Dr. Chandana Karawita is a professional engineer with both industrial and academic experience in power systems. Dr. Karawita joined TGS in 2007 while doing his doctoral research at the University of Manitoba.
He is an expert in power system studies including HVAC, HVDC and FACTS, and inverter based generation (Solar, Wind, BESS). He is also involved in state-of-the-art custom model development for HVDC/FACTS and inverter based generation in both transient stability (PSSE, PSLF, DIgSILENT) and electromagnetic transient simulation (PSCAD) platforms.
Dr. Karawita was instrumental in developing the dynamic phasor based small signal stability analysis package (TGSSR) for analyzing sub-synchronous frequency oscillations in power systems and many other in-house software tools. He actively contributes to various CIGRE working groups, and is the convener of working group C4/B4.52 “Guidelines for Sub-synchronous Oscillation Studies in Power Electronics Dominated Power Systems”. He is also involved in academic research activities as an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba.