Suneel Kommuri Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Suneel Kommuri is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at XJTLU. During 2016-2019, he worked as a Research Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, and also attached to Kyungpook National University, South Korea. His research interests include sliding mode observers/controllers, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, analysis of electric machines, robotic control, and cyber-physical systems.

Dr. Kommuri is a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics and IEEE Industry Applications societies.


******** Scholarship for PhD Students ********

Scholarship for motivated PhD students is available in the area of fault diagnosis, control of electrical machines, sampled-data synchronization, and T-S fuzzy systems. The scholarship covers 1) full tuition fees for three years, 2) travel allowance for attending international conferences, and 3) also an opportunity to visit UoL for upto six months. Excellent students can apply for paid teaching and/or research assistant positions to cover living expenses. Note that the PhD degree is issued from UK's University of Liverpool (UoL).


  • Ph.D., Kyungpook National University, South Korea - 2016
  • M. S., Kyungpook National University, South Korea - 2013
  • B. Tech, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India - 2010


  • Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China - 2020.02 ~ Present
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyungpook National University, South Korea - 2019.09 ~ 2020.01
  • Research Professor, Korea University, South Korea - 2016.08 ~ 2019.08.


  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Robotic control
  • Sliding mode control
  • Electrical machines and drives, fault diagnosis and control


  • S. Y. Han, S. K. Kommuri, Y. Jin, "Novel Criteria of Sampled-Data Synchronization Controller Design for Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Networks under Mismatched Parameters", Neural Networks, vol. 172, 2024. (IF = 7.8)
  • R. B. Ponnuru, G. R. Alavalapati, B. Palaniswamy, S. K. Kommuri, "EV-Auth: Lightweight Authentication Protocol Suite for Dynamic Charging System of Electric Vehicles with Seamless Handover", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 734-747, 2022. (IF = 8.2)
  • S. Y. Han, S. K. Kommuri, O. M. Kwon, S. M. Lee, "Regional Sampled-Data Synchronization of Chaotic Neural Networks Using Piecewise-Continuous Delay Dependent Lyapunov Functional", Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 423, 2022. (IF = 4.091)
  • S. K. Kommuri, S. Y. Han, S. M. Lee, "External Torque Estimation using Higher-order Sliding Mode Observer for Robot Manipulators", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 513-523, 2022. (IF = 6.4)
  • S. K. Kommuri, Y. Park, S. B. Lee, "Online Compensation of Mechanical Load Defects with Composite Control in PMSM Drives", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1392-1400, 2021. (IF = 6.4)
  • S. Y. Han, S. K. Kommuri, S. M. Lee, "Affine Transformed IT2 Fuzzy Event-Triggered Control under Deception Attacks", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 322-335, 2021. (IF = 11.9)
  • S. K. Kommuri, Y. Park, S. B. Lee, "High-Resistance Fault-Control in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 271-281, 2020. (IF = 6.4)
  • Y. Park, D. Fernandez, S. B. Lee, D. Hyun, M. Jeong, S. K. Kommuri, C. Cho, D. Reigosa, F. Briz, "On-line Detection of Rotor Eccentricity and Demagnetization Faults in PMSMs based on Hall-effect Field Sensor Measurements", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 2499-2509, 2019. (IF = 4.4)
  • S. K. Kommuri, S. B. Lee, K. C. Veluvolu, "Robust Sensors-Fault-Tolerance with Sliding Mode Estimation and Control for PMSM Drives", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 17-28, 2018. (IF = 6.4)
  • S. K. Kommuri, J. J. Rath, K. C. Veluvolu, "Sliding-Mode-Based Observer-Controller Structure for Fault-Resilient Control in DC Servomotors", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 918-929, 2018. (IF = 7.7)
  • S. K. Kommuri, M. Defoort, H. R. Karimi, K. C. Veluvolu, "A Robust Observer-based Sensor Fault-Tolerant Control for PMSM in Electric Vehicles", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 7671-7681, 2016. (IF = 7.7)
  • S. K. Kommuri, J. J. Rath, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, Y. C. Soh, "Decoupled Current Control and Sensor Fault Detection with Second-order Sliding Mode for Induction Motor", IET Control Theory and Applications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 608-617, 2015. (IF = 2.6)
  • S. K. Kommuri, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, Y. C. Soh, "Higher-order Sliding Mode Observer for Speed and Position Estimation in PMSM", Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol. 2014, Article ID: 589109, 12 Pages, 2014. (IF = 1.43)


