, teaching and consulting. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing the state-of-the-art High Voltage Laboratory at IIT Madras.

He visited Akita University, Japan as a JSPS Fellow; visited Technical University, Munich as DAAD Fellow and served as visiting researcher in leading universities such as Nagaoka University, Japan, Kyushu University, Japan, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and Waseda University, Japan.

He is currently associated with UKIERI project, an international collaboration initiative on Innovation in high voltage insulation for electrical energy networks.

He is Member, Indian Standards on High voltage testing techniques, CBIP distribution system, International Reference Group for SweGRIDS, Sweden and a collaborative member of green Asia project of Kyushu university funded by Japanese government.

He is senior IEEE member and IEEE Madras Section PES Chair.

Research Interests

• Development of cryogenic insulation material • Condition Monitoring of power apparatus using Multi sensor fusion technique * Understanding the influence of space charge on breakdown process in nanocomposites and elastomers adopting PEA technique • Development of nano composite insulating materials for outdoor applications • Fault diagnosis in transformers using Acoustic emission and UHF Sensors • Application of Wavelet Technique to Condition Monitoring of Outdoor insulating structures. • Fractal Modeling and Simulation of Treeing in electrical Insulation . • Generation of Nano particles by pulsed power technique • Sterilization of liquid foods using pulsed power technique

Publications

Office Location: ESB 347

Personal Homepage: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~sarathi/

Scopus ID: 7003779585