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This interview is a part of the WiPE – Women in Power Engineering rubric of the Transformers Academy. The purpose of the WiPE rubric is to highlight some female colleagues with a significant impact in our industry in order to empower all women working in our field.
On the International Women’s Day – 8 March – we have Sruti Chakraborty as our guest and the interview is conducted by Mazana Armstrong.
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Lecturers
Mazana Armstrong
Mazana Armstrong is the Senior Manager of the High Power Lab at Powertech Labs, a subsidiary of BC Hydro. She has 25 years of professional experience in operations, maintenance, design and testing of high voltage electric power systems, specifically electrical aspects of 69 kV to 500 kV transmission systems. Mazana holds a B.Sc. from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and an M.Sc., and a Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. She is a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.
Sruti Chakraborty
Sruti Chakraborty is a research engineer and budding entrepreneur with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology-Jaipur, INDIA. She is the co-founder of Seetalabs SRL, an innovative tech start-up located in Turin, Italy. She develops low-cost solutions for risk management and failure mitigation of industrial assets including power transformers. She is hugely passionate about optimizing asset reliability and reducing data complexities in transformer industry using artificial intelligence (AI). She works closely with industry partners and other organizations to improve their transformer asset management experiences. She also hosts periodic tech-talks with industry professionals on various challenges and solutions in the field of clean technology, AI, cyber-security, and smart grids.
