Dr. Mohd Rizwan Khalid is working as an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has vast teaching experience and research both at UG and PG levels. He has professional Membership if IEEE & IET. His research interests include power electronics, power quality, electric mobility, and xEVs charging infrastructure. Dr. Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech. degree in Power Systems & Drives from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Then he pursued a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2017. During his Ph.D. he developed a new method for grid integration for a wind energy generation system which has been recognized worldwide. He served as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical & Renewable Energy Engineering, School of Engineering & Technology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J & K, India. He has developed an automatic solar tracking system which has been appreciated by IEEE India Council, Centre for Embedded Product Design, Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in association with IEEE Delhi Section & IEEE CAS, Bangalore Chapter. Currently he is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. He has published more than 50 papers in international reputed journals, and international and national reputed conferences. He also has Indian and Australian granted patents to his credit. He is the Associate Editor of Distributed Generation & Alternative Energy Journal and Guest Editor in IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution Journal & IET Renewable Power Generation Journal. His research areas of interest includes performance analysis of variable frequency transformers, application of power electronics in renewable energy systems (solar and wind), multilevel converters, multi-phase drives and alternate energy vehicles. Dr. Sanchari Deb, is currently associated with Newcastle University, UK. Earlier, she was associated with the Smart e fleet group of VTT Technical Research Centre as an ERCIM Fellow. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Her research interests broadly cover different aspects of power and energy such as e-mobility, charging infrastructure planning, artificial intelligence applications in power and energy, microgrid planning, distribution network planning, local energy systems with cogeneration, vehicle grid integration, optimization, metaheuristics algorithms, tool development for charging station placement, machine learning applications, power system reliability, intelligent transport, autonomous vehicle, quantum computing applications, solar-based charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs), climate change, and circular economy. Dr. Mohammad Amir has the distinction of being awarded the National Post-Doctoral Fellowship under the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, working in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Dr. Amir was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the Advanced Power Electronics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (a Central University), New Delhi, India, in 2023. He completed his M.Tech. degree with a specialization in Power Electronics and Drives from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT), Gorakhpur, India, in 2018, and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Integral University, Lucknow, India, in 2015. He was also appointed as a Research Associate in a project titled "Electric Vehicle Charger and Charging Infrastructure at LT Level (D-EVCI)" in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi, under the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. Additionally, he is leading a research project as Principal Investigator (PI) entitled Stochastic Analysis for Large-Scale Electric Vehicles Load with Flexible Charging Prediction and Intelligent-Based Control of Renewable Rich Smart Microgrid with Energy Storage, funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) with a grant of 3.03 million INR. He was engaged as a Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, from October 2023 to January 2024. Dr. Amir has been Research Assistant in Advanced Power Electronics Research Lab, Department. of Electrical Engineering, JMI, New Delhi, from Jan 2021 to Feb 2023, working under the SPARC Project of MHRD, Govt. of India, in collaboration with Aalborg University, Denmark. Currently, Dr. Amir is Associate member of International Society of Energy and Built Environment, Australia, Member of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, ASME (USA), and Associate member of International Society for Energy Transition Studies. Dr. Amir has more than 50 published papers in reputed international journals, international conferences, and high indexed books with invited chapters. He has received best paper awards at several international conferences and has two granted patents to his credit. Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Marine Engineering Technology Department, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA, with courtesy joint appointment with Electrical and Computer Engineering, and affiliate joint appointment with Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 refereed journal and conference papers in smart energy systems-related areas. His research interests include the control and optimization of smart energy networks, optimization of energy storage systems, DC microgrids, smart grids, and renewable energy resources. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE PES Joint Chapter of Region 5 Galveston Bay Section (GBS).
