Prof. Dr. M. Prabhakar

Centre for Smart Grid Technologies,

School of Electrical Engineering (SELECT),

Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

Introduction: His research experience is focused on developing, testing and implementing high gain DC-DC converters for integrating renewable energy sources to a DC bus. He started his research in the year 2012 and he have been actively involved in synthesizing more than 20 high gain DC-DC converters. The voltage gain of the developed converters range from 15 to 25. The test results obtained from the prototype versions of the power electronic converters have been published in reputed journals.

From May 2022, he is associated with Centre for Smart Grid Technologies (CSGT), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India as a Professor. In recent times, he is involved in synthesizing high gain multi-input converters. Presently, he is working on implementing machine learning-based algorithms to integrate the multiple photovoltaic (PV) sources to a common DC bus through asymmetric multi-input converters. This particular work is being funded by his university, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India under “Seed Fund Grant” proposal.

Prof. Dr. Mohd Shakir Md Saat
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Malaysia

Introduction: Prof. Mohd Shakir Md Saat’s expert area is on controller synthesis of polynomial control system, also in wireless power transfer technologies, especially in Capacitive Power Transfer system. He has published more than 80 journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has published 1 book on Polynomial Discrete-Time System (Publisher: Springer). He is reviewer to many reputable journals such as IEEE Transaction, Sensors, Energies, COMPEL, and many others.