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Kamal Kant Hiran works as an assistant professor at the School of Engineering, Sir Padampat Singhania University (SPSU), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, as well as a research fellow at the Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a gold medalist in MTech (Hons.). He has more than 16 years of experience as an academic and researcher in Asia, Africa and Europe. He worked as an associate professor and academics head at the BlueCrest University College, Liberia, West Africa; head of department at the Academic City College, Ghana, West Africa; senior lecturer at the Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; assistant professor at the Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; and visiting lecturer at the Government Engineering College, Ajmer. He has several awards to his credit such as International travel grant for attending the 114th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting at Warsaw, Poland; International travel grant for Germany from ITS Europe, Passau, Germany; Best Research Paper Award at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia and SKIT, Jaipur, India; IEEE Liberia Subsection Founder Award; Gold Medal Award in MTech (Hons.); IEEE Ghana Section Award Technical and Professional Activity Chair; IEEE Senior Member Recognition, IEEE Student Branch Award, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition Award and the Best Research Paper Award from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He has published 35 scientific research papers in SCI/Scopus/Web of Science and IEEE Transactions Journal, conferences, 2 Indian patents and 9 books with internationally renowned publishers. He is a reviewer and editorial board member of various reputed international journals in Elsevier, Springer, IEEE Transactions, IET, Bentham Science and IGI Global. He is an active member in organizing many international seminars, workshops and conferences. He has made several international visits to Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia, Russia, Dubai and Jordan for research exposures. His research interests focus on cloud computing, machine learning and intelligent IoT.

Dr. Deepak Khazanchi is full professor of information systems and quantitative analysis, associate dean for academic affairs, and community engagement and internationalization officer at the College of Information Science & Technology (IS&T), University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). Prior to becoming associate dean, he served as chair of the Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Department at the College of IS&T. He is also an affiliate faculty in UNOs International Studies and Programs and the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights (GCHR). He has served as a visiting/adjunct full professor with the Center for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM) at the University of Agder (Kristiansand, Norway), University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China) and Management Center Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria). Dr. Khazanchi currently serves on the Board of Management for the Sir Padampat Singhania University (Udaipur, India) and the Executive Council for Bennett University (Noida, India). He is also an active advisor and external examiner for a number of universities around the world.

Ajay Kumar Vyas has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He is presently working as assistant professor at Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering, Ahmedabad (India). He has completed his BE from Ujjain Engineering College, Ujjain, and MTech for Shri GS Institute of Technology and Science, Indore, with Honors and PhD from Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Raj.). He is a senior member of IEEE and senior member of IACSIT (Singapore). He is a reviewer of international peer-review journals in Springer, IET, OSA, IGI Global and many more. He is author of several research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, textbooks and book chapters published by a renowned publisher.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member12Senior Member15, IEEE) received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2012. He was an associate professor at VIT University from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Technology, India, as a faculty member. In 2014, he was invited as a visiting researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, funded by the Qatar National Research Foundation (Government of Qatar). He continued his research activities with the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, in 2014. Further, he served as an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2016 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been a faculty member with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark. He has authored over 300 scientific papers. S. Padmanaban was the recipient of the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON13, IET-CEAT16, IEEE-EECSI19, IEEE-CENCON19 and five best paper awards from ETAEERE16-sponsored Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer book. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK. He is an editor/associate editor/editorial board for refereed journals, in particular the IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, IEEE Access, IET Power Electronics, IET Electronics Letters and Wiley International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, subject editorial board member Energy SourcesEnergies Journal, MDPI, and the subject editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and FACTS journal (Canada).