• R. B. Beddingfield, S. Samanta, M. S. Nations, I. Wong, P. R. Ohodnicki and S. Bhattacharya, "Analysis and Design Considerations of a Contactless Magnetic Plug for Charging Electric Vehicles Directly From the Medium-Voltage DC Grid With Arc Flash Mitigation," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-13, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2020.2999589

• S. Samanta, and A. K. Rathore, "Small Signal Modeling and Closed-loop Control of Parallel-Series/Series Resonant Converter for Wireless Inductive Power Transfer" IEEE Trans. Ind. Electronics, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 172-182, Jan. 2019. doi: 10.1109/TIE.2018.2823682. (Impact Factor: 7.503)

• S. Samanta and A. K. Rathore, " Analysis and Design of Load-Independent ZPA Operation for P/S, PS/S, P/SP, and PS/SP Tank Networks in IPT Applications," in IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 6476-6482, Aug. 2018. doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2018.2794623. (I.F.: 7.224)

• S. Samanta, and A. K. Rathore, "A New Direct AC-AC Converter with Active Source Current Control for Wireless Inductive Power Transfer Application" in IEEE Trans. Power Electron. vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 5565-5577, Jul 2018. doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2017.2750081. (I.F.: 7.224)

• S. Samanta, A. K. Rathore and D. J. Thrimawithana, "Bidirectional Current-Fed Half-Bridge (C) (LC)–(LC ) Configuration for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer System," in IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 4053-4062, July-Aug. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2682793. (I.F.: 3.347)

• S. Samanta, A. K. Rathore and D. J. Thrimawithana, "Analysis and Design of Current-Fed Half-Bridge (C)(LC)–( LC) Resonant Topology for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer Application," in IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 3917-3926, July-Aug. 2017; DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2681622. (I.F.: 3.347)

• S. Samanta and A. K. Rathore, "Wireless power transfer technology using full-bridge current-fed topology for medium power applications," IET Power Electron., vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1903-1913, 7 27 2016; DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2015.0775. (I.F.: 2.839)

• S. Samanta and A. K. Rathore, "A New Current-Fed CLC Transmitter and LC Receiver Topology for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer Application: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Results," IEEE Trans. Transport. Electrific., vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 357-368, Dec. 2015; DOI: 10.1109/TTE.2015.2480536. (I.F.: 5.27)

• P. Chaudhary, S. Samanta, and P. Sensarma, "Input-Series–Output-Parallel-Connected Buck Rectifiers for High-Voltage Applications," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol.62, no.1, pp.193-202, Jan. 2015; DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2327556. (I.F.: 7.503)

• IIT Kanpur, Assistant Professor, July 2020 – Present

• NC State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA, Post-Doctoral Fellow, June 2018–July 2020

• National University of Singapore (NUS), Research Associate, April 2014 - April 2016

• Coal India Ltd, September 2009 - July 2011

• The Concordia University Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize in Engineering and Natural Sciences, Year 2019.

• The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Convocation Award, Concordia University, Year 2019.

• The Canadian Governor General’s Gold Medal—Technology, Industry and the Environment Category’ for PhD Thesis, Year 2018

• Best paper—S. Samanta, and A. K. Rathore, "A New Direct AC-AC Converter with Active Source Current Control for Wireless Inductive Power Transfer Application" in IEEE Trans. Power Electron. vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 5565-5577, Jul 2018.

• Conference Travel Grant for presenting papers at 1) IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2017, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2) APEC 2017, Tampa, FL, USA, and 3) IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2016, Portland, OR, USA.

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