Biography: Hou Kai, male, Ph.D., is a Professorate Senior Engineer, Industrial Professor of Jiangsu Province, and serves as the General Manager of NARI Group New Energy Company/Electric Control Company. He has been recognized as a "Joint Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIF) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Engineering," "Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talent in China's Electric Power Industry," and has been selected for the Jiangsu Province "333 High-Level Talent Cultivation Project" and the "Six Talent Peaks" High-Level Talent Program in Jiangsu Province. With extensive experience in Power Electronics research, he has conducted in-depth studies in areas such as power electronic device applications, operation and control of energy storage systems, core equipment for DC power distribution, and secondary control of pumped storage systems.
Speech Title: Grid Forming Energy Storage Based Emergency Backup Power Supply Technology
Biography: 胡秦然，东南大学电气工程学院教授，博士生导师，副院长。长期从事分布式能源聚合管控、极端环境电力系统设计、电力系统经济分析等方面研究。近 5年来，入选国家万人计划青年拔尖人才、强国青年科学家引领计划，主持国家自然科学基金 3 项（青年、面上、重点-联合）、江苏省杰出青年基金、国家重点研发计划子课题等；在 Nat. Cities, Nat. Commun., IEEE PES 汇刊，Applied Energy 等高水平期刊上发表论文 100 余篇，授权国家发明专利 30 余项（转化 2 项）、美国专利 1 项；获江苏省科学技术一等奖（排 1）、中国电力科技创新奖一等奖、中国技术创新奖一等奖、国网公司科学技术进步奖一等奖、江苏省数字经济学会科学技术进步奖一等奖（排 1）等多项省部级奖励。相关研究工作获IEEE PES 最佳论文奖（该奖项是协会最高级别的重要奖项之一，自 1966 年设立该奖项以来，每年全球范围内仅评选两篇）、IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid 年度最佳论文奖（行业旗舰期刊，列近 3年千篇论文首位）、Roberto Tempo Award 提名奖（全球每年 1 名，提名 10 项）、IEEE PESGM 最佳论文奖、IEEE EI2 最佳论文奖、日内瓦发明展金奖 2 项（均排 1）等。
现分管东南大学电气工程学院教学工作，所负责的电气工程及其自动化和电动载运工程两个专业全部入选江苏省品牌专业；积极推动教学改革与创新，主持教育部高校教师教学组织与教学发展体系建设项目等省部级教改项目 2 项，参与 4 项，发表教改论文 3 篇；相关成果获全国高校电气类专业课程实验教学案例设计竞赛一等奖（排 1），江苏省教学成果二等奖（排 4）；此外，以第一指导教师身份指导学生获中国国际大学生创新大赛（原“互联网+”）全国金奖等教育部 A 类竞赛省级及以上奖励 12 项。
现担任 IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy 等多本行业旗舰 SCI 期刊的编委、IEEE PES低碳技术分委会主席、中国电力教育协会电气工程学科教学委员会秘书长、江苏省电工技术学会副秘书长等；曾获 IEEE PCCC 优秀青年工程师，江苏省 333 高层次人才等荣誉称号；曾在哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学、美国西北太平洋国家实验室、美国劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室等单位作特邀报告，担任 CEEGE 2022、CIEEC 2022、iSPEC2021 等知名国际会议的技术委员会委员和分会场主席。
Biography: Dr. Xiaolong Li received his Ph.D. degree from Tianjin University in 2017. He worked as a Research Fellow at The University of Liverpool from 2018 to 2019. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology. He is also the director of The Institute of High Voltage and Power System, Deputy Director of Department of Electrical Engineering at this university. His major research interests include gas discharge, plasma physics, arc quenching technology, intelligent monitoring and fault diagnosis of switching equipment. He is a young member of the CSEE High Voltage Technical Committee and the CES Plasma and Applications Technical Committee. He is also the Deputy Secretary-General of the Sub-Technical Committee on Basic Theory of Electric Arc in IEEE PES (China).
Speech Title: Thermophysical properties of C4F7N/CO2/O2 Gas Mixture Arc Plasma
Biography: Liansong Xiong (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China, in 2012 and 2016, respectively.
