Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives : Select Proceedings of Eprec 2023

Krishna Murari received the B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from WBUT, India, in 2010, the M.E degree in power systems from Thapar University, India in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2019. Currently, He is working as a Research Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Energy Production, and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He is a member of IEEE and has published 11  Journals, 12 conferences, 01 Book, and 02 book chapters. He is serving as a reviewer in several international journals and conferences.He is the recipient of the best-prized paper by The Industrial Automation and Control Committee of the IEEE Industry Application Society among the research articles presented in 2021. He is a reviewer in journals, such as IEEE, IET, MDPI, and Taylor Francis journal. His research interests include power system analysis, AC-DC power flow studies, demand-side management, optimization and control of DERs, optimal power flow, distribution network pricing, and smart grid. 

Dr. Bhim Singh (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Rahamapur, Bijnor (UP), India, in 1956. He received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), Roorkee, India, in 1977, the M.Tech. degree in power apparatus and systems, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the IIT Delhi, India, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Roorkee, as a Lecturer. He became a Reader there in 1988. In December 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India, as an Assistant Professor, where he became an Associate Professor in 1994 and a Professor in 1997. He has been the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from July 2014 to August 2016. He has been the Dean, of Academics at IIT Delhi, from August 2016 to August 2019. He is a JC Bose Fellow of DST, Government of India since December 2015. He is CEA Chair Professor since January 2019., Prof. Singh has guided 84 Ph.D. dissertations, and 168 M.E./M.Tech./M.S.(R) theses. He has filed 58 patents. He has executed more than 80 sponsored and consultancy projects. His areas of interest include solar PV grid interface systems, microgrids, power quality monitoring and mitigation, solar PV water pumping systems, and improved power quality ac–dc converters.