L. Ashok KumarDr. L. Ashok Kumar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from San Diego State University. California. He was selected among seven scientists in India for the BHAVAN Fellowship from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and also, he received SYST Fellwship from DST, Govt of India. He has 3 years of industrial experience and 22 years of academic and research experience. He has published 173 technical papers in International and National journals and presented 167 papers in National and International Conferences, He has completed 26 Government of India funded projects worth about 15 Crores and currently 9 projects are in progress worth about 12 Crores. He has developed 27 products and out of that 23 products have been technology transferred to industries and for Government funding agencies, He has created Eight Centres of Excellence at PSG Tech in collaboration with Government agencies and Industries namely, Centre for Audio Visual Speech Recognition, Centre for Alternate Cooling Technologies, Centre for Industrial Cyber Physical Systems Research Centre for Excellence in LV Switchgear, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems, Centre for Excellence in Solar PV Systems. Centre for Excellence in Solar Thermal Systems. His PhD work on wearable electronics earned him a National Award from 1STE and he has received 26 awards in the National and in international level. He has guided 92 graduate and postgraduate projects. He has produced 6 PhD Scholars and 12 candidates are doing PhD under his supervision. He has visited many countries for institute industry collaboration and as a keynote speaker. He has been an invited speaker in 345 programs. Also, he has organized 102 events, including conferences, workshops, and seminars. He completed his graduate program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Madras and his post-graduate from PSG College of Technology, India, and Masters in Business Administration from IGNOU, New Delhi. After completion of his graduate degree he joined as project engineer for Serval Paper Boards Ltd. Coimbatore (now ITC Unit, Kova Presently he is working as a Professor in the Department of EEE, PSG College of Technology. He is also a Certified Chartered Engineer and BSI Certified ISO 50001 2008 Lead Auditor. He has authored 19 books in his areas of interest published by Springer, CRC Press, Elsevier, Nova Publishers. Cambridge University Press. Wiley. Lambert Publishing and IGI Global. He has 11 patents, one Design patent and two Copyrights to his credit and also contributed 18 chapters in various books. He is also the Chairman of Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals and Executive Member in institution of Engineers, Coimbatore Executive Council Member in Institute of Smart Structure and Systems. Bangalore, Associate Member in CODISSIA. He is also holding prestigious positions in various national and International forums and he is a Fellow Member in IET (UK), Fellow Member In IETE, Fellow Member IE and Senior Member in IEEE. Read More Read Less