From 2017 to 2019, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Since 2022, he has been an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, XJTU, introduced in Young Talent Support Plan of XJTU. His current research interests include power quality, renewable energy generation, and frequency stability.
Dr. Xiong has been ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, USA, for four consecutive years. He is the Vice Secretary General of the Young Scholars Committee of China Power Supply Society (CPSS), and a Senior Member of the China Electrotechnical Society (CES). He has served as the Guest Editor for the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and the Associate Editor for the Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering and the Frontiers in Energy Research. He was honored with the first prize of CPSS Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2021, the second prize of CES Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2024, the ICPES Young Scientist Award in 2020, the Best Paper Award of Shaanxi Province in 2020, and the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of XJTU and Shaanxi Province in 2018.
Speech Title: Low-cost, Light-weight, and High-reliability DC Sending Technology for Remote Offshore Wind Power
Biography: Qian Xiao received the Ph.D. degree and worked as a lecturer at Tianjin University, where he is currently an associate professor (exceptional promotion) and Ph.D. supervisor. He is the “World's Top 2% Scientists”, Candidates of Youth Talent Program of China Association for Science and Technology, Deputy Director/Secretary of the China-British Joint Research Center for Electric Vehicles and Energy Internet of Tianjin University (Tianjin “Belt and Road Initiative” Joint Laboratory), Core backbone of Energy Storage Equipment and System Center of Tianjin University’s National Energy Storage Technology Industry-Education Integration Innovation Platform, Expert for Tianjin Academician Expert Collaborative Innovation Center. He has been awarded the 2020 (the First Session) Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award of China Power Supply Society (7 items in China, the only one in Tianjin), 2022 Selective Introduction of Postdoctoral Science Funding Winners (100 items in all majors in China, the only one in Tianjin), long-term visiting scholar of Tsinghua University (2023.09-2024.10) and Aalborg University, Denmark (2018.10-2019.11), IEEE Senior Member, Senior Member of Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, Senior Member of China Electrotechnical Society, Senior Member of China Power Supply Society, Fan-Ke Outstanding Review Experts for Postgraduate Dissertations, and Advanced Society Worker of Tianjin Science and Technology Association.
His research interests include distributed energy and distribution network/microgrid, power electronics technology (multilevel converter, etc.) and its application in battery energy storage systems and energy internet, application of artificial intelligence, and other power electronics-based power systems topics. He is the principal investigator of more than 20 items of representative governmental-supported funding, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program, Youth Program), Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Program for Smart Grid Joint Fund), Subproject of National Key Research and Development Program of China, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Marine Wind Power Joint Fund, General Program), Project of Tianjin Innovation Consortium Science and Technology (Major Program), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Special Foundation Program and General Program), the Key Program of Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Power System Operation and Control of Tsinghua University, Tianjin Enterprise Science and Technology Commissioner Project, Program of Education and Teaching Reform, and etc. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published more than 30 high-level SCI journal papers, including more than 10 Top IEEE Trans. Papers (1 ESI highly-cited paper). As the first inventor, he holds more than 10 granted invention patents (including 2 international invention patents), 3 national software copyrights, and 1 licensed patent. He has been awarded 3 items of the First Prize and 5 items of the Second Prize of the ministerial and provincial-level awards, including the Second Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award in 2023 (ranking 1st) and 2022 (ranking 2nd), respectively. In addition, he received the Excellent Supervisor Award of the 2022 China International Solar Decathlon Competition (Final Champion), multiple Excellent Supervisor Awards of college student contests, Excellent Supervisor Award of Tianjin University, Best Paper/Presentation/Poster Awards of international conferences, 2022 Top Ten Associate Editor Award of the first-class SCI journal, 2023 Outstanding (Youth) Editorial Board Member of Peking-University Chinese Core Journals, and more than 10 Excellent Reviewer Awards of EI authoritative journals, such as Proceedings of the CSEE, Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, and Automation of Electric Power Systems.
