Development of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid Concepts

Dr. Ajay Kumar acquired his B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, in 2012. He received his M.Tech degree in Power Systems and PhD degree in Power Electronics and Renewable Energy from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, in 2016 and 2020 respectively. Since February 2023, he has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. Prior to joining PEC, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi for one and half year. His research interests are in the areas of Distributed Generation, Integration of Renewable Energy Sources, Power Quality Improvement, and related fields. More specifically, his research spans theory and control structures of an electronically interfaced multifunctional photovoltaic (PV) system, with applications to science and technology. He is a Member of IEEE.

Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a full professor of electrical power engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. Subsequently, he held positions at VIT University (India), National Institute of Technology (India), Qatar University, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Aarhus University (Denmark). Prof. Padmanaban has authored over 750 scientific papers and has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University. He is editor, associate editor, or editorial board member for several important refereed journals, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who–USA 2017 for his contributions to power electronics and renewable energy research.