Joydeep Mitra of IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section

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Joydeep Mitra (Ph.D., FIEEE, IEEE DL) is MSU Foundation Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Director of the Energy Reliability & Security (ERiSe) Laboratory, and Senior Faculty Associate at the Institute of Public Utilities. He also holds an honorary position as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Prof. Mitra received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and a B.Tech.(Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has five years of industry and consulting experience ranging from power system hardware installation to modeling and simulation of energy markets, and over twenty years of academic experience. Prof. Mitra has conducted research in power system modeling, analysis, stability, control, planning and simulation, and is known for his contributions to power system reliability analysis and reliability-based planning. He has over 250 publications and patents in the power systems area; he is co-author of the book, "Electric Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and Methods," and of IEEE Standard 762, a standard on reliability reporting. Prof. Mitra's research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Laboratories, and several electric utilities.

Prof. Mitra is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE-PES Douglas Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, the 2020 Merit Award from the International Society for Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), and the 2019 IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He serves as a Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Press. In the past he has served as Chair of the IEEE-PES Fellow Evaluation Committee, Chair of the IEEE-PES Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee, Chair of several IEEE-PES Subcommittees, and on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Power Engineering Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Prof. Mitra engages actively in several IEEE activities such as organizing conference tracks and contributing to the development of IEEE standards.

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Address:Michigan, United States

Sharan Kalwani of IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section

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A seasoned scientific, technical and computing professional, Sharan has spent over 25+ years implementing many new and pioneering technologies from operating systems (UNIX/BSD/UNICOS/IRIX/Linux/Solaris/), high performance computing (Cray, SGI, various clusters), engineering applications (CAE/CFD simulation software), optimization, networking (TCP/IP, Infiniband), operations (ITIL, ITSM), scientific domain (Bio-Informatics), and project management. An inspiring speaker and author, Sharan looks to raise the professional approach of every individual he interacts with. He has worked in many diverse areas and is a sought after speaker at many conferences and seminars, such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, IB Trade Association, Association of Information Technology Professionals, etc.

He enjoys teaching, contributing to STEM activities and publishing. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, Emeritus member of Michigan!/usr/group (mug.org), and leads the SEMCO.ORG. He has published a book on the topic: "UNIX and TCP/IP network security" " ISBN: 1581430213; and is now working on his second text, about a new computer programming language. He has been the Chair of the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section since November 2021 and has held various officer roles in different chapters of the Southeastern Michigan IEEE. He also serves as one of the writers/editors of the Sections monthly newsletter - Wavelengths. He has also served as Vice-Chair of IEEE Sustech 2022, IEEE SusTech 2021 Global Conferences. He is the recipient of:

* 2018 IEEE MGA Achievement award,
* 2021 IEEE Region 4 Jack Sherman award
* 2022 Robert Neff Section award
* 2023 IEEE Region 4 Outstanding Service Award
* 2024 Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) Anne O. Fletcher Award

for his contributions towards IEEE activities.

Sharan is the 2026 Chair of the Membership Development Committee (MDCom)

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Address:Michigan, United States

IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section

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Mohamad Berri is the Advisor of the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section and AN ACTIVE part of the Membership Development Committee.