Prof. Koushik Maharatna received his B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Electronic Science from Calcutta University, Calcutta, India in 1993 and 1995 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, in 2002. At present he is a Chair in Signal Processing Systems Design in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, UK and is part of the Biomedical Electronics research group. He has served as Technical Programmes Committee member in a number of prestigious IEEE Conferences and is a member of IEEE VLSI Systems Application Technical Committee. Prof. Maharatna has over 110 scientific publications in high-impact conferences and journals to his credit.Dr. Maitreyi Ray Kanjilal is Principal at Narula Institute of Technology. She has also worked in Techno India College of Technology and Asansol Engineering College. She completed her Ph.D. in Electronic sciences. Her areas of interests include Wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, nanoscale devices, heterostructures and heterojunction semiconductor devices, microelectronics fabrication, low power devices and VLSI circuits, and spintronics. She has published many papers in international journals and conferences. She has also filed a  patent in 2016 titled ‘A system for generation of electricity and method there off’. Dr. Sumit Nandi received his B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in Chemical Technology, Oil Technology and Processing of refinery by-products respectively. He has also completed his M.B.A. from Sikkim Manipal University in Finance and Marketing. Currently he is Head and Associate Professor in Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Narula Institute of Technology. His areas of research interests include preparation of biodiesel from natural resources, mathematical modelling on enzyme kinetics, enzyme-catalyzed production of different value-added products. He has published more than50 papers in international journals and conferences in these areas.He has also filed two patents—‘A process for preparing biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas oil’ and ‘Interpenetrating polymer network structure and preparation method thereof’. He has published one book ‘Engineering Chemistry Simplified’ with Chhaya Prakashani Private Limited. Dr. Sukumar Chandra Konar is Ex-Professor & Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology. Presently, he is Professor and Dean of Electrical Engineering Department of Narula Institute of Technology. He has +35 years of teaching and research experience. He has published around 30 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Konar has also published a book titled ‘Robust Stability and Performance of Analysis of Power Systems’ with Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. He also acts as a reviewer of many journals and conferences—Institution of Engineers (India) Journal; Taylor and Francis Journal & AMSE (France) Journal; Electric Power Components and Systems; International Journal of Sustainable Energy.Dr. Kunal Das received his B.Sc.(H) in Electronics Science, B.Tech. (Information Technology) and M.Tech. (Information Technology) degrees from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kalyani. He is working as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, and was the former assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He has authored several international journal papers and several conference papers, and many SCI journals like Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, Springer JETTA, IEEE Transactions, and worked as editor in many international books. He is the recipient of Early Career Research Award Grant from SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB), DST, Govt. of India as Principal Investigator.

• Part 1: Modeling of Energy Systems.- Chapter 1. Congested Power Transmission System in a Deregulated Power Market.- Chapter 2. Integration of DSTATCOM and Distributed generation with non linear loads.- Chapter 3. Comparison of improvement in technical, commercial & environmental benefits by optimal single, twin & triple point deterministic PV based DG injection by Jaya Algorithm.- Chapter 4. Optimal reactive power dispatch incorporating solar power using JAYA algorithm.- Chapter 5. Bat Algorithm based Transmission Expansion Planning.- Chapter 6. Emergency Restoration based on Priority of Load Importance using Floyd-Warshall Shortest Path Algorithm.- Chapter 7. Fault Detection During Power Swing Using Fast Discrete S-transform.- Chapter 8. Detection and Classification of Faults on the Transmission Line Using Lissajous Figure.- Chapter 9. Performance Analysis of a Distribution System Using D STATCOM.- Chapter 10. Design and Fabrication of Solar Powered Water Pumping System forIrrigation.- Chapter 11. Modelling and Design of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm Applicable to DC-DC Boost Converter.- Chapter 12. Power Grid Generation with Tectonic mechanism Wind Energy Resources.- Part 2: Cloud Computing, Internet on Things, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics.- Chapter 13. Mining Social Network Data for Predictive Personality modelling by employing Machine Learning Techniques.- Chapter 14. An ensemble learning-based language identification system.- Chapter 15. Kinect Sensor Based Single Person Hand Gesture Recognition for Man- Machine- Interaction.

