Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Ambrish Chandra

Ambrish Chandra received Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from the University of Roorkee (presently IIT Roorkee), M. Tech. from IIT Delhi, both in India, and Ph.D. from University of Calgary, Canada, in 1977,1980, and 1987, respectively. Before joining as an Associate Professor at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, in 1994, he worked as an Associate Professor at IIT Roorkee. Since 1999, he is a full professor of Electrical Engineering at ÉTS. From 2012-15, he was the director of multidisciplinary graduate program on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at ÉTS. Presently, he is the director of master program in electrical engineering.

The innovative technologies and engineering solutions proposed by Dr. Chandra have brought key and enabling differentiation because of their simplicity and practicality.  The primary focus of his work is related to the advancement of new theory and control algorithms for power electronic converters for the power quality improvement in distribution systems and for the integration of renewable energy sources. He is a co-author of more than 470 research articles, and also a co-author of John Wiley book ‘Power Quality – Problems and Mitigation Techniques’. His work has had a significant impact and is now extensively referred by engineers and researchers around the world, as evident by total Google Scholar citations of more than 26 500, h-index of 67, and i10-index of 306. He has been General Chair/Finance Chair of many International IEEE conferences. He has been the member of many IEEE committees, including the Chair of prestigious International IEEE Nikola Tesla Award Committee.  He has been the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Power and Energy Society and IEEE Industry Application Society. He has been invited to give Distinguished Lectures/Keynote Speeches in 35 countries.

He is Fellow of many organizations, including Life Fellow IEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), Institute of Engineering and Technology, U.K. (FIET), Institution of Engineers, India (FIE), and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India (FIETE), and registered as a Professional Engineer in the province of Quebec. 

He is the recipient of ‘IEEE Canada Inaugural P. Ziogas Electric Power Award 2018’, ‘IEEE Power and Energy Society Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award 2021’, ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022’, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, and ‘IETE – Bimal Bose Award 2024’, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and IEEE Montreal Gold Medal Award for Life Time Achievements 2024.

Gourab Majumdar

Gourab Majumdar
Senior Fellow, Semiconductor & Device Group of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Dr. Gourab Majumdar is a B. Tech graduate from IIT Delhi in 1977 in electrical Engineering and he did his PhD from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan in 2005. He lived in Japan since September 1978 and started his career at Mitsubishi electric Corporation in 1980. Since 1983, has worked in the company’s business units responsible for advanced power semiconductor development, design, and applications. From April-2012 to March-2017, he served as an Executive Fellow, Semiconductor & Device Group of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. On April-2017, he was reemployed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and currently acting as a Senior Fellow, Semiconductor & Device Group of the same company.

He is a recipient of the prestigious National Invention Award in Japan in 2005 for invention of the IPM (Intelligent Power Module) fundamental concept and has also received seveeral other prestigious awards, including the “Monozukuri Nihon Taishou” (Japan Craftsmanship Grand-prix) award from the honorary Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2013 for contribution in development and commercialization of various generations of IPM devices. He served as the General Chairman of ISPSD 2013 and has been participating as a member of both PCIM’s Advisory Board and ISPSD’s Advisory Committee. He has been a visiting lecturer of advanced power semiconductor device courses run by Kyushu University and Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) for several years till date. Also, he has been bestowed with Honorary Professorship in 2016 by Amity University, India.

He is an IEEE fellow since January 2021. He has published and co-authored many technical papers and books on power devices and holds several patents in the related fields.

Dr. Sairaj Dhople

Sairaj Dhople received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, 2009, and 2012. He is currently the Oscar A. Schott Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of power electronics and power systems with a focus on renewable integration.

Dr. Dhople was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015 and the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society in 2019. He has also received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prize Paper Award and the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (Second Place) Prize Paper Award.

Josep M. Guerrero

Josep M. Guerrero (S’01-M’04-SM’08-FM’15) received the B.Sc. degree in telecom engineering, M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and PhD degree from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is responsible for the Microgrid Research Program. From 2019, he became a Villum Investigator by the Villum Fonden, which supports the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM) at Aalborg University, being Prof. Guerrero the founder and Director of the same center (www.crom.energy.aau.dk). In 2020, he initiated neuroscience studies and research. As a result, in 2022 he received the M.Sc. degree in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute of Neuroscience (INc) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and in 2023 he received the M.Sc. degree in Sleep: Physiology and Medicine at the University of Murcia, Spain. From 2023 to 2024 he was with the Technical University of Catalonia as an ICREA Research Professor. In 2023 he joined Huanjiang Laboratory, Zhejiang University, as a director of the CROM, Zhuji, Shaoxing, China. In 2025 he became a Distinguished Senior Researcher at the department of electrical engineering, University of Valladolid, Spain.

