Prabhakar Karthikeyan Shanmugam (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.E. degree in EEE from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, in 1997, M.E. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, in 2013, under the guidance of Prof. D. P. Kothari. He also completed his postdoctoral fellowship from the Central Power Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, VIT. Along with his team, he has completed one DST project, and one is in the process of completion. He has visited nine countries, including U.S., U.K., and Russia. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Elsevier, Springer, and IET, and at international conferences. His research interests include data analytics in power systems, deregulation and restructured power systems under smart grid environments, smart grid software architecture, electric vehicles, and home energy management systems.