Ninaad Desai

Ninaad Desai is an electrical engineer who divides her time between the AC power division and PPPL experiments. Her AC power responsibilities include short-circuit analysis and arc flash hazard evaluation. Desai also provides engineering support to the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), the Lithium Tokomak Experiment (LTX) and the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX). She is currently working on MRX and LTX upgrade projects, and is one of two power supply engineers for the NSTX with responsibility for protection settings, configuration, testing and operation. She co-authored a paper titled “NSTX Power Supply Configuration Control Upgrade” and presented it at the 24^th Symposium on Fusion Engineering in Chicago.