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incremental and not breakthrough. Her current research area focuses on renewable energy technologies, power systems, high-voltage engineering and artificial intelligence.Dr. B. S. Umre received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Power in 1983 and M.Tech. degree in 1986 from Nagpur University and his Ph.D. degree in 2009 from RSTM, Nagpur University. In Ph.D., he worked on "Establishing an expert system for ascertaining torsional stresses in a turbine generator set on account of the electrical disturbances in an interconnected power system." He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He has almost 35 years of teaching experience and guided many Ph.D. theses and has published various research articles in reputed journals and conferences. He has filed 7 patents and had also worked on 2 externally sponsored R&D projects. He had also published a book "Laboratory Manual For Electric Machines," with I. K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi in 2017. He got PPSA award on the project "Diagnosis of Incipient Fault Development in Transformer by Condition," by POSOCO and IIT Delhi, and Semifinalists award on the project "Design and Development of An Intelligent Fault Tracking System Optical Fiber Cable In Railway Tracks." He was a member of Board of Studies, Electrical, Nagpur University, from 1995 to 2000 and from 2010 to 2015. Currently, he is a member of RRC Electrical, Gondwana University, Gadchiroli, and Board of Studies, Electrical, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE), Nagpur. He is a mentor of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Engineering, Nagpur. His research interest mainly includes condition monitoring of electrical machines, torsional oscillations and power systems.

Dr. Akhtar Kalam received the B.Sc. degree (1966-1969) from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, India, in Applied Science and the B.Sc. Engineering degree (1969-1973) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in Electrical Engineering. He received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bath, Bath, UK, in Electrical Engineering. He has been Professor with Victoria University (VU), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, since 1985, and Former Deputy Dean with the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science. He is currently head of engineering and director of externalization with the College of Engineering and Science, VU. He is also the chair of the academic board and lecturer's in the master's by coursework program in the Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia. Furthermore, he has the distinguished professorship position with the University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University, Bhatinda, India; Crescent University Chennai, India; Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India and five Malaysian Universities. He has wide experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He provides consultancy for major electric utilities, manufacturers and other industry bodies in his field of expertise. He is the international editor for the journal of Electrical Engineering (Elektrika), Malaysia, and also works as a guest editor for special issues of journal of Electrical and Electronics, Engineers Australia and Journal of Renewable Energy Engineering and a reviewer of papers of various journals including Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineers Australia, IET, International Journal of Management and System, etc. He is the former convener of the API/ESAA Power Engineering residential school and had pioneered the Electrical and Electronic Engineering summer school in January 1996 and in 1997. His major areas of interests are power system analysis, communication, control, protection, renewable energy, smart grid, IEC61850 implementation and cogeneration systems. He is the editor-in-chief for the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is also a fellow of EA, IET and AIE and a member of CIGRE APB5 study committee.