SERB National Science Chair & Emeritus Professor
FNAE, FNA, FNASc, FASc, FTWAS,FIEEE, FIET, FIETE, FIE (I)
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi-110016-India
Professor Bhim Singh, currently an Emeritus Professor and SERB National Science Chair at IIT Delhi, is a renowned expert in power electronics, renewable energy, and electrical engineering. Over his career, he has supervised 129 Ph.D. dissertations, filed 108 patents, and executed over 90 projects. He has authored a textbook on power quality and his research areas span solar and wind energy, electric vehicles, microgrids, power quality improvement, and energy-efficient systems. Prof. Singh has received numerous accolades, including the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar – Vigyan Shri by the President of India in 2024, the IIT Roorkee Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2023, and the International Kalpana Chawla Solar Award in 2020. He has also been recognized with the IEEE IAS Outstanding Educator Award and several lifetime achievement awards.He has served in key leadership roles, including Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi and Dean of Academics. As a Fellow of multiple prestigious academies and IEEE, his influence extends globally. Prof. Singh is also actively involved in start-up mentoring and has chaired major international conferences like PEDES and INDICON.
IEEE Fellow, Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi-110016-India
Prof. B. K. Panigrahi has been working as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2005 and was the founder head of Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He is the Indu Shrivastava & Serla Singh Chair Professor in Artificial Intelligence at IIT Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he served as a faculty in Electrical Engineering Department, University College of Engineering, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India from 1992 to 2005. His research focus is the design and develop artificial intelligence-based tools for the detection and classification of power quality events, fault diagnostics of induction motor drives, diagnostics of electric vehicle motors. He has investigated intelligent techniques for the design of maximum power point tracking controllers for the solar photovoltaic system. Professor Panigrahi is also actively involved in the research area of energy management in smart grid, EV charging infrastructures, impact of fast charging on the grid, EV battery technology, Battery Management Systemsetc. Heis mentor of many startups working in the area of EV charger design, Battery pack design and IoT devices for EVs. Dr Panigrahi has published more than 750 research articles in various international journals and conference proceedings. He is serving as the editorial board member / associate editor/ special issue guest editor of different international journals published by IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer etc. He is also associated with various international conferences in various capacities. He is a fellow of IEEE, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Professor, NIT Rourkela
Dr. Anup Kumar Panda, currently a Professor HAG in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Rourkela, has made significant contributions in the field of power electronics and drives. He earned his B.Tech from Sambalpur University, M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, and Ph.D. from Utkal University. Dr. Panda joined NIT Rourkela in 2001 after serving as a lecturer at IGIT Sarang for 11 years. With over 200 publications in journals and conferences, he has completed several prestigious projects, including those funded by MHRD, CSIR, and NaMPET. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. scholars and is currently guiding 11 more. His research focuses on high-frequency power conversion circuits, soft computing techniques, multilevel converter topologies, power factor and quality improvement, and electric drives. Dr. Panda is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), the Institution of Engineers (India), and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers. He is also a senior member of IEEE USA and received the Institute Endowed Chair Professor Award in 2018.
University of Minho, Portugal
Ankit R. Patel is a transport researcher and currently associated with the University of Minho, Portugal. He has been involved as a keynote speaker in many international events, such as Casablanca Smart City, Morocco, in June 2024; Navigate Mobility, Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2024; and Smarter Mobility Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, in October 2024. He has associated with various prestigious international conferences like ACM (CHI, NordiCHI, OzCHI, AutomotiveUI, Mindtrek, COMPASS, GROUP, IMX, MuC), IEEE (ITEC, AFRICON, e-Science, MELECON, LOGISTIQUA, WF-PST, ECCE, GTSNZ, SeFeT), Design Research Society (LXD), and IFAC (CTS). At the ASME/IEEE 2025 Joint Rail Conference (JRC), he will serve as the paper chair. He also serves as a lead editor for the special issue in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (User-Centered Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and Journal of Social Economic Research, and as an editorial board member in the Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility and Transportation Development Research. His research interests lie in the fields of human factors and interaction, smart cities, policy and design, sustainable and socially inclusive transportation.
Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER)
Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Postal Zip:751030
Department of Electrical Engineering
Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER)
Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Postal Zip:751030
Contact:(+91)9338388885
E-mail: manojdebnath@soa.ac.in
