Advances in Systems Engineering: Select Proceedings of NSC 2019 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mishra is Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi. He is also heading Department of Humanistic Studies, Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi since 2015. He was awarded Ph.D. in March 2005 from Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi, India. He did his M.Tech. in Engineering Systems and B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) in 1997 and 1995, respectively from DEI Dayalbagh, Agra, India. His fields of interest include systems engineering, power system, and applications of computational intelligence in power systems. He has presented papers in reputed conferences and has published papers in reputed journals such as IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, International Journal of ElectricalPower & Energy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and Electric Power Components and Systems. An optimization algorithm, EBO with CMAR (EBO_with_CMAR), proposed by his team in a paper entitled "Improving the local search capability of Effective Butterfly Optimizer using Covariance Matrix Adapted Retreat phase" was ranked first in a competition on real-parameter bound-constrained single objective optimization at IEEE Congress in Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2017), Spain. He is Member of IEEE, Institution of Engineers (India), and Life Member of ISTE and Systems Society of India.