F Mwasilu Editor

Prof. Ramesh Bansal has more than 25 years of diversified experience of research, teaching and learning, accreditation, industrial, and academic leadership in several countries. Currently he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Sharjah and extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria, South Africa. Previously he was employed by University of Pretoria, University of Queensland, Australia; University of the South Pacific, Fiji; and BITS Pilani, India. He has published over 350 journal articles, conferences papers, books, and books chapters. He has Google citations of over 13000 and h-index of 52. He has supervised 25 PhD and 4 Post-Docs. His diversified research interests are in the areas of Renewable Energy, Power Systems, and Smart Grid. Professor Bansal is an Editor/Associate Editor of journals including IEEE Systems Journal, IET-RPG. He is a Fellow and Chartered Engineer IET-UK, Fellow Institution of Engineers (India), and Senior Member of IEEE-USA. Dr. J. J. Justo is currently working with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research interests are intelligent Systems for Big Energy, Power converter control using artificial intelligent control approaches (Fuzzy, Neural Networks, adaptive systems and model predictive control) for grid-code requirements, energy efficiency and management in smart city and transportation, electric vehicle (EVs) and drives, grid integration of renewable energy resources with nano grid, AC and DC microgrid, virtual power plants (VPPs) configuration and the energy internet i.e., “Enernet”. Moreover, power system operation and dynamics, operating constraints for power pools, smart grid control, operation and protection with EVs and ESS using real-time digital simulation (RTDS) and OPAL-RT units. Dr. F. Mwasilu is currently working with Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From 2008 to 2009 he was an Instrumentation Engineer with Illovo Sugar Ltd, Tanzania. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Utilities Engineer with the Japan Tobacco International, Tanzania. Since July 2016, he has been a Lecturer with the Department of Electrical. His current research interests include digital signal processor-based electric machine drives, electric vehicles, smart grid enabling technologies, and renewable energy sources integration into modern power systems.