 Dr.
Murty V. V. S. Yalla,
President, IEEE Fellow
Dr. Murty V.V.S. Yalla has been with Beckwith Electric Co. since February
1989 and presently holds the position of President and serves on the Beckwith
Electric Board of Directors. In this capacity, he provides the leadership
to develop and implement strategies for product development, marketing,
sales, manufacturing, quality control, finance, and staffing. He was Vice
President of R&D/Engineering from 1994 to 2004.
He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Andhra Polytechnic,
Kakinada, India in 1976, Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, College of Engineering, Kakinada,
India in 1981, Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1983 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1987. From
1988 to 1989 he was teaching and conducting research on digital power
system protection at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He has
published several research papers in international journals on digital
protection. He holds four U.S. patents in the areas of digital controls
and protective relays.
Dr. Yalla was the U.S. delegate to the International Electrotechnical
Commission (Geneva, Switzerland) Technical Committee 95 Ad Hoc Working
Group on Relay Functional Standards. Presently he is the Convener of the
IEC Technical Committee 95 Maintenance Team 4 -- Measuring Relays and
protection equipment: Functional Standards. He is also a member of the
CIGRÈ (Paris, France) Working Groups B5.04 Modern Techniques for
Protecting and Monitoring of Generating Plants and B5.05 Modern Techniques
for Protecting, Controlling and Monitoring of Power Transformers.
In 2006, Dr. Yalla was elected to Fellow Grade by the IEEE Fellow Committee
for his contributions in computer relays for power systems. Dr. Yalla
is an active member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC)
for the past 15 years. He is a member of several working groups in PSRC
and presently chairs the Working Group which is revising IEEE Standard
C37.102 "Guide for AC Generator Protection." He chaired the
Working Group "Application of Multifunction Generator Protection
Systems," of the Rotating Machinery Protection Subcommittee of the
PSRC. He co-authored an IEEE PES tutorial on the "Protection of Synchronous
Generators." Dr Yalla, who chaired the working group, received the
IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Working Group Recognition Award for
an outstanding technical report "Application of Peer-to-Peer Communications
for Protective Relaying" at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Denver,
CO, June, 2004. He also received the 2005 IEEE Florida Council Outstanding
Engineer Award.
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