Prof. K. K. Shukla received the B.E. degree in Civil Engineering from Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur, India in 1986, the M.E. degree in Structures from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College Allahabad, Prayagraj, India in 1988, and the Ph.D degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India in 2001. He has more than 30 years of experience and has been a faculty member at various positions at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad, Prayagraj, India from 1988 to 2017. He has also been at different administrative positions at MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj. Currently, he is the Director of National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. Prof. Shukla has published more than 150 research papers, received many awards and recognition, and visited many countries.

Dr. A. K. Akella obtained the B. Sc. (Engg.) and M. Tech. (Control System Engg.) degrees from Bihar University, Muzaffarpur in 1987 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee in 2006. His research interests include Renewable Energy Systems and Control System. Dr. Akella has supervised many Ph.D and M.Tech scholars and published many journal and conference papers.

Dr. Om Hari Gupta received the B.Tech degree (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) from UP Technical University, Lucknow, India, M.Tech degree (Power Electronics & ASIC Design) from the MN National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India, and Ph.D. degree (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is a recipient of the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship for research visiting the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada in 2017. His major areas of research interests include power system compensation and protection, microgrid control and protection, and control of drives. Dr. Gupta is a reviewer for various international journals including IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Electric Power Components and Systems, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, etc.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar received his B.Tech. from IMS Engineering college, Ghaziabad, India, in 2009, M.Tech from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 2017. He has over 4 years of teaching experience and taught subjects like Power system, Advanced Power System, Control System, Control & Instrumentation, Power System Operation and Control, Signal & System, Power System Protection, Circuit & Network Theory. He has many papers in reputed journals. His major areas of research interests include power system protection and restructuring, Protection algorithms design in smart grid and microgrid environment, Design of protection algorithms in FACTS environment.

Dr. Umesh K. Sinha obtained the B. Sc. (Engg.) degree from MIT Muzaffarpur, M. Sc. (Engg.) degree from RIT Jamshedpur and the Ph.D. degree from Ranchi University in 2010. His research interests include Solar and renewable energy systems, Modeling of salt gradient solar pond of various types, Modeling and simulation of collectors, Modeling and simulation of hybrid vehicles, and Development of model for zero energy building. Dr. Sinha has supervised many Ph.D and M.Tech scholars and published many journal and conference papers.