Decarbonisation and Digitization of the Energy System: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid Energy Systems and Control, SGESC 2023

Dr. Ashwani Kumar did his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Govind Vallabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. Pant Nagar, Uttrakhand in 1988 in honors, did his M. Tech. in Power Systems from Punjab University Chandigarh in 1993 in honors and PhD degree from IIT Kanpur in 2003 in the area of power systems. He hold post doctoral position during 2008 at Tennessee Tech. University, USA.
He is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Kurukshetra and coordinator School of Renewable Energy and efficiency, SREE. He has interest in the areas of power system operation, Power Systems Restructuring, Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy Systems, FACTS applications to Power Systems, Demand Side Management, Smart grid/micro grid technology.
He has completed sponsored projects awarded by DST and a project during his Post Doc. Program at Tennessee Technological University USA. He has guided 14 PhDs and 55 M. Tech. scholars. He has 120 publications to his credit in the archival journals of repute and 165 publications in IEEE Confs and scopus indexed confs. He has received POSOCO Power System awards a joint venture of Power Grid and FITT IIT Delhi for guiding best M. Tech. thesis among top 25 in India consecutively in the years 2013 to 2018. He is a recipient of best paper awards by National system Coference NSC NIT surathkhal, Litteratti award by International Journal of Emerald IJESM. He has organized IEEE conferences and Int. conferences on Smart Grid, Energy systems and Control, SGESC-2021, and 2023. He visited USA, Italy, Australia, Netherlands, Uni. Of Malasiya for academic activities. 5 PhD scholars and 3 M.Tech. Scholars are doing thesis under his guidance currently. He is involved with various administrative activities in the Institute and is presently is coordinator of the School of Renewable Energy and efficiency, SREE. He is fellow member of Institution of Engineers, Fellow IETE, India, Senior member IEEE, life member ISTE.

Prof S. N. Singh obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1989 and 1995. Presently, Prof Singh is Director, Atal Bihari Bajpayee- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior (MP), India (on leave from Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India). Before joining IIT Kanpur as Associate Professor, Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 1988 to 1996, with Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) as Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000 and with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2002. He was ViceChancellor of Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology Gorakhpur during April 2017 to July 2020. Dr Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof Singh is receipt of Humboldt Fellowship of Germany (2005, 2007) and Ottomonsted Fellowship of Denmark (2009-10). Prof Singh became first Asian to receive 2013 IEEE Educational Activity Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education. He is also recipients of INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016. Dr Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguish Lecturer of Power & Energy Society from 2019 and Industry application Society for 2019-2021. He is also recipient of NPSC 2020 Academic Excellence Award and 2021 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Outstanding Educator/ Mentor Award.

His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization & control, security analysis, wind power, etc. Prof Singh has published more than 500 papers (h-index=57, Citation=12k+) in International/ national journals/conferences and supervised 40 PhD (8 PhD under progress). He has also written 30 book chapters, 8 Edited books and 2 text-books one on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution and second is Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed three dozen of technical projects in India and abroad. His two NPTEL (YouTube) video lectures on HVDC Transmission and Power System Operation & Control are very popular. Prof Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013 & 2014, IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-18 and R10 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities (2019-2020). Presently Prof Singh is Immediate Past Chairman of IEEE, India Council. Dr Singh is Fellows of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), INAE, IE(I), IETE, AvH.

Dr. Pradeep Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Kurukshetra, India. His areas of research are artificial intelligence Applications in Power Systems, Smart Grid, Substation Design especially, Earthing and Bonding based on IEEE-80 2000 (with ETAP), Direct Stroke Lightning Protection using IEEE 998, and Insulation coordination. Transmission Line Design and Planning, Power Quality.