Prof.Chandan Chakraborty

Chandan Chakraborty (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the dual Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, and Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.,He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

His research interests include power converters, motor drives, electric vehicles, and renewable energy.,Dr. Chakraborty was the recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship to work with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, from 2000 to 2002 and IEEE Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award in 2019. He has regularly contributed to IEEE Industrial Electronics Society conferences, such as Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, as a Technical Program Chair/Track Chair.

He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for IE Technology News, a web-only publication for IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He was a Co-Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics from 2018 to 2019. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.(Based on document published on 20 November 2023).