Surender Reddy Salkuti received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, in 2013. He was Postdoctoral Researcher at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, from 2013 to 2014. He is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Railroad and Electrical Engineering, Woosong University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Recently, he edited a book in “Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (Springer Nature)” titled “Next Generation Smart Grids: Modeling, Control and Optimization”. His current research interests include power system restructuring issues, ancillary service pricing, real and reactive power pricing, congestion management, and market clearing, including renewable energy sources, demand response, smart grid development with integration of wind and solar photovoltaic energy sources, battery storage and electric vehicles, artificial intelligence applications in power systems, and power system analysis and optimization. He received Distinguished Researcher Award from Woosong University Educational Foundation, Republic of Korea, in 2016, and POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA), India, in 2013. He is Member of IEEE and IEEE Power and Energy Society.Papia Ray has received her Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) degree from Government Engineering College, Bihar, Master of Technology (Power Systems) from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, and PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2013. She is presently serving as Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering Department of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (Govt. Univ), Burla, Odisha. She has 20 years of teaching experience. She has more than 50 research publications in journals like IET, Elsevier, and Wiley, etc. She is Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of Institution of Engineers, and Life Member of ISTE. Further, she is Recipient of the Young Scientist award by DST, New Delhi, in 2015. Recently, she has published two book titled “Microgrid: Operation, Control and Protection” and “Next Generation Smart Grids: Modeling, Control and optimization” in Springer Nature. Her research interest includes power system protection, power quality, microgrid, wide area measurement systems, etc.Arvind R. Singh working as Lecturer in the department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Power Group, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Member of IAENG. His research interests are microgrid operation, control, and protection; optimal operation of distributed energy resources in microgrids; smart grids and integration of renewable energy sources; and optimal generation scheduling and energy management of microgrids. In the microgrids optimization and energy management, optimal dispatch, he has published around 13 articles in the highly reputed and referred journals. Also, he has published several chapters in this area in recent years contributing from control and optimization of microgrids for efficient design and deployment in Springer, Elsevier, and Taylor and Francis book publishing platforms. His publications are highly cited and referred in recent years for his contribution in research on microgrid and renewable energy sources. He is highly recognized in all major journals and invited for reviews and Program Committee Member in Journals of high reputed and IEEE, Springer, etc., international conferences.
