Koushik Maharatna Editor

Prof. Koushik Maharatna received his B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Electronic Science from Calcutta University, Calcutta, India in 1993 and 1995 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, in 2002. At present he is a Chair in Signal Processing Systems Design in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, UK and is part of the Biomedical Electronics research group. He has served as Technical Programmes Committee member in a number of prestigious IEEE Conferences and is a member of IEEE VLSI Systems Application Technical Committee. Prof. Maharatna has over 110 scientific publications in high-impact conferences and journals to his credit.

Dr. Maitreyi Ray Kanjilal is Principal at Narula Institute of Technology. She has also worked in Techno India College of Technology and Asansol Engineering College. She completed her Ph.D. in Electronic sciences. Her areas of interests include Wide-band gap semiconductor devices, nanoscale devices, heterostructures and heterojunction semiconductor devices, microelectronics fabrication, low power devices and VLSI circuits, and spintronics. She has published many papers in international journals and conferences. She has also filed a  patent in 2016 titled ‘A system for generation of electricity and method there off’.

Dr. Sumit Nandi received his B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in Chemical Technology, Oil Technology and Processing of refinery by-products respectively. He has also completed his M.B.A. from Sikkim Manipal University in Finance and Marketing. Currently he is Head and Associate Professor in Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Narula Institute of Technology. His areas of research interests include preparation of biodiesel from natural resources, mathematical modelling on enzyme kinetics, enzyme-catalyzed production of different value-added products. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals and conferences in these areas.

He has also filed two patents—‘A process for preparing biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas oil’ and ‘Interpenetrating polymer network structure and preparation method thereof’. 
He has published one book ‘Engineering Chemistry Simplified’ with Chhaya Prakashani Private Limited.

Dr. Sukumar Chandra Konar is Ex-Professor & Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology. Presently, he is Professor and Dean of Electrical Engineering Department of Narula Institute of Technology. He has +35 years of teaching and research experience. He has published around 30 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Konar has also published a book titled ‘Robust Stability and Performance of Analysis of Power Systems’ with Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. He also acts as a reviewer of many journals and conferences—Institution of Engineers (India) Journal; Taylor and Francis Journal & AMSE (France) Journal; Electric Power Components and Systems; International Journal of Sustainable Energy.

Dr. Kunal Das received his B.Sc.(H) in Electronics Science, B.Tech. (Information Technology) and M.Tech. (Information Technology) degrees from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kalyani. He is working as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, and was the former assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He has authored several international journal papers and several conference papers, and many SCI journals like Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, Springer JETTA, IEEE Transactions, and worked as editor in many international books. He is the recipient of Early Career Research Award Grant from SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB), DST, Govt. of India as Principal Investigator.