I am  a Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London. I am research active in power system stability, control and computation. My research is sponsored by EPSRC, National Grid, GE, ABB, SIEMENS, UK Power Networks. I led a six-university UK-China research consortium (2020-2023) in Sustainable Energy Networks. In the past I led an eight-university UK-India research consortium (2013-2017) on Smart Grid and Storage and a six-university UK-China research consortium (2014-2017) in Smart Grid and Control . SIEMENS R&D collaborated with me to develop fast power flow and volt-var control tools in Spectrum Power, an advanced module for distribution management system solution from SIEMENS. This is now commissioned in distribution control centres in Columbia, Bosnia Norway and Azerbaijan serving 15 million customers in these countries. GE commissioned sequel of projects with me to analyse and solve wind farm HVDC grid interaction problems (2013-2019). My research group has received 2016 President Award for Outstanding Research. He served as consultant to United Nations, GE, ALSTOM, National Grid, UK Power Networks . I have graduated 35 PhDs and published about 160 technical papers in IEEE Transactions and IET journals. I have  co-authored four books and two award winning IEEE Task Force/Working Group reports.

As Vice President of Publication, Power and Energy Society (PES), of IEEE (2019-2023) I set and led the delivery of the plan to sustain the growth in quality, impact and annual revenue ( about $10M) and also offered leadership as Governing Board member for the growth of the society. As IEEE Periodical committee member I was part of team that approves new periodicals and reviews the performance of the current periodicals. I chaired an IEEE Working Group in state estimation for power distribution applications. Since 2008 , as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer I have been offering special lectures and tutorials in power system control and computation . I was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. I was  Series Editor of Elsevier series on Sustainable Energies. I am a Fellow of IEEE for my contribution to power system stability and control. I was honoured with 2025 IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award.  I am a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK for the industrial impact of my research in power network control.  I am honoured as International Fellow Member of The Chinese Academy of Engineering and The Indian National Academy of Engineering. I was Otto Monsted International Professor at Denmark Technical University (DTU) in 2019, and Mercator Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011 invited respectively by the Otto Monsted Foundation and German Research Foundation (DFG). I was honored as Distinguished Visiting Professor at North China Electric Power University and Tsinghua University, China.

Beyond my  profession , I have founded and run  KAJALBABU MEMORIAL TRUST an education charity in India to mentor children from economically disadvantaged background.

Prospective PhD Positions

There are no funded PhD positions available for outstanding students having master with background of power system modelling and simulations.  Information about general scholarships are available in college scholarship section and anyone having alterative source of funding can approach me.

DYNAMICS, stability & Control
N. A. Cifuentes Otto, M. Sun, R. Gupta and B. C. Pal, "Black-Box Impedance-Based Stability Assessment of Dynamic Interactions Between Converters and Grid," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3128812.
Y. Cheng et al., "Real-World Subsynchronous Oscillation Events in Power Grids with High Penetrations of Inverter-Based Resources," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3161418.
N. Hatziargyriou et al., "Definition and Classification of Power System Stability – Revisited & Extended," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 3271-3281, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3041774.
B Pawar, E. I. Batzelis, S Chakrabarti, B. C. Pal , “Grid-Forming Control for Solar PV Systems with PowerReserves” , IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Vol. 12, no 4, pp 1947-59, October 2021
X. He, H. Geng, R. Li and B. C. Pal, "Transient Stability Analysis and Enhancement of Renewable Energy Conversion System During LVRT," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1612-1623, July 2020.
M. Ghazavi Dozein, B. C. Pal and P. Mancarella, "Dynamics of Inverter-Based Resources in Weak Distribution Grids," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3142016.
H. R. Ali, L. P. Kunjumuhammed, B. C. Pal, A. G. Adamczyk and K. Vershinin, "A Trajectory Piecewise-Linear Approach to Nonlinear Model Order Reduction of Wind Farms," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 894-905, April 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2019.2912037.
H. R. Ali and B. C. Pal, "Model Order Reduction of Multi-Terminal Direct-Current Grid Systems," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 699-711, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3005773.
STATE EsTIMATIONS
J. Liu, R. Singh and B. C. Pal, "Distribution System State Estimation With High Penetration of Demand Response Enabled Loads," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 3093-3104, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3047269.
J. Zhao et al., "Roles of Dynamic State Estimation in Power System Modeling, Monitoring and Operation," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 2462-2472, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3028047.
Y. Liu et al., "Dynamic State Estimation for Power System Control and Protection," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 5909-5921, Nov. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3079395.
VOLT-VAR CONTROL
Y. Guo, B. C. Pal, R. A. Jabr and H. Geng, "Global Optimality of Inverter Dynamic Voltage Support," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3133715.
Y. Guo, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, "On the Optimality of Voltage Unbalance Attenuation by Inverters," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2022.3163074.
F. Ul Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, "Affinely Adjustable Robust Volt/VAr Control without Centralized Computations," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3158816.
F. U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, "Approximate Load Models for Conic OPF Solvers," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 549-552, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3029370.
F. U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, "Distributed Solution of Stochastic Volt/VAr Control in Radial Networks," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 5314-5324, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2020.3002100.
H. Karbouj, Z. H. Rather and B. C. Pal, "Adaptive Voltage Control for Large Scale Solar PV Power Plant Considering Real Life Factors," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 990-998, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2020.3029102.
Y. Gupta, S. Doolla, K. Chatterjee and B. C. Pal, "Optimal DG Allocation and Volt–Var Dispatch for a Droop-Based Microgrid," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 169-181, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2020.3017952.
FAULT ANALYSIS AND PROTECTION
J. Nsengiyaremye, B. C. Pal and M. M. Begovic, "Microgrid Protection Using Low-Cost Communication Systems," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 2011-2020, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2019.2959247.
J. Nsengiyaremye, B. C. Pal and M. M. Begovic, "Low-Cost Communication-Assisted Line Protection for Multi-Inverter Based Microgrids," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 3371-3382, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2020.3039176.
N. Cifuentes and B. C. Pal, "A New Approach to the Fault Location Problem: Using the Fault’s Transient Intermediate Frequency Response," IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, vol. 8, pp. 510-521, 2021, doi: 10.1109/OAJPE.2021.3089678.