Dr. Ashwani Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra, India. He received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Pant Nagar University in 1988 and Masters’ degree in Power Systems from Panjab University, in 1994. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India. He did Post-Doctoral from Tennessee Technological University, USA. His research areas are power system restructuring, distributed generation, integration of renewable energy systems into the deregulated power system, energy management, demand-side management, ancillary services, micro-grid, and smart grid. He has over 29 years of teaching and research experience, published 160 papers in various prestigious journals, conferences. He has executed two research projects sponsored by different funding agencies including DST and TTU. He has also carried out few consultancies assignments for power companies. Many of his research students have been awarded the prestigious POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA) for best thesis on all Indian levels.Prof. S.C. Srivastava is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, India. His research areas are power system dynamics and stability studies, optimal power dispatch, security analysis and control, wide-area monitoring and control of power systems, power system restructuring and issues in the electricity market, renewable integration, DC and AC microgrid. He has published over 100 papers in several journals.Prof. S.N. Singh obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1989 and 1995. Presently, he is Vice-Chancellor of the Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology Gorakhpur, and on leave from the position of Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization and control, security analysis, and wind power. He has published over 440 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has also written two books on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed over 20projects in India and abroad.
