Puvvula S R V R S S Vidyasagar completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He completed his M.Tech. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut and B.Tech degree from RVR&JC Engineering College, India. His research interests are power systems, renewable energy, photovoltaics, smart grids, renewable energy technologies, and power systems modeling. He has several research papers in journals and conferences published to his credit.
K. Shanti Swarup is a faculty with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. Before joining the department as a visiting faculty member, he held positions at the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Osaka, Japan, and Kitami Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan, serving as a visiting research scientist and visiting professor, respectively, from 1992to 1999. Since 2000, he has been a professor at IIT Madras. His research areas include power systems, smart grids, artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence, soft computing, Energy Management Systems (EMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), power system automation, and network protection. He has done research projects with various industries like BHEL, Hitachi, Easun-MR, etc.
