Sohag Kumar Saha is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Smart Grid Lab, Center for Energy Systems Research (CESR), Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Power Systems, Energy and Control of Microgrids.
His research focuses on Energy Management Systems, Adaptive Critic Design, Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (CHIL) Simulation, Smart Grid and Microgrid Systems, Integration of Renewable Energy, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), PV Hosting Capacity, Peak Shaving, Economic Load Dispatch, Optimization using Meta-heuristic Algorithms, and application of Machine Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Power Systems.
In December 2024, he received his Master of Science in ECE from Tennessee Tech. Earlier, he completed his B.Sc. in EEE from Pabna University of Science & Technology (PUST), Bangladesh. He was elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade in August 2025, a distinction held by only ~10% of IEEE’s nearly half-million members.
Recent News
| May 2026 | Our paper on "Meta-DQN Tuned TD3-based Safety-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management System in Community Microgrids" is accepted for presentation and publication at the 2026 61st IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, October 2026. |
| Jan 2026 | Our paper on "Real-Time Implementation of Consensus Tracking Control for Battery Energy Management and SoC Balancing" is accepted for presentation and publication at the IEEE 10th Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, February 2026. |
| Dec 2025 | Our paper on "An Enhanced Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Controller-Based Dual Active Bridge Converters for EV Charging" was accepted and presented at the IEEE ECCE 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 2025. |
| Aug 2025 | Honored to share that I have been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of IEEE! The Senior Member grade is the highest level for which one may apply, requiring ≥10 years of professional experience, significant performance over ≥5 years, and peer recognition through three recommendation letters from IEEE Senior Members. Only ~10% of nearly half a million IEEE members hold this distinction. |
| Feb 2025 | Our paper on "Modbus TCP/IP Based BESS Plant Controller Operations for a Peak Shaving Application" was accepted and presented at the 2025 IEEE 9th Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX. |
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Research Interests
Power System Modeling and Simulation · Intelligent Energy Management Systems · Smart Grid · Community Microgrid · Renewable Energy Integration · Battery Energy Storage Systems · Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation · Deep Learning in Power Systems · Reinforcement Learning and Deep RL · Metaheuristic Optimization · Cybersecurity in Smart Grids · Power System Protection and Control