  • S. K. Kommuri, Y. Park, S. B. Lee, “Higher-Order Sliding Mode Based High-Resistance Fault- Control in PMSM Drives”, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’2019), Canada, 2019.
  • S. K. Kommuri, S. B. Lee, Y. Park, K. C. Veluvolu, “A Robust Voltage, Speed and Current Sensors Fault-Tolerant Control in PMSM Drives”, IEEE Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’2017), China, 2017.
  • Y. Park, D. Fernandez, S. B. Lee, D. Hyun, M. Jeong, S. K. Kommuri, C. Cho, D. Reigosa, F. Briz, “On-line Detection of Rotor Eccentricity for PMSMs based on Hall-effect Field Sensor Measurements”, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE’2017), United States, 2017.
  • S. K. Kommuri, J. J. Rath, G. Shafiq, V. Gonuguntla, K. C. Veluvolu, “Sliding Mode Based Incipient Sensor Fault-Tolerant Control for DC Servomotor Drives”, IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON’2017), Thailand, 2017.
  • S. K. Kommuri, G. Shafiq, J. J. Rath, K. C. Veluvolu, “Robust Control of DC Motor Drives using Higher-order Integral Terminal Sliding Mode”, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV’2016), Thailand, 2016.
  • S. K. Kommuri, J. J. Rath, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, S. Tatinati, “Performance Comparison of Sliding Mode Observers for Back EMF based Speed Estimation in PMSM”, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS’2015), South Korea, 2015.
  • J. J. Rath, S. K. Kommuri, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, S. Tatinati, “An adaptive Modified Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Controller: Applied to the Active Suspension System”, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS’2015), South Korea, 2015.
  • S. K. Kommuri, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, “Second-order Sliding Mode based Sensor Fault- Tolerant Control of Induction Motor Drives”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC’2015), India, 2015.
  • S. K. Kommuri, J. J. Rath, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, “Robust Fault-Tolerant Cruise Control of Electric Vehicles based on Second-order Sliding Mode Observer”, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS’2014), South Korea, 2014.
  • S. K. Kommuri, J. J. Rath, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, “An Induction Motor Sensor FDI based on Higher-order Sliding Mode Decoupled Current Controller”, IEEE European Control Conference (ECC’2014), France, 2014.
  • S. K. Kommuri, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, “Robust Observer with Higher-Order Sliding Mode for Sensorless Speed Estimation of a PMSM”, IEEE European Control Conference (ECC’2013), Switzerland, 2013.
  • S. K. Kommuri, K. C. Veluvolu, M. Defoort, “Sensorless Speed Estimation of a PMSM using Higher-order Sliding Mode Observer”, IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering (ICISCE’2012), China, 2012.


  • Principal investigator (2023), "Fault Estimation and Diagnosis for Electric Vehicles", Three Years, 100000 RMB, Reseach Development Fund (RDF-22-02-020).
  • Principal investigator (2021), "Fault diagnosis and tolerant control for PMSM drives", Three years, Approx. 260000 RMB, Postgraduate Research Scholarship (PGRS - XJTLU).
  • Co-investigator (2021), "Trajectory Evolution Mechanism and Geometric Reconstruction Online Optimization of High-Frequency Isolated Multi-modal Power Converters", Four years, 580000 RMB, General Project of the NSFC (52177195).
  • Co-investigator (2021), "Readiness of Malaysia, China EV-Mobility Infrastructure-Grid for Fast Charging Station", Approx. 32000 RMB, AUAP Research grant.


  • Session Chair, IEEE International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC 2020-ECCE Asia)
  • Session Chair, Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2017)
  • Reviewer - IEEE TIE, TPEL, TII, TCYB, TFS, TNNLS, TSMC, TVT, TMECH, TJESTPE, TTE, TCS I&II, IJRNC, JFI, IET CTA & EPA, Nonlinear Dynamics, IJSS, AJC etc.,


  • Electronics for Instrumentation (EEE309)
  • Electronic Circuits and Systems (EEE211)


  • Electronics for Instrumentation (EEE309)
  • Embedded Computer Systems (MEC302)
  • Electronic Circuits and Systems (EEE211)
  • Embedded Computer Systems (EEE310)
  • Power Electronics and Electromechanics (EEE213)


  • Senior Member, IEEE - 2023 ~ Present
  • Member, IET - 2022 ~ Present
  • Member, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Society - 2017 ~ Present
  • Member, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Society - 2017 ~ Present
  • Member, IEEE - 2017 ~ 2023
  • Student Member, IEEE - 2016 ~ 2017


  • Student Ambassador of KNU-SEE, Kyungpook National University, South Korea, 2015
Suneel Kommuri