Dr. Prasanta Kumar Jena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at SR University, Warangal. His expertise is in the cyber-physical security of smart grids and electricity markets. His research covers cyberattack modeling, intrusion detection and localization, and making power networks more resilient to cyber threats. He also works on optimal PMU and sensor placement, state estimation, and secure electricity market operation, and uses machine learning and optimization in power systems, EV integration and power electronics.

He has published 37 research works, including 12 SCIE-indexed journal papers with IEEE, Elsevier and Springer publishers, 20 IEEE conference papers and 4 book chapters. He holds a published Indian patent application and a granted design, and has received several best paper and innovation awards.

His teaching interests are Electrical Machines and Power Systems. In his teaching, he links core principles to real-world grid challenges, and he encourages students to take on research-driven problem solving.