Prof. N. P. Padhy, Chairperson (I/C), Board of Governors MNIT Jaipur, Director, MNIT Jaipur and Director, IIIT Kota, Chair Professor IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF), is a Professor (HAG) of Electrical Engineering and has served as Dean of Academic Affairs, IIT Roorkee, Founder Head Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Professor In-Charge Training and Placement, NEEPCO, and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Roorkee.
He received his graduation degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990, Masters (Power Systems Engineering) with Distinction in 1993, and Ph.D. (College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai) in 1997. He worked as an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, India, for a year, after which he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, as a Lecturer in 1998. He was promoted to the position of full Professor in 2008.
Prof. Padhy researches in the area of Power Systems Engineering and Smart Grid. He has successfully supervised 23 research scholars and is currently guiding 21 research scholars. He has authored over 220 papers and articles in international journals, with an overall citation of 9500 plus (h-index=50, i-index 143). He has also authored six textbooks and three successfully granted patents. His popular NPTEL online course on "Introduction to Smart Grid" has over 50,000 views. His new NPTEL course on "Smart Grid: Basics to Advanced Technologies", focuses on the practical research challenges of smart grid and provides laboratory demonstration. Two of his new NPTEL courses on "Power System Operation and Control" and "NPTEL course on Electrical Distribution System Analysis" start from July 2024.
He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (FNAE), The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK (FIET), Institution of Engineers, India (FIE), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India (FIETE), Chair Sectional Committee – V (Electrical Engineering) – INAE -India. As Senior Member of IEEE and Power and Energy Society, IEEE USA, he has actively contributed to various IEEE professional activities as Chair, PES Network Charging Working Group and Chair, IEEE Roorkee Subsection, Chair, IEEE UP Section, Member, IEEE PES Intelligent Systems Subcommittee. He also served as Vice-Chair, CIGRE National Study Committee on C4: Power System Technical Performance. He is actively involved in the Mission Innovation (MI) 2.0 - Green Powered Future Mission, engaging with about two dozen countries on the international platform.
Prof. Padhy has served as a Visiting Professor/Fellow at Canadian and UK universities. His research engagements supported institutional tie-ups with eminent US universities (MIT, Texas A&M, and WSU), UK universities (Bath, Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Durham), DTU Denmark, and industry partners like TERI, BSES Delhi, Tata Power and ABB. He successfully established the AC-DC Hybrid Microgrid (ADMIRE) Lab at IIT Roorkee and dreams of deploying India's first Smart Academic Campus (SAC). He has successfully executed 13 international/national research projects and is currently leading 6 international research projects, with a funding of over INR 200 million. He serves as a knowledge partner/consultant to various Smart City projects of the central government and state governments.
Prof. Padhy has been conferred various national and international awards and honours. These include Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2009), Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award (2021), IEEE IAS GlobConHT 2023 Global Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE Smart City Jury Award 2022, IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Power & Energy Society, USA (2018), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee felicitation for bringing laurels to the Institute in 2017, and BOYSCAST Research Fellow Award for Young Scientist elected from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2005). His services to the Smart City and Smart Grid Technology development have been recognised by several honorary awards. He has successfully supervised six PhD thesis for being awarded the Grid India Power System Awards (GIPSA), formerly known as POSOCO award.

