Shuchismita Biswas
Electrical Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShuchismita Biswas is a Ph.D. electrical engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in measurement-based power systems, model validation, oscillation analysis, and grid resilience, currently advancing cybersecurity and critical infrastructure research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her work blends academic rigor from Virginia Tech with practical impact across national labs and industry, including award-winning research on islanding strategies for grid resilience. She contributes to high-performance scientific software—having added time-stepping and event-handling features to the widely used PETSc library—bringing both domain expertise and low-level numerical implementation skills. Comfortable with big-data tools (Azure Databricks), PSSE/PSS®E, Python, and power system modeling, she has also evaluated privacy-preserving data sharing for synchrophasor datasets to balance research utility and security. Based in Richland, WA, she combines deep technical publication record with hands-on engineering and process improvements earned earlier in industry roles.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 8.87, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 8.87 at National Institute of Technology DurgapurMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.95, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.95 at Virginia TechHigh School, General Studies, A+, High School, General Studies, A+ at Shri Shikshayatan School
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
petsc10
c1710
c1110
event-handling9
numerical-methods8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
petsc/petsc
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Mirror of https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Shuchismita contributed to the PETSc library by implementing new features and modifying existing ones related to time-stepping and event handling. Their work included setting custom time steps after event intervals, and setting event tolerances. They also added functionality for component variable features within the DMNetwork module, specifically updating an example. This involved modifications to several source files and header files within the PETSc project.
petscgitlab
abhyshr/GridPACK
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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