Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a full professor of electrical power engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. Subsequently, he held positions at VIT University (India), National Institute of Technology (India), Qatar University, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Aarhus University (Denmark). Prof. Padmanaban has authored over 750 scientific papers and has been listed among the world's top 2% of scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University. He is editor, associate editor, or editorial board member for several important refereed journals, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K.

He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who's Who-USA 2017 for his contributions to power electronics and renewable energy research.