N.P. Padhy is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and a Chair Professor of NEEPCO (North East Electric Power Company). He is a fellow of INAE (2014) and IET (2014), and has also been awarded BOYSCAST fellowship (2005) and Humboldt experienced research fellowship (2009). His research interest is mainly in the area of Soft Computing applications to Power System Engineering. S.P. Simon is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. His research focuses on developing intelligent models using soft computing tools in the field of Power System Engineering.