Sanjib Kumar Panda (S’86-M’91-SM’01-F’21) received B. Eng. Degree from the South Gujarat University, India, in 1983, M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1991, all in electrical engineering.

He was the recipient of the Cambridge-Nehru Scholarship and M. T. Mayer Graduate Scholarship during his PhD study (1987-1991). Since 1992, he has been holding a faculty position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore and currently serving as an Associate Professor and Director of the Power & Energy Research Area.

Dr. Panda has published more than 530 peer-reviewed research papers, co-authored one book and contributed to several book chapters, holds ten patents and co-founder of three start-up companies. His research interests include high-performance control of motor drives and power electronic converters, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, building energy efficiency enhancement etc. He is serving as an Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions e.g. Power Electronics, Industry Applications, Energy Conversion, Access and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. Dr. Panda is serving as an IEEE PELS Distinguished Lecture for 2022-26. He had served as the Chair of the IEEE PELS Technical Committee, TC-12: Energy Access and Off-grid Systems 2021-2023.

Dr. Panda is also serving as, R-10 Membership & Chapter Development Coordinator for IEEE PELS since 2016 till date.

Dr. Panda has been elected as Members-at-Large(MAL) for the IEEE PELS (Jan. 2025 – Dec. 2027).