Prof. Saikat Chakrabarti

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Chair, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Prof. S. Chakrabarti (Senior Member, IEEE, FINAE) completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2006. Before completing his Ph.D., he worked at Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Limited, India, and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus and as a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Since 2009, he has been working in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where he became a Chair Professor in 2018.

His research interests include Monitoring, Control, and Protection of Smart Transmission and Distribution Systems and Microgrids, Power System State Estimation, Power System Dynamics and Stability, Smart Grids, Microgrids, Attack Detection, False Data Injection Attacks, etc.

Prof. Prasad Enjeti

Texas Instruments Jack Kilby Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA

Dr. Prasad N. Enjeti (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 1988. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M University since then and currently holds the Texas Instruments Professorship in Analog Engineering. He has received numerous honors including the IEEE Fellow Award (2000) and the R. David Middlebrook Technical Achievement Award (2012).

His research interests include Replay Attacks, Attack Detection, False Data Injection Attacks, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Control Systems, and System Identification.

Prof. Akshay Kumar Rathore

Professor
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore

Prof. Akshay Kumar Rathore (Fellow, IEEE) is an expert in power electronics and electrical motor drives control. He is currently the Program Leader for the Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electrical Power Engineering at SIT. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, Canada.

His research focuses on current-fed converters, soft-switching techniques, multilevel inverter control, DC-DC converters for electric vehicles battery charging systems, etc., and he has received prestigious awards like the Nagamori Award (2021) and IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award.

Prof. Radhakant Padhi

HAG Professor
Aerospace Eng., Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Prof. Radhakant Padhi (FINAE, FIETE, FIE) earned his Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from IISc Bangalore in 1996 and his Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST), USA in 2001. He joined IISc Bangalore as a faculty member in 2003.

His research spans systems theory and applications with emphasis on optimal control synthesis algorithms for aerospace vehicles guidance and control systems as well as biomedical systems automation.