Mukesh Kumar Kirar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree from the Government Engineering College, Ujjain, India, in 2006, and the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the MANIT, Bhopal, India, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. Since 2010, he has been working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, MANIT. He has more than 13 years of industry and teaching experience. He has several publications in high-impact factor journals and various international conferences of repute. His research interests include industrial power system design and analysis, load shedding design, optimization techniques, artificial neural networks, and power system protection. He is a reviewer of various esteemed journals.