Innovations in Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Proceedings of ICEEE 2024, Volume 1

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Akhtar Kalam has been associated with Victoria University (VU) since 1985. He is a former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health Engineering and Science and Head of Engineering of the College of Engineering and Science. Currently he is the Head of External Engagement. He is also the current Chair of the Academic Board in the Engineering Institute of Technology Perth Australia and the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Further he has a Distinguished Professorship position at the University of New South Wales Sydney Australia three Indian and five Malaysian universities. He has also been appointed as the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University India respectively. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma USA and the University of Bath UK respectively. His major interest areas are power system analysis communication control protection renewable energy smart grid IEC61850 implementation and co-generation systems. Prof. Kalam has conducted research provided industrial consultancy and published more than 542 publications in his area of expertise. He has written 26-plus books in these areas. More than 35 Ph.D. students have graduated under his supervision and he is an external examiner of many external doctoral students in Australia and overseas. Saad Mekhilef is an IEEE and IET fellow. He is a distinguished professor at the School of Science Computing and Engineering Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne Australia an honorary professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering University of Malaya and a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute of Sustainable Energy Universiti Tenaga Nasional Malaysia. He authored and co-authored more than 700 publications in academic journals and proceedings five books with more than 55000 citations and more than 85 Ph.D. students who graduated under his supervision. He serves as an editorial board member for many top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics IET Renewable Power Generation E-Prime Journal of Power Electronics and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. His research interests include Power Conversion Techniques Control of Power Converters Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. Sheldon S. Williamson received the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL USA in 2006. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Computer and Software Engineering and the Director of the Smart Transportation Electrification and Energy Research (STEER) Group within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa Ontario Canada. His current research interests include advanced power electronics electric energy storage systems and motor drives for transportation electrification and autonomous e-mobility. Prof. Williamson is also an NSERC Canada Research Chair (CRC) in electric energy storage systems for transportation electrification and is a Fellow of the IEEE.