Bhaveshkumar R. Bhalja is working as a Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee, India. He has a teaching experience of more than 20 years. He has published more than 150 papers in journals at international and national levels. He received Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships and worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, US for a period of 9 months in 2018-19 in the area of “Fault Detection using Synchrophasors”. He has been awarded “Young Engineers Award”, “Certificate of Merit Award” and “Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Memorial Prize”by Institution of Engineers, India in 2009, 2007 and 2016, respectively. He has been awarded “Hari-ohm Ashram Prerit Inter-University Smarak Trust Award” by Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, India in 2009. One of his paper titled “Miscordination of Relay in Radial Distribution Network Containing Distributed Generation” also got Best Poster award at IEEE Conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems, Sep 22-24, 2011, Trivandrum, India. He has written two books on “Protection and Switchgear”, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, 2nd Edition, 2018 and “Transmission Line Protection Using Digital Technology”, Springer Science Business Media Singapore Pte. Ltd; Singapore, January 2016.He has also written three book chapters on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems Protection, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2021 and Numerical Algorithms forProtective Devices” In: GarcAa, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Electricaland Electronic Power Engineering,” vol. 2, Elsevier. He has developed two on-line courses on “Power System Protection and Switchgear” in 2020 and “Digital Protection of Power System” in 2022. He has also worked as an Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (Evaluation), IIT Roorkee from September 2020 to August 2023. Currently, he is involved in six research and industry funded projects worth 50 million. He has guided more than 50 under-graduate projects, 30 post-graduate projects and twenty doctoral students. He is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2010. He is working as an Associate Editor of IET Generation Transmission and Distribution, Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and IEEE Systems Journal. His research interests include Digital Protection & Automation, Smart Grid Technologies and Applications, Cyber Security, Distributed Generation, Micro-grid, Power Quality Improvement, Phasor Measurement Unit, Condition Monitoring of Electrical Apparatus and Application of Artificial Intelligence.

Title of Talk : Cyber Security Issues for Power Grid