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.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics of the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. He has over a decade of academic and teaching experience, including Associate/Assistant Professorships at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2016-2018), Aalborg University, Denmark (2018-2021) and the CTIF Global Capsule Laboratory at Aarhus University, Denmark (2021-present). Prof. Padmanaban received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who - USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research, and was listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University, USA in 2019.