Sharmila Sumsurooah
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering
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Biography
Dr Sharmila Sumsurooah is an Assistant Professor in Aerospace Electrical and Electronics Engineering for the Power Electronics and Machines Control (PEMC) group of the University of Nottingham. She is also managing and leading EU funded research projects in the area of net-zero carbon aviation with our industrial and university partners. Her novel technical work in the design and optimisation of aircraft power system, and robust stability studies have been recognised in leading international journals and conferences.
She was an invited speaker at the More-Electric Aircraft international conference in Hamburg in 2018, where she helped start a strong network group of international partners to found the "Solutions for Aircraft Electrification Leadership" (SAEL) initiative and workshop series in July 2019. The aim of SAEL is to bring together world-leading experts and scientists from the aerospace sector to lead the shift from conventional to sustainable aviation through aircraft electrification.
Expertise Summary
Dr Sharmila Sumsurooah specialises in the design and optimisation of electrical and electronic power systems for hybrid and all electric aircraft applications.
She is leading the Solutions for Aircraft Electrification Leadership (SAEL) initiative to bring together world-leading experts and scientists from the aerospace sector to lead the shift from conventional to sustainable aviation through aircraft electrification.
Research Summary
- Road mapping of hybrid electric propulsion development as part of the IMOTHEP project
- Developing Electrical Power Systems for Highly Electrified Aircraft with industrial partner
Recent Publications
BALLUKJA, ERJON, NIEWIADOMSKI, KAROL, PENA-QUINTAL, ANGEL, THOMAS, DAVID W. P., SUMSUROOAH, SHARMILA and SUMNER, MARK, 2022. Stochastic Modelling of Power Electronic Converters under Uncertainties In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Signal/Power Integrity (EMCSI). 232-237
Past Research
- Co-investigator on the project ENIGMA on the design and development of the global centralised smart supervisory controller (CSS) for aircraft electrical power system
- Technical lead on the Clean Sky project TRADE to develop an analysis and design platform suitable to support early aircraft design studies, which include the design analysis and optimisation of electric power systems for turbo-electric propulsion.
- Within the Clean Sky project MALET developed advanced, multi-level models of an autotransformer for the More Electric Aircraft in Modelica
- My PhD work provided crucial theoretical and practical tools for applying the innovative technique to assess and ensure robust stability of the More Electric Aircraft electrical system under wide range of operational scenario and flight conditions.
- My MSc research work focussed on the Frequency Domain Modelling of Cascaded Multilevel Converters
BALLUKJA, ERJON, NIEWIADOMSKI, KAROL, PENA-QUINTAL, ANGEL, THOMAS, DAVID W. P., SUMSUROOAH, SHARMILA and SUMNER, MARK, 2022. Stochastic Modelling of Power Electronic Converters under Uncertainties In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Signal/Power Integrity (EMCSI). 232-237