Krish Narendra

Krish Narendra, Ph.D, is the COO and Technology Lead of EPG. Krish joined EPG in September 2017, and brings over 27 years of experience in power system protection, monitoring, control and analysis. Krish is an internationally recognized expert in power systems protection, monitoring and control. Krish’s vision is to leverage his expertise and extend and expand EPG’s industry leading portfolio for real time grid monitoring, visualization and analytics to address industry needs for asset health monitoring, digital solutions for power grid automation, and control. Krish’ s skills span power systems disturbance analysis, protection, synchro phasor technology (PMUs), micro grid protection, sub-harmonics in power systems, SSR (sub synchronous resonance), Ferro- resonance, HVDC controls, neural networks, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, and the application of IEC 61850 protocols for digital substation protection and control. His expertise in innovative design; commercialization of protective relays and disturbance monitoring recorders; use of advanced digital signal processing technologies on embedded systems; and in Windows development environments makes him uniquely skilled to lead the convergence of real time grid security, analytics; asset health and automation. Prior to joining EPG, Krish was the CTO and Board Member of ERLPhase Power Technologies Ltd. of Canada. Krish has published over 40 papers in various IEEE/IEC journals and conferences, and is an innovator holding several patents. He is a valued IEEE member for over 15 years and an active participant in the IEEE PRSC working groups, a member of the PRTT of NASPI, a member of the CIGRE C4-B5 working group and NERC SMS committee.