Dr Bikash C Pal is Reader of Power Systems at Imperial College London.  His research interest focuses on robust control of power system, wide are monitoring and analysis and distribution system state estimation and FACTS controllers. He has conducted strategic research for ABB in power transmission control and for EDF Energy Networks in state estimation for distribution system. He is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy  and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in power transmission control.

Some of our latest research on 

Robust power transmission control

Contingency Constrained VAr Planning Using Penalty Successive Conic Programming: in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol pp, no 99, 2011.

Wide area monitoring

Comparison of Three Electromechanical Oscillation Damping Estimation Methods: IEEE Transactions on Power on Power Systems, Vol 26, no 4, pp. 2398-2407, November 2011.

State estimation

Meter Placement for Distribution System State Estimation: An Ordinal Optimization Approach: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Vol 26, no 4, pp. 2328-2335, November 2011.