Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Microgrid Systems A Practical Guide to Communication Technologies for Resilience

O.V. Gnana Swathika is currently a Senior Associate Professor at the Centre for Smart Grid Technologies in the School of Electrical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, India. Her current research interests include microgrid protection, power system optimization, embedded systems, and photovoltaic systems.

Mr Karthikeyan is the Chief Engineering Manager in Electrical Designs at Larsen & Toubro Construction in Chennai, India. He is responsible for the preparation and review of complete electrical system designs up to 110 kV, detailed engineering stage covering by various electrical design calculations, design basis reports suitable for construction drawings, and Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) design coordination. Two decades in electrical design have included work on projects from airports, to steel and automobile plants in India and abroad (Sri Lanka, Dubai, and the UK), and he has worked at Voltas, ABB, and Apex Knowledge Technology Private Limited.

Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a full professor of electrical power engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. Subsequently, he held positions at VIT University (India), National Institute of Technology (India), Qatar University, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Aarhus University (Denmark). Prof. Padmanaban has authored over 750 scientific papers and has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University. He is editor, associate editor, or editorial board member for several important refereed journals, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who–USA 2017 for his contributions to power electronics and renewable energy research.