Dr. K. K. Gupta received his B.Tech (1991) and M.E. (1994) degrees in Electronics and Control & Instrumentation Engineering from IET, Lucknow University and NIT, Allahabad University respectively and completed his Ph.D. in Image Processing from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in the year 2007. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He has five year industrial experience and more than fifteen years of teaching and research experience with about 25 publications to his credit in various journals and conferences of repute. He is reviewers of many journals mainly IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Signal Processing Letter, IET Image processing, Elsevier Journal on Digital Signal Processing, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, ASPRS Journal on Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, ISRS Journal on Remote Sensing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. His research interests include Vibration and Acoustic signal processing, Remote Image processing, Biometrics, Biomedical Image processing.

Dr. Adil Sarwar is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Galgotia College of Engineering and Technology affliated with the Uttar Pradesh Technical University. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Power Electronics from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 2012. He is having 7 Years of Experience in the field of Electrical Engineering. His Area of Expertise includes: Power Electronics, Solar photovoltaics, Machines and microcontrollers. He has many publications in international journals including IEEE transactions. He holds an Indian patent in the field of power electronics applied to solar photovoltaic.

Dr. Anagha Panditrao is a Professor in the Instrumentation and Control Department of Cummins College of Engineering at the University of Pune. She received her Ph.D. Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from PUNE University in 2012. She is working with Cummins College of Engineering from 1996. She is having 18 Years of Experience in the field of Instrumentation. Her Area of Expertise includes: Temperature measurement, process control and transducer design. Several of her papers have appeared in leading journals and conferences including research publications in IEEE transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and Springer. She has represented Pune University from research category in national and zonal project competitions. Dr. Anagha has received appreciation award from Cummins India Limited in August 2011 for her research work.

Dr. Durlav Hazarika is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Assam Engineering at the University of Guhati University. He received his Ph.D. in Power System Operation and Planning from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is having 30 Years of Experience in the field of Engineering Teaching and Research and Development. His Area of Expertise includes:: Power System Planning and Operation, Power System Voltage stability analysis, Power System Economics, Power System operational planning using Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU), Operational planning of FACTs device, ANN amplification in Power System, Sensor analysis using Finite Element Method(FEM), Optical sensor analysis, Development of Embedded System for electric and optical sensor. He is the author of several papers in international and national journal, such as IEEE transactions on power systems, IEEE transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IEEE sensor, IEE proceedings, IET proceedings, International Journal on Power and Energy Systems, Optical Fiber Technology, IE(I) etc.

Dr. Pramod D Shendge is a Professor in the College of Enginerring Pune, Department of Instrumentation and Control at the University of Pune, India. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Instrumentation and Control from SGGS College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, India in 2007. Then worked as an Associate Professor in Instrumentation and Control Department with College of Engineering Pune from 2008. He is having 20 Years of Experience in the field of Control Systems. His Area of Expertise includes: the sliding mode control, uncertainty and disturbance estimation and robust control. He is the author of about 38 papers, including 10 journal papers, one book chapter.

Dr. Vipul A. Shah is a Professor and Head in the Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department of Faculty of Technology at the Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad, Gujarat He received his Ph.D. Degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad in 2006. He is having Four Years of Industrial and Eighteen Years of Teaching Experience. His Area of Expertise includes: Neural Network & Fuzzy Logic Control, Process Control, Advanced Control System, System Design, Robotics Engineering, Microprocessor and Microcontroller etc.

Dr. V. Kalaichelvi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engg. at BITS PILANI, DUBAI CAMPUS. She received her Ph.D. Degree in Instrumentation Engg . from Annamalai University in the year 2007. She has 16 years of teaching experience in Annamalai University, India. She is working with BITS PILANI, Dubai Campus for past 6 years. She has taught many courses and guided many research projects for undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has her research work published in refereed international journals and many international conferences. Her Area of Expertise includes: Process Control, Control Systems, Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic and Genetic Algorithm

