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dr.ir. P. Venugopal (Prasanth)

Associate Professor
EEMCS-EE-PE
Carré C2437
prasanth.venugopal@utwente.nl
+31534891214
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Academic and Professional Biography

Dr. Prasanth Venugopal is an Associate Professor of Power Electronics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research focuses on battery power electronics, intelligent battery systems, high-efficiency power conversion, and wireless energy transfer.

He received his B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2010, graduating with a Silver Medal, and his M.Sc. (cum laude) and Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in 2012 and 2016, respectively. His doctoral research focused on magnetic energy transfer and dynamic wireless charging of electric vehicles.

From 2016 to 2020, he worked in industrial R&D in Munich at Qualcomm Halo and TDK Europe, developing high-power wireless charging and power-electronic systems for electrified vehicles. At Qualcomm Halo, he contributed to dynamic EV charging demonstrations at power levels up to 20 kW.

Since joining the University of Twente in 2020, his research has increasingly focused on the integration of batteries, power electronics, diagnostics, and control. His work includes battery state estimation, ageing and degradation modelling, electrochemical impedance-based diagnostics, digital twins, adaptive charging, reconfigurable battery systems, high-efficiency converters, high-frequency magnetics, and wireless charging.

He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, and is an inventor on 13 international patent outputs covering wireless power transfer, power electronics, and system integration.

Dr. Venugopal is a Senior Member of IEEE and a founding mission leader of Battery Centre Twente, where he contributes to research on smart battery applications. Dr. Venugopal is a Senior Member of IEEE and a founding mission leader of Battery Centre Twente, where he contributes to research on smart battery applications. He has served as promoter and/or co-promoter of four successfully completed Ph.D. candidates and continues to supervise Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. researchers in battery systems, power electronics, and wireless energy transfer.

His research aims to develop intelligent, efficient, and resilient battery-energy systems by combining advanced battery diagnostics with power-electronic control. A central objective is to make the power converter an active part of battery management: supporting cell- and module-level control, adaptive operation, fault tolerance, lifetime extension, and second-life utilisation.

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Inductive Power Transfer
    • Wireless Power Transfer
    • Harmonics
    • Electric Vehicle
    • Road
    • State of Charge
    • Electric vehicle charging
    • Inverter

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Publications

2026

Impedance-Based State Estimation for Battery Systems (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Ning, Z.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036573405Combined Time- and Frequency-Domain Approach for Fast and Accurate Battery SOC Estimation (2026)IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 73(8), 11625-11637. Ning, Z., Venugopal, P., Soeiro, T. B. & Rietveld, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2026.3670254Li-Ion Battery Prognostics Using Statistical Models and RNN Trained on EIS-Based Features (2026)IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, 73(7), 10084-10096. Azizighalehsari, S., Breazu, B., Soeiro, T. B., Rietveld, G. & Venugopal, P.https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2026.3658709Hybrid screening and diagnostic model for second-life Li-ion batteries using thermal signatures (2026)Journal of Energy Storage, 163. Article 122208. Azizghalehsari, S., Venugopal, P., Soeiro, T. B. & Rietveld, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2026.122208Improved Planar Transformers With Common-Mode Noise Cancellation for LLC Converters (2026)IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Deng, J., Wang, W., Venugopal, P., Popovic, J. & Rietveld, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2026.3695175Enhancing Battery Equivalent Circuit Model Performance through Hybrid-Domain-Informed and Current-Adaptive Parameter Identification (2026)IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 73(6), 8628-8639. Article 11355863. Ning, Z., Venugopal, P., Chiang, C., Ho, K.-C., Soeiro, T. B. & Rietveld, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2025.3645416Active DC-link Split-Battery Quasi-Single-Stage Inverter: Architecture, Modulation, and Flexible Management of Battery Modules (2026)IEEE transactions on power electronics, 41(9), 16053-16065 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Eskandari, R., Watson, A. J., Venugopal, P., Wheeler, P. & Batista Soeiro, T.https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2026.3694556Comprehensive characterisation of cell to cell variation in commercial sodium ion 18650 battery cells (2026)Journal of Energy Storage, 158. Article 121838. Kemeny, M., Brazda, M., Mulpuri, S. K., Venugopal, P. & Mikolasek, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2026.121838Impact of Internal Temperature Stabilisation on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Based Stateā€ofā€Health Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Battery Modules for Secondā€Life Applications (2026)Batteries & Supercaps, 9(5). Article e202500926. Kemeny, M., Baga, E., Mulpuri, S. K., Venugopal, P. & Mikolasek, M.https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202500926Framing the State of Safety of Aircraft Batteries for Battery-Powered Commercial Aviation (2026)Energy Storage and Applications, 3(2). Article 7. van Zijl, R., Dalitz, J. & Venugopal, P.https://doi.org/10.3390/esa3020007

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