Bio-Sketch 

Dr. Nishant Kumar (IEEESM'25, IEEEM’18) is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at B K Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology (BKBIET), Pilani, India. He obtained his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Odisha, in 2015. He completed his M.Tech in Power Systems Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Nagaland, in 2017, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur in 2023.

Dr. Kumar has also served as an Assistant Professor at Chaibasa Engineering College, Jharkhand, under the Ministry of Education’s TEQIP-III initiative (funded by the World Bank), from January 2018 to September 2021, appointed through MHRD-NPIU.

His core research interests include:

• Modelling and control of modern power systems

• Microgrid and smart grid technologies

• Renewable energy integration: planning, forecasting, and energy management

• Application of soft computing techniques (e.g., meta-heuristic algorithms)

• Machine learning applications in power system optimization and forecasting

Dr. Kumar is a Senior Member of IEEE (IEEESM'25, M’18) and IAENG, and has served as Chair of the IEEE Systems Student Branch Chapter at NIT Jamshedpur. He is actively involved in scholarly peer review and contributes as a reviewer for reputed international journals including Applied Energy (AEE), International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS), and Journal of Applied Mathematics. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), a prominent international journal.