Prof. Dilip Kumar Sarkar is a professor in the Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from Kalyani University, India, in 1999. He has received various awards and worked in different international institution. He had completed more than 15 research projects, and few are ongoing. He has published 3 books and more than 100 research articles in various national and international conferences and journals. His areas of interest are nano-structured super-hydrophobic thin films surfaces, energy storage system, advanced surface structure for metal, etc. Prof. Pradip Kumar Sadhu received his Bachelor, Post-Graduate and Ph.D. (Engineering) degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Currently, he is working as a professor (HAG) and ex-head of Electrical Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. Also, he servedB.I.T., Mesra, Ranchi, as a faculty member of Electrical and Electronics Engg. Department. Prior to join B.I.T. Mesra, also he served the different industries for twelve years. He has total experience of 35 years, out of which 23 years in teaching and 12 years in industry. He has thirteen (13) Granted Patents. In addition, nineteen (19) more patents in his name are under process. He has several journal and conference publications in national and international levels including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Building and Environment, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Science Measurement & Technology, IET Smart Grid. He is a principal investigator of few government-funded projects. He has developed hybrid charging system for e-vehicles that allows charging in static as well as dynamic condition; technology for which the patent application has been filed can herald a new era for adoption of electric vehicles as principal mode of road transport. He is a reviewer of various international journals like IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, etc. He has guided 19 numbers of doctoral candidates and a large number of M.Tech. students. Dr. Sunandan Bhunia is an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Central Institute of Technology, BTAD, Assam. He has obtained his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Calcutta University, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He has obtained Ph.D. degree in engineering from Jadavpur University in 2009. He was awarded gold medal from Vidyasagar University for 1st class 1st in Physics (H) in 1999. He has published about 50 research articles in reputed international and national journals and conferences. His area of research interest includes microstrip antenna, microstrip filter, frequency selective surfaces, VLSI, etc. Dr. Jagannath Samanta is an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India. He received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Samanta received Gold Medal during M.Tech. degree. He received his Ph.D. (Tech) degree from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics in 2018. His research interests include digital VLSI design, error-correcting codes and IoT in emerging applications. He has published more than 50 research papers in international journals that include IEEE Transactions, Springer and international conferences. He is the reviewer of referred journals like IEEE Transactions, Springer, Elsevier, etc. Dr. Suman Paul is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India, and interests in scheduling, QoS/QoE in communication networks, applications of soft computing techniques in networking and IoT. Professor Paul worked as an associate researcher in the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, in a project on Zigbee-based wireless sensor network, funded by DIT, Government of India. He is a regular reviewer of SCIE/Scopus indexed journals. Dr. Paul has published books on mobile ad hoc network, edited books on Springer Series, research articles in science citation indexed, Scopus indexed journals of repute, book chapters of Springer and presented papers in IEEE international conferences and filed patents to his credit. He was the joint convener of the International Conference, ICCDC 2019, Haldia, India, and a member of ACM, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA, and qualified Cisco Certified Network Associate.
