Dr.M.P.Soni graduated in Electrical Engineering and obtained post graduation in control systems from Govt. Engineering collage Jabalpur in 1969 & 1973 respectively. He joined I.I.T Bombay as Senior Research Fellow under the DAE project on Nuclear Power Plant Control Sponsored by BARC. Dr Soni was awarded Ph.D from I.I.T Bombay for his doctoral work,” Minimum Sensitivity Design of Controls for Load following Boiling Water Reactor Power Plant in 1977. Dr Soni joined Corporate. R&D Division of BHEL Hyderabad and retired as Additional General Manager in April 2007. Dr.Soni had distinguished career at BHEL. He headed the Transmission & Protection lab and guided the Research team for the development of various products. These are namely, Numerical Relays for Substation Protection, Fitter-bank protection for National HVDC Project, 400 KV 5F6 CT, Substation SCADA, AVR for Turbo Generator .During his tenure he published more than 20 papers in National & International conferences. His Ph.D work has been published in IEEE transaction on Nuclear Science. He has also authored a Chapter in the Handbook of Switchgear published by TATA Mc Graw Hill, 2004. Dr. Soni joined VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. as Professor & Head of the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in June 2007. Presently he is working as a Professor & Head of the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering in MJCET, Hyderabad, India.
