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Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering 509 and 609 of proceedings of ICAEDC 2017 & GUCON 2019, respectively. He has also been the editor isof Proceedings of ICRRM 2019 Published recently by Springer Nature Singapore in 2020. Dr. Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013-2014; IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference and Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-2018. Prof. Singh is currently IEEE R10 Vice-Chair Technical Activities 2019-2020 & IEEE India Council Chair 2019-2020.

Dr. Prabhakar Tiwari was born on April 20, 1975, in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. He got B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from MMMEC, Gorakhpur; M.Tech. in Power Systems Engineering from IIT Delhi; and Ph.D. from JMI Central University. He has been involved in teaching various subjects of Electrical Engineering since the last 20 years. Dr. Tiwari has written 2 books and more than 70 papers in the different national & international journals and conferences. He has delivered more than 25 expert lectures on power systems, technical education and IEEE Awareness in different institutions of national & international repute. He has organized more than 20 conferences/STC/FDP/workshops/seminars. He was also awarded outstanding section Volunteer Award of IEEE UP Section for the year 2015. He had been Professor and Head, EEE & EE Department for 5 years. He was Organizing Chair & Convener of the 1st UPCON 2014, which is the one and only conference initiated and sponsored technically & financially by IEEE UP Section. Dr. Tiwari has supervised 6 Ph.D.s ( 1 completed and 5 under progress). Currently, he is Associate Professor, EE Department, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. His major field of interest includes renewable energy, restructuring, deregulation, power system pricing, power system stability, smart grid and quality in technical education. He is Senior Member of IEEE and PES (Power and Energy Society), SGS (Smart Grid Society) and Education Society, Life Member of ISTE, Life Member of IE (India) and Joint Secretary of IEEE UP Section (for the year 2018 & 2019) and currently, Secretary, IEEE UP Section for the year 2020.
Dr. Sumit Tiwari is working with Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, Uttar Pradesh. He received the B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow (now AKTU). Further, he got M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He got assistantship for his Ph.D. from "Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)" assistantship. He worked with Professor Patrick Phelan's Group, USA, as a research intern for 06 months under the fellowship named "Building Energy Efficiency Higher & Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Fellowship Program" which is a program executed by Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST). He got Shrimati Vijay-Usha Sodha Research Award for the session 2018-2019 given by Center for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi. He also got second prize under "Best thesis award" in Ph.D. symposium organized by "Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur (U.P) INDIA & University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan". He is working on various solar thermal technologies, namely, photovoltaic thermal (PVT) greenhouse drying system, PVT greenhouse heating system, PVT greenhouse biogas heating system, solar still, PVT air collector, PVT air collector integrated drying system, passive cooling of building, and solar adsorption cooling system, etc. He has published several SCI journal papers with high impact factor and international conference papers in his field. He has more than 12 years' experience in teaching and research. He has also got several recognitions during his study as well as in teaching. He is working as a reviewer in more than 17 international SCI journals.