Dr. V. P. Meena

Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Center for Research on Microgrids, Huanjiang Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.

Center for Renewable Energy and Microgrids, Huzhou Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China, and Associate Professor at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.

Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. 

Professor at the Department of Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Economics (SP4TE), University of Roma TRE, Vito Volterra, 62, 00146 Rome, Italy.

Dr. V. P. Singh (SM21, IEEE) graduated from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India in 2007 with B.Tech. Degree (Honours) in Electrical Engineering. He received M.Tech. Degree in Control and Instrumentation and Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 and 2013, respectively, from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. He also served as Assistant Professor at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (from 2019 to 2023) and National Institute of Technology Raipur (from 2013 to 2019). His research interests include system modelling, model order reduction, and applications of optimization. He has published several articles in international and national journals and conferences. He is currently Senior Member, IEEE. He is faculty advisor of IEEE student branch at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. During his tenure as faculty advisor, he established five new IEEE student chapters and organized 17 guest lectures from IEEE student chapters. Along with these, he is currently holding faculty advisor of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Systems Council, and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation.

Dr. Akhilesh Mathur received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rajasthan University, Rajasthan, India, in 2007 and the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 2010 with majors in power system. He received his Ph.D. degree at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in the stream of Electrical Engineering in 2018. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at MNIT Jaipur, Jaipur, India. Prior to MNIT Jaipur, He was working as an Assistant Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He has about 5 years of teaching and research experience. His research interest includes modeling and analysis of unbalanced distribution systems, inverter based distributed generations, smart grids, and microgrids. He has published several research articles in International Journal and Conferences. He is currently Senior Member, IEEE.

Dr. J. Ramprabhakar currently serves as Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore campus. He completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar in 2016, M. Tech. (Power Electronics) from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2005, Coimbatore and B. Tech. (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) from Madras University in 2000. He has 13 years of Teaching Experience, 3 years of Industrial Experience and 4.5 years of Research Experience.He has received extramural grant from Vision Group of Science and Technology (Karnataka Funding for Infrastructure Strengthening in Science and Technology (K-FIST Level – 1): For setting Microgrid research lab comprising Battery Augmented 3KW rooftop Wind-Solar hybrid system with a vision to develop smartgrid laboratory scale prototype. Defense Research and Development Organization – Aeronautics Research and Development Board (DRDO-ARDB): For setting up drives lab pertinent to power electronics driven BLDC motor for LCA application.

D Bala Bhaskar was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, in 1987. He received a B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from R.V.R. & J.C. College of Engineering, Guntur, India, in 2008 and an M.E. in Control Systems Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, in 2010. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. From July 2011 to 2019, he served as an Assistant Professor in the electrical engineering department of G.V.P. College of Engineering (A), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Currently, he works as a research faculty member in the electrical engineering department of SASI Institute of Technology and Engineering (A), Tadepalligudem. His areas of interest are Controller Design, Optimization Techniques, Reduced Order Approximation of Power Systems Models, Electric vehicles, Interval Systems, Fractional Order Systems, Power electronic models, Stability analysis, Renewable energy systems, etc. He has published several articles in international and national journals and conferences.

Dr. Surya Prakash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, India. He received his B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from JNTUH Hyderabad in 2009, M.Tech in Power Electronics Engineering from VNIT Nagpur in 2012, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna in 2024. He was a Visiting Scholar at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi in 2023, and held postdoctoral positions at IIT Gandhinagar, India, and UAE University, Al Ain in 2024. His research interests include control methods for power electronic converters, renewable energy integration, grid interconnection, power quality enhancement, and low-voltage ride-through capabilities.

Dr. Kumari Namrata is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, India. She received her Ph.D. from NIT Jamshedpur in 2017, after completing her M.Tech in Power Systems from the same institute and B.Tech from NIT Patna. With nearly 23 years of academic and research experience, she has published over 75 research papers in reputed journals and international conferences. A Senior Member of IEEE, she has actively contributed to various international conferences as a session chair, advisory committee member, and technical committee member. She is the editor of the Springer book “Smart Energy and Advancement in Power Technologies” and a regular reviewer for journals including IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, Applied Energy, Solar Energy, and Energy. Her research interests include solar power generation and conversion, solar radiation estimation, modeling and simulation of renewable energy systems, microgrid operation and control, hybrid energy systems, renewable power forecasting, and energy management. She has also served in various academic and administrative roles, such as NBA Committee Coordinator, Faculty Advisor for B.Tech and M.Tech batches, Member of the Departmental Purchase Committee, Faculty-in-Charge of the annual magazine MANTHAN, Warden of the Girls’ Hostel, and Associate Dean of Student Welfare (2019–2022).

Professor Prabha Chand is a distinguished academic and currently serves as Professor and Dean (Faculty Welfare) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Solar Energy from Ranchi University in collaboration with NIT Jamshedpur (2004), an M.Tech in Space Engineering and Rocketry from BIT Mesra, Ranchi (1994), and a B.Sc. (Engg) in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (1991). With over 26 years of undergraduate teaching, 16 years of postgraduate instruction, and 27 years of research experience, she has held various academic positions, rising from Lecturer in 1997 to Professor in 2018. Her core teaching areas include Solar Thermal Energy Systems, Renewable Energy Systems, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, I.C. Engines, Heat Exchanger Design, and Engineering Economics.

Her research interests span Solar Energy, Aerodynamics, Thermal Engineering, Clean and Sustainable Energy, Nanofluids, and Welding Technology. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and actively contributes to the advancement of engineering education and research through her professional engagements. Dr. Chand’s academic excellence has been recognized with several awards, including the Lady Engineering Award (2019) by the Institution of Engineers, the Distinguished Woman in Engineering Award (2018) from Venus International, Chennai, and the Best Paper Award at the 19th International Conference on Renewable Energy Resource and Energy Storage (ICRERES-2017), held in New York, USA. Her dedication to education, research, and institutional development continues to inspire students and peers alike in the field of Mechanical Engineering.