M. D. Uplane is currently working as Professor in the Department of Instrumentation Science at University of Pune, Pune, India. He received his Ph.D. (Physics) in 1985 with a major of photovoltaics, M.E M. D. Uplane. (Electronics Engineering) in 1996, from the Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. He worked as Assistance Professor in PVPIT Budhagaon Sangli for eight years. He joined Shivaji University Kolhapur as Associate Professor in 1992. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India from 2009 to 2013. He was coordinator at Department of Nanoscience and Technology. He has published more than 100 research papers in national and international journals. Also he has presented more than 125 papers at national and international conferences/symposium. He received best research paper award from IETE New Delhi in 2000. He is having 34 years of Experience in the field of Electronics and Instrumentation. His research interest includes: Synthesis of thin films of metal chalcogenides, metal oxides, by chemical, electrochemical methods and their applications in solid state sensors, solar cells, power electronics and control, digital signal processing.

Prof. Manna is Associate Professor in the Deptt. of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, SLIET, Longowal. Completed his B.E. (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) from Mysore. University, India, M.E. (Power & Machines) from Thapar University, Patiala. He is pursuing his Doctorate from SLIET University, Longowal. He is regular member of IEEE, USA since 2010, and ACM, USA. He is also Life member of Indian Society of Technical Education, India and Institution of Engineers (India). He also has published 135 research papers in National and International Journals and conferences of repute. He is Editor and Reviewer for many International Referred Journals. He has guided many UG Projects and 14 PG Dissertations. He also Delivered an Expert Talk on Energy on National TV Channal at INDIA. His area of interest is Finite Element tools for Power Systems and Energy Generation & Management. Manpreet Manna also taught in AIT, Bangkok for January, 2012 session as Visiting Associate Professor by MHRD, Govt. of India. He is Recipient of BEST CITIZENS OF INDIA AWARD-2014, SHRESHTH AACHARYA AWARD-2011, and Honoured from International Human Rights Protection Bureau (India) at Bangkok-2009.

Dr P.Vamsi Krishna is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Warangal. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University in the year 2009. Then he worked as Assistant Professor and Associated Professor in GITAM University for five years. He is having 11years of Experience in the field of education and research. His Area of Expertise includes: Manufacturing Processes, solid lubricants and nanofluids application in machining, Nano composites. He is the co-author of Production Technology text book, he published 50 research papers in various International Journals and conferences.

Dr. U. Sabura Banu is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and Co-ordinator of Centre for Molecular Diagnostics & Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Innovation Centre at B.S. Abdur Rahman University. She received her Ph.D. Degree in Process Automation from Anna University in 2009. She has worked as Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in BS Abdur Rahman University. She is having 14 years of experience in the field of Process Automation. Her areas of expertise includes: Instrumentation, Process Automation, Biomedical instrumentation, Image Processing, Video Processing. She has published more than 130 research papers in leading Journals and Conferences like Science Direct, ACTA press, Instrument Science and Technology, Advances in Modeling and Simulation Enterprises, Chemical Engg. Communication, IEEE, IET, Springer, etc . Received Travel Grant under International Travel Scheme (ITS) from Department of Science and Technology (DST), SERB, GoI, India and awarded Travel Fellowship by Centre for International co-operation in Science (CICS) for attending and presenting a research article in an International Conference INTELLISYS 2015 held in London, UK.

Dr. Ketan Pravinchandra Detroja Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

Dr. M.V. Vaidyan Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala , India. B.Sc(Engg.)(1972) TKM College of Engineering, Quilon, Kerala University. M.Sc(Engg.)(1975), College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala University. PhD(1996), Regional Engineering College, Calicut, Calicut University.

Santhosh K V Assistant Professor - Senior Scale - Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering – MIT. Department Research Coordinator, Area of interest : Smart Sensor, Image Processing, Multi Sensor Data Fusion and Process Control. Qualification: B.E.(IT), M.Tech.(Electronics), Ph.D.(Electrical Engineering)

Dr. J.Mohanalin Raja Rathnam St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, India Professor, India

Dr. Chakravarthula Kiran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering at the VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, India.She/he received his Ph.D. Degree in Engineering (Engineering Physics track) from Louisiana Tech University, USA in 2012. He has also obtained three Masters degrees from Louisiana Tech University – in Biomedical Engineering, Microsystems Engineering, and Applied Physics. He has been working in the aforementioned position for over 3 years. His Area of Expertise includes: High Energy Physics, Particle Physics, Sensors and Measurements, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Biosensors, Assistive Technologies, Nanotechnology, MEMS, and Virtual Instrumentation. Dr. Kiran has published 3 articles in international journals, presented his talks at 5 international conferences, and presented posters in 3 international conferences. His dissertation is available for purchase as a book through ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing. He is a Life Member of Instrument Society of India (ISOI) and Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).

