Dr. Rudra Narayan Dash is working as Assistant Professor and Program Head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT DU), Bhubaneswar. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KIIT DU, Bhubaneswar, in 2018, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, in 2010 and B.Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering from KIIT University in the year 2005.At present, he has more than Fourteen years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical Engineering. He is Life Member IE (India), Member IET, Member IEEE and Life member ISTE. His research areas are applications of soft computing and signal processing techniques in electrical machines, power systems, fault diagnosis and evolutionary algorithms. He has published more than 18 research papers in various reputed peer-reviewed international journals, conferences and book chapters. He is currently guiding two Ph.D. scholars. Dr.Akshay Kumar Rathore is Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards in the department of electrical and computer engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an IEEE Fellow, Awards Department Chair and Prominent Lecturer of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and an elected AdCom Member-at-Large of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He received the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David J Irwin Early Career Award, 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, and 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award. He published above 270 research papers in international journals and conferences including 92 IEEE Transactions. His research is mainly focused on current-fed converters and multilevel inverters. He is leading the area of current-fed power electronics and contributed to the analysis, and design of two new classes of snubberless current-fed converters. To his credit, he has one approved European patent and three book chapters. Dr. Rathore is Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY and Paper Review Chair of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems. He was Distinguished Lecturer (2017-18) and Executive Board Member-at-Large (2017-19) of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He received his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, in 2008. He had two postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He received the Gold Medal during his M.Tech. degree for securing highest academic standing among all electrical engineering specializations. He was a recipient of University Ph.D. Fellowship and Thouvenelle Graduate Scholarship during his Ph.D. Dr. Vinod Khadkikar (S’06, M’09, SM’15) received the M. Tech. in power electronics, electrical machines and drives from the Indian Institute of Technology (IITD), New Delhi, India, in 2002, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, QC, Canada, in 2008. From December 2008 to March 2010, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. In 2010, he was Visiting Faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. His research interests include applications of power electronics in distribution systems and renewable energy resources, grid interconnection issues, power quality enhancement, active power filters and electric vehicles. Dr. Khadkikar is currently Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IET Power Electronics. Affiliation: Vinod Khadkikar is with the Advanced Power and Energy (APEC) and Khalifa University Space Technology and Innovation (KUSTIC) centers, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi 127788, UAE. Dr. Ranjeeta Patel is presently working as Assistant Professor (II) in the School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. She received her Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India in 2017, M.Tech degree from KIIT University, India in 2009 and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from affiliated BPUT, Rourkela, India, in 2006. She worked in various institutes and has 11 years of teaching experience. She served for various administrative positions like HoD, EE, FIC of library, disciplinary committee, anti-ragging committee etc. during the stay in SIT, Sambalpur, India. Her research areas are power quality, renewable energy integration, active power filter, fuzzy controller, etc. She has various published papers in reputed journals and has been a presenter at various FDPs and conferences, etc. Currently, 2 Ph.D. scholars are working under her guidance. She has been continuing giving service as a reviewer to reputed journals of IEEE, IET, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, etc. She is Senior Member of IEEE and presently holding the position of IEEE officials as Treasurer of IEEE PELS and IEEE CTSoc joint chapters IEEE Bhubaneswar Sub-sec IEEE Kolkata section. She is also the co-organizer of IEEE CTSoc joint chapter, IEEE Bhubaneswar sub-section and IEEE section. She organized successfully two international conferences SPRINGER ETAEERE 2020 KIIT DU and IEEE ICPEE 2021 and also acted as Technical Program Chair for both the conference. She is also Editor of the Springer LNEE Series book consisting of select proceedings of ETAEERE 2020. Dr. Manoj Kumar Debnath is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, M.Tech. in Power System and Power Electronics and B.Tech. in Electrical engineering in 2017, 2013 and 2007, respectively. He has published more than 70 research papers in various reputed peer-reviewed international journals, conferences and book chapters. He has served as reviewers for various reputed Journal publishers such as Springer, IEEE, Elsevier, Willey and Inderscience. At present, he has more than 14 years of teaching experience in the field of electrical engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of Institute of Engineers (India) and life member of ISTE. He is currently guiding 5 Ph.D. scholars. His area of interest includes power system control, artificial intelligence, optimal control, fuzzylogic, bioinspired algorithm, optimization and renewable energy. He has served as organizing chair for many international conferences.