Prof. Singh has received his B.E. (Electrical) from the University of Roorkee, India, in 1977 and his M. Tech. (Power Apparatus & Systems) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in 1979 and 1983, respectively.
In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Roorkee (Now IIT Roorkee), as a Lecturer. He became a Reader there in 1988. In December 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India, as an Assistant Professor, where he has become an Associate Professor in 1994 and a Professor in 1997. Prof. Singh has been ABB Chair Professor from September 2007 to August 2012. Prof. Singh has been CEA Chair Professor from September 2012 to August 2017. He has been Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from July 2014 to August 2016. Prof. Singh has been Dean, Academics at IIT Delhi from August 2016 to August 2019. He has been JC Bose Fellow of DST, Government of India from December 2015 to June 2021. He has been CEA Chair Professor from January 2019 to June 2021. He is currently serving as a SERB National Science Chair and an Emeritus Professor at IIT Delhi since July 2021.
Professor Singh has guided 129 Ph.D. Dissertations, and 183 M.E./M.Tech./ M.S.(R) theses. He has filed 108 Patents. He has executed more than ninety sponsored and consultancy projects. He has co-authored a Text-Book on Power Quality: Power Quality Problems and Mitigation Techniques published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2015.
His areas of interest include solar photovoltaic power generation, wind energy generation, solar water pumping, renewable energy-based charging stations, microgrids, energy efficient appliances, power quality, improved power quality converters, multi-pulse converters, electric vehicles, power electronics, electric machines, electric drives, computer aided design of electrical machines, flexible alternating transmission systems, and high voltage direct current systems.
Prof. Singh is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), The Indian National Science Academy (FNA), The National Academy of Science, India (FNASc), The Indian Academy of Sciences, India (FASc), The World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Institution of Engineers (India) (FIE), and Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE) and a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), System Society of India (SSI), and National Institution of Quality and Reliability (NIQR).
Prof. Singh is the recipient of prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar- Vigyan Shri by the President of India for the year 2024. He is also a recipient of the lIT Roorkee’s Distinguished Alumnus Award for the year 2023 and the Goyal Prize in the field of Applied Sciences, Kurukshetra University for the year 2021-2022. He is also a recipient of the International Kalpana Chawla Solar Award 2020, hosted by International Solar Alliance for his outstanding contributions in the fields of solar energy particularly for working towards developing solutions in the Solar Energy Sector to help create a sustainable and low-carbon world for generations to come. He is also recipient of INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2020, IEEE IAS Outstanding Educator/Mentor Award 2020, Eminent Engineer Award-2020 from The Institution of Engineers (India), Delhi State Centre, Academic Excellence Award – National Power System Conference 2018, Inaugural IIT Delhi Faculty Life Time Achievement Award-2018, “Faculty Research Award as a Most Outstanding Researcher” in the field of Engineering-2018, IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award-2017, USA, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award-2014 in field of Engineering including Energy & Aerospace, Khosla National Research Award of IIT Roorkee in the year 2013, PES Delhi Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award for the year 2006 and 18th Bimal K Bose Award of IETE in the field of Power Electronics in year 2001.
Professor Singh has been General Chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2006), General Co-Chair of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2010), 2015 IEEE International Conferences IEEE-INDICON-2015, IEEE-ICPS-2016, IEEE-ICPECA-2019, Honorary Chair of IEEE International Conferences: IEEE-SeFeT-2021, IEEE-SeFeT-2022, IEEE-IAS-GlobConHT-2023 and Patron of IEEE International Conferences: IEEE-IICPE-2018, IEEE- PIICON-2018, IEEE-PIICON-2020, IEEE-PIICON-2022, IEEE-IAS-GlobConPT-2022.
Prof. Singh has been Chair, PES-IAS Delhi Chapter for 2005-2010, (PES-IAS Delhi Chapter won Outstanding Chapter Award-2005 Large and High-Performance Chapter Award Every Year). Prof. Singh has been Chair, PELS-IES Delhi Chapter 2007-2010 and Founder Chair, PELS-IES Delhi Chapter. He has been Chair of IEEE Delhi Section for 2012-2014. Professor Singh has been Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of IEEE PES in Distinguish Lecturer Program w.e.f. 2005 for a decade.
Professor Singh has been Chairman, BOG (Board of Governors), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, from 3rd July 2018 for 3 Years. Professor Singh has been Non- official Independent Director, NTPC Limited, from 17th July 2018 for 3 Years. Professor Singh has been Chairman, All India GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)-2006 and Organizing Chairman, All India JAM-2006 (Joint Admission Test to M. Sc. in IIT System)-2006.
Professor Singh has been Chairman of Indian Delegation on Smart Grid for Indo-UK workshop in UK in June 2012 for framing the policy of this joint research program. Professor Singh is an Expert Member of PAC of SERB-DST India for awarding research projects since 2012 and steering committee member of second and third phases of National Power Electronics Mission of MEITY (NAMPET).
Professor Singh has chaired more than hundred sessions in International and National Conferences and delivered more than three hundred invited lectures, seminars, talks and keynote addresses including several memorial lectures.
Professor Singh is a Faculty Mentor of Following Successful Start-Ups: M/S Quanteon Private-Limited, M/S HyperX Energy Private-Limited, M/S Intellicon Technologies Private-Limited, M/S Tadpole Projects Private-Limited, M/S Tsuyo Manufacturing Private-Limited.

