Akshay Kumar Rathore (IEEE Fellow) is a professor (Engineering) at the Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore. Prior to this appointment, he served as an associate professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and as an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He received his Master of Technology degree in electrical machines and drives from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, in 2003, and his Ph.D. in power electronics from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2008. Dr. Rathore is a recipient of the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, and 2021 Nagamori Award. Arun Kumar Verma is a senior member of IEEE, received his master's degree in Energy Studies and his Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a visiting graduate researcher with the Smart Grid Energy Research Centre(SMERC), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, during 2014-2015. He was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, during 2015-2016. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India. Prior to this appointment, he served as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India. He won the prestigious BASE fellowship for advanced solar energy research in 2014. He has been conferred with the prestigious POSOCO Power System Research Award 2016.
