Axaykumar Mehta received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1996), M.Techin Control Systems (2002) and Ph.D. (2009) degrees from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, respectively. He is currently associated as an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Prior to that, he was Director of Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute, Gujarat. He has more than 22 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels at various premier institutions of Gujarat. He has supervised 5 PhD thesis in the domain of sliding mode control and published more than 80 research articles and book chapters in reputed journals, conference proceedings, and books. He has also authored 4 monographs on sliding mode control and edited 3 proceedings with Springer Nature Singapore. He has also published 5 patents at the Indian Patent Office Mumbai. He has successfully organized International Conference on Power Control and Communication 2019 supported by Springer India. He is also an advisor to Gujarat Council on Science and Technology, Government of Gujaratfor the Design Lab project and Robotics Museum. His research interests include networked sliding mode control, control of multi-agent systems and its applications. Dr. Mehta received the Pedagogical Innovation Award from Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in 2014, and Dewang Mehta National Education Award in 2018.He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and Control System Society (CSS), life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), and Institute of Engineers India (IEI).Professor BijnanBandyopadhyay received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Indian Institute of EngineeringScience andTechnology, Shibpur (formerly B.E. College, Shibpur, CalcuttaUniversity) India in 1978, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IITDelhi, India in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Systems and ControlEngineering group, IIT Bombay, India, as a faculty member, where he is currently a chair professor. In 1996, he was with the Lehrstuhl furEleck-trischeSteuerung und Regelung, RUB, Bochum, Germany, as anlexander von Humboldt Fellow. He further visited Technical University ofIlmenau, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 2016 and 2019. Hehas been a visiting Professor at Okayama University, Japan, Korea AdvancedInstitute Science and Technology (KAIST)South Korea and Chiba National University in 2007. He visited theUniversity of Western Australia, Australia, as a Gledden Visiting SeniorFellow in 2007. Professor Bandyopadhyay is one of the recipients of UKIERI(UK India Education and Research Initiative) Major Award in 2007. He was awarded Distinguished Visiting Fellow by the Royal Academy ofEngineering, London in 2009 and 2012. Professor Bandyopadhyay is a Fellowof the Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy ofSciences, and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He has 400 publications which include monographs, book chapters, journal articles, and conferencepapers. He has guided 39 Ph.D. theses at IIT Bombay. His researchinterests include the areas of multirate output feedback baseddiscrete-time sliding mode control, event-triggered sliding mode control,and nuclear reactor control. Prof. Bandyopadhyay served as Co-Chairman of the International Organization Committee and as Chairman of the LocalArrangements Committee for the IEEE ICIT, Goa, India, in 2000. He alsoserved as one of the General Chairs of the IEEE ICIT conference, Mumbai,India in 2006. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has served as General Chair for IEEEInternational Workshop on VSSSMC, Mumbai, 2012. He has also served asAssociate Editor of IEEE Transaction on IndustrialElectronics and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. He is currently serving asAssociate Editor of IET Control Theory and Applications. Prof.Bandyopadhyay has been awarded the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE IESsociety in 2019. Professor Bandyopadhyay is an IEEE Fellow.
