About the Author

N. V. Ramana is Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Hyderabad) College of Engineering, at Jagityal, Karimnagar (D), Andhra Pradesh. His areas of interest include power system operations and control, and dynamics and design of intelligent controllers for power system problems. He is an M.Tech. from S. V. University, Tirupati and a PhD degree holder from JNTU, the university he is associated with since 1992.

Professor Ramana has about 18 years of teaching and two years of industrial experience. He has more than 20 research papers to his credit. He has presented papers at international conferences held in Singapore, Vancouver (Canada) and Las Cruces (the USA). An assiduous academician, Professor Ramana has visited a number of universities in the course of his illustrious career including the New Mexico State University, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech (the USA) and Nan Yang University (Singapore) besides all the IITs in India. He is presently guiding eight PhD students.