Intelligent Data Analytics for Power and Energy Systems

About

Dr. Hasmat Malik (Senior Member IEEE) received M.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh India and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has served as an assistant professor for more than five years at the Division of Instrumentation and Control Engineering Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) Dwarka Delhi India. He is currently a chartered engineer (CEng) and a professional engineer (PEng). He is also a research fellow with Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) a research centre of the University of California Berkeley University Town National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore since January 2019. He has published widely in international journals and conferences his research findings related to intelligent data analytics artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in power system power apparatus smart building and automation smart grid forecasting prediction and renewable energy sources. Dr. Hasmat has authored/co-authored more than 100 research papers and eight books and thirteen chapters in nine other books published by IEEE Springer and Elsevier. He has supervised 23 PG students. His principal area of research interests is artificial intelligence machine learning and big data analytics for renewable energy smart building and automation condition monitoring and online fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). Dr. Malik is also a member of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) EIG the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) UK and Mir Labs Asia a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) the Institution of Engineers (IEI) India and the International Society for Research and Development (ISRD) London and a fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE). He received the POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA-2017) for his Ph.D. work for research and innovation in the area of power systems. He also received the Best Research Papers Awards from IEEE INDICON-2015 and the Full Registration Fee Award from IEEE SSD-2012 Germany. Dr. Md. Waseem Ahmad (Member IEEE) received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering from Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh India in 2008 and 2011 respectively and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur India in 2018. He worked as a research fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore and a graduate trainee engineer with Siemens Ltd. India. He is currently an assistant professor with the National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal India. His research interests include fault diagnostics and condition monitoring of power electronic converters. Prof. (Dr.) D. P. Kothari obtained his BE (Electrical) in 1967 ME (Power Systems) in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1975 from BITS Pilani Rajasthan. From 1969 to 1977 he was involved in teaching and development of several courses at BITS Pilani. Earlier Dr. Kothari served as vice chancellor VIT Vellore director in-charge and deputy director (Administration) as well as head in the Centre of Energy Studies at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and as a principal VRCE Nagpur. He was a visiting professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne Australia during 1982-83 and 1989 for two years. He was also NSF Fellow at Perdue University USA in 1992. He also taught at Melbourne University Australia for one semester in 1989. Dr. Kothari who is a recipient of the most Active Researcher Award has published and presented 830 research papers in various national as well as international journals conferences guided 56 Ph.D scholars and 68 M. Tech students and authored 67 books in various allied areas. He has delivered several keynote addresses 100 plus Webinars and invited lectures at both national and international conferences. He has also delivered 42 video lectures on YouTube with maximum of 60000 hits!Dr. Kothari is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) fellow of Indian National Academy of Science (FNASc) fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE) fellow IEEE honourable fellow ISTE and fellow IETE. Having received 76 awards till now his many awards include the National Khosla Award for Lifetime Achievements in Engineering (2005) from IIT Roorkee. The University Grants Commission (UGC) Government of India has bestowed the UGC National Swami Pranavandana Saraswati Award (2005) in the field of education for his outstanding scholarly contributions. He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) conferred by the World Management Congress New Delhi for his contribution to the areas of educational planning and administration. Recently he received Excellent Academic Award at IIT Guwahati by NPSC-2014. He has received 6 Life Time Achievement awards by various agencies on 19th February 4th March 11th March 18th March 20TH March and 25th March 2016 respectively. On 20th April 2016 he received ''Living Legend'' Award in Chennai Conference. Recently he received Malviya Award for Excellence in Power System at IIT Gandhinagar on 17th Dec 2020. Dr Kothari is also distinguished Emeritus professor and adjunct professor at several institutes such as Charutar university Gujrat and Wainganga college of engineering Nagpur. Currently Dr. Kothari is with S.B Jain Institute of Management Research and Technology Nagpur serving as a director research and professor. He is also a chairman board of governors of THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology Tehri and a visiting professor at Wainganga college of engineering Nagpur.