Speakers

Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban

University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Profile: P. Sanjeevikumar (Member’12, Senior Member'15, IEEE), Fellow Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE'18, India), Fellow Institution of Engineers (FIE'18, India), Fellow Institution of Engineering & Technology (FIET'19, UK) and Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers India (CEng.). Received his Bachelor (First Class), Master (Distinction), Ph.D Degree in Electrical Engg. from the University of Madras, Pondicherry University (India, 2002, 2004), University of Bologna (Italy, 2012). Research work focused in the field of Power Electronics and Drives includes Multi-phase Machines, Multilevel & DC-DC Converters and applications of renewable power generation system. He has authored 250 plus scientific research papers and has received the Best Paper Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON’13, IET-CEAT’16 and five best paper award from ETAEERE’16 sponsored Lecture note in Electrical Engineering, Springer book series. He serves as an Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal, IET Power Electronics Journal, subject editor of IET Renewable Power Generation Journal, subject editor of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution Journal, IEEE Access Journal, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Journal of Power Electronics (JPE-Korea), FACETS Journal (Canada). Involved as member on invitation with various capacities in the committee for more than 4500 plus various international conferences including the IEEE and IET.

Prof. Saim Memon

Arden University, UK

Profile: Saim is Deputy Head of School of Engineering at Arden University, Coventry, UK. Saim is Visiting Industrial Professor of Renewable Energy Engineering at Jiangsu Sanyou Dior Energy-saving New Materials Co., Ltd, China and External Examiner in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK. Saim is also the Visiting Academic at London South Bank University, London, UK. Recently, Saim was Distinguished Professor of Renewable Energy Engineering at Zhejiang Ocean University, China. Prior to this, Saim was Associate Professor in Renewable Energy Engineering at School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, UK. Prior to this, Saim was the Head of Solar Thermal Vacuum Engineering Research Group, Senior lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Course Director of three MEng/BEng/HND courses with expertise of The IET UKSPEC accreditation and validation of course curriculum and degree apprenticeship program at Division of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, London South Bank University, London, UK.