Advances in Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Power Plant Machinery

Khadim Moin Siddiqui received a Ph.D Degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow (Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow). He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, SR Institute of Management & Technology, Lucknow. He has contributed to numerous academic works from publishers of international repute. He is a senior Member of IEEE PES society, IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society and has contributed to many projects with the organization.

Dr. Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh received his B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech. degree in Power Systems & Drives from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, and then received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Currently he is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. He is founder and Counselor of IEEE Student Branch, NIT Srinagar. His research interests includes Performance Analysis and new applications of Variable Frequency Transformer, Application of Power Electronics & Drives in Renewable Energy Systems (Solar & Wind), Multilevel Converters, Multilevel DC-DC DAB Converters, Alternate Energy Vehicles (Electric/ Hybrid) and Multi-phase Drives.

Hafiz Ahmed received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the University of Lille 1, Villeneuve-D’ASCQ, France. He has worked at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, Asia Pacific University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, North South University, Dhaka, Coventry University, Coventry, U.K., Birmingham City University, Birmingham, U.K., and Bangor University, Bangor, U.K. Presently, he is working with the University of Sheffield, U.K. as a Head of Group - Controls & Instrumentation at the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. His research interests include applied control engineering with special focus in energy and environment. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Education. He is also actively involved in organizing special issues and sessions at various international journals and conferences.

Demba Diallo received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. After graduating, he worked as a research engineer at the Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique in Grenoble, France, on the development of electric drives and active filters, and later he joined Université de Picardie Jules Verne as an associate professor of electrical engineering. He is currently a full professor at Université Paris Saclay. He is member of the Research Group of Electrical Engineering Paris (GeePs). His area of research includes fault diagnosis and prognosis, advanced control techniques, and renewable-energy based microgrids. He is an IEEE senior member (SM05). He is currently Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He is also the elected Director of the National Research Group on Electrical Engineering and Societal Issues (CNRS GDR SEEDS).