Dr. Sushil Ramdasi is a Deputy Director of Powertrain Design at Automotive Association of India (ARAI).

Dr. Sushil is the in charge of Power Train Design Department, ARAI and responsible for execution of various projects in design & development of engines, transmissions, live axles from concept up to series production for meeting various emission norms, strength, durability and structural dynamics requirements. He has developed Hybrid Electric Vehicle architectures / supervisory controller for HEV operations / Indigenous development of AMT controller software and microcontroller hardware with power electronics from concept / Development of Hydrogen and SOFC based Fuel Cell Vehicle Architectures and Controls/ Design and development of Balance of Plant (BOP) of fuel cell engine / Transient performance improvement of hydrogen PEM fuel cells / Well conversant with design and manufacturing of cells, stacks, membrane , GDL and bi polar plate assemblies of hydrogen PEM fuel cells, Performance characterization of PEM fuel cells, impedance spectroscopy and Chronoamperometry experimentation and performance analysis of hydrogen fuel cells, hands on experience in making hydrogen base PEM fuel cell buses for inter and intra city applications, data acquisition and analysis of fuel cell engine and electric drive train parameters of hydrogen PEM fuel cell based electric buses,   Prototype development of engines, transmissions, axles, Swirl and Transmission test rigs  Microcontrollers , Power electronics for AMT and electric drive operations, Developed Induction / PMDC / BLDC motors plant mathematical models from concept along with FOC and DTC control algorithms for electric drives to work in parallel computing environment

• Developed H Bridge Cascaded 5 and 7 multilevel inverters to improve THD content and hence aiding to improve SoC of battery used in EV / HEV / FCV
• Developed Methanol / Ethanol (M 85 & E 85) Fueled 3-Wheeler / LPG conversion kit for genets from concept
• Developed in house software’s by using Microsoft Foundation Class and Open GL platforms for Valve Train Dynamics. Torsional Vibrations and damper design, Crank train design, Swirl Flow rig and various Electric drive controller designs

He has completed Bachelor of Engineering (Automobile), Master of Engineering -  (Mechanical) in Design discipline, Master of Management Science in Management Information Systems from Pune university. He is Ph.D. in controller development for electric drives for Electric, Hybrid Electric & Fuel Cell Vehicles from VIT University. He is Post Doctorate Research Collaborator at University of Delaware, USA in the field of Fuel Cell Technology.