Keynote Speakers

 

Loi Lei Lai | IEEE Life Fellow and IET Fellow

DRPT International Incorporated, Perth, Australia

Biography: Professor Loi Lei Lai received his B.Sc. (First Class Hons.) and Ph.D. from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK, in 1980 and 1984 respectively. His D.Sc. is from City, University of London, London, UK, in 2005. All degrees are in electrical and electronic engineering. Professor Lai is currently Chairman of DRPT International Incorporated, Australia. He was a Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Professor & Chair of Electrical Engineering with City, University of London, London, UK and a University Distinguished Professor with Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Professor Lai received 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 (Papers published in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion), the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014, the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2016, and his research team received a Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference in October 2020. Professor Lai is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter; a member of the IEEE Smart Cities Board of Governor; Member-at-large, IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Committee on Standards & Chair of the Seed Funding ad hoc, Chair of IEEE/SMCS Standards Committee, IEEE/SMCS Fellow Committee Evaluator, IEEE/SMCS Distinguished Lecturer and IEEE/PES Lifetime Achievement Award Committee Assessor. He was a member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee; the Director of Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, Beijing, China; a Vice President for Membership and Student Activities of IEEE/SMCS; and a Fellow Committee Evaluator and Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. His current research and development interests are in smart cities, smart grid, clean energy and computational intelligence. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and IET Fellow.

 

 

Wei Xu | IEEE Fellow

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Biography:Wei Xu (IEEE Fellow) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, and the Ph.D. from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), in 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on design and control for linear machines and drives. From 2008 to 2012, he made Postdoctoral Fellow with University of Technology Sydney, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was one Professor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been one professor with IEECAS and Director for Key Laboratory of High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems (Chinese Academy of Sciences). He is Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is the General Chair for 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA 2021) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE 2023). He has been Associate/Editor for over ten peer-review IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and so on. He has authored/edited 12 books, published over 180 IEEE journal papers, been granted over 150 invention patents in the related field of LMs and drives, which has been cited by over 10,000 times with H-index 50 based on Google Scholar.

 

 

 

Zhijun Peng

University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

Biography: Jun Peng is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering in University of Lincoln, UK. He received his PhD degree from National Engine Combustion Lab, Tianjin University in 1996. After four years working experiences as research fellow in Brunel University and two years as senior development engineer in Ford Motor Company, he held the position of Lecturer since 2004 and Senior Lecture since 2007 in the University of Sussex. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as Professor in Engineering in University of Bedfordshire. Jun Peng’s research interest lies in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and combustion with applications on IC engines, gas turbines, fuel cells and other sustainable energy systems. His recent research works have contributed to sustainable vehicle powertrain, non-carbon water transport technology, etc. Jun Peng is a Fellow of IMechE, a Fellow of RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry). He is the Associate Editor of IET journal of Electronics Letters (SCI indexed) and an Editorial Board member of Johnson Matthey Technology Review (SCI indexed). He was an invited fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

 

 

 

Weiliang Wang

Jinan University, China

Biography: Professor, Head of Energy and Power Engineering Institute, Vice Dean of International School of Energy, Jinan University. Expert of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China Electricity Council and China Energy Research Society. His areas of expertise have been energy conservation and emission reduction in thermos-dynamic system, efficient utilization of distributed energy, as well as development strategy in power sector. He has presided over many national projects, including China’s National Medium- and Long-Term Development Strategy of Engineering Science and Technology Research project on coal-fired power industry, and many fundamental research projects from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and National Natural Science Foundation. He has overturned the traditional understanding of the thermal power industry that “the low load energy consumption per unit power generation is bound to rise significantly” for more than 100 years, and established a basic theory to fundamentally restrain the rise of low load energy consumption of thermal power units. By now, the application of his creative theory and technologies have reduce 1.6 million tons of standard coal consumption and 4.2 million tons of CO2 emission annually, counted from selected projects. He has published more than 40 papers, one monograph, and obtained more than 30 patents for invention. He serves as an editor in two international journals. He has given tens of plenary/keynote speeches. He has been awarded the China’s Outstanding Young Energy Scientist & Technician, the second prize of the Outstanding Achievement Award (Science and Technology) for Scientific Research in Institutions of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education (1/15), First Prize in China’s Electricity Innovation (1/15), Second Prize in China’s Energy Innovation (1/15).

 

Youbo Liu

Sichuan University, China

Biography: Youbo Liu (IEEE Senior Member) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 2005, 2008, and 2011, respectively.,He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University. His research interests include machine learning in smart grid and energy-storage system applications.