Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy

Prof (Dr) Sabyasachi Sengupta received his undergraduate degree from Calcutta Univ. (B. E. College) in the year 1974 and his M. Tech & Ph.D degrees from IIT Kharagpur. He is currently working as Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. S. Sengupta was the Vice Chancellor, West Bengal University of Technology till June 2012. He is the Chairman, Eastern Regional Committee, AICTE and also member of All India Council for Technical Education. He has guided 6 Ph.D. students (3 ongoing) with more than 30 M.Tech students for their thesis work and taught different courses in UG and PG level. His primary research focus is on Elementary Particle Physics and Newtonian Dynamics. He was also Past-Member of National Steering Committee of NaMPET, MoDIT. He convened Second National Power Electronics Conf (NPEC05) at IIT Kharagpur, Dec 2005 and performed as selection committee member of several IITs, NITs and several Government and private technicalInstitutes. He has published several research papers and attended invited lectures on various topics. Prof. S. Sengupta is engaged with several sponsored research and industrial consultancy projects as Principal Investigator. He has also filed two patents in connection with the SMES-UPS project.

Ahmed Faheem Zobaa received his B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical power and machines from Cairo University, Egypt. Also, he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from University of Exeter, U.K. He was an instructor, a teaching assistant, and an assistant professor at Cairo University during 1992-2007. He moved to UK as a Senior Lecturer in renewable energy at University of Exeter in 2007. He was Associate Professor (on leave) at Cairo University during 2008-2013. He was promoted to Full Professor (on leave) at Cairo University in 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in power systems, an MSc Course Director -Sustainable Electrical Power and a Full Member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London, U.K. His main areas of expertise are power quality, (marine) renewable energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, and lighting applications. Dr Zobaa is the Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology and Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy. He is also an Editorial Board member, Editor, Associate Editor, and Editorial Advisory Board member for many international journals. Dr Zobaa is a registered Chartered Engineer, Chartered Energy Engineer, European Engineer, and International Professional Engineer. He is also a registered member of the Egypt Syndicate of Engineers, and the Egyptian Society of Engineers. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of U.K. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Energy Institute of U.K., the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Society of Arts, the African Academy of Sciences, and the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Also, He is a member of the International Solar Energy Society, and the European Power Electronics and Drives Association.

Prof (Dr) Karma Sonam Sherpa has completed his B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from MREC, Jaipur, and M.Tech. (Power Electronics and Machine Drives) from I.I.T., Kharagpur in the year 1996 and 2003 respectively. He is a doctorate from Sikkim Manipal University. He has been serving SMIT, Sikkim for the last 18 years. Presently, Prof. K.S. Sherpa is Dean (Research & Development). He is head and professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. His areas of research are DC Power Conversion and nonlinear dynamics, Voltage Stability and Load Management in Power Distribution Systems andElectromagnetic Levitation Systems. He is life member of ISTE, IEI and System Society of India (SSI). His areas of interests are Electric Power Distribution System, Power Electronics and Electrical Drives. Prof. K.S. Sherpa is a member of Academic Senate since and University Research Committee (2013 onwards). He has published several papers in national and international journals and conferences.

Akash Kumar Bhoi has completed his B.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering) from TAT, Bhubaneswar and M.Tech. (Biomedical Instrumentation) from Karunya University, Coimbatore in the year 2009 and 2011 respectively. He is pursuing PhD (Biomedical Signal Processing) from Sikkim Manipal University, India. He is working as R&D Faculty Associate & Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India since 2012. He is member of ISEIS & IAENG, Associate member of UACEE and Editorial Board member of IJAEEE, IJAEEE, ITSI-TEEE, IJECCE & IJCTT and Reviewer of IJET, IJCT, IJBSE, IJMI, AJBLS. His areas of research are biomedical signal processing, medical image processing, sensors & transducers, and medical instrumentation. He has published several papers in national and international journals and conferences.