Rate My Professor Sri Kolla

Sri Kolla is a Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology at Bowling Green State University, where he has been on the faculty since 1993, progressing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in 1996 and full Professor in 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Toledo in 1989, receiving the Whiteford Scholarship for research and the Leckie Award for graduate service. His earlier degrees include an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1983 with distinction, and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Andhra University in 1981, where he achieved university first rank and received the Prof. D.S. Rao Memorial Prize and B.B. Rao Prize. Previous appointments encompass Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University-Shenango Campus from 1990 to 1993, Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Instructor at the University of Toledo from 1989 to 1990, and Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Intelligent Systems Division from 2000 to 2001. Kolla has held administrative roles as Program Coordinator for the Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology program at BGSU during 1997-2000, 2001-2007, and 2020-present, and serves as Consortium Graduate Faculty for Indiana State University's Ph.D. in Technology Management since 1998. He was recognized for 30 years of service at BGSU in 2024.

His research and teaching interests center on electrical power and energy systems with smart grid applications, control systems with networked systems applications, and machine learning techniques applications. Kolla has authored over 100 publications, including book chapters such as 'Techniques in reduced-order dynamic compensator design for stability robustness of linear discrete-time systems' (1994) and 'Techniques in stability robustness bounds for linear discrete systems' (1992), as well as conference papers like 'Robust control of a microgrid system under real parameter variations' (2023 IEEE-EIT Conference), 'Fault detection and classification in microgrid using long short-term memory' (2022 IEEE-EIT Conference), and 'Identification of faults in microgrid using artificial neural networks' (2020 IEEE Green Technologies Conference). Notable honors include two Fulbright-Nehru Fellowships at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore—for research in 2008-2009 and teaching/research in 2017—where he taught graduate courses on integrated power systems, delivered guest lectures at IIT campuses, universities in India and Nepal, and collaborated on AI applications for smart grid control and protection. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), Senior Member of IEEE and ISA, and has obtained grants from the National Science Foundation, NIST, and Ohio Board of Regents, contributing to ABET accreditation of BGSU's ECET program and fostering international collaborations.