General Chair

Om Parkash Malik

Professor, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada.

Research interests: Digital Protection; Control of Renewable Power Generation and Micro-Grids; AI Applications in Power System Control.

Professor Om P. Malik has done pioneering work in the development of controllers for application in electric power systems and wind power generation over the past over 50 years. After extensive testing, the adaptive controllers developed by his group are now employed on large generating units. His other interests include digital protection, control of renewable power generation and micro-grids, and AI applications in power system control. He has published over 800 papers including over 430 papers in international Journals and is the coauthor of four books: (1) Electric Distribution Systems, (2) Power System Stability, (3) Power Grids with Renewable Energy, Power System Stability and Cointrol. Professor Malik graduated in 1952 from Delhi Polytechnic. After working for nine years in electric utilities in India, he obtained a master’s degree from Roorkee University in 1962, a Ph.D. from London University and a DIC from the Imperial College, London in 1965. He was teaching and doing research in Canada from 1966 to 1997 and continues to do research as Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. Over 100, including 54 Ph.D., students have graduated under his supervision. Professor Malik is a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of IET, the Engineering Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Engineers Canada and World Innovation Foundation. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Provinces of Alberta and Ontario, Canada, and has received many awards. He was Director, IEEE Region 7 and President, IEEE Canada during 2010-11 and President, Engineering Institute of Canada, 2014-2016.

Mohan Lal Kolhe

Professor, IEEE Senior Member, University of Agder, Norway.

Research interests: Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems; Smart Grid and Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Systems; Electric Vehicles; Hydrogen Energy Technologies; Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Energy Systems Engineering; Electro-Mechanical-Chemical Energy Conversion and Management; Power System Dynamics, Electrical Machines, Energy Conversion and Management; Techno-Economics of Energy Systems.

Prof. Dr. Mohan Lal Kolhe is a full professor in smart grid and renewable energy at the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the University of Agder (Norway). He is a leading renewable energy technologist with three decades of academic experience at the international level and previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities, e.g., University College London (UK / Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. In addition, he was a member of the Government of South Australia’s first Renewable Energy Board (2009-2011) and worked on developing renewable energy policies. Professor Kolhe is an expert evaluator of many prestigious international research councils (e.g., European Commission: Erasmus+ Higher Education – International Capacity Building, Royal Society London (UK), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC UK), Cyprus Research Foundation, etc.). In addition, many international organizations have invited him to deliver keynote addresses, expert lectures, workshops, etc. He has also been a member of many academic promotional committees. Professor Kolhe has been successful in obtaining competitive research funding from prestigious research bodies (such as the Norwegian Research Council, EU, EPSRC, BBSRC, NRP, etc.) for his work on sustainable energy systems. His work on energy systems and electrical & electronic engineering has been recognised in the top 2% of scientists worldwide consistently from 2020 to 2023, according to Stanford University matrices based on Elsevier data. His top 10 publications have received an average of more than 200 citations each, making him an acknowledged pioneer in his profession on a global scale.

Steering Committee

Cortes Osorio, Jimy Alexander, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombian

Concettina Buccella, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Farhad Shahnia, Murdoch University, Australia

Hamed Aly, Dalhousie University, Canada

Hongbo Sun, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA

Jinfeng Wang, Zhengzhou University, China

Kei Eguchi, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

Yanbo Wang, Aalborg University, Denmark

Yutian Liu, Shandong University, China

Technical Committee Chair

Fushuan Wen, Zhejiang University, China

Mohamed Benbouzid, University of Brest, France

Technical Committee Member

Ahmad Syed, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, India

Ayman Al-Quraan, Yarmouk University, Jordan

Claudio Del Pero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Danilo Avola, Sapienza University, Italy

Ebrahim Babaei, University of Tabriz, Iran

Ekkachai Sutheerasak, Burapha University, Thailand

Gheorghe Grigoras, Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Hartmut Hinz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Huachao Yang, Zhejiang University, China

Khadim Ullah Jan, University of Corsica, France

Mohamed A. Abido, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Neeraj Gupta, NIT Srinagar, India

Sameer Al-Dahidi, German Jordanian University, Jordan

Siti Rohani Sheikh Raihan, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Sri Niwas Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India

Sudhakar Kumarasamy, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia

Sponsors

School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA)

The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB)

International Water, Air & Soil Conservation Society (INWASCON)