Dr. Anand Jatti .Associate Professor, Dept of Instrumentation Technology, R.V.College of Engineering, Bengaluru-Karnataka, India.Chaired as a Chairperson for the National Conforence KSHITIJ 2015 held at Dept.of ECE, SJCIT, Chikkaballapur on 12/05/2015.Chaired as Chairperson for 2nd National Conference on Computational Control System & Optimization-CCSO 2013-14 projects Exhibition and Competition held at Dr.Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

Dr. S.Ganesh Kumar Assistant Professor,Department of EEE, ANNA University,Sardar Patel Road, Chennai,Tamil Nadu. Sensorless estimation of load torque and implementation of Passivity Based Control of DC drives.Implementation of backstepping control of DC drives.Development of multiphase induction machines for traction applications. Ability to analyse the control behavior of any control law using sensitivity analysis. He has been invited in the editorial board of the international journals listed in Annexure-I. He has been invited to review the papers of the journal s mentioned in Annexure II

Dr. D.M. Adhyaru received PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Control Systems from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2009. He is associated with Nirma University, since 1998. At present, Dr. Adhyaru is Professor and Head of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. Dr. Adhyaru is having three years of industrial experience before joining Nirma University. He wrote more than 25 International journal and conference publications. He also wrote one book on Robust control. He has guided several B.Tech. and M.Tech. projects related to Instrumentation and Control engineering. At present, he is guiding five PhD students in the area of Control and Automation. His area of research is Industrial Automation and Soft computing applications in control engineering. Dr. Adhyaru carried out consultancy projects for industries in the area of Process Automation and Product development. He delivered expert talks to several industries. He has carried out many training programmes for industries and academia in the field of Instrumentation and Control engineering. He chaired many technical sessions during International conferences. Dr. Adhyaru also chaired the 4th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE) 2013 technically co-sponsored by IEEE.

Dr. Ketan Pravinchandra Detroja is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad, Telengana, India. He taught various graduate and under-graduate courses in Control Engineering, Electric and Magnetic Circuits, Advanced Control Systems, Electrical Devices and Control Systems. His area of research includes Micro-grid/Smart-grid Optimization and Control, Machine Fault Diagnosis, control algorithms, Data Driven Process Monitoring and Diagnosis. Dr. Ketan’s manuscript publication includes 22 International and 3 National Referred Journals. Many of B. Tech, M. Tech and Ph.D students are working under Dr. Ketan Pravinchandra Detroja. His grants/awards include; Mayor Shri Award of the Year – 1995, Mayor Shri Award of the Year – 1997 and Eklavya Award of Excellence – 2000 respectively.

Santhosh K V is an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, MIT Department Research Coordinator. His area of interest includes Smart Sensor, Image Processing, Multi Sensor Data Fusion and Process Control. Qualification: B.E (IT), M.Tech (Electronics), Ph.D (Electrical Engineering). His area of interest includes, Smart Sensors, Image Processing, Multi Sensor Data Fusion and Process Control.

Dr. M.V. Vaidyan Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India. B.Sc(Engg.)(1972) TKM College of Engineering, Quilon, Kerala University. M.Sc(Engg.) (1975), College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala University. PhD(1996), Regional Engineering College, Calicut, Calicut University. Dr. Vaidyan’s area of interests includes Active magnetic bearing, industrial electronics, medical cybernetics, microprocessors, microcontrollers, FPGA based systems, FPGA implementation of process controllers, Modeling, state estimation and control of hybrid systems, computer controlled systems, adaptive control systems and system identification. He has published many papers in referred International and National Journals, conference proceedings etc. Dr. Vaidyan is also a Senate member of National Institute of Technology, Calicut.