Dr. Mahesh Illindala has been a faculty member since 2011 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received a B.Tech. Degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, in 1995; an M.Sc. (Engg.) degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1999; and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, in 2005. Before joining OSU, he worked at Caterpillar Research and Development, Mossville, IL, USA for 6 years on photovoltaic (PV) inverters and distributed generators. Dr. Illindala is a recipient of the 2016 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for the design of resilient microgrids. He also received the 2016 IEEE Industry Applications Society Prize Paper and the 2020 OSU Lumley Research Award.
