Organizer: Prof. Xun Dou, Nanjing Tech University, China
Xun Dou is a Professor, Master’s Supervisor and IEEE Senior Member at Nanjing Tech University. She was a visiting scholar at UCLA and the University of Tennessee, USA, and is a recipient of the "Six Talent Peaks" High-Level Talent Training Program in Jiangsu Province. She serves as an expert in the National Smart Grid Major Project Expert Database, Standing Director of IEEE PES China Subcommittee, State Grid consulting expert, and a member of the Virtual Power Plant Special Working Group of the Energy Internet Standardization Technical Committee of China Electricity Council (CEC). She has long been engaged in research on electricity market, integrated energy system planning and demand response optimization, she led 1 National Key Research and Development Program sub-project, 2 provincial/municipal projects and over 50 industry-university-research projects. She won the 2024 Jiangsu Electric Power Science and Technology Progress First Prize (first completer), published over 80 papers and holds 18 authorized patents, with participation in formulating international standards of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and group standards of CEC.
Invited Speaker: Prof. Zhenyuan Zhang, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China
Zhenyuan Zhang, Professor in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. His focus lies in smart grids and arc flash research, but he has also been involved in power system analysis, renewable energy, electrical safety analysis, and power market research. He has published over 90 technical papers, with more than 40 SCI journal papers. He has participated in more than 20 research projects as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator from many sources of funding. He served as the Chair of the IEEE IAS ESC/DER Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices, and Field, and Editor of Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and invited talks at major international conferences and universities. He was the General Chair of 2021 AEEES, Secretary in General of 2019 IEEE ISGT ASIA and 2021 IEEE I&CPS ASIA, TPC Vice-Chair of 2020 IEEE I&CPS ASIA. He is of receipt of several IEEE awards, such as IEEE ESW Young Professional Achievement Award, Prize Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE IAS Ralph Lee Award, IEEE PES-China Outstanding Volunteer Award, IEEE IAS I&CPS Department Prize Paper Awards, IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Prevention through Design Engineering Education Initiative, etc.
Invited Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Hongchao Gao, Tsinghua University, China
Associate Research Fellow at Tsinghua University, engaged in research on operation control and market operation of virtual power plants and microgrids. He serves as a member of the Virtual Power Plant Professional Committee of the China Energy Research Society, a youth editorial board member of journals such as China Electric Power, Energy Conversion and Economics (English Edition), and Distributed Energy, and a youth expert of CIGRE VPP WG C1.52 and C6.49 Virtual Power Plant Working Groups. He has presided over 1 national key project on virtual power plants, 1 national major science and technology special project, and 1 key research and development plan project of Guangdong Province; as the leader of a sub-project, he is in charge of 1 national major science and technology project on main-distribution microgrid coordination. He has won 8 scientific and technological awards, including the First Prize of the China Electrotechnical Society, the Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize and Second Prize of China Electric Power Science and Technology Award, and the Geneva Gold Award. He has drafted 1 international technical standard and 1 national technical standard on virtual power plants.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Yaxian Zheng, China Electric Power Research Institute, China
Professor-level senior engineer, a senior member of the Society of Electrical Engineering, a member of the Technical Committee for Standardization of the Power Market in the Energy Industry, a member of the IEC TC57 Electricity Market Working Group, a member of IEEE PES PSOPES China, a member of the State Grid Operation Control Technical Standards Professional Working Group (TC03), and a member of the second young expert group of the Journal Center of the China Electric Power Research Institute. As the project leader, he has successively led the national major project "National Unified Electricity Market Simulation Technology", a number of key R&D projects, and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It has developed a power market simulation system and a technical support system for the Zhejiang and Shanghai electric power spot markets, won 6 provincial and ministerial awards such as the Power Industry Science and Technology Progress Award, authorized 19 patents, published more than 30 papers, published 2 monographs, and led the completion of 3 industry standards and 4 enterprise standards.
Invited Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Han Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Han Wang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2020. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, from 2019 to 2020. He is currently an Associate Researcher with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include power system uncertainty analysis and coupled operation of power-transportation network.
Invited Speaker: Prof. Jilei Ye, Nanjing Tech University, China
She has always engaged in teaching and research in the field of lithium-ion battery energy storage system application, including lithium-ion battery state estimation, power energy storage thermal management, and energy storage system planning. In recent years, more than 30 academic papers have been publicly published both domestically and internationally, including journals such as Journal of Power Sources, Energy, Renewable Energy, and Energy Materials. More than ten invention patents have been granted and three professional books have been published. Also, more than 20 scientific research projects have been led or participated in, including National Key R&D Program, Jiangsu Dural Carbon Major Technology Special Project, State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company Technology Project, etc. She has won two second prizes in China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award, one second prize in Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Electrotechnical Society, one third prize in Jiangsu Electric Power Science and Technology Award.
Invited Speaker: Mr. Jun Wang, State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, Nanjing, China
Jun Wang is an Engineer at the Research Institute of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, affiliated with the State Key Laboratory of Technology and Equipment for Defense against Power System Operational Risks. He is a recipient of the first cohort of the “Young Talent Sailing Program” of State Grid Corporation of China and serves as a young academic leader at the Regional Energy Internet Technology and Application Laboratory. He is also a core member of a key research team focusing on multi-state operational control technologies and equipment development for new-type distribution systems. His research interests include intelligent power utilization, distributed power supply, and energy interconnection technologies. He has led and participated in more than ten national- and provincial-level research projects. He has published 23 SCI/EI-indexed papers, holds nine authorized invention patents, published two academic monographs, and contributed to one group standard. His work has been recognized with one first prize and three second prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Tianhui Zhao, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power CO., Ltd. Research Institute, China
Zhao Tianhui, Senior Engineer, is with the Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd. His research focuses on electricity market mechanisms, market operation analysis, and electricity market simulation technologies. He has published 12 academic papers and holds 15 authorized or under review invention patents.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Jiacheng Li, Nanjing Tech University, China
Jiacheng Li is lecturer and deputy director of the Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing Tech University. He has long been engaged in research work on virtual power plant operation optimization and energy storage participation in the power market bidding mechanism. He has presided over nearly 10 projects such as sub-tasks of the 2030 Smart Grid, general project of the China Postdoctoral Fund, open project of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education and State Grid Corporation of China science and technology projects, published 20 papers in high-level domestic and foreign journals, authorized 5 invention patents, won the first prize of Jiangsu Province Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award, and was selected into the Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Program.