Dr. Samundra Gurung

Visiting Faculty

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Research interests
Power System Dynamics and Stability, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics.

Education
2019     Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology      Thonburi, Bangmod, Thailand
2013    M.E., Power Systems Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India
2009    B.E., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal

Academic Experience
2021-Till    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal

2021    Visiting Faculty, Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University , Nepal

2014-2015    Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Paschimanchal Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professional Experience
2009-2011    Micro-hydro engineer, Krishna Grill and Engineering works Pvt. Ltd., Mandikatar, Nepal.

Research Experience
2020-2021    Post-Doctoral Researcher, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand 
Tasks:    Conduct research and software training, assist students

2019    Pre-Doctoral Researcher, “Design of Probabilistically Robust Controllers Considering Stochastic Time Delay and Other Power System Uncertainties”, University of Jaen, Linares, Spain

2018    Researcher, “Optimization Study of Solar Photovoltaic and HEMS Energy Storage Integration with Vehicle-to-Grid for Grid Support and Efficient Energy System”, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangmod, Thailand

Other Academic Achievements
Reviewer for IEEE Access, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Springer Applied Sciences, Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Honors and Awards
ISGT-Asia Student Support by PES, IEEE, Petchra Pra Jam Klao by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Journal Publications
Tostado-Veliz, M., Gurung, S. and Jurado, F., Naetiladdanon, 2022. “Efficient Solution of Many-Objective Home Energy Management Systems”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 136, pp.107666

Neupane, D., Kafle, S., Gurung, S., Neupane, S., & Bhattarai, N. 2021. “Optimal sizing and financial analysis of a stand-alone SPV-micro-hydropower hybrid system considering generation uncertainty”, International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies. pp.1-13.

Boonseng, T., Sangswang, A., Naetiladdanon, S. and Gurung, S., 2021. “A New Two-Stage Approach to Coordinate Electrical Vehicles for Satisfaction of Grid and Customer Requirements”, Applied Sciences, 11(9), pp.3904.

Gurung, S., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2021. “A surrogate based computationally efficient method to coordinate damping controllers for enhancement of probabilistic small-signal stability”, IEEE Access, 9, pp.32882-32896.

Gurung, S., Jurado, F., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2020, “Comparative Analysis of Probabilistic and Deterministic Approach to Tune the Power System Stabilizers Using the Directional Bat Algorithm to Improve System Small-Signal Stability”, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 181, pp. 106176.

Gurung, S., Jurado, F., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2019, “Optimized Tuning of Power Oscillation Damping Controllers using Probabilistic Approach to Enhance Small-Signal Stability Considering Stochastic Time Delay”, Electrical Engineering, Vol. 101, No.3, pp. 969-982.

Gurung, S., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2019, “Coordination of Power- System Stabilizers and Battery Energy-Storage System Controllers to Improve Probabilistic Small-Signal Stability Considering Integration of Renewable Energy Resources”, Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 1109.

Gurung, S., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2019, “Probabilistic Small-Signal Stability Analysis of Power System with Solar Farm Integration”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp.1276-1289

Conference Presentations
Boonseng, T., Sangswang, A., Naetiladdanon, S. and Gurung, S., 2021. “Comparison of Two Strategies to Mitigate Power System Side and Customer Side in High Penetration EV Connected in Power Systems”. ICEMS, October 31-November 3, 2021, HICO, Gyeongju, Korea

Adhikari,A., Naetiladdanon, S., Sangswang, A. and Gurung, S., 2020, “Comparison of Voltage Stability Assessment using Different Machine Learning Algorithms”, IEEE EI2, October, Wuhan, China 

Pandey, R. and Gurung, S., 2019, “Small-Signal Stability Analysis with Wind Power Penetration in the INPS Network”, ICQRIT, 18-21 June 2019, Nepal

Gurung, S., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2017, “Impact of Photovoltaic Penetration on Small Signal Stability considering Uncertainties”, ISGT-Asia, 4-7 December 2017 New-Zealand, pp. 1-6

Gurung, S., Naetiladdanon, S. and Sangswang, A., 2016, “Impact of Large Photovoltaic Penetration on small signal stability”, TENCON, 22-25 November 2016, Singapore, pp. 646-650

Other Interests
Traveling, photography, futsal, reading books about anthropology, human nature and modern science