Innovations in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Saad Mekhilef is IET Fellow and IEEE Senior Member. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics and Journal of Power Electronics. He is Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, since June 1999. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, PEARL. He is the author and the co-author of more than 400 publications in international journals and proceedings (253 ISI journal papers) and five books with more than 17000 citations and 64 H-index; 116 Ph.D. and master students have graduated under his supervision. He has six patents. He was frequently invited to give keynote lectures at international conferences. Prof. Saad listed by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the Highly Cited (Hi Ci) engineering researchers in the world and included in the Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2018. He is actively involved in industrial consultancy for major corporations in the power electronics projects. His research interests include power conversion techniques, control of power converters, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Margarita N. Favorskaya is Professor and Head of the Department of ICT at Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation. Professor Favorskaya is Member of KES organization since 2010, IPC Member and Chair of invited sessions of over 30 international conferences. She serves in many international journals as Reviewer, Guest Editor and Book Editor (Springer). She is the author or the co-author of 200 publications and 20 educational manuals in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She co-authored/co-edited books for Springer recently. She supervised nine Ph.D. candidates and presently supervising four Ph.D. students. Her main research interests are in the allocations of artificial intelligence and information technologies in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering, Communication and related disciplines. Rajendra Kumar Pandey is a known power system expert who is not only Professor of Electrical Power Systems at IIT (BHU) and executed Project on “Design and Development of Smart Energy Grid Architecture with Energy Storage” at BESCOM Bengaluru with Smart Metering Operational Control Room. He has also established An Intelligent Solar Power Control Architecture for 6.2 MWp BHU Solar Plant. He has been on deputation from July 2016 to August 2020 to the Ministry of Power Government of India as Director General, National Power Training Institute.   Rabindra Nath Shaw is Senior Member of IEEE (USA), currently holding the post of Director, International Relations, Galgotias University India. He is an alumnus of the applied physics department, University of Calcutta, India. He has more than eleven years of teaching experience in leading instituteslike Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India, Jadavpur University and others in UG and PG levels. He has successfully organized more than fifteen international conferences as Conference Chair, Publication Chair and Editor. He has published more than fifty Scopus/WoS/ISI indexed research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is Editor of several Springer and Elsevier books. His primary area of research is optimization algorithms and machine learning techniques for power system, IoT application, renewable energy, and power electronics converters. He also worked as University Examination Coordinator, University MOOC’s Coordinator, University Conference Coordinator and Faculty In-Charge, Centre of Excellence for Power Engineering and Clean Energy Integration.

Smart Grid Cyber Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Measures.- Transfer Learning Based Novel Fault Classification Technique for Grid Connected PV Inverter.- Solar PV fed Grid Interactive PMSM Driven Water Pumping System with Switched-LC Converter.- Protection of Six-Phase Transmission Line Using HWT.- Off-State Leakage Concern in Scaling Nanowire FETs.- Roof Top Antenna for Vehicular Application.