R Manimegalai Editor

Dr. L. Ashok Kumar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from San Diego State University, California. He is a recipient of the BHAVAN fellowship from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and SYST Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India. His current research focuses on integration of Renewable Energy Systems In the Smart Grid and Wearable Electronics. He has 3 years of industrial experience and 19 years of academic and research experience. He has published 187 technical papers in International and National journals and presented 197 papers in National and International Conferences. He has completed 27 Government of India funded projects, and currently 7 projects are in progress. His PhD work on wearable electronics earned him a National Award from ISTE, and he has received 24 awards on the national level. Ashok Kumar has seven patents to his credit. He has guided 98 graduate and postgraduate projects. He is a member and in prestigious positions in various national forums. He has visited many countries for institute industry collaboration and as a keynote speaker. He has been an invited speaker in 178 programs. Also he has organized 79 events, including conferences, workshops, and seminars. He completed his graduate program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Madras and his post-graduate from PSG College of Technology, India, and Masters in Business Administration from IGNOU, New Delhi. After completion of his graduate degree, he joined as project engineer for Serval Paper Boards Ltd., Coimbatore (now ITC Unit, Kovai). Presently he is working as a Professor and Associate HoD in the Department of EEE, PSG College of Technology and also doing research work in Wearable Electronics, Smart Grid, solar PV, and Wind Energy Systems. He is also a Certified Charted Engineer and BSI Certified ISO 500001 2008 Lead Auditor. He has authored the following books in his areas of interest (1) Computational Intelligence Paradigms for Optimization Problems Using MATLAB®/SIMULINK®, CRC Press, (2) Solar PV and Wind Energy Conversion Systems—An Introduction to Theory, Modeling with MATLAB/SIMULINK, and the Role of Soft Computing Techniques—Green Energy and Technology, Springer, USA, (3) Electronics in Textiles and Clothing: Design, Products and Applications, CRC Press, (4) Power Electronics with MATLAB, Cambridge University Press, London, (5) Automation In Textile Machinery: Instrumentation And Control System Design Principles – CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, ISBN 9781498781930, April 2018, (6) Monograph on Smart Textiles, (7) Monograph on Information Technology for Textiles, and (8) Monograph on Instrumentation & Textile Control Engineering. (8) Computational Paradigm Techniques for Enhancing Electric Power Quality,CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, ISBN 9781138336995, November 2018.

L.S. Jayashree is currently serving as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering department of PSG College of Technology, Tamilnadu, India. She is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and senior member of IEEE. She is also an active member of other professional bodies like ACM, CSI, CSTA etc. She has also been conferred with a few prestigious best project awards including the INAE award for Innovative Project Potential. She has so far published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings of national and international level. Her research papers have been abstracted and indexed in ACM, IEEE Xplore, SCI, SCI-E, Scopus, Thomson Reuters, CiteSeer, Scopus etc. Her areas of expertise include Mobile and Wireless networking technologies, Wireless sensor networks,  IoT based systems and Applied Soft computing. She has chaired several sessions of national and international conferences and is a recognized reviewer of a few peer-reviewed international journals including Elsevier, Inderscience, Wiley Blackwell etc.

R. Manimegalai has earned her PhD in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras, India. She is also an alumnus of PSG Tech., Coimbatore, and College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, where she has completed her B.E. (CSE) and M.E. (CSE) respectively. She has more than twenty years of industry, research and teaching experience. She has worked as a software engineer with DCM Technologies, New Delhi and Team Lead in Xilinx Technologies, Hyderabad. Before joining PSG Tech, she has served in various educational institutions, with different capacities, as Dean, Director and Principal and has contributed to various aspects of teaching-learning and accreditation process. She holds membership in several professional societies such as Fellow in Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Senior Member in Computer Society of India (CSI), ISTE, IEEE, ACM  and VLSI society of India. Her areas of interest include Security in Distributed, Embedded and IoT Systems and  VLSI / FPGA Algorithms. She has widely published in journals and conferences and is guiding several PhD research scholars through Anna University, Chennai.