Keynote Speakers

Bhim Singh (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in electrical from IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 1977, and the M.Tech. degree in power apparatus and systems and the Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He has been an Emeritus Professor and the ANRF National Science Chair of IIT Delhi, since July 2021. He has guided 138 Ph.D. dissertations and 183 M.E./M.Tech./M.S.(R) theses. He has 76 granted patents and 33 filed patents. He has co-authored a textbook on power quality titled “Power Quality Problems and Mitigation Techniques,” (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) in 2015. His research interests include solar PV grid interface systems, microgrids, power quality monitoring and mitigation, solar PV water pumping systems, power electronics, electrical machines, drives, and electric vehicles. He was a recipient of the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan PuraskarVigyan Shri by the President of India in 2024.

Narayana Prasad Padhy (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in power systems engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 1997.,He is currently the Director of the Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, and the Mentor Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota, Kota, India, along with Professor (HAG) (on-lien) with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee, India. He was the Dean of Academic Affairs, Institute, NEEPCO, 92 Batch and Ravi Mohan Mangal Institute Chair Professors, IIT Roorkee. He is the National lead of many national and international projects, such as DSIDES, ID-EDGe, and HEAPD. He is also part of other international projects, namely, Indo-US UI-ASSIST and Indo-U.K. ZED-I. He has authored and coauthored more than 200 research articles in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include power system analysis, demand side management, energy market, network pricing, ac-dc smart grid, and application of machine learning techniques in power systems.,Dr. Padhy is also a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Institution of Engineers India. He was the recipient of the IEEE Smart Cities Award 2022, IEEE PES Outstanding Engineers Award 2018, Boyscast Fellowship, and the Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship in the years 2005 and 2009, respectively. He was also the IETE – Bimal Bose Award-2025 awardee.

Sukumar Mishra (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Rourkela, India, in 1992 and 2000, respectively. He was also an Independent Director of the Cross Border Power Transmission Company Ltd. and the River Engineering Pvt. Ltd. He is currently a Professor with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India and has been its part for the past 17 years. He is also the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, Dhanbad, India. His research interests include power systems, power quality studies, renewable energy and smart grid. He is acting as the ABB Chair professor and has previously delegated as the NTPC, INAE, and Power Grid Chair professor. He was the recipient of many accolades such as INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2002), INAE Young Engineer Award (2009), INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award (2012), Samanta Chandra Shekhar Award (2016), IETE Bimal Bose award (2019), National Mission Innovation Champion award (2019) and NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovation in Physical Sciences (2019). He has been granted fellowships from academies like NASI (India), INAE (India), and professional societies like IET (U.K.), IETE (India), IE (India). He has also been recognized as the INAE Industry Academic Distinguished Professor. He has carried out many important industrial consultations with TATA Power, Microtek and others. He is the founder of Silov Solutions Private Limited, a company that specifically deals in products related to renewable energy sources utilizable with household scale and commercial setups. Prof. Mishra has been working in close association with IEEE Delhi Section Executive Committee for the past few years. He was an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and was an Area Editor of the IET Generation, Transmission Distribution journal.

Sukumar Kamalasadan (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Calicut, Malappuram, India, in 1991, the M.Eng. degree in electrical power systems management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA, in 2004. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. His research interests include intelligent and autonomous control, power systems dynamics, stability and control, smart grid, microgrid, and real-time optimization and control of power system. He was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and IEEE Best Paper Awards. He is the Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Power and Energy Education Committee, Member of 2022 IEEE PES Leadership Team, and Council Member of IEEE Industry Application Society. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

Prof. Suresh Chandra Srivastava received B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi India. He worked at Engineers India Limited New Delhi during 1976-1988 in its Project Engineering and Engineering Technology Development divisions. Since November 1988, he had been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. After superannuation, he served as Director, IIT Kanpur-La Trobe University Research Academy and Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur from January 2021 till November 2023. He also served as Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Dean R&D, and Deputy Director at IIT Kanpur. During 2008-2009, he was a ‘Visiting Research Professor’ at Mississippi State University, USA, Visiting Faculty at AIT Bangkok during 1996-97. He held ‘P.K. Kelkar’ and ‘Ministry of Labor and Employment’ Chair Professor positions at IIT Kanpur. He is also serving as Adjunct faculty in the EE department at IIT(BHU) as well as MNIT Jaipur.

His research interests included Power System Security, Synchrophasor Applications, AC/DC Microgrid, Electricity Market, and Smart Grid. He Has been PI/co-PI to about 24 sponsored research and consultancy projects and had led a joint Indo-US project, from India. He has served in the governing council and expert committee of several government organizations, academic institutes, and utilities in India.

He is Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Institution of Engineers (India), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers IETE), and Indian Academy of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation (IAMMS). He had received several IEEE PES / IC awards, ‘Academic Excellence Award’ in Power Engineering as well as ‘Malaviya Award for Excellence in Power Systems’ at National Power systems Conferences, ‘Distinguished Teacher Award’ and ‘Institute Fellow Award’ of IIT Kanpur.

Prof S. N. Singh obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1989 and 1995. Presently, Prof Singh is Director, Atal Bihari Bajpayee- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior (MP), India (on leave from Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India). Before joining IIT Kanpur as Associate Professor, Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 1988 to 1996, with Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) as Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000 and with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2002. He was ViceChancellor of Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology Gorakhpur during April 2017 to July 2020. Dr Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof Singh is receipt of Humboldt Fellowship of Germany (2005, 2007) and Ottomonsted Fellowship of Denmark (2009-10). Prof Singh became first Asian to receive 2013 IEEE Educational Activity Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education. He is also recipients of INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016. Dr Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguish Lecturer of Power & Energy Society from 2019 and Industry application Society for 2019-2021. He is also recipient of NPSC 2020 Academic Excellence Award and 2021 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Outstanding Educator/ Mentor Award. His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization & control, security analysis, wind power, etc. Prof Singh has published more than 500 papers (h-index=57, Citation=12k+) in International/ national journals/conferences and supervised 40 PhD (8 PhD under progress). He has also written 30 book chapters, 8 Edited books and 2 text-books one on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution and second is Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed three dozen of technical projects in India and abroad. His two NPTEL (YouTube) video lectures on HVDC Transmission and Power System Operation & Control are very popular. Prof Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013 & 2014, IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-18 and R10 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities (2019-2020). Presently Prof Singh is Immediate Past Chairman of IEEE, India Council. Dr Singh is Fellows of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), INAE, IE(I), IETE, AvH.