Biographical note

Prof. Ramesh C. Bansal has more than 25 years of diversified experience of research, scholarship of teaching and learning, accreditation, industrial, and academic leadership in several countries. Currently he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Sharjah. Previously he was Professor and Group Head (Power) in the ECE Department at University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa. Prior to his appointment at UP, he was employed by the University of Queensland, Australia; University of the South Pacific, Fiji; BITS Pilani, India; and Civil Construction Wing, All India Radio. Professor Bansal has published over 300 journal articles, presented papers at conferences, books and chapters in books. He has Google citations of over 9000 and h-index of 43. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. theses, four Post Doctortes and currently supervising 5 Ph.D. students. His diversified research interests are in the areas of Renewable Energy (Wind, PV, DG, Micro Grid) and Smart Grid. Professor Bansal is an editor of several highly regarded journals, IET-RPG and IEEE Systems Journals. He is a Fellow and Chartered Engineer IET-UK, Fellow Engineers Australia, Fellow Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow SAIEE, and Senior Member of IEEE-USA. Dr. Anshul Agarwal graduated from the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, with B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2007 and completed his M.Tech (Gold Medalist) in Power Electronics and ASIC Design in July 2009 and Ph.D. in 2013 at MNNIT, Allahabad. He is currently the faculty in Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department at NIT Delhi. He has served as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, HP. His research interests include power electronic devices, modelling of converters/ inverters, AC to AC power conversion, renewable energy, integration of grids, hybrid vehicles, FPGA based converters design, solar and wind energy integration. Dr. Anshul Agarwal has published more than 20 papers in reputed international journals, more than 40 papers in reputed IEEE international conferences. He has also published one book and 8 book chapters in different Books. He has been awarded by POSOCO Power System (PPSA-2014) for the top Ph.D. research work. He has also served as guest editor in special issue for various journals. He is active reviewer of various international conferences and reputed journals. Dr. Vinay Kumar Jadoun is currently Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal, India. He has obtained B.E. from SATI, Vidisha, M.P., India. He obtained M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India. Previously, he was faculty in the National Institute of Technology, Delhi, and National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India. Dr. Vinay Kumar Jadoun has published 13 papers in reputed international journals, 25 papers in international and national conferences and 7 book chapters in different books. His areas of interest are economic operation of power system, hydrothermal scheduling, multi-area economic dispatch, soft computing techniques, renewable power generation, micro grid, smart grid, electric vehicles, condition monitoring of electrical apparatus, DGA, health monitoring of power transformer and AI techniques. He is a member of IEEE, PES, and smart grid community. He has experience for organizing international conferences and short-term course. He has got 2016 Electric Power Systems Research (EPSR) Best Reviewer Certificate and Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in reviewing award from various reputed journals. He is also member of technical programme committee of different international and national conferences.