Prof. Sukumar Mishra is Director, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad with effect from 15th May 2024. An acclaimed researcher and effective administrator, Prof Mishra has carved a niche for himself in the field of Electrical Engineering. Before joining as Director, IIT Dhanbad, Prof. Mishra was associated working as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology.
As part of his administrative role he has served as Dean, Research and External Engagement, IIT Delhi- Abu Dhabi Campus and also as Associate Dean (R&D). He has also been working closely with Delhi section of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as Executive Committee member. His research expertise lies in fields of Power System, Power Quality Studies, Renewable Energy and Smart Grid. With a rich industrial experience, Prof Mishra has won many accolades such as Young Scientist Award (1999) by Orissa Bigyan Academy, INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2002), INAE Young Engineer Award (2002), INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award (2012), The Samanta Chandra Shekhar Award (2016), Bimal Bose Award (2019) and NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award (2019), National Mission Innovation Championship Award (2019), INAE Outstanding Teachers Award (2021), Innovation Leadership Award (2023), Prof. K.L. Chopra Applied Research Award (2023) among others.
He has been granted fellowship of various professional bodies, including, INAE-SERB, DST Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship, India, 2023; The Institution of Engineers, India, 2016; National Academy of Science, India, (NASI) 2014; Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi (INAE), 2009; Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, UK (FIET), 2011; Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), 2006. He has carried out many important industrial consultations with TATA Power, Microtek etc., and he is also the founder of SILOV SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED under the Companies Act, 2013.

Dipti Srinivasan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, where she also heads the Centre for Green Energy Management & Smart Grid (GEMS). Prior to joining NUS, Professor Srinivasan worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California at Berkeley from 1994 to 1995. Her research interests are primarily focused on the areas of smart grid and computational intelligence, as well as renewable energy systems and multi-objective optimization. She has secured over S$20 Million in external funding for research projects in these areas. Her current research focuses on the development of novel computational intelligence-based models and methodologies to aid the integration of the new Smart Grid technologies into the existing infrastructure so that power grid can effectively utilize pervasive renewable energy generation and demand-side management programs, while accommodating stochastic load demand. She has authored more than 400 publications which have been highly cited.
Professor Dipti is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was awarded the IEEE Singapore Outstanding Volunteer award in 2020 and Outstanding Engineer award in 2010. Professor Dipti was recently awarded the 2022 IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award for her “Leadership and valuable contributions to the power engineering profession, education and excellent volunteerism”. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and journal of Solar Energy.
At the ECE department of National University of Singapore, she has been teaching courses in the areas of Sustainable Energy systems, Smart Grid, and computational intelligence methods. She was the winner of NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award in year 2007, 2008 and 2009, and was placed on the Honours list in 2010. She is the recipient of Engineering Educator Award from the Faculty of Engineering, NUS in 2011 and 2012.

