Advanced Energy and Control Systems

Chandan Kumar Chanda is working as a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, India. He has earned a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, B.E. College (DU), Shibpur, India. Dr. C. K. Chanda has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the diverse field of Power Systems Engineering. His areas of interest include smart grid, resiliency, stability, and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by Centrally Funded Organizations like DST and UGC. He has published 135 research articles in journals and conferences of national and international repute. Jerzy Szymanski is working as a Professor in the Faculty of Transport, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science at the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom (UTH Radom), Poland. He has graduated Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw Universityof Technology. His research areas include power electronics converters in drive applications, application of power converters in renewable sources and battery electric vehicles, EMC compatibility in power converters systems, hybrid power systems in electric industry drives, energy storages for BEV, and active power filters, etc. He has about 75 scientific publications, and 03 patents to his credit. He has also supervised 05 doctoral students. Afzal Sikander is an Assistant Professor in the Instrumentation and Control Engineering department at the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He has earned a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Dr. Afzal has over 10 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of interest include control theory and applications, model order reduction, machine learning, optimization, robotics, and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by CSIR, ISRO, TEQIP, etc. He has published 48 research articles in reputed national/international journals and conferences. Pranab K. Mondal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since May 2015. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015. His principal research interest, encompassing the broad area of microfluidics, covers various facets of micro-scale multiphase transport, electro-kinetics, and micro-scale transport of heat. He is currently working on stability analysis of flows with free surfaces, capillary filling of bio-fluids. He has co-authored more than 100 refereed journals conference publications.
Dulal Acharjee is working as Director in Applied Computer Technology, Kolkata, India. Before, he worked as a Professor in the Department of CSE & IT of Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He also worked as Visiting Faculty in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata. He received M.Tech. degree in Information Technology from Tezpur University. Before, he did M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electronics from Dhaka University. He has vast experience of working in the software training and development industry with research interest in automated activity recognition systems, sensor-based applications, microprocessor- and microcontroller-based embedded systems, etc. Dr. Acharjee has over 80 research publications in international journals/conferences and 04 book chapters to his credit.