Rajesh Kavasseri

Rajesh Kavasseri serves as Associate Dean for Research and Professor in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University since 2020, following an 18-year faculty career at North Dakota State University. His leadership spans research administration and electrical engineering scholarship.

His academic foundation includes:

• B.E. in electrical engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India (1995)
• M.S. in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1998)
• Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Washington State University (2002)

Dr. Kavasseri's research pioneers electric power systems dynamics and control, with signature contributions to nonlinear stability analysis and synchrophasor-based monitoring. His work bridges theoretical control methods with grid resilience challenges in renewable integration and blackout prevention.

Analysis of 2016-2020 publications reveals three dominant thrusts: inter-area oscillation damping through MTDC grids (5 publications), energy function-based fault detection (3 publications), and probabilistic methods for renewable integration (2 publications). Methodologies span particle filtering, singular value perturbation, and Grobner basis techniques applied to real-time PMU data.

His research program is sustained by significant external funding:

• NSF: WARP - Wide Area assisted Resilient Protection (2015, $314,074)
• NSF: Control of Wind Generation for Oscillation Damping (2009, $240,001)
• NSF: ZER0H - Zero Energy Ready Homes (2017, $99,122)
• NSF: Static Voltage Stability Analysis (2008, $75,357)
• NSF: NAPS Student Support (2018, $17,500)

He holds U.S. Patent US-7948420-B1 for eliminating anti-aliasing filters in digital relays through oversampling, demonstrating translational impact from theory to grid hardware.