Monalisa Pattnaik received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering and Technology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, in 1999. She received her M.Tech. and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2006 and 2013 respectively. Dr. Pattnaik is a recipient of the POSOCO Power System Award, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India, in 2013. From June 2002 to July 2008, she was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Her prime areas of teaching and research include Wind and Solar Energy System, Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Efficient Power Management of Hybrid Energy Systems, Grid Integration issues of RES, Machine Drives and Power Electronics.