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Author: Nava Raj Karki ,
Rajesh Karki ,
Ajit Kumar Verma ,
Jaeseok Choi
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 4.085kg
ISBN: 9789811022296
ISBN 10: 9811022291
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 18 January 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Nava Raj Karki obtained his M.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Belarussian National Technical University, Minsk in 1995 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2011. He joined Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University in 1995 and is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department. He is actively involved in IEEE activities and is the founding Vice Chair of IEEE Nepal Subsection. Dr. Nava Raj Karki is very strongly promoting Academia-Industry collaboration at the Institute of Engineering and various multilateral initiatives like Erasmus Mundus Programme. He has published several papers on power system planning, reliability, distributed generation and restructuring and published a book on Electrical Engineering Materials. <Rajesh Karki obtained his B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Regional Engineering College (renamed National Institute of Technology), Durgapur, West Bengal, India in 1991, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical power engineering in 1997 and 2000 respectively from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He worked for academic institutions and different industries in Nepal between 1991 and 1995, and for GE Industrial Systems, Peterborough, ON, Canada during 2000-2002. He joined the University of Saskatchewan, Canada as an Assistant Professor in 2002, where he currently works as an Associate Professor. During 2005-2012, he chaired the Power Systems Research Group at the University of Saskatchewan. He has served in various capacities in conferences and workshops, gave lectures in Canada and has published over 80 papers in reputed international journals and peer reviewed conferences. Dr. Karki has completed several consulting projects on system planning and reliability for Canadian electric utilities. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Professional Engineer in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research interests include power system reliability and planning, and reliability modeling and analysis of renewable energy systems. Ajit K. Verma obtained B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. (Reliability Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 1984 and 1988 respectively. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1988 where he holds the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is currently working as a Professor of Technical Safety at University College Stord/Haugesund, Norway. He has supervised/co-supervised 28 doctoral and 88masters thesis in the area of Software Reliability, Reliable Computing, Power Systems Reliability (PSR), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Probabilistic Safety/Risk Assessment (PSA). He has over 195 publications in various journals and conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE and a life fellow of IETE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSAEM) published by Springer, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for the journal OPSEARCH also published by Springer. He has served as a Guest Editor of many international journals including IEEE Transactions on Reliability March, 2010. He has been the Conference Chairman of various International conferences and symposia. Jaesok Choi is a Professor at Gyeongsang National University, Korea and has been teaching at the university since 1991. He did his masters and obtained his Ph.D. from Korea University in 1984 and 1990, respectively. He completed his post-doctoral research at University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1996. He has published many papers in reputed international journals and conference proceeding, and undertaken many projects funded by the Korean Electric Power Corporation. His research interests include fuzzy applications, probabilistic production cost simulation, reliability evaluation and outage cost assessment of power systems, and development of flexible methods for power system. His recent research is specially focused on development and extension of methodology at load points of Composite Power Systems.
