Dr. Manohar Mishra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering Department, under the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Siksha "O" Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, M.Tech. in Power Electronics and Drives and B.Tech. in Electrical engineering in 2017, 2012 and 2008, respectively. He has published more than 40 research papers in various reputed peer reviewed International Journals, Conferences and Book Chapters. He has served as reviewers for various reputed Journal publishers such as Springer, IEEE, Elsevier and Inderscience. At present, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical Engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently guiding Four Ph.D. and Master scholar. His area of interest includes power system analysis, power system protection, signal processing, power quality, distribution generation system, Micro-grid. He has served as Convener &Volume Editor of International Conference on Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication and Computing Technology (IEPCCT-2019) and International Conference on Green Technology for Smart City and Society (GTSCS-2020). Currently, he is serving as Guest editor in different journals such as International Journal of Power Electronics (Inderscience Publisher) and International Journal of Innovative Computing and Application (Inderscience Publisher), Nural Computing and Application (Springer).
Dr. Renu Sharma is working as a Professor and Head of the Department Electrical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar in 2014 and M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2006. At present, she has more than 20 years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical Engineering. She is Life Member IE (India), Member IET, Senior Member IEEE, Life member ISTE, Life member ISSE. Her research areas are Smart Grid, Soft Computing, Solar Photovoltaic systems, Power system Scheduling, Evolutionary Algorithms and Wireless Sensor Networks. She has published more than 80 research papers in various reputed peer reviewed International Journals, Conferences and Book Chapters. She has served as reviewers from various reputed Journal publishers such as Springer, IEEE, Elsevier and Inderscience. She is currently guiding Eight Ph.D. scholar and one Postdoctoral fellow. She has organized several FDP and workshops sponsored by Typhoon HIL, AICTE, DST etc. She has served as General Chair &Volume Editor of International Conference on Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication and Computing Technology (IEPCCT-2019) and International Conference on Green Technology for Smart City and Society (GTSCS-2020).
Prof. Akshay Kumar Rathore received the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Machines and Drives from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 2003 and Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics from University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, in 2008. He had two Postdoctoral Research Appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA. He was an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor at in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. He has published more than 200 research papers in international journals and conferences including 73 IEEE Transactions. His research is mainly focused on current-fed converters and multilevel inverters. He received the Gold Medal during his M.Tech. degree for securing highest academic standing among all electrical engineering specializations. He received the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, and 2017 IEEE IES Davin Irwin Early Career Award. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics and an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He served as paper review chair for Industrial Automation and Control in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is currently Prominent Lecturer and Executive Board Member at-Large of IEEE Industry Applications Society and was Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-18. He has served and has been serving several technical committees and conference organizing committees in various roles.
Dr. Janmenjoy Nayak is working as an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aditya Institute of Technology and Management (AITAM), Tekkali, K Kotturu, AP- 532201, India. He has published more than 80 research papers in various reputed peer reviewed Referred Journals, International Conferences and Book Chapters. He is the recipient of Best researcher award from Jawaharlal Nehru University of Technology, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh for the AY: 2018-2019, Young Faculty in Engineering-2017 Award by Venus International Foundation, Chennai and Best Young Researcher in Computer Science Engineering, by Institute of Technical and Scientific Research ITSR Foundation Award-2017, Jaipur Rajasthan. Moreover, he is the recipient of Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence for 2017, by Elsevier Publications. His area of interest includes data mining, nature inspired algorithms and soft computing. He is the regular member of IEEE and life member of some of the reputed societies like CSI India, etc. He has edited four books from various publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and IGI Global. He has been serving as Guest Editor of various journal special issue from Elsevier, Springer and Inderscience. He has served as Volume Editor of International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM-2017, ICCIDM-2018), International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition(CIPR-2019), International Conference on Application of Robotics in Industry using Advanced Mechanisms (ARIAM - 2019) and International Conference on "Soft Computing in Data Analytics (SCDA-2018).
Dr. Bighnaraj Naik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Application, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (Formerly UCE Burla), Odisha, India. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering and B.E. in information technology in 2016, 2009 and 2006, respectively. He has published more than 90 research papers in various reputed peer reviewed International Journals, Conferences and Book Chapters. He has edited 4 books from various publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and IGI Global. At present, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the field of Computer Science and IT. He is a member of IEEE. His area of interest includes Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing and its applications. He has servedas Convener &Volume Editor of International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM-2017, ICCIDM-2018) and International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition - 2019, IIEST, Shibpur, West Bengal. He has been serving as Guest Editor of various journal special issues from Elsevier, Springer and Inderscience.
