Biographical note

Prof. Karma Sonam Sherpa has completed his B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from the 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 19 years. Presently, Prof. Sherpa is Registrar, SMU and Ex-Associate Director (Research & Development) Ex-HOD 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 and Electromagnetic 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 papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has also organized several workshops, seminars and conferences.

Dr. Akash Kumar Bhoi has completed his B.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering) from Trident Academy of Technology, BPUT University, Odisha and M.Tech. (Biomedical Instrumentation) from Karunya University, Coimbatore in the year 2009 and 2011 respectively. In 2019 he is awarded Ph.D. from Sikkim Manipal University, India. He is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India since 2012. He is member of ISEIS and IAENG, associate member of IEI, UACEE and editorial board member reviewer of Indian and international journals. His areas of research are biomedical signal processing, medical image processing, sensors and transducers, and medical instrumentation. He has published several papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has also served on numerous organizing panels for the international conferences and workshops.

Prof. Akhtar Kalam has been at Victoria University, Melbourne since 1985 and a former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of  Health, Engineering and Science for 7 years. He is currently the Head of  Engineering. He is also the current Chair of  the Academic Board and lectures in the Masters by coursework program in the Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth,  Australia. Further he has Distinguished Professorship position at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and 5 Malaysian universities. He has wide experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. (Engineering) from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University, India. He completed his MS and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, USA and the University of  Bath, UK, respectively. He has worked with Ingersoll Rand and other electrical manufacturers. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq and Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education, Rockhampton, Queensland. He has conducted research, provided industrial consultancy and published over five hundred papers in his area of expertise and written over 29 books in the area. More than 35 students have graduated under his supervision. He provides consultancy for major electrical utilities, manufacturers and other industry bodies in his field of expertise. Professor Kalam is a Fellow of EA, IET, AIE, a member of IEEE and CIGRE AP B5.

Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra has fifteen years’ experience in imparting education to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and one and half years of industry experience in Mainframe Technologies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, MBA in Marketing and Finance, M.Tech and BE in Computer Science and Engineering. He has many research publications to his credit including papers in international conferences, journals, and book chapters and edited books. His areas of specialization include Parallel & Distributed Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Algorithm Design, Big Data, Machine Learning. He is a life time society member of ISTE and Indian Science Congress.