Paresh Patel

Paresh J. Patel (M’11) was born in Bhatsar, India, in 1963. He received the B.S. degree in electronics and communication from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India, in 1989. He currently leads the Power Supply and Data Acquisition Division with the Neutral Beam Injector Group for Steady State Superconducting Tokamak-1, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India. He is involved in design and development of power converters, in particular, regulated high voltage power supplies utilized for NBI and RF experiments. He is the prime inventor for the patent Regulated High Voltage Power Supply. His current research interests include development of technology for high voltage and high current power converters with a precise control over various output and input parameters for various power converter topologies.