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Name: Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti, IIT Kanpur
Bio: Prof. S. Chakrabarti (Senior Member, IEEE) completed PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2006. Before completing PhD, he worked in Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Limited, India, and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. After completing PhD, he worked as a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and first as a Research Associate and then as a Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Since 2009, he has been working in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, where he is currently a Chair Professor. His research interests include smart grid, microgrid, power system dynamics and stability, applications of synchronized measurement technology to power systems, and power system state estimation. He is a editors/associate editor of several journals such as IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
Name: Prof. Sanjib Kumar Panda, National University of Singapore
Bio: Prof. Sanjib Kumar Panda (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree from Sardar Vallabhabhai Regional College of Engineering and Technology, Surat, India, in 1983, the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 1991, all in electrical engineering. Since 1992, he has been a Faculty with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Power & Energy Research Area. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed research papers, co-authored one book, and contributed to several book chapters, and holds six patents. His research interests include high-performance control of motor drives and power electronic converters, condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance, building energy efficiency, etc. Dr. Panda received the Cambridge-Nehru Scholarship and M. T. Mayer Graduate Scholarship during his Ph.D. study (1987–1991). He is an Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions and the Editor of the Journal of Power Electronics, South Korea. He has served in various capacities for the two key conferences IEEE Power Electronics and Drive Systems Conference and IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies Conference series organized and managed by the IEEE Joint Industry Applications Society/Power Electronics Society (PELS) Society Chapter, Singapore Section. He has served the IEEE Section Congress 2014 as a Member of the Program Committee. He is the IEEE R-10 Asia Pacific Liaison Officer for the IEEE PELS. He has received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Singapore Section Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2010, and the IEEE Region-10 Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2014.
Name: Prof. Sheldon Williamson, Ontario Tech University, Canada
Sheldon S. Williamson (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.E. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering and the Director of Smart Transportation Electrification and Energy Research (STEER) Group, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada. His current research interests include advanced power electronics, electric energy storage systems, and motor drives for transportation electrification. He holds the prestigious NSERC Canada Research Chair position in electric energy storage systems for transportation electrification.
Name: Prof. Ambrish Chandra, École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Ambrish Chandra (Fellow, IEEE) received B.E. degree from the University of Roorkee (presently IITR), India, M. Tech. from IIT Delhi, and Ph.D. from University of Calgary, Canada, in 1977, 1980, and 1987, respectively. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, since 1994. The most distinctive work of Prof. Chandra is related to the advancement of new theory and control algorithms for power electronics converters in the following two areas: 1) power quality improvement in distribution systems, and 2) integration of renewable energy sources to distribution systems with improved power quality features. His work has had a significant impact and is now extensively referred by engineers and researchers around the world, as evident by total Google citations more than 20 000, h-index 56, and i10-index 223. Prof. Chandra, being a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Power and Energy Society (2015-2020), as well as Distinguished/Prominent Lecturer of IEEE Industry Applications Society (2017-2021) on ‘Power-Quality and Renewable-Energy’, is invited around the world to deliver distinguished lectures. He has already delivered lectures/keynote speeches in around 40 countries.
He is coauthor of John Wiley book ‘Power Quality – Problems and Mitigation Techniques’. He is Fellow of many organizations, including IEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology U.K., Engineering Institute of Canada, IE (India), and IETE (India) and registered as a Professional Engineer in the province of Quebec, Canada. He is the recipient of ‘IEEE Canada P. Ziogas Electric Power Award 2018’ and ‘IEEE Power and Energy Society Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award 2021’.
Name: Professor Kai Sang LOCK,Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Dr Lock is a Professor (Engineering) and Head of the Energy Efficiency Technology Centre (EETC) at the Singapore Institute of Technology. EETC conducts authentic energy audits for the industry and applies green technology to improve energy efficiency. He plays an active role in sustainability drive in Singapore, particularly in training and competency certification. He is the Chairman of Accreditation Committee for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and the Co-Chair of Steering Committee of Singapore Certified Energy Managers (SCEM) Scheme.
He is passionate about quality assurance of engineering education and is presently Deputy Chair of the Washington Accord (WA), an international agreement formed in 1989 among signatories responsible for accrediting engineering degree programs. WA is collaborating with the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) to incorporate more structured sustainability topics in engineering education.
He is an Emeritus President and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), a Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, a Senior Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, and an Honorary Fellow of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations.
He has a unique blend of practicing and academic experience acquired through a career equally split between the industry and the academia. He received both his B.Sc. (1975) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was a faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore for 17 years when he left to set up his consulting practice in 1997. He returned to the academia as a Professor at SIT in 2016 after 20 years in the industry.
He is the Co-Laureate of the 2021 WFEO Medal for Excellence in Engineering Education.
Prof. Celia Shahnaz, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Celia Shahnaz, SMIEEE, Fellow IEB, received Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Canada and is currently a Professor at, Department of EEE, BUET, Bangladesh since 2015.
She has published more than 150 international journal/conference papers. She is a recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship/Fellowship and Bangladesh Academy of Science Gold Medal for her contribution in Science and Technology. Her research interests include the areas of signal processing for speech analysis and speech enhancement, audio-visual recognition for biometric security, control system, robotics, pattern recognition, machine learning and deep learning for audio, humanitarian technology etc.
She is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE MGA Achievement Award, 2021 Inspiring Women in Academia Award from Bangladesh brand forum, 2019 R10 Humanitarian Activities Outstanding Volunteer Award, 2016 MGA Leadership Award 2015 WIE Inspiring Member Award, 2013 R10 WIE Professional Volunteer Award.
She has been elected as 2022 IEEE WIE Committee Chair-Elect and she will serve as the 2023-2024 IEEE WIE Committee Chair. She has been appointed as 2022-23 Member, IEEE New Initiative Committee, 2021-23 Chair, IEEE SPS Women in Signal Processing, 2021-23 Liaison between IEEE SPS and IEEE WIE. She has more than 20 years of experience as an IEEE volunteer in leading impactful Technical, Professional, Educational, Industrial, Women Empowerment and Humanitarian Technology, Power and Energy-related Projects at national/international levels.