Advances in Energy and Control Systems

Afzal Sikander is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He has earned a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Dr. Afzal has over 12 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of interest include control theory and applications, model order reduction, machine learning, optimization, robotics, and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by CSIR, ISRO, TEQIP, etc. He has published over 100 research articles in reputed national/international journals and conferences.

Marta Zurek-Mortka is a Senior Researcher who has worked in the Lukasiewicz Research Network—Institute for Sustainable Technologies in Radom in the Department of Control Systems since 2021. She obtained a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Transport, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science at the University of Technology and Humanities Kazimierz Pulaski in Radom in Electrical Engineering in 2020. She was Erasmus Ph.D. Student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia in 2019–2020. She is a Member of the Mazovia ICT Cluster, the Polish Association of Electrical Engineers, and a Member of the Expert Team of the European Commission and National Centre for Research and Development in Poland. She is also a Member of the Organizing Committees of International Conferences mainly organized in Asia and a Keynote Speaker from the STEM area.

Chandan Kumar Chanda is working as a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, India. He has earned a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, B.E. College (DU), Shibpur, India. Dr. C. K. Chanda has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the diverse field of power systems engineering. His areas of interest include smart grid, resiliency, stability, and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by Centrally Funded Organizations like DST and UGC. He has published 135 research articles in journals and conferences of national and international repute.

Pranab K. Mondal has been an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since May 2015. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015. His principal research interest, encompassing the broad area of microfluidics, covers various facets of micro-scale multiphase transport, electro-kinetics, and micro-scale transport of heat. He is currently working on stability analysis of flows with free surfaces and capillary filling of bio-fluids. He has co-authored more than 100 refereed journals and conference publications.