Since 2019
Professor for Electrical Engineering, FHNW Institute for Elektrical Energy Systems

2016-2019
Head, Basic Principles of Train Protection, Siemens Switzerland AG

2011-2016
Product Responsible and Control Expert, Bombardier Transportation Switzerland

2007-2010
Development Engineer, Bombardier Transportation Switzerland

2006-2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute and TU Berlin

2005-2006
Development Engineer, ABB Research Center India

2002-2005
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

1. Grid Friendly Load Management, financed by Innosuisse, Partner Repower AG. Project volume CHF 450'000. Innosuisse Contribution 50%, about, CHF 225’000
2. Consulting Services in Train Protection (ETCS): Customer- confidential, Project Volume about CHF 50'000
3. R&D in Automatic Train Operation (ATO): Customer: confidential, Project Volume CHF 35'000
4. Cloud Based Platform for Power Electronics Experiments: Financed by «Lehrfonds 2020 der FHNW», CHF 50'000
5. Hardware Laboratory Setup for Hardware in the loop Simulations: financed by «Stiftung FHNW», CHF 22'000
6. R&D in Automatic Train Operation, financed by NCCR Swiss National Foundation (together with Francesco Cormann, ETH), CHF 200’000
7. Member of the Board of Swiss Wind R&D Network (wedowind.ch)

Journals

1. I.Pendharkar and J. Vrtek “A passivitiy based theory for low-frequency stability analysis in railway systems" Elektrische Bahnen, 114(2016) pp.622-630.
2. I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, “Application of Quadratic Di_erential Forms to constructing linear controllers for nonlinearities", Asian Journal of Control 2011.
3. I. Pendharkar, Harish K. Pillai;”A parametrization for dissipative behaviors { the matrix case", International Journal of Control, 82(2009) pp. 1006--1017.
4. I. Pendharkar, Harish K. Pillai, “Systems with sector bound nonlinearities: a behavioral approach", Systems and Control Letters, 57 (2008), pp 112--122.
5. I. Pendharkar, \Rltool for Scilab: A public domain tool for SISO system design", IEEE Control Systems Society Magazine, 25 (2005)pp 23-25.
6. I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, \The Kalman-Yakubovich lemma in the behavioral setting", International Journal of Control, 79 (2006), pp 327-337.
7. I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, \A parametrization for dissipative behaviors", Systems and Control Letters, 51 (2004), pp 123-132.

Conferences

1. Pendharkar, T.Strittmatter, P. Diaz Reigosa, N. Schulz “A loss compensated control scheme for SiC Dual Active Bridge Converter”, European Power Electronics Conference (EPE) 2020.
   
2. I.Pendharkar “A generalized Input Admittance Criterion for Resonance Stability in Electrical Railway Systems" European Control Conference, 2014.
3. I.Pendharkar “Resonance stability in electrical railway networks { a dissipativity approach" European Control Conference, 2013
4. I.Pendharkar, K.Wulff, J.Raisch, “On stability of switched di_erential algebraic systems conditions and applications" IFAC World Congress, 2008.
5. I.Pendharkar, K.Wulff, J.Raisch, “A Behavioral-theoretic Approach to Quadratic Stability of Switched Linear Systems" Proc 13th IEEE IFAC International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, 2007.
6. I. Pendharkar, K. Wulff and J. Raisch, “sufficient condition for quadratic stability of switched linear systems with multiple component systems", Proc 46th IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CDC), 2007.
7. I. Pendharkar, H.K. Pillai, P. Rapisarda, “A behavioral view of Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation", Proc 44^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.
8. I. Pendharkar, H.K. Pillai, P. Rapisarda, “Interpolation with bilinear di_erential forms", Proc 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.
9. I. Pendharkar, H.K. Pillai, P. Rapisarda, “Vector exponential time-series modeling for polynomial J-spectral factorization", Proc 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.
10. I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai “On a behavioral theory for nonlinear systems", in Proc 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, 2004.
11. I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, “Kalman-Yakubovich lemma in the behavioral setting", in Proc 10th IFAC symposium on large scale systems, 2004, Osaka, Japan.
12. I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai “On dissipative SISO systems: a behavioral approach", in Proc 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002, Hawai, USA, pp-1616 - 1620.