Electric Power Systems Resiliency

Ramesh C. Bansal is a Professor at University of Sharjah and Extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria. He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience, and previously worked at University of Pretoria, University of Queensland, University of South Pacific, and BITS, Pilani. He has published over 400 journal/conf. papers, books/book chapters, and is he AE/Editor of many reputed journals. He has Google citations of over 16000 and h-index of 60. He has supervised 25 PhD, 5 Post Docs. He is a Fellow of IET-UK, IE (India), SAIEE (South Africa). Manohar Mishra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering, MTech in Power Electronics and Drives, and BTech in Electrical Engineering in 2017, 2012, and 2008, respectively. He has published more than 50 research papers in various peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He has edited three research books, and has served as a reviewer for journal publishers such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Springer, Elsevier, and Inderscience. At present, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the field of electrical engineering. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and is currently guiding four PhD scholars. His areas of interest include power system analysis, power system protection, signal processing, power quality, distribution generation systems, and micro-grids. He has served as Convener and Volume Editor of the International Conference on Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication and Computing Technology (IEPCCT-2019, IEPCCT-2021) and the International Conference on Green Technology for Smart City and Society (GTSCS-2020). Currently, he is serving as Guest Editor for different journals such as International Journal of Power Electronics (Inderscience), International Journal of Innovative Computing and Application (Inderscience), and Neural Computing and Application (Springer). Prof. Yog Raj Sood is currently working as Vice-Chancellor, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. He has authored and co-authored several national and international publications and also working as a reviewer for reputed professional journals. He is having an active association with different societies and academies around the world. He has received several awards for the contributions to the scientific community. He has successfully completed three MHRD research projects and one mega projects under TIFAC- CORE of Rs. 53 million. Ten research scholars have already completed Ph.D. under his guidance. He is a Senior member of IEEE, life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), and member of many other technical societies. His major research interests involve Deregulated Power Sector, Congestion Management, and Microgrid

• 1. Overview and Architecture of resilient energy systems2. Resilient smart-grid system: Issue and Challenges3. Adaptive and flexible power generation for resilience4. Enhancing relay resiliency in an electric power transmission system5. Protection from physical and cyber-attacks to improve the resiliency6. Enhancing relay resiliency in an electric power distribution network with renewable power generating resources7. Microgrid as an Resilient source8. Big data, Cloud computing and Internet of thing (IoT) to improve the resiliency9. Data integration and analytics for resilience improvement10. Cost/benefit analysis for resiliency