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)
