Dr. Adhir Baran Chattopadhyay completed his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1999. He has worked as an Assistant Engineer (Quality Control) in M/S Crompton Greaves Limited, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India, from 1980 to 1985; as a faculty-member(Associate Professor) in National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India (from 1985 to 2006), and as a Professor(EEE Department) ,BITS Pilani, Dubai, UAE (from 2006 to 2020). Heis presently working as a Professor (Electrical Engineering Department)Budge Budge Institute of Technology,(B.B.I.T) Kolkata-700137, since March,2021. His research interests include electrical machines and drives, control systems, power electronics, power systems, electromagnetic fields and waves and applied mathematics. He has published more than 45 research papers in reputed international journals. He serves as a reviewer in many popular journals. He has been awarded (jointly)“CogentEngineering Best Paper 2020” award, by Cogent Engineering Journal, Publisher---Taylor and Francis, U.K---Award declared on 7th May,2021. He has published ,as a first author, the book ,"Advanced Electrical and Power System Design"in July,2021 (Publisher: New Age International Publishers , New Delhi, London). SHAZIA HASAN has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in reputed institutes in India and currently working as an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, India, in the year 2012. She won the ‘Young Scientist Award’ from VIFRA in 2015. She has published more than 35 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals/conferences. She has served as a reviewer for various reputed Journals like as IEEE, Elsevier, Springer and IET. She is a Senior Member of IEEE. She has served as convenor/co-convenor for several international conferences. She is the recipient of “Academic achievement for university professor award” Leadership Excellence for Women Awards (LEWAS) 2020. Her research interest includes Digital Signal Processing, signal processing application to Power systems, renewable energy integration, and statistical filter design.Dr. Snehaunshu Chowdhury received his B.E. degree in 2001 from Regional Engineering College (currently National Institute of Technology), Trichy, India; M.S.M.E. degree from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana, U.S.A. in 2004; M.E. degree from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A. in 2005; and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland College Park, U.S.A. in 2012, all in Mechanical Engineering. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the “Clean Combustion Research Center” at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia from 2013-2016. Currently, Dr. Chowdhury is working as an Assistant Professor in the department of BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE since 2017 after a short stint at B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, India. Dr. Chowdhury’s research interests include nanoparticle characterization and combustion, soot particle and flame speed measurements and computational fluid dynamics. He has authored many papers and serves as a reviewer of internationally reputed journals.
