Anurag K Srivastava received the honor of being inducted and his biography published in "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” for 2003-2004, in recognition of outstanding merit and accomplishment as a student. He has been with Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago since 2001. He is working with Dr. Alexander J Flueck towards his Ph.D. degree in power system security area.

Anurag is a very exceptional research student and working as research associate, teaching assistant and lab administrator in the ECE department at IIT. He received dean’s scholarship given to few exceptional students. During his stay at IIT, he helped a lot to modifying the course structure of few courses to reflect the changing technology in the field of power system. His work was very well received by students and appreciated by professors and he was nominated for best graduate teaching assistant award. His research work related to restructuring of Indian power sector, which was published in IEEE magazine, was appreciated very well in power industry.

Prior to joining the IIT, Anurag worked as a research fellow at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand on very important project related to green house gas emission from power sector.   He also worked as research associate at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India during 1999-2001. He obtained his Masters of Technology degree in Electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India in 1999 and Bachelors degree from Harcourt Butler technological Institute, Kanpur, India in 1997.  During his bachelors and master degree, he was recipient of national scholarship, institute merit scholarship and university grant commission scholarship.

His technical knowledge is corroborated by the fact that he is the author of several technical papers in journals and magazine and presented his work in many conferences. He is reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power System, Power Engineering Society Letters, Power Delivery, Energy Conversion, which are supposed to be best journal in his research area. He is also reviewer for few conferences and journals like International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, and International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy. He is active member of IEE, IEEE, Power Engineering Society and Computer Society.

Anurag is full of vigor, high energy and commitment, and always ready to lend a helping hand. He was honored with appreciation certificate from International center, IIT, Chicago for his volunteering work. During his bachelor degree he served as coordinator for National Service Scheme. His work as coordinator includes educating children from orphanage, organizing charity show and plantation. His work was appreciated by local newspapers and he was awarded many times for showing extraordinary performance in managing and coordinating the events.

He was born in Uttar Pradesh, India, on June 30, 1976. His father is retired consolidation officer and his mother is housewife. 

Contact address: 3301 S Dearborn Street, Suite 136, ECE Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616. E-mail: anurags@ieee.org