Gayadhar Panda received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Institute of Engineers, Kolkata, India, in 1996, the master’s degree in power electronics from IIEST, Shibpur, India, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, in 2007. Since 2013, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology at Meghalaya, Shillong, India, where he is currently a Professor. He served as the Head of the Department and the Chairman of various committees at the Institute level. He is currently looking after the Dean (FW), the Dean (AA), and a Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at NIT Meghalaya. He has published more than 80 technical articles in national and international conferences proceedings/journals. He has received the Institution Medal for obtaining the highest marks in graduation and the Power Medal for his one of the research article. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience. His current research interests include automatic generation control, stability improvements using flexible alternating current transmission system devices, power quality, power electronic converters, and distributed power generation.
R.T. Naayagi received the bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2000, the master’s degree in information technology from Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India, in 2003, the master’s degree (Hons.) in power electronics and drives from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2010. She held various roles as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Professor in various institutions in India and U.K, from 2000 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2014. She has been with The Newcastle University in Singapore (NUiS), since 2014, where she is currently an Associate Professor in electrical power engineering, and also the Director of excellence in learning and teaching. Her research interests include renewable energy integration and applications in smart grid, power electronics for aerospace, electric vehicle applications, low carbon electrical energy systems, and power electronic solutions to sustainability. Dr. Naayagi is a Steering Committee Member of NU Women, U.K., a member of the Diversity Working Group, Newcastle University, U.K., and Equality & Diversity Champion for NUiS, and an Academic Lead for Athena SWAN Bronze Award application at Newcastle University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, U.K. She has received several merit certificates for her academic proficiency, including the Best Outgoing Female Graduate Award during her bachelor’s and the Outstanding Master’s Student Award. She was a first recipient of the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, for her Ph.D., jointly sponsored by Rolls-Royce plc and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K. She received the Woman Engineer Award from the Young Professionals Section Chennai, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), U.K., in 2012. She received the Newcastle University Teaching Award, in 2016. She is the Chair of NUiS women in science and engineering network and has been organizing many events to promote young professionals, especially young women in engineering and technology. She is the Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Singapore Chapter. She is an Associate Editor of the IET Power Electronics Journal and an Associate Editor of the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems. She serves as a Reviewer for the IEEE, IET, and many other international journals and conferences.
Sukumar Mishra received his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, in 1992 and 2000, respectively. After spending nine years as a lecturer at Sambalpur University (Orissa), Prof. Mishra joined BPUT (Orissa) as a Reader at the Electrical Department and served there for two years. Currently he is a Professor with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and has been its part for the past 17 years, and has been functioning as Associate Dean R&D of IIT Delhi from March 2020. He has won many accolades throughout his academic tenure of 27 years. He has been a recipient of Young Scientist Award (1999), INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2002), INAE Young Engineer Award (2002), INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award (2012), The Samanta Chandra Shekhar Award (2016), Bimal Bose Award (2019) and NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award (2019). He has been selected as the Mission Innovation National Champion (2019) under the Mission innovation initiative to accelerate clean energy in India. He has been granted fellowships from many prestigious technical societies like IET (U
