**Prince Winston David**

Dr. D. Prince Winston received his B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from R.V.S CET, Dindugal, in 2006 and his M.E. degree in Power Electronics and Drives from MEPCO Schlenk Engg College in 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree from Anna University in 2013. Presently, he is working as a Dean Research and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai, India. He is recognized as being within the top 2% of Scientists Worldwide Listed by Elsevier BV, Stanford University. He is also recognized as within the top Scientists Worldwide Listed by the AD Scientific Index. He has 13 years of teaching experience. He is the Research Supervisor at Anna University Chennai. Eight Ph.D. scholars under his guidance have completed their research work; currently, eleven research scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. He has published more than 60 papers in International Journals listed in SCOPUS/SCI/SCIE. He has also published two sole author papers in IEEE Transactions.

He has received an award from IEEE Madras Section during the years 2019 and 2020 for publishing papers in IEEE Transaction. He received a young scientist fellowship from TNSCST (Government of Tamilnadu) during the year 2018-19. Currently, he has an ongoing research project funded by AICTE under the Research Promotion Scheme. He has filed seven patents. He had completed eight consultancy works for various industries. He is a reviewer/editorial board member in various SCI journals. He has published many book chapters/books. He has developed various products for industries/institutions. He is serving as a DC member for many research scholars. His current research interests include solar PV, solar still, energy conservation in electric motor drives, power converters, power quality, and electric vehicles.

#### **Praveen Kumar B**

Dr. B. Praveen Kumar (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.E. degree in electrical and electronic engineering and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in power systems engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2014, 2016, and 2019, respectively. He is currently working as an Associate Professor within the Department of EEE, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India. He is a Senior Member in IEEE and mentor in the IEEE Power and Energy Society. Also, he is the IEEE Vardhaman Student Branch Photonics Society counselor.

Dr. Praveen has published 70+ scientific articles in reputed international journals with a cumulative impact factor of more than 100, and he also has 10 patents to his name. His current research interests include solar photovoltaics, solar stills, and renewable energy systems, AI, IoT, and EV. Most of his research work is on PV and its allied applications in a real-time environment. He has worked on external fault identification in solar PV using thermal image processing, partial shading classification using a low-cost web camera, and power enhancement in an aged solar PV array system with the help of advanced technologies like ANN, SVM, and other classifiers in MATLAB software. Presently, he is working on reconfiguration techniques for partial shaded PV systems and on MPPT and parameter estimation of the system.
