About myself

Name: Dr.Akhil Garg  Associate Professor   School of Mechanical Science and Engineering  Teaching at China-EU institute of Cleaner and Renewable Energy on Battery management system and battery failures.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China  (Ranked 275 in QS World University ranking and 158 in World THE Ranking)
Email: akhilgarg@hust.edu.cn ; garg.mechanical@gmail.com 
PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015) 

Associate Editor of (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage : (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Partha P Mukherjee, Purdue University, USA)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Collaborative Intelligence Manfacturing, (Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Liang Gao and Prof. Weiming Shen (National Research Council, Canada))

Guest Editor of special issue titled "Digitalization and Automation of Energy Systems" ASME Journal of Computing Information Science and Engineering (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Yan Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (Invited to join by Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Reza Langari, Texas A&M University, USA)

Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Digital Twin for Integrated Energy Systems "of International Journal of Green Energy.(Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Xianguo Li, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)

My main research interests includeTopology Optimization for battery thermal system design for EVs, Digital twin for Energy storage; and Structural Optimization of Li-ion Battery Thermal management system (BTMS). 
 
Background
During my PhD,I have worked jointly with Aerospace Industry, Rolls-Royce (UK based), Singapore for 2 years on Artificial Intelligence and Robust Design optimization from the year 2010-2012. 

Currently, I am presiding the International academic project worth 0.2 million USD jointly with Queen Mary University of London and St. Petersburg State University of Russia on distributed scheduling and optimizing charging strategy of electric vehicles. 

I have been awarded High Level Provincial Talent project in the year 2016 (Excellent Youth Title from Guangdong Provincial Government) and 2023 (Excellent Youth Title from Hubei Provincial Government). 

I had published over 100 peer reviewed articles in this field and have google scholar H-index of 32 and i-10 index of 85.