Sourabh Joshi
Power Electronics Researcher.

I am an Electrical Engineer with an academic background in Power Electronics and Drives. I completed my undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT Bhopal) and my M.Tech. in Power Electronics and Drives from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT Nagpur).

I am currently pursuing my PhD in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee). My present research direction is focused on the design, analysis, simulation, and experimental development of advanced power electronic converters, particularly high-frequency converters based on GaN power semiconductor technology.

I am particularly interested in the point where semiconductor devices, magnetics, topology, control, thermal behaviour, EMI, gate-drive design, and system-level requirements come together. For me, power electronics is not simply about designing a converter that works; it is about understanding why a system works, where its limits come from, and how those limits can be pushed without sacrificing reliability.

Outside engineering, chess has been one of the most important long-term influences on how I think. I am a FIDE-rated chess player and have also worked as a chess coach.

Chess has taught me to separate calculation from evaluation, short-term tactics from long-term strategy, and confidence from certainty. More importantly, it has made me comfortable with situations where information is incomplete and decisions still have to be made.

These ideas naturally carry into research. A research problem rarely provides a complete position from the beginning. You have to identify what matters, determine what can be measured, test assumptions, recognise weaknesses, and gradually improve the position.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." — A principle that extends well beyond chess and engineering.

I enjoy learning languages as a way of understanding how people structure ideas differently. English and Hindi are part of my everyday communication, while I have also explored several Indian languages and continue to learn Dutch.

Language learning has reinforced something I also see in engineering: the same idea can often be represented in very different structures, and understanding those structures can reveal something that translation alone does not.

I am interested in engineering problems where the answer is not obvious and where improving one part of a system creates new constraints somewhere else.

In power electronics, higher switching frequency can reduce the size of passive components but increase switching losses, electromagnetic interference, and sensitivity to parasitics. Higher power density can introduce thermal and reliability challenges. Better control can expose limitations in hardware.

These trade-offs are what make the field interesting to me. I want my research to move beyond simulations and isolated component-level improvements toward systems that are physically meaningful, experimentally validated, and useful in demanding applications.

My long-term goal is to develop into a researcher and educator who can work across the boundaries of power electronics, computation, control, and emerging energy technologies.

I am particularly interested in technologies that allow electrical systems to become smaller, faster, more efficient, and more reliable without hiding the physical complexity that makes those improvements possible.

This website is a record of that journey — my research, engineering work, experiments, writing, chess, and the questions I am still trying to answer.