Speech Title: Research on Regulation and Control Technologies of Medium- and Low-Voltage AC/DC Distribution Systems for Consumption of High-Penetration of Renewable Energy
Biography: Luo Qian obtained his Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid Electronics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in April 2007. Since then, he has been teaching at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Currently, he is an associate professor at the School of Integrated Circuit Engineering and Science of the same university. His main research areas are GaN device technology and small-sized strained Si device technology. He has presided over a number of scientific research projects, including General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-projects of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), and projects funded by key laboratory foundations. As a principal researcher, he has participated in more than ten important research projects, such as international cooperation projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, national pre-research projects during the 10th, 11th, and 12th Five-Year Plans. He has published more than 30 papers and has been granted nearly twenty authorized patents.
Biography: Xiao-Yu Zhang holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of London, UK, and is a visiting research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. The research mainly focuses on intelligent decision-making in smart grids. He has presided over two projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published more than 20 papers in SCI-indexed academic journals. He serves as a senior member of the China Electrotechnical Society, a member of the Energy Intelligence Special Committee, and an Associate Editor of Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems.
Biography: Yu Zheng was born in 1992. He is an Associate Professor at Wuhan University and was selected for the 5th batch of the "Bo Xin Plan" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He obtained his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Wuhan University between 2010 and 2020. From 2018 to 2019, he participated in a joint Ph.D. training program at the High Voltage Institute of the China Electric Power Research Institute. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Wuhan University from 2020 to 2024 and has continued to work at the university since then. He is the Secretary of the Electrical Equipment Digital Twin Working Group of the IEEE PES Subcommittee on Power Transmission and Distribution, a member of the Electrical Testing Subcommittee of the China Electrotechnical Society, and a Youth Committee member of the Plasma and Applications Subcommittee of the China Electrotechnical Society. He has led two national-level projects and several projects from the State Grid and Southern Grid companies. He has published more than 20 SCI/EI papers, holds 8 authorized patents, and has received the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China Electrotechnical Society and the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from State Grid Corporation of China.
Biography: Zhang Zhong, associate professor from Dalian University of Technology. His research topics include electricity market, the optimal operation of integrated energy system. IEEE Member, resident reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He has published over 30 papers indexed SCI/EI.
Biography: Yi Wang is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in June 2014, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University (supervised by Prof. Chongqing Kang) in Jan. 2019. From March 2017 to April 2018, he was an exchange student researcher at the University of Washington. From Feb. 2019 to Aug. 2021, he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich. Yi Wang’s research interests include Data analytics in the smart grid, energy forecasting, multi-energy systems, Internet-of-things, cyber-physical-social energy systems. Yi Wang currently serves as the secretary of IEEE Customer Systems & Smart Buildings Subcommittee, the secretary of IEEE PES Working Group on Energy Forecasting and Analytics, and the secretary of CIGRE Working Group on Application of 5G Technology to Smart Grids. He also serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Systems Journal, and IET Renewable Power Generation.
Speech Title: Introducing Edge Intelligence to Smart Meters
Biography: Yuchen Fang is currently an Assistant Professor at Dalian University of Technology and Deputy Director of the Power System and Automation Division. His research interests include concentrating solar power, power system planning, and operation. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers indexed by SCI/EI and led projects funded by NSFC and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has also received several awards for scientific and technological advancement.
Speech Title: Optimal Planning of Concentrating Solar Power for Supporting the New-Type Power System
Biography: Dr. Rao Fu received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2005, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA, in 2013 and 2020, respectively. He is currently an Assitant Professor with School of Information and Electrical Engineering in Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, China. His research interests include DER integrated micro/nano-grid optimizaiton, non-intrucive load monitoring, and electrical energy network visualization. He is also a member of IEEE-USA, Buffalo Section.
Speech Title: Research on a Non-Intrusive Load Recognition Algorithm Based on High-Frequency Signal Decomposition with Improved VI Trajectory and Background Color Coding
Biography: Zhang Kaiyuan is currently conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Liverpool, focusing on high-voltage circuit breaker arc simulation and the study of SF₆ alternative gases. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Electrical Power Engineering at North China Electric Power University and earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Liverpool. He has published multiple SCI papers covering areas such as switching arc simulation of high-voltage circuit breakers, evaluation of breaking capabilities of SF₆ alternative gases, and selection of gas properties. He has also received multiple awards at international conferences. Zhang Kaiyuan is dedicated to advancing low-carbon and environmentally friendly green power technologies, providing innovative solutions for the future development of high-voltage electrical equipment.
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