Advances in Green Energy Technologies: Proceedings of ICGEST 2023, Volume 2

Shelly Vadhera is currently working as Associate Professor in National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. She received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India; the M.Tech. degree in Power Systems; and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering both from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and is presently engaged in research activities circumscribing the guidance to postgraduate and Ph.D. students for their dissertation and thesis work, organizing the conferences/workshops/short-term training programs/short-term courses under the wide spectrum of renewable energy and power system technologies. She is one of the authors of the book on “Power Systems and Protection,” Bharat Publications (2007) and “Reference Handbook on Power, Control & Communication Systems: Recent Headways” Elixir Publications. Her book chapter entitled “Voltage Stability Assessment Techniques for Modern Power Systems” (Chapter 6), pp. 128-176 in Book "Novel Advancements in Electrical Power Planning and Performance" IGI Global (2020), surfaces the issues concerning the voltage stability and also empowers with the solutions to mitigate the problems in the domain of power systems. She has more than 100 papers to her credit in reputed journals and international conferences. Presently she holds expert talks on Solar Energy Scenario in Indian context and had delivered lectures in NITs, renowned government colleges and reputed private universities. She is a reviewer of many IEEE conferences and international journals. Along with the academic activities, she had successfully handled the key administrative posts in various capacities whereby it gives her an opportunity to keep the young generation motivated for producing the academic work/projects that can benefit the society by upgrading their condition even though if the change is incremental and not breakthrough. Her current research area focuses on renewable energy technologies, power systems, high-voltage engineering and artificial intelligence.

Rajesh Kumar currently is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra. Prior to this role, he gained experience at Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co Ltd. in the MHE division as a Graduate Engineer Trainee. His areas of research interest include Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Turbulence modeling, Large Eddy Simulation (LES), and the Applications of CFD in Energy Systems. Dr. Kumar obtained his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from AKGEC Ghaziabad in 2006, followed by an M. Tech. in Fluids Engineering from MNNIT Allahabad, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from IIT Delhi. He has contributed significantly to academia, with numerous publications in esteemed international journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, he enriched his experience as a visiting researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur for a two-month period from May to July 2016.

Anupam Dewan obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 from NIT Kurukshetra, and master's and Ph.D. degrees in 1991 and 1996, respectively, from IISc Bengaluru, both in Mechanical Engineering. He earlier worked at IIT Guwahati as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1997 to 2009. Since 2009 he is working as Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi. He was R.C. Malhotra Chair Professor at IIT Delhi (2016-2021). He is the author of book “Tackling Turbulent Flows in Engineering”, published by Springer in 2011. His areas of interest include turbulence, heat transfer and energy. He has authored/co-authored many refereed papers in leading journals and conference proceedings. He has delivered several keynote and invited lectures. He was Associate Editor of journals (a) Sadhana (Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences) from 2013 to 2020 and (b) Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Part C: J. of Mechanical Engineering Science from 2020 to 2022.