Mohan L Kolhe Editor

Dr. Vishal Goyal is currently working as Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GLA University, Mathura. He has a very rich experience of more than 18 years in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes. He has published more than 30 research papers publications in different international journals and in proceedings of the international conferences of repute. He has organized 4 international conferences technically sponsored by IEEE. He has also worked as Member of organizing committee in several IEEE international conferences in India and abroad. He has delivered numerous invited and plenary conference presentations and seminars throughout Country and chaired the technical sessions in international and national conferences in India. He is also Member of reviewer board for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers and International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems. He has been appointed Member of board of studies as well as in syllabus committee of different private Indian universities and Member of organizing committee for various national and international seminars/workshops. He is Executive Committee Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IIT Kanpur. He is Active Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ISTE, Member of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), and Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association.
Dr. Manish Gupta is presently associated with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology, GLA University, Mathura (UP) India. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics Engineering from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (MP), India, in 2000. He did his M.Tech. degree from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow (UP), India, in the year 2006, and Ph.D. from Rajasthan Technical University, Kota (Rajasthan). He has a very rich experience of more than 18+ years in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes. He has published 30+ research papers publications in different international journals and in proceedings of the international conferences of repute. He had served as Member of organizing committees for various international conferences. Moreover, he was also designated the reviewers various refereed journals.  He is Life Member of ISTE and Member of IET. His research interest includes communication systems, image and signal processing.
Prof. Aditya Trivedi is Professor in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department at ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He has about 20 years of teaching experience. Before joining ABV-IIITM in December 2006, he was Reader in the Department of Electronics and CSE at MITS, Gwalior. He received his bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering from the Jiwaji University. He did his M.Tech. (Communication Systems) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He obtained his doctorate (Ph.D.) from IIT Roorkee in the area of Wireless Communication Engineering. His teaching and research interests include digital communication, CDMA systems, signal processing, and networking. He has published around 60 papers in various national and international journals/conferences. He is a fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He has completed one AICTE project. Dr. Trivedi is a reviewer of IEEE and Springer journals. In 2007, he was given the IETEs K.S. Krishnan Memorial Award for best system-oriented paper.
Dr. Mohan L. Kolhe is with the Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, Norway, as Full Professor in Energy Systems Engineering with focus on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems. He has also received the offer of Hafslund Professorship in Smart Grid from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Prof. Kolhe has more than twenty-five years’ academic experience at international level on electrical and renewable energy systems. He is a leading renewable energy technologist and has 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); and Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada). Prof. Kolhe was Member of the Government of South Australia's first renewable energy board (2009–2011) and actively contributed to developing renewable energy policies for South Australia. Prof. Kolhe's academic work ranges from the smart grid, grid integration of renewable energy systems, energy storage, electrical vehicles, home energy management system, integrated renewable energy systems for hydrogen production, techno-economics of energy systems, solar and wind energy engineering, and development of business models for distributed generation. Prof. Kolhe has been successful in winning research funding from prestigious research councils (e.g. EU, Norwegian Research Council, EPSRC, BBSRC, Northern Research Partnership Scotland, etc.) for his work on sustainable energy systems. He has published extensively in the area of Energy Systems Engineering. He has been invited by many international organizations for delivering expert lectures/courses/keynote addresses. He also has been Member of many academic promotion committees as well as Expert Member of international research councils.