Dr. Manoj Datta
Details
College: School of Engineering
Department: School of Engineering
Campus: City Campus Australia
manoj.datta@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0001-7515-7166
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Datta’s research primarily focuses on the modelling and control of renewable energy systems. He has extensive research and industry experience in the grid integration of energy storage and electric vehicles (EVs).
Professional activities:
Associate Editor, IEEE Access
Journal Reviewer:
IEEE Access
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
IEEE Transactions of Power Delivery
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
IEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
IET Generation, Transmission, & Distribution
IET Renewable Power Generation
IET Control Theory & Applications
Renewable Energy
Conference:
Invited Speaker: Opening Special Session, IEEE COMPEL, 2012, Kyoto, Japan
Session Chairs: IEEE ISGT, 2016, Melbourne, Australia & IEEE EPECS, 2018, Kyushu, Japan
Technical Program Committee; Over 15 IEEE International Conferences
Professional Affiliation:
Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), the Institute of Engineers, Australia (EA) and NER, AU
Media
Research fields
- 400803 Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)
- 400804 Electrical energy storage
- 400806 Electrical machines and drives
- 400705 Control engineering
UN sustainable development goals
- 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
- 13 Climate Action
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
- Australia
- 2020 – Present
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Australia
- 2013 – 2019
- Assistant Professor
- Gifu University
- Dept. of Human and Information Systems
- Japan
- 2012 – 2013
- JSPS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Japan
- 1 Apr 2011 – 29 Feb 2012
Supervisor projects
- Forecasting and State Estimation based Predictive Control of Smart Grid
- 23 Dec 2025
- Optimisation of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) in a Microgrid
- 21 Feb 2025
- Assessment of Electric Vehicle Chargers for Efficient Energy Management and Grid Services
- 24 Aug 2023
- Probabilistic Frequency Stability Analysis of Renewable-rich Power Systems
- 29 Mar 2022
- Power Quality Insights and Fault Analysis in Distribution Networks With Optimally Placed D-PMUs
- 30 Mar 2020
- Optimization of Islanded Microgrid Considering System Stability and Reliability According to the Dispatch Strategies
- 29 Jul 2019
- Stability Issues and Mitigation Strategies for Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids
- 31 Mar 2017
- Modelling of Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields in Electromagnetic Devices
- 18 Jul 2016
- Dynamic Modelling of an Aggregated Solar-PV System for Power System Transient Stability Studies.
- 29 Feb 2016
- A Coordinated Control of PMSG based Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) to Improve Fault-Ride-Through (FRT) Performance and Transient Stability
- 2 Mar 2015
Teaching interests
Renewable-based smart grid and smart micro-grid, DG modelling and forecasting, Intelligent control of PV, Wind and ESS for grid integration, Motor control, Electrical Building Services and Automation
Research interests
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Communications Technologies, AI application in power system operations
-Optimal Sizing of PV, Wind, and Battery Systems for Community Power Grid
-Modelling and control of AC/DC and Hybrid Microgrid
-Distributed Generation (DG) Modelling, Forecasting, Optimisation, and Control
-Application of Intelligent Algorithms in Power System Control
-AI-based grid integration of energy storage system and electric vehicle (EV)
-Motor Drives (IM, SRM, IG, PMSG, PMSM)
