Good day, Dr. Yiza Srikanth Reddy. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

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MI professional journey UH is now winding as a postdoc at Kenwood National University, South Korea.

So where are my current focus? Research area? Is data-driven predictive?

Controller design for wind turbine.

No detection and wind up and control.

So prior to my before my post work experience, I finished my PhD at same university University, South Korea.

So in my during my PhD, during six years of my PhD journey, so I try to design, I I tried many advanced control designs.

For winter belt reduction and controlling of winter by especially winterbine site.

So where we are mainly focusing on design of controllers, advanced controllers where we can test the controllers in real time simulation.

Which is very popular in industry.

Through being with Jihad software and open source NRL open past. So with these two softwares we are validating the controllers in real time. So thereby we can extend those controllers in realistic way but.

In in real way, we have to do like that.

Simulation in wind turbine design. Winter band control.

So prior before before joining PhD so I worked as assistant professor. One is Hyderabad VNR Vijit and one is Nevada University Rajasthan where I used to teach the students like microcontrollers control system.

And basically critical engineering this subjects I taught to students and I gated.

Like UH PG students and Btech students.

Thank you for

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Let's begin by discussing your expertise in Power Electronics, Power Systems, or Control Systems. Could you describe a specific project or research achievement that highlights your expertise in one of these areas?

My expertise is control system. Specifically, we design advanced controllers for wind turbines, especially wind turbines like onshore and offshore turbines. We are dealing with onshore and offshore turbines.

So we are basically most focusing on control system.

In application to wind turbines.

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Yes, yes. So we are mainly focusing on uh, like LKG controllers, linear quadratic chain controllers, model predictive controllers and H Infinity controllers.

So we test these controllers on Unshare, Turbine 5 MW and Ariel.

Uh, find me out denial open first turbine and uh, super jump in five MW turbine.

So we test the controllers on these turbines realistically like we do the simulation software in the simulation loop.

We we do first design the controllers in Matlab.

Unlinear model once the model is I mean the once the linear controller is perfectly fine in Matlab. So we shifted those controllers linear controllers to apply full nonlinear 5 MW model wind turbine model.

So which we can do by using coded all the controllers in C++ to test the controllers and turbine. So which we do in software in the loop that is DNV graded software.

So there we can test the control design on real time, real time term by. So this is the process generally we do in.

The industry side as well. So this is the way we do the advanced control designs. One is the MPC and one is LQG and HMD.

In just in comparison with standard π controllers.

Yes.

Can you describe your approach to teaching a complex concept in control systems to undergraduate or graduate students who may not have a strong background in the subject?

So, uh, if we uh, any student don't have any experience of control system.

So first we basically teach the basic concepts of control system.

So what is the system? How we can model it?

So after that modeling.

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Hello, got it.

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Ya, once we designed the I mean modeling. So because these advanced controllers first we need to know the modeling. So once we know the model because these controllers basically depending on modeling. So if you know the modeling perfectly then we can take the model in terms of state space or transfer function model. So with that model we can design the linear controllers in terms of modeling like MPC basically used state space model.

How do you transition from basic modeling concepts to more advanced topics, such as designing controllers like LQG or MPC, for your students?

So to design the controller no.

So in that way I can teach the students how to modeling in simple way like taking the differential equations and then convert into.

Frequency domain like transfer transfer function modeling or I mean time domain like state space modeling. So this way first I need to tell the students designing of modeling. Once we design the modeling we need to design the controllers whether the system is like.

Getting the desired characteristics, so performance in terms of stability. So we design the controllers by using MATLAB simulink by using border plot.

Language plot so with these techniques, uh, we can design the controllers once we achieve the performance and like characteristics like rise time, cycling time. So these things we are like step response. How is the step response look like? So based on this photo plot, how we can design the controller? What is your design requirements So with this all this.

This, with all these things we can keep in mind.

Based on that we have to design the controllers. After designing the controller we have to reach the performance of the controller whether it is reaching the required desired characteristics or not. Once it is preaching the desired characteristics then that control is perfectly fine. We can go with software in the simulation look like we can test either it is in MATLAB and whether it is in any other software simulation.

Once if it is OK if we can go for deployment in the hardware.

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Thank you, Dr. Reddy, for that comprehensive explanation. You've demonstrated a

Next, let's discuss your experience with student evaluation and exam duties. Can you share how you approach designing fair and effective assessments for your students?

Uh, I like, I can assist the students performance in terms of uh.

In my point of view, uh, rather than giving an assignment like, uh, simply copy paste from the ChatGPT or some other textbooks. So instead of that, uh, if you design any new problem like, uh, in terms of MATLAB simulation or in terms of any coding. So if we give the like coding in terms of, uh, testing the students, even though they don't.

How to code if they get to learn how to?

Code it or how to do the simulation step by step. So once if we get to know familiarization these all those things so we can evaluate the students performance like whether he can able to.

Learn all those things or not that only I can test instead of simply copy pasting from other AI tools or other any textbooks.

If you if you give like in the direction of what you can say thinking and.

How the system is performing? Like validating the system in terms of what you can say.

Thinking and.

In terms of like the student thinking ability, based on that I can evaluate each student performance in not in terms of any simply copy pasting assignments. In this way I can assess my student and I can increase their confidence level so that they can easily get the like in future wherever they go. They can easily get the jobs in companies as well.

Yes.

Let's now discuss your ability to guide student projects and research. Could you provide an example of a project you have guided, or how you would typically support students in their research endeavors?

Yahweh. Basically I can uh, guide the students in terms of like, uh.

In terms of feeding everything.