Prof. Anil Pahwa he has been a faculty member in electrical and computer engineering department at Kansas State University since 1983. He served as the graduate program coordinator from 2000 to 2004 and department head from 2004 to 2007. He spent a year on sabbatical from 1999 to 2000 at ABB in Raleigh, NC. He was selected by the National Academies for the Jefferson Science Fellowship in 2014 to serve as a senior scientific advisor in Economic Policy Office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State.
Prof. Pahwa is the lead faculty member in electrical power and energy systems at Kansas State University. His research focuses on reliability, automation and optimization of power distribution systems. Specifically, his research has provided innovative and practical solutions for the application of advanced communication and cyber technologies for automation of distribution of electricity to customers, and large-scale integration of renewable energy resources in the system to decrease dependence on fossil fuels. These solutions include testing of field equipment, evaluation of distribution automation projects, novel approaches for quick restoration of distribution systems following extended interruptions, design of distribution systems to minimize stress on equipment during restoration and methodologies to increase utilization of renewable resources.
Prof. Pahwa has collaborated with faculty members within Kansas State University as well as other universities for research leading to his engagement in 38 funded projects with about $8.8 million in total funding. Of these projects, he has been the lead PI on 28 projects with total funding over $3.0 million with 12 projects ($2.9 million) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Prof. Emil Levi received his Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1982 and his MSc and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1982 till 1992 he was with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Novi Sad. He joined Liverpool John Moores University, UK in May 1992, where he was promoted to a Reader in 1995 and appointed to a Full Professorship in September 2000 as Professor of Electric Machines and Drives. He served as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics in the 2009-2013 period and as Editor-in-Chief of the IET Electric Power Applications from 2010 until 2022. Emil is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics (2019-2024) He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of the Cyril Veinott award of the IEEE Power and Energy Society for 2009 and the Best Paper award of the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics for 2008. He is also a recipient of the European Power Electronics (EPE) Association “Outstanding Achievement Award” for 2014, "Professor Istvan Nagy Award" of the Power Electronics and Motion Control (PEMC) Council for 2018, and is a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Kaushik Rajashekara is presently a Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston. Prior to this, he was a Distinguished Professor in University of Texas at Dallas, Chief Technologist in Rolls-Royce Corporation, and Chief Scientist in Delphi, a division of General Motors. In General Motors, he worked on developing propulsion and power electronics systems for electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicle systems. In Rolls-Royce Corporation, his focus was on electric systems for electric and hybrid aircraft systems. He has authored/coauthored over 300 papers in international journals and conferences, has 37 US and 15 foreign patents, and has written one book. He has given over 200 invited presentations in international conferences and universities. He has received a number of awards including the 2022 Global Energy Prize and 2021 IEEE Medal on Environment & Safety Technologies. He was elected as a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2012, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015, a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2013, a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021. His research interests include power/energy conversion, transportation electrification, renewable energy, microgrid systems, and Subsea electrification.

Prof. Akshay Kumar Rathore is an IEEE Fellow and expert in power electronics and control of electrical motor drives. He is currently a Professor and Program leader of Electrical Power Engineering Degree Program jointly offered with Newcastle University, UK. He received the Gold Medal for securing the highest academic standing in his Master’s degree among all electrical engineering specializations at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He received his PhD degree in Power Electronics from University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2008. He had two subsequent postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. From 2011-2015, he served as an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. From 2016-2021, he served as an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada where he was listed in the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2021. Curently, Prof. Rathore is working as Professor in Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore. He served as the Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards during 2020-21.
Dr. Rathore is a recipient of the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, 2019 IES Publications Service Recognition Award, 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, 2021 Nagamori Award, and 2023 Distinguished Alumna Award (Young Achiever Category -IIT BHU Varanasi). He published about 300 research papers in international journals and conferences, including 105 IEEE TRANSACTIONS.
Dr. Rathore is currently serving as the co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee member of IEEE IES Society, member of the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award Committee and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE PELS society.

Prof. Sudip K. Mazumder received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001. He is a Professor and the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronics Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC). He also serves as the President of the small business NextWatt LLC. He has over 25 years of professional experience and has held R&D and design positions in leading industrial organizations and has served as a Technical Consultant for several industries. His current areas of interests are switching-sequence and switching-transition based control of power-electronics systems and interactive-power networks; power electronics for renewable energy, micro/smart grids, energy storage; wide-bandgap (GaN/SiC) power electronics; and optically-triggered wide-bandgap power semiconductor devices. His research has attracted about 45 sponsored-research projects from leading federal agencies and industries, and yielded over 200 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious tier-one international journals and conferences, 10 patents, 10 book chapters and 1 (pending) book, and 85 invited/plenary/keynote lectures and presentations. He has guided/guiding 11 post-doctoral researchers and 15 Ph.D. and 10 M.S. students. He is the recipient of UIC’s Inventor of the Year Award (2014), University of Illinois’ University Scholar Award – university’s highest award (2013), IEEE International Future Energy Challenge Award (2005), ONR Young Investigator Award (2005), NSF CAREER Award (2003), and IEEE PELS Transaction Paper Award (2002). In 2016, he was elevated to the rank of an IEEE Fellow and he was invited to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE PELS beginning in 2016. He served/serving as the Guest Editor-in-Chief/Editor for IEEE PELS/IES Transactions between 2013-2014 and 2016-2017, as the first Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Power Electronics (2006-2009), and as an Associate Editor for IEEE IES/PELS/TAES/TII/JESTPE Transactions (2003-/2009-/2008-/2016-/2016-). Currently, he serves as the Chair for IEEE PELS TC on Sustainable Energy Systems.

