Dr. OD Naidu, Senior Principal Scientist, brings over 18 years of expertise in power systems, protection, fault location, monitoring, and grid management. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and has been with Hitachi Energy since 2009. A prolific innovator, he has filed 120+ patents (60 granted patents) and authored 130+ publications in leading international journals and conferences. His research spans power system protection, renewable integration, inverter-based resources modeling, FACTS devices, and AI-driven solutions for power system protection and monitoring. An IEEE Senior Member and active CIGRE WG contributor, Dr. Naidu is a sought-after keynote speaker and recipient of the INAE Young Innovator Award (2022).