Dr. Ruby Beniwal is an accomplished academic and researcher specializing in solar engineering and renewable energy systems. She completed her Ph.D. in Solar Engineering from JIIT, Noida in 2020 with her thesis focused on enhancing the performance of semitransparent photovoltaic thermal air collectors, following an M.Tech. in System Engineering and Operations Research from IIT Roorkee (2011) and a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IET, BU Jhansi (2007). With over a decade of teaching experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, she currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at JIIT, Noida. Her research interests span solar energy, energy and environment, photovoltaics, hybrid PV-thermal applications, economic analysis, machine learning, control systems, power electronics, and electric vehicles. Dr. Beniwal is actively guiding research scholars, including Ph.D. and M.Tech. students, and has supervised numerous B.Tech. projects. She is a member of professional bodies such as ISTE, IETE, IEEE, and WIE. Her innovative contributions include patents, notably a published design patent for a solar-operated pesticide sprayer and a patent on smart greenhouse-based monitoring of wild animal health.
