Innovations in Sustainable Energy and Technology

P. Muthukumar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in IIT Guwahati, India. He is the Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India). He served as the President, Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), Guwahati sub-chapter. He is also the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award 2017 from USIEF and also received Mechanical Engineering Design National Award from NDRF. He is a reviewer for more than 50 international journals. He has successfully completed 11 research projects funded by various government agencies and 5 consultancy projects funded by industries. Currently, he is handling 5 research and 1 consultancy projects. His specialization includes refrigeration, hydrogen storage, metal hydride based thermal machines, porous medium combustion and thermal energy storage.Dilip Kumar Sarkar is a Professor at University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), Quebec, Canada, in the Applied Sciences Department. He is an active member of American Chemical Society (ACS), Canadian Association of Physicist (CAP) as well as that of the aluminum research cluster of Quebec (REGAL). He holds several important research grants from the Government of Quebec and the Government of Canada. He holds a research group at the UQAC comprising International and National graduate students and post-doctoral fellows working on various aspects of Materials Science, mainly concentrated on thin ¿lms fabrication and various applications that includes, energy storage, corrosion, as well as antibacterial nanomaterials.Debasis De is an Assistant Professor in Energy Institute, Bengaluru (Centre of R.G.I.P.T, Jais), India. He is an active member of the International Solar Energy Society and The Institute of Engineers (India). He was selected as one of the fourteen Indian student delegates to attend the JSPS-DST Asia Science Seminar held at Yokohama, Japan. He has received Quebec Merit Scholarship for foreign student in 2012. He has published more than 30 research papers in various journals and conferences. He is a reviewer for more than 5 international journals. His current research interests include different types of solar cells, OER/HER, bio-inspired surfaces, nanostructures for electronics and advanced materials, energy materials.Chanchal Kumar De is a Professor and Head in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. His research interests include cognitive radio networks, cooperative communication, energy harvesting, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, etc. He is a reviewer of IEEE, Springer and Elsevier journals. He has published more than 25 research articles in different journals and conferences. He is an editor of proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing ICCDC 2019, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer.