Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Microgrid Systems

O.V. Gnana Swathika is currently a Senior Associate Professor at the Centre for Smart Grid Technologies in the School of Electrical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, India. Her current research interests include microgrid protection, power system optimization, embedded systems, and photovoltaic systems.

Mr Karthikeyan is the Chief Engineering Manager in Electrical Designs at Larsen & Toubro Construction in Chennai, India. He is responsible for the preparation and review of complete electrical system designs up to 110 kV, detailed engineering stage covering by various electrical design calculations, design basis reports suitable for construction drawings, and Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) design coordination. Two decades in electrical design have included work on projects from airports, to steel and automobile plants in India and abroad (Sri Lanka, Dubai, and the UK), and he has worked at Voltas, ABB, and Apex Knowledge Technology Private Limited. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics of the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. He has over a decade of academic and teaching experience, including Associate/Assistant Professorships at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2016-2018), Aalborg University, Denmark (2018-2021) and the CTIF Global Capsule Laboratory at Aarhus University, Denmark (2021-present). Prof. Padmanaban received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who's Who - USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research, and was listed among the world's top 2% of scientists by Stanford University, USA in 2019.