Prof. Sukumar Brahma received his Bachelor of Engineering from Gujarat University, Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and PhD in from Clemson University; all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Clemson university as the Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering in August 2018. Before joining Clemson he was William Kersting Endowed Chair Professor at New Mexico State University, USA. Dr. Brahma has chaired IEEE Power and Energy Society's Power and Energy Education Committee, Life Long Learning Subcommittee and Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee. He is a member of the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRCC), where he has been contributing to and leading working groups that produce reports, guides and standards in the area of power system protection. He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and served as Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System Protection for the journal. His research, widely published and funded by the National Science Foundation, US department of energy, utilities, and other government agencies has focused on different aspects of power system modeling, analysis, and protection. Dr. Brahma is a Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Brahma's research mainly focuses on power system protection. It spans across diverse areas of electrical engineering and computer science, integrating signal processing, machine learning, control and communication to holistically approach the emerging problems in the power and energy domain. Current focus is on protection issues in integration of renewables with power systems and new paradigms in protection of smart grid, at both transmission and distribution levels.

Prof. Chanan Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor and Irma Runyon Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He served as the Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M from 1997 to 2005 and then as an Interim Head from 2012 to 2015. He also served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation of USA and a Guest Professor at Tsinghua University. His research and consulting interests are in the foundational developments and applications of probabilistic methods for planning and operation of electric power grid. He has authored/co-authored more than 400 technical papers and four books and has contributed to several books. He has also developed of contributed to computer programs for reliability evaluation used by the power industry. He has consulted with many major corporations and given short courses nationally and internationally. Dr. Singh is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering. He is the recipient of the 1998 Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award given by the IEEE Power Engineering Society. For his research contributions, he was awarded a D.Sc. degree by the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, in 1997. He was recognized with the Merit Award by the PMAPS International Society for life long achievements. He is the inaugural recipient of the IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award and the IEEEPES Lifetime Achievement Award.

Iqbal Husain (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1993. He currently serves as the Director of the FREEDM NSF Engineering Center and holds the prestigious position of ABB Distinguished Professor in the ECE Department at NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. Prior to joining NC State, he was associated with the University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA. He has been recognized for his academic contributions as a Fulbright Scholar in several Australian institutions in 2022 and as a Visiting Professor with Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, in 2001. Prof. Husain's research interests encompass power electronic system integration into the power grid and transportation electrification with wide bandgap power electronic devices and permanent magnet & reluctance machine drives. He has developed graduate and undergraduate courses on electric and hybrid vehicles and authored the textbook "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Design Fundamentals." He has been honored with numerous awards, including the 2023 Outstanding Engagement Award and the 2022 Alcoa Distinguished Engineering Research Award at NC State, the 2022 IEEE-IAS Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2006 SAE Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering award, the 2004 College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher award, the 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the 1998 IEEE-IAS Outstanding Young Member award. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2009 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine.

Dr. Ravi Segal has almost 40 years of experience in power sector. He has worked with government institutions, energy utilities, industries, and energy consumers in countries around the world to design and implement energy management programs, including identification and deployment of new technologies.
He is currently working as Senior advisor to support projects in Power Sector in South Asia, ASEAN and Middle East region that are funded by The World Bank group, USAID, United Nations, Asian Development Bank, etc.
Dr. Ravi worked with General Electric Company for over 24 years and led Energy Consulting group as the Business Leader - South Asia, ASEAN, China, Middle East and Africa. He has worked with over 25 countries and has been involved in techno-economic evaluation of new power projects including thermal and renewable technologies and has led several power-system planning and large-scale RE integration studies.
He started his career with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) as a field engineer and during 12 years at BHEL, he worked extensively in installation, commissioning and after-market services for gas, steam, hydro & nuclear turbines, generators and their controls.
Dr. Ravi has over 30 research publications and is also associated with educational institutes as Professor of Practice, Member of Board of Studies and external examiner.