P. Ponnambalam is a Professor & Head of Department for Energy and Power Electronics Department, School of Electrical Engineering, at VIT Vellore, India. He obtained his B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Madurai Kama Raj University, his M.E in Power Electronics and Drives from Anna University Chennai, and his Ph.D. from the Anna University Chennai. His area of interest is embedded controllers for Power Converters, Hybrid PV-TEG systems, Fuzzy Controllers for power electronic applications. He has handled the subject Advanced Processors for Power converters multiple times for MTech Power Electronics and Drives students and hence he has a sound knowledge in programming embedded controllers. He has guided the students for the doctoral degree in the area of power electronics. He has conducted workshops and lectures in the field of embedded systems and programming with ARM processor.
R. Marimuthu, Associate Professor (Sr., ), School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. He received bachelor's degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore and the master's degree from Anna University, Chennai, and Ph.D. degree from VIT, Vellore. His research title is "Design of Low Power and High-Speed Compressors for Multipliers". He has published more than 50 research publications in various reputed journals & conferences. His area of interest are Embedded systems, Approximate Computing, and Renewable Energy Sources. He has given many invited talks & good knowledge in embedded programming.