This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies 2020 (ICAECT 2020). The papers presented in this book are peer-reviewed and cover latest research in electrical, electronics, communication and computer engineering. Topics covered include smart grids, soft computing techniques in power systems, smart energy management systems, power electronics, feedback control systems, biomedical engineering, geo informative systems, grid computing, data mining, image and signal processing, video processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, cloud computing, pervasive computing, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, neural network and fuzzy logic, broad band communication, mobile and optical communication, network security, VLSI, embedded systems, optical networks and wireless communication. The volume can be useful for students and researchers working in the different overlapping areas of electrical, electronics and communication engineering.
Dr. Thangaprakash Sengodan received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Bharathiar University, India and Master of Engineering in Power Electronics and Drives in Anna University, Chennai during 2002 and 2014 respectively. The he completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2011. From 2004 to mid-2011, he was working with various engineering colleges in India with different capacities. From mid-2011 to mid-2013, he was working as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Systems Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia. From the mid-2013 he has been affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SVS College of Engineering as a professor and head. His current research interests include power electronics circuits, renewable power conversion systems and solid state control of electrical drives. He has authored more than thirty papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences. Dr. Thangaprakash is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE-Power Electronics Society, IEEE-Communications Society and a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nigeria and a reviewer for the International Journal of Automation and Computing (Springer), IEEE Transactions on Power electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IET Power Electronics and various IEEE/Springer/Elsevier sponsored international/national conferences. Dr. Thangaprakash had been a, organizing chair for four IEEE International Conferences: 2012 Second IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication and Informatics (2012 IEEE ICCCI) and 2015, 2017 and 2019 editions of the IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (IEEE ICECCT) and the First Edition of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Electrical and Computer Technologies 2019 (ICAECT 2019).
Dr. M Murugappan received the B.E (Electrical & Electronics Engg) (Distinction) from Madras University, India, M.E (Applied Electronics) from Anna University, India and Ph.D (Mechatronic Engineering) from Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia, 2002, 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST) (Private University), Kuwait since Feb 2016. Prior joining to KCST, he worked as a Senior Lecturer in School of Mechatronics Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia from 2010-2016. He has been working in the fields of bio-signal processing applications for the past 8 years and, has been cited as an expert in WHO IS WHO in the world. He has received a several research awards, medals and certificates on excellent publications and research products. He has published more than 110 research articles in a peer reviewed conference proceedings/ journals/book chapter. Some of his research articles won special award from the international journals and conferences. He has got a maximum citation of 1925 and scored the H index of 22 and i10 Index of 40 (Ref: Google Scholar citations). He secured several research grants from Govt of Malaysia for continuing his research works and produced nearly 11 postgraduate students (7 Ph.D and 4 M.Sc). He also servings as Editorial board member in several internationally peer reviewed journals (ISI) and committee members in international conferences. His main research interest are: bio-signal/image processing applications (affective computing), neuroscience, brain computer interface, human machine interaction, and vision system.
Dr. Sanjay Misra is full Professor of Computer Engineering at Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. He has 25 years experience in academic administration and research in various universities in Asia, Europe, and Africa. He is Ph.d. in Information and Knowledge Engineering (Software Engineering) from the University of Alcala, Spain and M.Tech. from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India. As per SciVal analysis, he was the most productive researcher in Nigeria during 2012-2017 & 2013-2018 (in all subjects), and in computer science number 1 in the whole country, 6th in the whole continent (Africa) and also the top in Covenant University since 2013. Total around 350 articles with 200 co-authors around the world in the core and application area of Software Engineering (SQA, SPI, SPM), Web engineering, Health Informatics, Intelligent systems. He has delivered more than 80 keynote speeches/invited talks/public lectures in reputed conferences and institutes around the world. He got several awards for outstanding publications (2014 IET Software Premium Award (UK)), and from TUBITAK-Turkish Higher Education, and Atilim University). He has co-edited 42 LNCS & 6 IEEE proceedings, several books, editor in chief of book series IT Personnel and Project Management, International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals.
