Tapan Saha

Biography:

Professor Tapan Saha is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland (UQ), where he leads UQ Solar, the UQ Industry 4.0 Energy TestLab, and the Power, Energy and Control Engineering Discipline. He is also the Founding Director of the Australasian Transformer Innovation Centre (ATIC). With over four decades of academic experience and an international education spanning Bangladesh, India, Canada, and Australia, his research focuses on power systems, renewable energy integration, transformer diagnostics, asset management, and the energy transition.

Professor Saha is an IEEE Life Fellow, a Fellow and Chartered Professional Engineer of Engineers Australia, and a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery for 2026–2028, Faculty Adviser of the IEEE Mu Kappa Chapter at UQ, and Student Counsellor of the IEEE PES UQ Student Branch. Through his research, industry collaborations, and extensive professional leadership, he is committed to advancing reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy systems.

Yateendra Mishra

Biography:

Yateendra Mishra received his PhD degree from The University of Queensland, Australia in 2009. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, in 2009, and a Transmission Planning Engineer with Midwest ISO, Carmel, IN, USA, from 2009 to 2011. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, in 2014.

He was an Advance Queensland Mid-Career Research Fellow from 2016 to 2019, where he worked with the industry to implement Statcom technology to improve voltage profiles in low-voltage distribution systems. Currently, he is working with Powerlink on the grid forming inverters modelling and control to enhance stability of the power grid. He has more than 15 years of experience and has worked in several industry funded projects related to power engineering is USA, Australia and India.

Rajesh Nighot

Biography:

Rajesh is the Manager of Network Modelling and Information at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), brings over 25 years of international experience in power system analysis for large scale energy projects. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, and serves on the IEEE SASB Board and NesCom committee. Academically, Rajesh holds a B.E. from VNIT-India and a Research Master’s from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has authored over 18 international conference publications and actively reviews articles for Elsevier’s EPSR Journal and CIGRE.

Fiona Zhao

Biography:

Dr Fiona Zhao is a Team Leader Power Systems leading the R2 commissioning team within APD Global, with extensive experience in power system modelling, connection studies, generator model performance assessments, hold point testing and model validation analysis. She has contributed to numerous connection projects across all regions of the NEM. This has included the assessment of generator performance for National Electricity Rule (NER) compliance and Grid connection due-diligence reviews. She is also experienced in Hold Point tests, R2 model validation analysis, and power quality analysis. Fiona has gained expertise in all aspects of model development and validation in both PSCAD and PSS®E.

 She completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis on fault current limiting technology in power systems with distributed generation, at The University of Queensland. Fiona published high-quality papers for an international journal and for conferences and has attended international conferences held by the Power System Society. Fiona has Power System Protection course lecturing experience from the University of Queensland and is great at sharing and delivering knowledge to others. She is also a skilled user of power systems simulation, scripting software & tools such as PSCAD, PSS®E, PowerFactory, MATLAB/ Simulink and Python.