ISUW 2024 Speaker

R. K. Keshri (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc (Engg.) and M.Tech degrees from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India, in 2003 and 2007, respectively both in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in energy engineering from the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy in 2014. Since 2015, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and is an Associate Professor. Dr. Keshri was the recipient of the silver medal for being first in M.Tech (electrical) in 2007, Young Researcher Fellowship from the Ministry of University of Italy in 2008, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship for 34 months from European Union in 2010, first prize as a Student Team Leader of the University of Padova in class-3 of Formula Electric and Hybrid in 2011, 2016 Best paper award of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship for five years in 2017. His research interests include power electronics and electric drives for electric vehicle propulsion and charging infrastructure. He is associated with IEEE -IES and –PELS, and contributed as Chair for technical track and special sessions in IECON 2013-19. He has contributed to technical committee on Transportation Electrification of Industrial Electronics Society (TCTE) IEEE as Conference Activity chair from 2017 to 2018, Secretary from 2018 to 2019, Vice-Chair from 2019 to 2020, and Chair from 2020 to 2021 of TCTE.