Prof. Koushik Maharatna received his B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Electronic Science from Calcutta University, Calcutta, India in 1993 and 1995 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, in 2002. At present he is a Chair in Signal Processing Systems Design in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, UK and is part of the Biomedical Electronics research group. He has served as Technical Programmes Committee member in a number of prestigious IEEE Conferences and is a member of IEEE VLSI Systems Application Technical Committee. Prof. Maharatna has over 110 scientific publications in high-impact conferences and journals to his credit.Dr. Maitreyi Ray Kanjilal is Principal at Narula Institute of Technology. She has also worked in Techno India College of Technology and Asansol Engineering College. She completed her Ph.D. in Electronic sciences. Her areas of interests include Wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, nanoscale devices, heterostructures and heterojunction semiconductor devices, microelectronics fabrication, low power devices and VLSI circuits, and spintronics. She has published many papers in international journals and conferences. She has also filed a  patent in 2016 titled ‘A system for generation of electricity and method there off’. Dr. Sumit Nandi received his B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in Chemical Technology, Oil Technology and Processing of refinery by-products respectively. He has also completed his M.B.A. from Sikkim Manipal University in Finance and Marketing. Currently he is Head and Associate Professor in Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Narula Institute of Technology. His areas of research interests include preparation of biodiesel from natural resources, mathematical modelling on enzyme kinetics, enzyme-catalyzed production of different value-added products. He has published more than50 papers in international journals and conferences in these areas.He has also filed two patents—‘A process for preparing biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas oil’ and ‘Interpenetrating polymer network structure and preparation method thereof’. He has published one book ‘Engineering Chemistry Simplified’ with Chhaya Prakashani Private Limited. Dr. Sukumar Chandra Konar is Ex-Professor & Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology. Presently, he is Professor and Dean of Electrical Engineering Department of Narula Institute of Technology. He has +35 years of teaching and research experience. He has published around 30 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Konar has also published a book titled ‘Robust Stability and Performance of Analysis of Power Systems’ with Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. He also acts as a reviewer of many journals and conferences—Institution of Engineers (India) Journal; Taylor and Francis Journal & AMSE (France) Journal; Electric Power Components and Systems; International Journal of Sustainable Energy.Dr. Kunal Das received his B.Sc.(H) in Electronics Science, B.Tech. (Information Technology) and M.Tech. (Information Technology) degrees from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kalyani. He is working as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, and was the former assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He has authored several international journal papers and several conference papers, and many SCI journals like Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, Springer JETTA, IEEE Transactions, and worked as editor in many international books. He is the recipient of Early Career Research Award Grant from SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB), DST, Govt. of India as Principal Investigator.

• Part 1: Modeling of Energy Systems.- Chapter 1. Congested Power Transmission System in a Deregulated Power Market.- Chapter 2. Integration of DSTATCOM and Distributed generation with non linear loads.- Chapter 3. Comparison of improvement in technical, commercial & environmental benefits by optimal single, twin & triple point deterministic PV based DG injection by Jaya Algorithm.- Chapter 4. Optimal reactive power dispatch incorporating solar power using JAYA algorithm.- Chapter 5. Bat Algorithm based Transmission Expansion Planning.- Chapter 6. Emergency Restoration based on Priority of Load Importance using Floyd-Warshall Shortest Path Algorithm.- Chapter 7. Fault Detection During Power Swing Using Fast Discrete S-transform.- Chapter 8. Detection and Classification of Faults on the Transmission Line Using Lissajous Figure.- Chapter 9. Performance Analysis of a Distribution System Using D STATCOM.- Chapter 10. Design and Fabrication of Solar Powered Water Pumping System forIrrigation.- Chapter 11. Modelling and Design of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm Applicable to DC-DC Boost Converter.- Chapter 12. Power Grid Generation with Tectonic mechanism Wind Energy Resources.- Part 2: Cloud Computing, Internet on Things, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics.- Chapter 13. Mining Social Network Data for Predictive Personality modelling by employing Machine Learning Techniques.- Chapter 14. An ensemble learning-based language identification system.- Chapter 15. Kinect Sensor Based Single Person Hand Gesture Recognition for Man- Machine- Interaction.