IoT and Analytics in Renewable Energy Systems (Volume 1): Sustainable Smart Grids & Renewable Energy Systems

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O.V. Gnana Swathika (Member 11Senior Member 20 IEEE) earned a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Madras University Chennai Tamil Nadu India in 2000; an MS in Electrical Engineering at Wayne State University Detroit MI USA in 2004; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at VIT University Chennai Tamil Nadu India in 2017. She completed her postdoc at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka in 2019. Her current research interests include microgrid protection power system optimization embedded systems and photovoltaic systems.K. Karthikeyan is an electrical and electronics engineering graduate with a masters in personnel management from the University of Madras. With two decades of rich experience in electrical design he has immensely contributed toward the building services sector comprising airports Information Technology Office Space (ITOS) tall statues railway stations/depots hospitals educational institutional buildings residential buildings hotels steel plants and automobile plants in India and abroad (Sri Lanka Dubai and the UK). Currently he is Chief Engineering Manager Electrical Designs for Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Construction an Indian multinational Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contracting company. Also he has worked at Voltas ABB and Apex Knowledge Technology Private Limited. His primary role involved the preparation and review of complete electrical system designs up to 110 kV. Detailed engineering stage covering by various electrical design calculations design basis reports suitable for construction drawings and Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) design coordination. He is the point of contact for both client and internal project team lead and manage a team of design and divisional personnel day-to-day interaction with clients peer review managing project deadlines Project time estimation assisting in staff appraisals training and recruiting.Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member12Senior Member15 IEEE) received a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna Bologna Italy 2012. He was an Associate Professor at VIT University from 2012 to 2013. In 2013 he joined the National Institute of Technology India as a Faculty Member. In 2014 he was invited as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering Qatar University Doha Qatar funded by the Qatar National Research Foundation (Government of Qatar). He continued his research activities with the Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin Ireland in 2014.Further he served as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Johannesburg Johannesburg South Africa from 2016 to 2018. From March 2018 to February 2021 he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Energy Technology Aalborg University Esbjerg Denmark. He continued his activities from March 2021 as an Associate Professor with the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) Laboratory Department of Business Development and Technology Aarhus University Herning Denmark. Presently he is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering Information Technology and Cybernetics University of South-Eastern Norway Norway.S. Padmanaban has authored over 750+ scientific papers and received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON13 IET-CEAT16 IEEE-EECSI19 IEEE-CENCON19 and five best paper awards from ETAEERE16 sponsored Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Springer book. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers India the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers India and the Institution of Engineering and Technology U.K. He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Whos Who - USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research. He is listed among the worlds top 2 scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University USA. He is an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board for refereed journals in particular the IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications IEEE ACCESS IET Power Electronics IET Electronics Letters and Wiley-International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems Subject Editorial Board MemberEnergy SourcesEnergies Journal MDPI and the Subject Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation IET Generation Transmission and Distribution and FACETS Journal (Canada).