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Dr. Ruby Beniwal
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ruby.beniwal@jiit.ac.in
Biography

Dr. Ruby Beniwal is an accomplished academic and researcher specializing in solar engineering and renewable energy systems. She completed her Ph.D. in Solar Engineering from JIIT, Noida in 2020 with her thesis focused on enhancing the performance of semitransparent photovoltaic thermal air collectors, following an M.Tech. in System Engineering and Operations Research from IIT Roorkee (2011) and a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IET, BU Jhansi (2007). With over a decade of teaching experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, she currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at JIIT, Noida. Her research interests span solar energy, energy and environment, photovoltaics, hybrid PV-thermal applications, economic analysis, machine learning, control systems, power electronics, and electric vehicles. Dr. Beniwal is actively guiding research scholars, including Ph.D. and M.Tech. students, and has supervised numerous B.Tech. projects. She is a member of professional bodies such as ISTE, IETE, IEEE, and WIE. Her innovative contributions include patents, notably a published design patent for a solar-operated pesticide sprayer and a patent on smart greenhouse-based monitoring of wild animal health.

Research Highlights

The research contributions of Dr. Ruby Beniwal span renewable energy systems, photovoltaic (PV) technologies, power electronics, circuit design, and smart energy applications. Her works on PV systems emphasize efficiency enhancement, cost optimization, and shading effects. In J Comput Electron (2024), she co-authored a computational study analyzing the impact of partial shading on PV performance, while in Environ Sci Pollut Res (2023) she presented cost analysis of smart photovoltaic systems for Indian smart cities and evaluated efficiencies of DC-DC converters integrated with solar PV modules. Further, she investigated the performance of solar-powered wireless sensor networks and developed modified perturb and observe (P&O) techniques for drift reduction in shaded PV systems (Energies, 2022). Her research also extends to hybrid PV-thermal applications, demonstrated through enhancement of semitransparent PV thermal collectors using ANFIS models and cost optimization approaches (ESPR, 2022; ETRI Journal, 2020). Earlier studies focused on ANN-based reliability and steady-state availability of PV modules (JCE, 2018; JERT, 2020). Parallel to renewable energy, Dr. Beniwal contributed to semiconductor reliability, ultra-deep submicron circuit variability, and ANFIS-based circuit modeling (JICS, 2021; JoHIT, 2022). She also explored emerging technologies like walk-to-charge energy harvesting, FPGA-based secure electronic voting machines, neural network applications in autonomous vehicles, and low-power digital circuit implementations. Collectively, her interdisciplinary research addresses global challenges in clean energy, smart electronics, and sustainable technological innovation.

Areas Of Interest
  • Solar Energy
  • Photovoltaics
  • Machine learning
  • Control Systems
  • Power electronics
  • Electric vehicle
Publications
  1. Singh, V., & Beniwal, R. (2025). Automated model for fault detection in grid-connected solar systems. Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, 72(1), 32.
  2. Nisha, K., Beniwal, R., Kalra, S., & Beniwal, N. S. (2025). Harnessing Solar Energy for Eco-Friendly Vehicle Cabin Cooling Using Thermoelectric Technology. Engineering Research Express. 10.1088/2631-8695/adf377
  3. Nisha, K., Beniwal, R., Steady-state computational analysis of a partially shaded photovoltaic system. J Comput Electron 23, 73–81 (2024).
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-023-02122-9
  4. Beniwal, R., Kalra, S., Singh Beniwal, N. et al. Smart photovoltaic system for Indian smart cities: a cost analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 45445–45454 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25600-w
  5. Nisha, K., Beniwal, R. Comparison of efficiency of various DC-DC converters connected to solar photovoltaic module. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 75720–75734 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27761-0