Biographical note

Dr. Jitendra Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. He received his B.Tech. from IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India, in 2009, M.Tech from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, in 2017. He has over 4 years of experience teaching subjects like power systems, advanced power systems, control systems, control & instrumentation, power system operation, and control, signal & system, power system protection, circuit & network theory. He has many papers in reputed journals. His major areas of research interests include power system protection and restructuring, protection algorithms design in smart grid and microgrid environment, design of protection algorithms in FACTS environment.

Dr. Manoj Tripathy received his B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 1999; M.Tech degree in instrumentation and control from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2002; and a Ph.D. degree from the IIT Roorkee, India, in 2008. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. His fields of interest are wavelets, neural networks, optimization techniques, content-based image retrieval, digital instrumentation, digital protective relays, and digital speech processing. Dr. Tripathy is a reviewer for various international journals in the area of power systems and speech.

Dr. Premalata Jena is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. She received her B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, in 2001, the M.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from the IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2011. Dr. Jena has seven years of teaching experience. She is an IEEE member and INAE, Young Associate. She received many awards such as the Women Excellence Award and Early Carrier Research Award, SERB, DST, Gov. of India, New Delhi, INAE Young Engineer Award, POSOCO Power System Awards, in 2013. She has published many papers in different reputed journals and conferences. Her fields of interest are Smart Grid, Smart grid technology, and protection, Microgrid, Microgrid Protection, Signal processing application to power system relaying, Power system Protection, Protection Issues with FACTS Devices, Protection Scheme Development for a line with FACTS devices, Disturbance localization, Signal processing application for disturbance localization.