Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives: Select Proceedings of EPREC 2024, Volume 2

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Om Hari Gupta received B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from UP Technical University Lucknow Uttar Pradesh India in 2007 and the M.Tech. degree in power electronics & ASIC design from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh India in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee Uttarakhand India in 2017. He is an awardee of the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship for research visiting Canada and from March 2017 to June 2017 he was a visiting Researcher at the Ontario Tech University Canada. Since 2018 Dr. Gupta is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur Jharkhand India. He is one of the founding organizing secretaries of the conference series Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference - EPREC. Dr. Gupta is the author of four books and has more than 70 publications including 26 journal papers. He is a senior member of IEEE and a reviewer of many reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery IET Generation and Transmission Electric Power Systems Research Electric Power Components and Systems and International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. His research interests include power system protection microgrid renewable-based distributed generation and electric power quality.Simanta Kumar Samal received B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology Rourkela Odisha India in 2010 and the M.Tech. degree in Industrial electronics from National Institute of Technology Rourkela Odisha India in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi Uttar Pradesh India in 2022. Currently Dr. Samal is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur Jharkhand India. Prior to joining NIT Jamshedpur Dr. Samal was working as a Research Associate in an Industry R&D oriented project from March 2022 September 2022 at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He is a member of IEEE and a reviewer of many reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). His research interests include Modeling and Control of Hybrid converters for Renewable energy Applications Developing Grid-tide Inverters for solar PV grid integration Power Electronics Converters for Electric Vehicles and BMS (Battery management System) based Energy storage applications.Ranjit Mahanty (IEEE Member) received the B.Sc. (Engg.) degree in electrical engineering and M.Tech. degree in power systems from the National Institute of Technology (previously Regional Institute of Technology) Jamshedpur India in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He obtained the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India in 2005. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). He has been the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT (BHU) Varanasi from 2015 to 2018. Prof. Mahanty has published more than 30 International journals and more than 65 Conference papers in his domain. Also he has guided lots of Ph.D. dissertations and so many M.E./M.Tech theses. He has completed more than 25 consultancy projects till now. Prof. Mahanty is serving as reviewer in journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IET Power Electronics and many more International Journals. He is also serving as a reviewer in many International andnational conferences. His research interests include power quality improvement multilevel inverters renewable power conversion for microgrid applications and dcdc converters.Bhim Singh (Fellow IEEE) was born in Rahamapur Bijnor (UP) India in 1956. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) Roorkee India in 1977 the M.Tech. degree in power apparatus and systems and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the IIT Delhi India in 1979 and 1983 respectively.In 1983 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering University of Roorkee as a Lecturer. He became a Reader there in 1988. In December 1990 he had joined the Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Delhi India as an Assistant Professor where he became an Associate Professor in 1994 and a Professor in 1997. He has been the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from July 2014 to August 2016. He hasbeen the Dean Academics at IIT Delhi from August 2016 to August 2019. He is JC Bose Fellow of DST Government of India since December 2015. He is CEA Chair Professor since January 2019. Prof. Singh has guided 84 Ph.D. dissertations and 168 M.E./M.Tech./M.S.(R) theses. He has filed 58 patents. He has executed more than 80 sponsored and consultancy projects. His areas of interest include solar PV grid interface systems microgrids power quality monitoring and mitigation solar PV water pumping systems improved power quality acdc converters.Ilhami Colak (Senior Member IEEE) was born in 1962 in Turkey. He received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from Gazi University Ankara Turkey in 1985 the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in the field of speed control of wound rotor induction machines using semiconductor devices from Gazi University in 1991 the M.Phil. degree from Birmingham University Birmingham U.K. in 1991 by preparing a thesis onhigh-frequency resonant dc-link inverters and the Ph.D. degree from Aston University Birmingham U.K. in 1994 with a focus on mixed-frequency testing of induction machines using inverters.He became an Assistant Professor an Associate Professor and a Full Professor in 1995 1999 and 2005 respectively. He was the Head of Department Dean and Vice Rector of Gazi University Istanbul Gelisim University and Nisantasi University Istanbul Turkey. He is currently a Full Professor with Nisantasi University. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 journal papers 235 conference papers and 7 books in different subjects including electrical machines drive systems machine learning reactive power compensation inverter converter artificial neural networks distance learning automation and alternating energy sources. More than 207 of his papers have been cited in Science Citation Index. His papers have received more than 2161 citations by 1900 papers. His Thomson Reuters H-index is 24 and average citation per paper is 10.72. In SCOPUS H-index is 30. His 264 papers have received 3439 citations from 2955 documents. He supervised 23 M.Sc. students and 14 Ph.D. students. He also spent around three years at the European Commission Research Centre in The Netherlands. He achieved a great success of 10% by being included in the list of 2% World's Most Influential Scientists which was created by USA Stanford University considering the Works of the Year 2020. He has organized more than 100 international IEEE supported workshops special sessions and conferences. In the last 20 years he has concentrated his studies on renewable energy and smart grids by publishing papers journals (www.ijrer.org; www.ijSmartGrid.org) and organizing international IEEE sponsored conferences (www.icrera.org; icSmartGrid.org).Dr. Colak is a member of IES IAS PELS and PES.