Like I can guide them, you better search in this direction. You better do this way you can think in this way. So so that we can just give the directions to the students. So in terms of research, if they struck while they are doing any project or any like research oriented simulations, anything then I can get them to. Test in this direction testing this.

In this way you do you do this way like that. I want to 1st initialize the students to get to know all the research abilities.

So that they can easily go through the all the materials, all the like papers so that they can easily learn and they they have to do by themselves. So supervisor can do only supervision. So they will not teach everything like a putting banana in mouth. So in my point of view, every supervisor should supervise like in terms of whether they get any doubts.

So you like they have to do by their own hand, they they have to do by own ability with their own ability.

Then they can achieve good results in their research. So supervisor in terms of my opinion, they should mainly focusing on supervision. When they get stuck in their project, we have to give the ideas so that students can access in that research areas.

Yes.

Thank you, Dr. Reddy. Your emphasis on guiding students while encouraging autonomy and independent problem-solving is both effective and motivating for young researchers.

Now let's turn to your communication and teaching approach. How do you ensure your explanations and lectures are structured in a way that students of varying levels of understanding can follow effectively?

Could you please repeat?

Certainly. How do you ensure that your explanations and lectures are well-structured, so that students with different levels of understanding can follow along effectively?

OK, yeah. Uh, I basically teacher like, uh.

In very like, uh.

Basic level First I will start with the basic level so everyone can understand very easily like simple mathematics like what the subject made and I use single basic English so that everyone can understand.

So I can follow like what you can say realistic examples with realistic examples. If you map with realistic examples nature because every engineering application inspired from nature if you correlate with nature. So student can easily understand without any boy hurting. So that is the my way of explanation. Even I taught students while I was doing.

Professor in my academic journey.

So I generally basically follow mostly like student friendly oriented. Like whether they're understanding or not. I'll follow regularly follow up if anyone can understand. I can spend some time with them even beyond that teaching hours if anyone interested so that I can teach them if they are not understanding the classroom.

If they're ready so I'm I can ready to teach them anytime everywhere even in on the phone as well. So but in my point of view, so teaching isn't like two way learning process from student and teacher side. So it's like a two way.

So, so that it can be improved for teachers and students so that we can learn from students and students learn from teacher. So it's a two way process. Then only like it will be more effective and they can easily understand. They can easily mingle with teachers without fearing any like without fearing. So my point of view is teaching nothing but.

We should teach them in terms of.

How they're like learning.

Thank

How we are teaching.

In in like it's like a completely like.

Nature related teaching. So if we tell them like nature based examples then they can easily understand too much mathematics not required to understand initial basics. So that once they are getting to this understanding memorization of basic mathematics so that in future they will excel and then they can learn more.

Better.

Thank you, Dr. Reddy. Your nature-inspired, student-friendly teaching approach demonstrates a deep commitment to making complex topics accessible and fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Sorry to interrupt, we're down to the last 5 minutes.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Could you briefly share a significant research publication of yours and the impact or contribution it has made in your field?

Uh, you want me to?

Tell how many publications I have.

Yeah, yeah. My one significant publication is comparison of controllers for a wind turbine.

Under different turbulent conditions and gas wind conditions, where I mainly focus on designing of advanced controllers, I as I mentioned earlier, model predictive controllers and HMT controllers in comparison with PE controllers under different turbulent conditions, under different guest conditions, how it is that controller is effectively.

Working or not? So in this way I'm just to compare comparing the controllers. So which controller is outperforming on what?

On what basis we are it is outperforming. So here we are mainly basically design the controllers. As I mentioned first it is in the controllers on linear model. After that we shifted to full nonlinear model. So we do generally basically we do simulation like that.

There we can understood MPCS outperforming with H Infinity and PA controllers. So in terms of guest, especially guest during guest conditions, this MPC is with the like we mainly focusing on feed forward design also by using the Lidar based wind speed, so that wind speed we are feeding to the.

MPC controllers so that we are minimizing that guest on turbine.

So so that it will generate speed oscillations every like decreased without increasing pitch activity so that we can pitch thereby we can increase the lifetime of pitch actuators.

So this is the main my significant contribution towards my research.

Thank you, Dr. Reddy, for sharing. Your research on advanced controllers for wind turbines, especially leveraging lidar-based wind speed predictions to enhance performance and prolong actuator lifespan, is indeed impactful in the field of control systems and sustainable energy.

Obviously because we really like Redis, increase the lifespan of I cheated so that lifetime of turban will increase.

Yes.

Yes.

Finally, Dr. Reddy, let's discuss your experience with industry projects or consultancy. Could you share an example where your expertise was applied to solve a real-world problem in collaboration with the industry?

Women in future.

Could you clarify what you mean by "women in future"? Are you referring to a specific project, or would you like to provide an example?

No, no, he uh, like, uh, it's uh, you're asking about whether I have any experience with the consultancy projects, any industry project like that you are asking.

Yes, precisely. Could you share an example of any consultancy or industry project where you applied your expertise to address real-world challenges?

Yeah, uh, like my expertise, like we can, uh, apply to, as I mentioned, uh, for wind turbines is like a.

Sustainable gender power generation. So like we can mainly if we decrease the loads and turbines.

So that it can sustain more years, so life span will increase so that without interrupting any power generation.

So we, uh, we, uh, this expertise, uh, I can use for, uh.

In these areas.

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That concludes the skills verification phase. All required competencies have been addressed. Thank you for your time, Dr. Reddy. Is there anything else you’d like to discuss before we move

What would you like to discuss further, Dr. Reddy?

Nothing much.

Thank you very much for inviting me.

To the interview.

The pro professor position.

I'm Yeah.

I'm very glad to attend this interview.

Yeah.