Y. G. PAITHANKAR, Ph.D., formerly Professor and Head of Electrical Engineering Department at the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, is an accomplished teacher with over 30 years of experience in the field of power systems. He has published about 15 papers in international journals. He is the author of Transmission Network Protection: Theory and Practice (1998), published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.
S.R. BHIDE, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, where he has been serving since 1984. He is a life member of ISTE. His special areas of interest include application techniques of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to power system protection schemes.