Ernesto Benini Editor & Author

Gaurav Saini is currently working at the School of Advanced Materials, Green Energy and Sensor Systems, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, West-Bengal, India. He did his Doctorate and Master’s degree in renewable energy from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Gautam Buddha Technical University Lucknow, India. He has more than 4 years of research experience in the field of renewable energy and related technology. He has published several research publications in refered journals and shared his research at national and international platforms like IEEE, Elsevier, and Wiley. His present research area includes Renewable energy technology, Hydraulic turbines, Computational fluid dynamics, and Optimization.

Ramani Kannan is a Senior Lecturer in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He received his BEng degree from Bharathiyar University, India. Later, completed his MEng and Ph.D. in Power Electronics and Drives from Anna University, respectively. He holds more than 125 publications in reputed international and national journals and conferences also 6 books published. He has completed 5 funded projects and 7 research projects in progress. The grants are FRGS, ASEAN-India, YUTP, KETTHA, and STIRF. He is a Chartered Engineer CEng (UK), active Senior member in IEEE(USA), and members of IE(I), IET(UK), ISTE(I), and Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAENS). Dr. Ramani is recognized with many awards, including "Career Award for Young Teacher" from AICTE India, 2012; "Young Scientist Award" in power electronics and Drives, 2015; "Highest Research publication Award" 2017. Award for Outstanding Performance, Service and Dedication 2019 at UTP, Malaysia and "Outstanding Researcher Award" in UTP Q Day 2019, Best Presenter Award, IEEE CENCON 2019 international conference at Indonesia. He is actively service as Secretary, IEEE Power Electronics Society, Malaysia since 2020. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Asian Scientific Research (2011-2018) and Regional Editor for International Journal of Computer-Aided Engineering and Technology, Inderscience Publisher, the UK from 2015. He is an Associate Editor in the IEEE Access journal since 2018. Editor of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems (ITEES Wiley (UK) since 2021 and Section Editor of Platform: A Journal of Engineering UTP Press, MY since 2020.Associate Editor Advanced Materials Science and Technology journal since 2020. Dr. Ramani is servicing many guest editors such as Elsevier journal, Inderscience, IGI Global, CRC, Taylor and Francis, Bentham science, and IJPAM, etc. His research interest involves power electronics, inverters, modeling of induction motor, AI, Machine learning, and optimization techniques.

Ernesto Benini graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering (1996), Ph.D. in Energy Technology (2000), he is currently Professor of "Fluid Machinery" at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy. He has more than twenty years of experience in the research and development of advanced methods for the design and optimization of fluid machines involving renewables. He is responsible for numerous private and European research projects, as well as a scientific advisor to major international companies in the renewable energy sector. Senior member of ASME and AIAA. He serves as Editor of authoritative scientific journals such as ASME "Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power" and "International Journal of Turbo & Jet Engines". Author and co-author of about 300 scientific publications concerning the Fluid Dynamics of Machines. He has received numerous awards for his academic and scientific activity, including numerous "Best Paper Awards", the gold medal for the best Academic Curriculum, and the New York Academy of Sciences nomination for the "Outstanding young researchers" award.

Krishna Kumar is presently working as a Research and Development Engineer at UJVN Ltd. Before joining UJVNL, he has worked as Assistant Professor at BTKIT, Dwarahat (Uttarakhand), India. He received his B.E. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India, and M.Tech (Digital Systems) from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. He is also pursuing his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He has more than 12 years of industrial and teaching experience and has published numerous research papers in international journals like IEEE, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Wiley. His research area includes Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and the Internet of Things.