Vijay K. Sood obtained his Ph.D. in power electronics from the University of Bradford, England in 1977. From 1969-76, he was employed at the Railway Technical Centre, Derby, U.K. From 1976-2007, he was a senior researcher at IREQ (Hydro-Québec) in Montreal, Quebec. In 2007, he joined Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario where he is now the department chair. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and emeritus fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). His research interests are in the monitoring, control, and protection of power systems. Dr. Sood has published over 200 articles, 10 book chapters and written two books on HVDC transmission and edited various other books. Monalisa Biswal received her M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology Burla and Sambalpur University, Odisha, India, in 2008 and 2013. She is an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Dr. Biswal is a recipient of the POSOCO Power System Award (2014), DST-SERB Young Scientist Award (2015), and Chhattisgarh Young Scientist Award (2017). She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A., and has published over 90 journal articles, presented papers at conferences, and published several chapters in books. She has one published book and she is the principal investigator of three projects funded by SERB, New Delhi, India, and EriGrid. She has conducted many national level courses, supplied many invited talks and chaired in conferences. Her area of research includes microgrid protection, smart grid, and protection of power network. Saumendra Sarangi received his M.Tech degree in power control and drives from NIT Rourkela, India in 2009, and completed his Ph.D. in power system protection at the Indian Institute Technology, Kharagpur, India. He worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Uttarakhand in 2019. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering MNNIT, Allahabad. His thesis was selected for the POSOCO power system award in the year 2017. His research interests include wide area monitoring of power systems using phasor measurement units, adaptive relaying using synchrophasor data, design of protection scheme for micro grid with penetration of renewables, condition assessment of electrical equipment, and reducing the losses of the system using Smart Grid Technology. He has over 30 publications in international and national journals and conferences. He was selected twice for the mentoring teachers’ scheme by INAE Fellow. He has conducted and contributed to several national and international workshops as committee member of several conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A. HHassan Haes Alhelou is with Monash Universiy, Australia. He is included in the 2018 Publons list of the top 1% best reviewer and researchers in the field of engineering. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from Energy Conversion and Management Journal in 2016, ISA Transactions Journal in 2018, Applied Energy Journal in 2019, and many other Awards. He was the recipient of the best young researcher in the Arab Student Forum Creative among 61 researchers from 16 countries at Alexandria University, Egypt, 2011. He has published more than 200 research papers in high-quality peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He has also performed more than 160 reviews for prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Energy, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. He has participated in more than 15 industrial projects. His major research interests are power systems, power system dynamics, power system operation and control, dynamic state estimation, frequency control, smart grids, micro-grids, demand response, load shedding, and power system protection.
