R. Arul received B.E., degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Annamalai University in 1995, M.E from Annamalai University in 1996, and Ph.D. from Annamalai University in 2016. At present, he is a faculty in the School of Electrical Engineering at VIT, Chennai. He has 21 years of teaching and research experience. His research area includes power systems optimization, soft computing techniques, IoT, and e_vehicles.