Jitendra Kumar is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. He received his B.Tech. from IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India, in 2009, M.Tech. from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2017. He has over 4 years of teaching experience and taught subjects like power system, advanced power system, control system, control and instrumentation, power system operation, and control, signal and system, power system protection, circuit and network theory. He has many papers in reputed journals. His research areas are power system protection and restructuring, protection algorithms design in smart grid and microgrid environment, design of protection algorithms in FACTS environment.Manoj Tripathy received his B.E. degree in electrical engineering from NagpurUniversity, Nagpur, India, in 1999, the M.Tech. degree in instrumentation and control from Aligarh Muslim University, in 2002, and a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) in 2008. He is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee. His fields of interest are wavelets, neural networks, optimization techniques, content-based image retrieval, digital instrumentation, digital protective relays, and digital speech processing. He is a reviewer for various international journals in the area of power systems and speech.Premalata Jena is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee. She received her B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, in 2001, the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2011. She has seven years of teaching experience. She is IEEE Member and INAE, Young Associate. She received many awards such as the Women Excellence Award and Early Carrier Research Award, SERB, DST, Gov. of India, New Delhi, INAE Young Engineer Award, POSOCO Power System Award, in 2013. She has published many papers in different reputed journals and conferences. Her fields of interest are smart grid, smart grid technology, and protection, microgrid, microgrid protection, signal processing application to power system relaying, power system protection, protection issues with FACTS devices, protection scheme development for a line with FACTS devices, disturbance localization, signal processing application for disturbance localization.
