AI Enabled IoT for Electrification and Connected Transportation

Naveenkumar Marati was with Wipro Limited, Bengaluru, India, as Architect for Electri?cation in EV COE from Jan 2021 to Jan 2022. Earlier, he was working with Valeo India Private Limited, Chennai, India, as Senior Engineer, Power electronics (R&D). Before joining industry, he was associated with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India, as a research scholar from 2013 to 2017. He obtained his M.Tech. from Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (IIIT Nuzvid), Andhra Pradesh, in 2013. He obtained his B.Tech. from CVR College of Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, in 2009. He has published several papers in journal and reputed conference. He has also published few book chapters in the area electric vehicle. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (JEEE). He is an active volunteer in IEEE, currently serving as Secretary PES/PELS/IAS joint chapter IEEE Hyderabad section for the year 2019 and 2020. His interest areas are power electronics, digital control of power electronics, electri?cation in automotive, HEV, EV, IoT in automotive, and charging stations. e-mail: naveen0724@gmail.com 

Akash Kumar Bhoi is currently associated with KIET Group of Institutions, India as Adjunct Faculty and Directorate of Research, Sikkim Manipal University as Adjunct Research Faculty. He is appointed as the honorary title of "Adjunct Fellow" Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia for the period from 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022. He is also working as a Research Associate at Wireless Networks (WN) Research Laboratory, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CRN) Pisa, Italy. He was the University Ph.D. Course Coordinator for “Research & Publication Ethics (RPE) at SMU.” He is the former Assistant Professor (SG) of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology and served about 10 years. He is a member of IEEE, ISEIS, and IAENG, an associate member of IEI, UACEE, and an editorial board member reviewer of Indian and International journals. He is also a regular reviewer of reputed journals, namely IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Inderscience, etc. His research areas are Biomedical Technologies, the Internet of Things, Computational Intelligence, Antenna, Renewable Energy. He has published several papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has 130+ documents registered in the Scopus database by the year 2021. He has also served on numerous organizing panels for international conferences and workshops. He is currently editing several books with Springer Nature, Elsevier, and Routledge & CRC Press. He is also serving as Guest editor for special issues of the journal like Springer Nature and Inderscience.

Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque [M’17, SM’19] is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Department of Teleinformatics Engineering (DETI)/Graduate Program in Teleinformatics Engineering (PPGETI) at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, 2010), a M.Sc. in Teleinformatics Engineering from the PPGETI/UFC (UFC, 2007). He completed a BSE in Mechatronics Engineering at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Ceará (CEFETCE, 2006). He specializes in image data science, IoT, machine/deep learning, pattern recognition, automation and control, and robotics.

Akhtar Kalam has been at Victoria University, Melbourne since 1985 and is currently Head of Engineering and Chair of the Academic Board and lectures in the Masters by coursework program at Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth, Australia. Further, he has a distinguished professorship position at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and 5 Malaysian universities. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. engineering from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University, India. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, USA, and the University of Bath, UK. His areas of interest are power system analysis, communication, control, protection, renewable energy, smart grid, IEC61850 implementation, and cogeneration systems. He has conducted research, provided industrial consultancy, and published over ?ve hundred publications on his area of expertise and written over 29 books in the area.