Gyan Ranjan Biswal is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at VSS University of Technology, India. He specialises in Power System Instrumentation, Substation and Industrial Automation, IoT-enabled Smart Sensors, and Hydrogen Fuel Cells, as well as the design and development of cooling systems for large-scale electrical generators. He has been in academia for more than 16 years. He has published more than 70 papers in journals and conferences at international and national levels, and also holds three patents.