Dr. Chinmay Kumar Panigrahi, Professor & Director, School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, was a distinguished panelist at the Technical SPARC Project Workshop on “Grid Resilience in the Era of Mass EV Adoption”, held during January 12–13, 2026, at IIT Kanpur.
The workshop featured eminent experts including Dr. Naveen Chilamkurti (La Trobe University, Australia), Dr. Ranjan Behera (IIT Patna), Dr. Abdun Mahmood (La Trobe University, Australia), Dr. Gururaj Mirle Vishwanath (IIT Kanpur), Dr. Pawan Kumar (NIT Patna), Mr. Gaurav Pilania (MARS Antenna & RF Systems), Dr. Shubh Lakshmi (MNNIT Allahabad), Dr. Suvendu Samanta (IIT Kanpur), Dr. Amarendra Edpuganti (IIT Kanpur), and Dr. R. K. Singh (IIT (BHU) Varanasi).
The panel discussion included Dr. Utsab Kundu (IIT Kanpur), Dr. V. S. K. Murthy Balijepalli (Krish) (Luces Innovation Consulting), Dr. Chinmay Kumar Panigrahi (KIIT Bhubaneswar), Dr. Naveen Chilamkurti (La Trobe University, Australia), and Dr. Ankush Sharma (IIT Kanpur), focusing on grid resilience challenges and opportunities in the era of large-scale EV adoption. Dr. Panigrahi highlighted KIIT’s initiatives in strengthening industry–academia collaboration and EV research infrastructure.
