Dr. Kaylan K. Sen

Biography:

Dr. Kalyan Sen is with Sen Engineering Solutions, Inc. that specializes in developing SMART power flow controllers. He has spent more than 30 years in academia and industry and became a Westinghouse Fellow Engineer. He was a key member of the Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) development team at the Westinghouse Science & the Technology Center in Pittsburgh, USA. He conceived some of the basic concepts in FACTS technology. He has authored or co-authored a number of peer reviewed publications, patents, and books in the areas of FACTS and power electronics. He is the coauthor of the book titled, Introduction to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications, IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009. He is also the co-inventor of Sen Transformer. He received BEE, MSEE, and PhD degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University, India, Tuskegee University, USA, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, respectively. He also received an MBA from Robert Morris University, USA.