Biography: Dr. Mohamed Khan Afthab Ahamed Khan was born in Tamil Nadu, India during the year 1961. He won the best student award for his excellence in academic and also in sports during his Higher secondary level. He also won the gold medal both in Mathmetics and Physics during his Pre-University at state level. He received his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madras University, India, and MS degree in Electronics and Control engineering from BITS Pilani, India, He received his advanced diploma in Power electronics and drives from Lucas-Nuelle, Germany in 2002 and from Woo sun, Korea. He obtained his PhD in Robotics, Power electronics and controls from USA and holds his Professional Engineer [PEng] Certification from IAO, USA and CEng (UK). He is also a Senior member in IEEE USA and MIET UK. He worked with Rohde and Schwarz, Germany as Sales and service engineer from 1983-1987 and served as a Senior lecturer in the faculty of engineering at the Madras university for seven years and has been with the faculty of Electronics Engineering, TAFE Australia, Malaysia campus during the year 1994 to 1997. He served as a Program coordinator for Malaysia France University Nice, France between 1997 to 2006. He has been a consultant and trainer for multinational companies like Schneider electric, France, Vivendi Water supplies, France, and many Malaysian and Singapore companies. Also, he worked as an Assistant professor at UNISEL, Malaysia from 2006 to 2017. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor in the faculty of engineering at UCSI University, Malaysia. He held various positions in IEEE RAS Malaysia chapter and had won more than 15 awards awarded by IEEE Malaysia section. He is the past Chairman for IEEERAS, Malaysia chapter and current IEEE UCSI Student branch counselor. His current research is in Power Electronics, Motor drives, Robotic and Controls. Along with many awards and more than 100 papers or research notes published in journals and conference proceedings, he has travelled more than 25 countries and has visited the top universities like MIT, Stanford, OXFORD, Caltech, Cambridge, Berkley, Imperial and served as a Reviewer and Session Chairman for several conferences and project competitions.

Biography: Dr. Chew has more than 10 years of research experiences covering the area of advanced materials, electric vehicle related research and lightning and surge protection. He has been actively involved in the research activities as a principle investigator or co-researcher. His research interest including of hybrid energy storage systems, electric vehicle distance estimation system and power electronics converters. Currently, he is actively participated in the research area of lighting and surge protection for potentially hazardous area. Dr. Chew is currently a senior member for IEEE and Chartered Engineer (CEng) for IET. Besides, Dr. Chew also a certified Huawei trainer on Data Center Facilities (DCF).