Dr. Saad Mekhilef is an IET fellow and IEEE senior member. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics and Journal of Power Electronics. He is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, since June 1999. He is currently the dean of the faculty of engineering and the director of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory-PEARL. He is the author and co-author of more than 400 publications in international journals and proceedings (253 ISI journal papers) and five books with more than 21000 citations and 73 H index; 116 Ph.D. and master students have graduated under his supervision. He has six patents. He frequently invited to give keynote lectures at international conferences. He listed by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the Highly Cited (Hi Ci) engineering researchers in the world and included in the Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2018. He is actively involved in industrial consultancy for major corporations in the power electronics projects. His research interests include power conversion techniques, control of power converters, renewable energy, and energy efficiency. Dr. Rabindra Nath Shaw is currently working as the director, International Relations, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India. Before joining BIHER, he has served also Galgotias University as the director, IR&C. He is an alumnus of the Applied Physics Department, University of Calcutta, India. He is a senior member of IEEE Industry Application Society, USA, and fellow of Nikhil Bharat Shiksha Parishad, India. He is a global leader in organizing international conferences. His brand of world leading conference series includes IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA),IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), International Conference on Electronics & Electrical Engineering (ICEEE), International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ICACIT), etc. He holds the position of conference chair, publication chair, and editor for these conferences. These conferences are held in collaboration with various international universities like Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, University of Malaya, University of Siena. Many world leaders are working with him in these conferences. Most of these conferences are fully sponsored by IEEE Industry Applications Society, USA. He is also an expert in organizing international seminars/webinars/faculty development program in collaboration with leading institutes across the world. His research interests include optimization algorithms and machine learning techniques for power systems, IoT applications, renewable energy, and power electronics converters. He has published more than hundred twenty -five papers in Scopus/Web of Science/ SCI indexed international journal/proceedings including high-impact factor journals in the field of renewable energy. He has also published several edited books from Springer and Elsevier publishing houses. He has worked on many national/ international patents. He has successfully executed his duty in various positions like governing body member, center in charge, NBA coordinator, university examination coordinator, university MOOC’s coordinator, university conference coordinator, and faculty in charge, Centre of Excellence for Power Engineering and Clean Energy Integration. He has more than eleven years of teaching, research, and administrative experience in leading institutes like Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Jadavpur University, Gargi Memorial Institute of Technology, Brainware Group of Institution, Dream Institute of Technology. Prof. Pierluigi Siano received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He received the award as 2019 Highly Cited Researcher by ISI Web of Science Group. According to the study conducted by some Stanford University researchers, it has been included in the ranking of 100 thousand international scientists, belonging to different disciplinary fields and with greater scientific impact. The investigation was conducted by some Stanford University researchers who, starting from the SCOPUS database containing the list of scholars of the world classified by scientific production, developed a composite indicator that takes into account all possible bibliometric parameters (H index, number publications, citations, journal relevance, sector relevance, etc.), in order to generate a wider ranking, focused on the scientific relevance of scientists, in relation to the activityof the last 23 years. He is a professor and scientific director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. His research activities are centered on demand response, on the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids and on planning and management of power systems. He has co-authored more than 450 papers including more than 200 international journal papers that received more than 7600 citations with an H index equal to 44. He has been the chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is the editor for the Power & Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, Open Journal of the IEEE IES and of IET Renewable Power Generation, editor of the journal Smart Cities, MDPI Publisher since 2018, editor of Intelligent Industrial Systems, Springer 2014-2017.
