Bikash C Pal is professor of power systems at Imperial College London.He is research active in power system stability, control, and estimation. Currently is leading a six university UK-China research consortium on Resilient Operation of Sustainable Energy Systems (ROSES) as part of EPSRC-NSFC Programme on Sustainable Energy Supply.He led UK-China research consortium project on Power network stability with grid scale storage (2014-2017): He also led an eight- university UK-India research consortium project (2013-2017) on smart grid stability and control. His research is conducted in strategic partnership with ABB, GE Grid Solutions, UK, and National Grid, UK. UK Power Networks. GE commissioned sequel of projects with him to analyse and solve wind farm HVDC grid interaction problems (2013-2019). Prof Pal was the chief technical consultant for a panel of experts appointed by the UNFCCC CDM (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Clean Development Mechanism). He has offered trainings in Chile, Qatar, UAE, Malaysia and India in power system protections, stability and control topics. He has developed and validated a prize winning 68-bus power system model, which now forms a part of IEEE Benchmark Systems as a standard for researchers to validate their innovations in stability analysis and control design. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2012-2017) and Editor-in-Chief of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2005-2012). He was Vice President of Publication, Power and Energy Society (PES). In 2016, his research team won the President’s outstanding research team award at Imperial College London (ICL). He is Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to power system stability and control and Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Power distribution system estimation and control has delivered 40 DLPs in more than 10 countries. He has published about 150 papers in IEEE Transactions and IET journals and authored four books in power system modelling, dynamics, estimations and control. Two of his papers in power system stability and control topics have received annual best journal paper award. He was Otto Monsted Professor at Denmark Technical University (DTU) (2019) and Mercator Professor sponsored by German Research Foundation (DFG) at University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011. He worked as faculty at IIT Kanpur, India.
Prof Pal has offered course on power system stability and control and on power system protection entirely taken by the practicing engineers from Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Europe, Middle East and India in 2007, 2013 and 2014. In 2009 he trained power engineers from Power Grid Corporation of Bangladesh on reactive power and voltage control. In 2007, 2011 and 2013 he trained engineers from Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, India and Tata consulting Engineers, India and West Bengal State Electricity Board and Power development Corporation on power system stability. Prof Pal is technical consultant to National Grid UK and ALSTOM Grid UK and STATNET Norway where he provided technical solution power network stability related problem.