His research interests are oriented to different microgrid frameworks like energy microgrids, hydrogen and biomass, water micronets, biological systems, seaport microgrids and electrical ships, airport microgrids and more electrical aircraft, space microgrids and smart medical systems. In these fields, he has researched distributed and cyber-physical energy systems, cybersecurity for microgrids and smart grids, neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence for energy systems, machine learning and applications using signal processing, bioinformatics, bio-inspired computing, and quantum computing and quantum communication for complex energy networks.

Prof. Guerrero is an Associate Editor for several IEEE TRANSACTIONS. He has published more than 1,000 journal papers in the fields of microgrids and renewable energy systems, which are cited more than 120,000 times. During nine consecutive years, from 2014 to 2023, he was awarded by Clarivate Analytics as Highly Cited Researcher. From 2020 to 2024 he was listed in the world’s top 2% scientist by Standford/Elsevier. In 2021, he received the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, for his pioneering contributions to renewable energy based microgrids. In 2022, he received the IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, for contributions to making the hierarchical control of microgrid systems a practical reality. In 2023, he was the IEEE Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award recipient for contributions to modelling and control of power electronics based microgrids. In 2024 he received the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems Excellent Paper Award.

M. Guerrero is with the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM), Huanjiang Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Zhuji, 311800, China ([email protected]) and the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain ([email protected]).

Vinod Khadkikar

Prof. Khadkikar is an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2022, “for contributions to power quality solutions”). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He has been IEEE IAS Fellow Evaluation committee member.

He received B.E. in Electrical, Electronics and Power from the Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, in 2000, M. Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2002 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the ETS, Montreal, Canada, in 2008.

From December 2008 to March 2010, Dr. he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. From April 2010 to December 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Currently he is a Professor of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He joined Masdar Institute (now Khalifa University) in 2010 as an Assistant Professor. He has contributed over 75 IEEE Transactions papers. He was ranked 142 among 106,000 researchers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the list of world’s top 2% of career-long scientists as of September 2022 released by Stanford University.

He has been serving as Scientist Member in the Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (MBRAS) since 2018. At Khalifa University, he has been Power Electronics Theme Lead at the Advanced Power and Energy Center (APEC), Space Power and Energy Storage Theme Lead at the Khalifa University Space Technology and Innovation Centre (KUSTIC) and Theme Lead at Virtual Research Institute (VRI) for Sustainable Energy Production, Storage, and Utilization (funded by ASPIRE).

Dr. Khadkikar is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IET Power Electronics.

Srikanth Chandrasekaran

Srikanth Chandrasekaran

Country Head & Senior Director – IEEE India

Global Practice Lead, Foundational Technologies, IEEE Standards Association

Sri has been associated with the IEEE since 2012 and heads the business operations for IEEE in India. Through his practice Sri focus’s on developing key standardisation programs in emerging areas building end-to-end trustworthy devices and systems with emphasis on cybersecurity, identity and privacy. Sri also heads the standardization efforts for the Asia Pacific region. Sri and his team in India drive the IEEE Blended Learning Program (BLP) initiative, an eLearning platform, focused on bridging skills gap for students and lateral skilling of industry professionals.

Prior to joining IEEE, Sri was associated with Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (formerly Motorola Inc.) for 17 years, focused on Electronic Design Automation.

Sri received the Accellera Technical Excellence Award in 2009 for his leadership and contributions to design automation standardisation. Sri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Madras University, India and Master’s degree in Electrical Communication from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Hatem Zeineldin

Hatem Zeineldin
Khalifa University, Abudhabi, UAE

Prof. Hatem Zeineldin received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Power and Machines from Cairo University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He obtained his PhD degree in 2006 from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Waterloo. In 2006, he joined Smith and Andersen Electrical Inc. as an electrical engineer where he was involved in several projects related to distributed generation. During that period, Dr. Zeineldin was also hired as a research consultant for a research project that was funded by Natural Resources Canada that focused on protection planning with renewable energy sources. In 2007, Dr. Zeineldin worked as a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he focused on developing new methods for islanding detection of renewable energy sources.

In 2007, Dr. Zeineldin joined Masdar Institute and served as the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Zeineldin is currently a Professor and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Khalifa University. He is the recipient of a couple of awards including University of Waterloo President’s Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Faculty of Engineering Scholarship. His main research interests include distribution system protection, islanding detection, micro-grids and smart grid design.