The broad areas covered by the IEEE Press Series on Power and Energy include Energy Conversion, Power Delivery, Power Systems, Industry Applications, and Industrial and Power Electronics theory, practice, and applications. While emphasizing the practical aspects of its areas of coverage, the Series strives to provide the reader with comprehensive treatments of the fundamental underpinnings of the most recent developments. Many books in this series provide useful background references for the practicing engineer and are suitable for textbook and classroom use.
Kumar Venayagamoorthy
Duke Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Clemson University, USA
G Kumar Venayagamoorthy is the Duke Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering at Clemson University, USA. Dr. Venayagamoorthy received his PhD and MScEng degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Natal, South Africa. He received his BEng degree with a First-Class Honors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria. He holds an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Clemson University. Dr. Venayagamoorthy’s interests are in the research, development and innovation of Smart Grid and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. He has published over 550 refereed technical articles which are cited over 23,000 times with a h-index of 70 and i10-index of > 300.
For four consecutive years (2019 to 2022), Elsevier/Stanford University ranked Dr. Venayagamoorthy in the top 26,000 among the list of Top 100,000 scientists in the world from 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields. Furthermore, Elsevier BV/Stanford ranks the nominee in the Top 0.1% in the subfields of Energy and AI.
Dr. Venayagamoorthy is involved in the leadership and organization of conferences and served/serves as Editor/Associate Editor/Guest Editor of several IEEE Transactions and Elsevier Journals. Dr. Venayagamoorthy is a Fellow of the IEEE (with the citation: for contributions to the application of artificial intelligence to power systems), IET (UK), the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a Senior Member of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). He is an IEEE CIS, IAS and IES Distinguished Lecturer and the Vice-President for Industry Relations of the INNS.
Meet Dr. Venayagamoorthy in this video interview where he discusses his background and his vision for the series going forward.
