Smart Technologies for Power and Green Energy

The book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at International Conference on Smart Technology for Power and Green Energy (STPGE 2022), organized by School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India, during February 12 – 13, 2022.

Dr. Rudra Narayan Dash is working as Assistant Professor and Program Head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT DU), Bhubaneswar. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KIIT DU, Bhubaneswar, in 2018, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, in 2010 and B.Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering from KIIT University in the year 2005.At present, he has more than Fourteen years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical Engineering. He is Life Member IE (India), Member IET, Member IEEE and Life member ISTE. His research areas are applications of soft computing and signal processing techniques in electrical machines, power systems, fault diagnosis and evolutionary algorithms. He has published more than 18 research papers in various reputed peer-reviewed international journals, conferences and book chapters. He is currently guiding two Ph.D. scholars.

Dr.Akshay Kumar Rathore is Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards in the department of electrical and computer engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an IEEE Fellow, Awards Department Chair and Prominent Lecturer of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and an elected AdCom Member-at-Large of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He received the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David J Irwin Early Career Award, 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, and 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award. He published above 270 research papers in international journals and conferences including 92 IEEE Transactions. His research is mainly focused on current-fed converters and multilevel inverters. He is leading the area of current-fed power electronics and contributed to the analysis, and design of two new classes of snubberless current-fed converters. To his credit, he has one approved European patent and three book chapters. Dr. Rathore is Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY and Paper Review Chair of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems. He was Distinguished Lecturer (2017-18) and Executive Board Member-at-Large (2017-19) of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He received his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, in 2008. He had two postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He received the Gold Medal during his M.Tech. degree for securing highest academic standing among all electrical engineering specializations. He was a recipient of University Ph.D. Fellowship and Thouvenelle Graduate Scholarship during his Ph.D.

Dr. Ranjeeta Patel is presently working as Assistant Professor (II) in the School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. She received her Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India in 2017, M.Tech degree from KIIT University, India in 2009 and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from affiliated BPUT, Rourkela, India, in 2006. She worked in various institutes and has 11 years of teaching experience. She served for various administrative positions like HoD, EE, FIC of library, disciplinary committee, anti-ragging committee etc. during the stay in SIT, Sambalpur, India. Her research areas are power quality, renewable energy integration, active power filter, fuzzy controller, etc. She has various published papers in reputed journals and has been a presenter at various FDPs and conferences, etc. Currently, 2 Ph.D. scholars are working under her guidance. She has been continuing giving service as a reviewer to reputed journals of IEEE, IET, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, etc. She is Senior Member of IEEE and presently holding the position of IEEE officials as Treasurer of IEEE PELS and IEEE CTSoc joint chapters IEEE Bhubaneswar Sub-sec IEEE Kolkata section. She is also the co-organizer of IEEE CTSoc joint chapter, IEEE Bhubaneswar sub-section and IEEE section. She organized successfully two international conferences SPRINGER ETAEERE 2020 KIIT DU and IEEE ICPEE 2021 and also acted as Technical Program Chair for both the conference. She is also Editor of the Springer LNEE Series book consisting of select proceedings of ETAEERE 2020.