Autor: Saad Makhilef

Rabindra Nath Shaw is currently working as Adjunct Professor, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India and also worked as 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 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. Dr. Shaw 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 (Glob Con ET), 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 Dr. Shaw 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 Programme in collaboration with leading institutes across the world. Pierluigi Siano (M’09–SM”14) 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 is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. Since 2021 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg. His research activities are centered on demand response,   energy management,   the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, electricity markets, and planning and management of power systems. In these research fields, he has co-authored more than 700 articles including more than 410 international journals that received in Scopus more than 18000 citations with an H-index equal to 65. In the period 2019-2022 he has been awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Web of Science Group. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is Editor for the Power & Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE SYSTEMS. Saad Mekhilef is an IEEEand IET Fellow. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,  Australia, an Honorary Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, and a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He authored and co-authored more than 600 publications in academic journals and proceedings, five books with more than 46, 000 citations, and more than 85 Ph.D. students who graduated under his supervision. He serves as an editorial board member for many top journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics, IET Renewable Power Generation, E-Prime, Journal of Power Electronics, and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. His research interests include Power Conversion Techniques, Control of Power Converters, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), Renewable Energy, and Energy Efficiency. Ankush Ghosh is Senior member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE currently working as Adjunct Professor, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India. He has received his Ph.D. (Engg.) degree from Jadavpur University, India in 2010. He was a research fellow of the Advanced Technology Cell- DRDO, Govt. of India. He was awarded National Scholarship by HRD, Govt. of India. He has outstanding research experiences and published 6 edited books; 4 from Springer & 2 from Elsevier; 3 National & 8 International patents and more than 120 research papers indexed in Scopus/Web of Science. He is serving as an editorial board member of several international journals including Chief Editor. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching, research as well as industry. His UG and PG teaching assignments include Microprocessor and microcontroller, AI, IOT, Embedded and real time systems etc. He has delivered Keynote/Invited lecture in a number of international seminar/conferences, refreshers courses, and FDPs. He has guided a large number of M.Tech and Ph.D. students. Dr. Ghosh is an active member of IEEE and organized a number Seminars and workshops in association with IEEE. He is an editor & organizing committee member of the Conference series GUCON, ICCCA, ICEEE, ICACIT. He is a He is a Start-up India Mentor and Global Startup Advisor of Wadhwani NEN. He has reviewed and mentored more than 50 start-ups. He has received award for contributing in Innovate India programme from AICTE- DST, Govt. of India in 2019 and 2020. He has received an appreciation award from AICTE, DST, TI, IIMB, NSRCEL, and my GOV for fostering students to strengthen the ecosystem bridging Government, Academia, and Industry in the year 2021. Shimi S. L. is currently working as Associate Professor at Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh. She did her Postdoc from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden during 2019 to 2021. Her research Interests are Power Electronics and Drives, Digital Control, ANN & Fuzzy Logic Applications, FACTS, Renewable Energy, Soft Computing Techniques, MATLAB with d Space Interface, MATLAB with Arduino Interface, MATLAB / SIMULINK and Sim Power System toolbox, Optimization techniques such as genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization, Renewable etc.