Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives

Om Hari Gupta received B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from UP Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2007 and the M.Tech. degree in power electronics & ASIC design from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, in 2017. He is an awardee of the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship for research visiting Canada and from March 2017 to June 2017, he was a visiting Researcher at the Ontario Tech University, Canada. Since 2018, Dr. Gupta is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. He is one of the founding organizing secretaries of the conference series "Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference - EPREC". Dr. Gupta is the author of four books and has more than 70 publications including 26 journal papers. He is a senior member of IEEE and a reviewer of many reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IET Generation and Transmission, Electric Power Systems Research, Electric Power Components and Systems, and International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. His research interests include power system protection, microgrid, renewable-based distributed generation, and electric power quality.

Simanta Kumar Samal received B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India in 2010 and the M.Tech. degree in Industrial electronics from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India, in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2022. Currently, Dr. Samal is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. Prior to joining NIT Jamshedpur, Dr. Samal was working as a Research Associate in an Industry R&D oriented project from March 2022 - September 2022 at IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He is a member of IEEE and a reviewer of many reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). His research interests include Modeling and Control of Hybrid converters for Renewable energy Applications, Developing Grid-tide Inverters for solar PV grid integration, Power Electronics Converters for Electric Vehicles, and BMS (Battery management System) based Energy storage applications.

Ranjit Mahanty (IEEE Member) received the B.Sc. (Engg.) degree in electrical engineering and M.Tech. degree in power systems from the National Institute of Technology (previously Regional Institute of Technology), Jamshedpur, India in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He obtained the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 2005. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). He has been the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT (BHU) Varanasi from 2015 to 2018. Prof. Mahanty has published more than 30 International journals and more than 65 Conference papers in his domain. Also, he has guided lots of Ph.D. dissertations, and so many M.E./M.Tech theses. He has completed more than 25 consultancy projects till now. Prof. Mahanty is serving as reviewer in journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IET Power Electronics and many more International Journals. He is also serving as a reviewer in many International andnational conferences. His research interests include power quality improvement, multilevel inverters, renewable power conversion for microgrid applications, and dc-dc converters.

Bhim Singh (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Rahamapur, Bijnor (UP), India, in 1956. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), Roorkee, India, in 1977, the M.Tech. degree in power apparatus and systems, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the IIT Delhi, India, in 1979 and 1983, respectively.,In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Roorkee, as a Lecturer. He became a Reader there in 1988. In December 1990, he had joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India, as an Assistant Professor, where he became an Associate Professor in 1994 and a Professor in 1997. He has been the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from July 2014 to August 2016. He hasbeen the Dean, Academics at IIT Delhi, from August 2016 to August 2019. He is JC Bose Fellow of DST, Government of India since December 2015. He is CEA Chair Professor since January 2019., Prof. Singh has guided 84 Ph.D. dissertations, and 168 M.E./M.Tech./M.S.(R) theses. He has filed 58 patents. He has executed more than 80 sponsored and consultancy projects. His areas of interest include solar PV grid interface systems, microgrids, power quality monitoring and mitigation, solar PV water pumping systems, improved power quality ac-dc converters.

Ilhami Colak (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in 1962 in Turkey. He received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1985, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in the field of speed control of wound rotor induction machines using semiconductor devices from Gazi University, in 1991, the M.Phil. degree from Birmingham University, Birmingham, U.K., in 1991, by preparing a thesis onhigh-frequency resonant dc-link inverters, and the Ph.D. degree from Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., in 1994, with a focus on mixed-frequency testing of induction machines using inverters.,He became an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor, and a Full Professor in 1995, 1999, and 2005, respectively. He was the Head of Department, Dean, and Vice Rector of Gazi University, Istanbul Gelisim University, and Nisantasi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently a Full Professor with Nisantasi University. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 journal papers, 235 conference papers, and 7 books in different subjects, including electrical machines, drive systems, machine learning, reactive power compensation, inverter, converter, artificial neural networks, distance learning automation, and alternating energy sources. More than 207 of his papers have been cited in Science Citation Index. His papers have received more than 2161 citations by 1900 papers. His Thomson Reuters H-index is 24 and average citation per paper is 10.72. In SCOPUS, H-index is 30. His 264 papers have received 3439 citations from 2955 documents. He supervised 23 M.Sc. students and 14 Ph.D. students. He also spent around three years at the European Commission Research Centre in The Netherlands. He achieved a great success of 10% by being included in the list of "2% World's Most Influential Scientists," which was created by USA Stanford University considering the "Works of the Year 2020." He has organized more than 100 international IEEE supported workshops, special sessions, and conferences. In the last 20 years, he has concentrated his studies on renewable energy and smart grids by publishing papers, journals (www.ijrer.org; www.ijSmartGrid.org) and organizing international IEEE sponsored conferences (www.icrera.org; icSmartGrid.org).,Dr. Colak is a member of IES, IAS, PELS, and PES.