Dr Kuntal Bhattacharjee is working as associate professor at the department of electrical engineering, institute of technology, Nirma University. He obtained BE degree in electrical engineering from Burdwan University, West Bengal in the year 2003. He received his MTech and PhD degree in electrical engineering (power system) from NIT, Durgapur and Jadavpur University, Kolkata in the year 2005 and 2015 respectively. He has published number of international / national journal research papers and international / national conference papers. He is a reviewer of prestigious journals of IET, Elsevier, IEEE Access, Taylor & Francis and Springer. His areas of interests are - power system optimization, optimization techniques, power system operation and control and hydro-thermal scheduling problems.