Supervised Machine Learning in Wind Forecasting and Ramp Event Prediction

Harsh S. Dhiman is a research scholar in Department of Electrical Engineering from Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, India. He obtained his Master’s degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India in 2016 and B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India in 2014. His current research interests include Hybrid operation of wind farms, Hybrid wind forecasting techniques and Wake management in wind farms.

Dipankar Deb completed his Ph.D. from University of Virginia, Charlottesville under the supervision of Prof.Gang Tao, IEEE Fellow and Professor in the department of ECE in 2007. In 2017, he was elected to be a IEEE Senior Member. He has served as a Lead Engineer at GE Global Research Bengaluru (2012-15) and as an Assistant Professor in EE, IIT Guwahati 2010-12. Presently, he is a Professor in Electrical Engineering at Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad. His research interests include Control theory, Stability analysis and Renewable energy systems.

Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses.