Prof. Xinbo Ruan Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
IEEE Fellow
阮新波，南京航空航天大学教授，长江学者/国家杰青，IEEE Fellow
Speech title: Second Harmonic Current Reduction Techniques for Two-Stage Single-Phase Power Converters
Xinbo Ruan (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the College of Automation Engineering, NUAA, where he became a Professor in 2002. From 2008 to 2011, he was also with the College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He is the author or coauthor of 13 books and more than 300 technical papers published in journals and conferences. His main research interests include soft-switching power electronic converters, power electronic system integration, and renewable energy generation system.,Dr. Ruan is currently the Vice-President of China Power Supply Society. He is currently an Editor for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Power Electronics and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and IEEE Open Journal of Industrialelectronics Society.
Prof. Loi Lei Lai Guangdong University of Technology, China
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter IEEE Life Fellow, IET Fellow
赖来利， 广东工业大学教授，IEEE Life Fellow, IET Fellow
Speech title: Smart Energy for Applications in Smart Cities
Loi Lei Lai is University Distinguished Professor, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou China. He was Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China, and Chair of Electrical Engineering with City, University of London. His current research areas are in smart cities and smart energy. He was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE/PES) UKRI Power Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000, a special award from City, University of London in 2005 and is its honorary graduate, the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper in 2006 and 2009, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014, Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2016, and his research team received a Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference in 2020 and the 2022 Meritorious Service Award from IEEE/SMCS for "meritorious and significant service to IEEE SMC Society technical activities and standards development". He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter, and Chair of the IEEE/SMCS Standards Committee. He was Director of Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, China; IEEE/SMCS Vice President for Membership and Student Activities; a Fellow Committee Evaluator for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE/PES Lifetime Achievement Award Assessment Committee Member. He is an IET Fellow and IEEE Life Fellow.
Prof. Guan-Jun Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
张冠军，西安交通大学教授，国家杰青
Speech title: Partial Discharge Diagnostics: from Single Power Equipment to Whole Substation
Guan-Jun Zhang was born in Weifang, Shandong, China in 1970. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China, in 1991, 1994 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a leading-scholar professor at School of Electrical Engineering, XJTU, China, and the director of Center for Advanced High Voltage and Plasma Technology. His main interests cover high voltage insulation and discharge characteristics, fault diagnosis and condition maintenance for power equipment, discharge plasmas and multi-disciplinary applications, etc. He has been visiting researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), visiting scientist at Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University (USA), JSPS fellow at Saitama University (Japan), and visiting professor at University of Southampton (UK). He has published 300 papers and held 30+ patents. Prof. Zhang received Distinguished Young Scholar of NSFC, IEEE ISDEIV Chatterton Young Investigator, Fok Ying Tong Research Award for University Young Teachers, and National Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China, etc.
Prof. Fushuan Wen Zhejiang University, China
文福拴，浙江大学教授，IEEE Fellow
Speech title: Resilience-enhancement Oriented Distribution System Design
Professor Fushuan Wen joined the faculty of Zhejiang University in 1991, and has been a full professor and the director of the Institute of Power Economics and Information since 1997, and the director of Zhejiang University-Insigma Joint Research Center for Smart Grids since 2010. He has also been a full professor in the Hainan Institute, Zhjiang University, Sanya, China, since 2022. He has been undertaking various teaching, research and visiting appointments in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Brunei, Estonia, Denmark. He has published 200+ SCI-indexed papers, 670+ EI-indexed papers, and 770+ Scopus-indexed papers. His publications have been cited for 17500+ times. He has completed and is undertaking more than 200 grants and projects. He received many awards, including the most prestigious National Natural Science Award of China. He has been listed in "Most Cited Chinese Researchers" in seven consecutive years since 2015 by Elsevier, and is the author of one of the China's 100 Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers in 2016. He is the editor-in-chief of Energy Conversion and Economics (SPERI, IET, Wiley), the deputy editor-in-chief of Journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems, a subject editor in power system economics of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution. He was elected to IEEE Fellow for contributions to fault diagnosis in power grids.
Prof. Donglian Qi Zhejiang University, China
齐冬莲，浙江大学教授
Speech title: High Efficiency Distributed Coordination and Cyber-Physical Security Control Strategy of Microgrid CPS
Donglian Qi received her Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in March 2002. Since then, she has been with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University where she is currently a Professor. Her current research interests include the basic theory and application of cyber physical power system (CPPS), digital image processing, artificial intelligence, and electric operation and maintenance robots. She is an Editor for the Clean Energy, the IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and the Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life.
Prof. Soteris A. Kalogirou Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy Fellow of the European Academy of SciencesIEEE Fellow
Speech title: Status of Renewable Energy Systems in the World and Prospects
Professor Soteris Kalogirou, D.Sc. is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy and absorption cooling. He has a large number of publications in books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty journals. He is the editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.
Prof. Gianfranco Chicco Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Energy, Grids and NetworksIEEE Fellow, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Italy Section
Speech title: Effectiveness of the Clustering Methods for the Categorization of the Electrical Demand
Gianfranco Chicco holds a PhD in Electrotechnics Engineering and is a Full Professor of Power and Energy Systems at Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) in Torino, Italy. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the vice-Chair of the IEEE Italy Section. He received the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa” from the University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania) and from the Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” of Iasi (Romania) in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He participated in the various European Projects with POLITO and the Italian Consortium ENSIEL. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (Elsevier), a Subject Editor of Energy (Elsevier), and an Editor of IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, IET Renewable Power Generation, and Energies (MDPI). He was the Chair of the International Conferences 55th UPEC (2020), 7th IEEE PES ISGT Europe (2017) and 6th WESC (2006) and is the Chair of the 20th IEEE EUROCON (2023). His research activities include Power System Analysis, Distribution System Analysis and Optimization, Electrical Load Management, Multi-Energy System Flexibility, Data Analytics, and Power Quality.
Prof. Xuzhen Huang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
黄旭珍，南京航空航天大学教授，国家优青
Speech title: Key Technology of Multi-Mover Permanent Magnet Linear Motor System
Huang Xuzhen, professor, College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She graduated from Harbin University of Technology in the major of Electrical Engineering in 2012. She focuses on the research of permanent magnet linear motor system. She was supported by the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. She has presided over and participated in a number of projects entrusted by enterprises such as the National Natural Science Fund, the National Instrument Development, CASC and AVIC. She has published more than 60 high-level papers and has more than 20 national invention patents.
Prof. Haoran Zhao Shandong University, China
赵浩然， 山东大学教授，电气工程学院副院长
Speech title: Research and Application of Digital Twin technology in Wind Power
Haoran Zhao is currently a National Distinguished Professor (selected in 2017), doctoral supervisor, Qilu Young Scholar (selected in 2016) and the Deputy Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering of Shandong University. Prof. Zhao received his bachelor, master and Ph.D. degrees from Shandong University (SDU), Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2001, 2010, and 2014, respectively. He got the national scholarship for outstanding overseas students in 2014. He has worked for State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company, Younicos AG of Germany, DIgSILENT of Germany and the Power Energy Center of the Technical University of Denmark. In October 2017, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering of Shandong University full-time. 2019-2020 concurrently served as Deputy Director of the Construction Office of Shandong University Longshan Campus (Chuangxin Port). He is currently a senior member of IEEE, member of CIGRE Working Group C6.C1.33, CIGRE C4.56, and IEC SC Expert of working Group 8A, Vice president of Shandong Energy Research Association, member of Distribution Network Control and Operation Special Committee of Electrical Engineering Society, member of Artificial Intelligence and Electrical Application Special Committee of Electrical Engineering Society, member of Digital Twin Committee of Integrated Energy of Simulation Society, member of Integrated Energy Special Committee of Renewable Energy Society. Prof. Zhao currently serve as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IET Renewable Power Generation/Journal of Engineering and other international journals, as well as a youth editor for power protection and control, and invited to serve as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion special issue, the International Journal of Electrical Power& Energy Systems special issue Editor-in-chief.
Prof. Xin Dai Chongqing University, China
戴欣，重庆大学教授，自动化学院副院长
He received his Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2006. He is currently the Professor of the School of Automation, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, and the Associate Director of National International Research Center of Wireless Power Transfer. Professor Dai is a leading researcher in Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and nonlinear control in Power Electronics, significantly contributing to both Wireless Power Transfer theory methods and engineering applications. He is very active as associate editors for top IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. As a scientific leader in the field of systems and control, he has been serving on various national and international technical committees. Prof. Dai has made original contributions in Wireless Power Transfer technology with real world applications, which can be assessed by his publications (over 100 papers) in prestigious international journals, including IEEE T-IE, IEEE T-PE. He authored/co-authored 2 books in the field of Wireless Power Transfer. He also held 50 patents, some of which have gone through technology transfer with an estimate market value of over $10 million. He has given many keynote talks and invited talks, chaired numerous conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Jianning Yin Xi’an University of Technology, China
尹健宁，西安理工大学副教授
Speech title: Arc Characteristics and Breaking Technology of Low-Voltage Circuit Breaker for New Energy System
Jianning Yin (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2019 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology. His research interests include optimization design and intelligence of high and low voltage circuit breakers, advanced interruption technology for DC circuit breakers, MHD simulation of switching arc, switching arc plasma and its application.
Prof. Jun Jiang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
江军，南京航空航天大学研究员
Speech title: Optical Sensing Techniques for High Voltage Power Apparatus
Jun Jiang is a Professor with the Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Energy Generation and Power Conversion, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering and automation from China Agricultural University (CAU) in 2011 and PhD degree in high voltage and electrical insulation from North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) in 2016. During 2019-2020, He worked as an Academic Visitor/Honorary Staff in Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK. At present, he is an IEEE Senior Member, CIGRE member, also a representative for CIGRE JWG D1/A2.77 (Liquid Tests for Electrical Equipment). He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers including more than 50 journal articles. As well, more than 21 patents have been granted. He was granted as Young Researcher Award by International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH) and Outstanding Reviewers Award by High Voltage. His research interests are optical fiber sensing, condition monitoring of power apparatus and more-electric-aircraft.