Prof.
Jean-Bernard MICHEL,
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western
Switzerland, Switzerland
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Western Switzerland (HEPIA and HEIG-VD) from 2004 to 2018
where he initiated and led many R&D projects in the field of
energy and environment, especially for biomass and waste
recovery. He acts as trainer for Cenertec in Portugal and
also acted as consultant and trainer in Morocco, India and
China on several occasions. He has gained and extensive
experience in energy processes and R&D in several
internationally renowned laboratories in the Netherlands and
Switzerland (IFRF, Battelle, CSEM).
He advises several companies for the energy recovery of
waste and new energy technologies, and he continues to train
engineers in renewable energies, bioenergy, and waste
recycling at his university and abroad.
He is also:
• Solar Impulse Expert for the World Alliance for Efficient
Solutions
• Founder of of the Swiss association for Project Management
and member of the advisory committee,
www.project-management.ch
• IPMA Level B © Certified Project Manager (2001-2020)
Prof.
Song Hu,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Hu Song, PhD in Engineering, level-2 Professor, Huazhong
Scholar, supervisor of Doctorate Candidates, Research Center
Director of China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable
Energy, vice-Chairman of the Association for Science and
Technology in Hongshan District in Wuhan (Part-time). Funded
by Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and
worked in University of Bayreuth in Germany in 2005. Winner
of Education Ministry's New Century Excellent Talents
Supporting Plan and funded by Excellent Youth Foundation in
Hubei Province in 2013. Selected as the Positive Contributor
to the 40th Anniversary of China-EU Diplomatic Relations in
2015, was selected by Ministry of Science and Technology as
China-Australia Outstanding Young Researcher in 2017. Mainly
engaged in efficient and clean reaction mechanism and
application technology of fossil fuel, synergistic thermal
conversion among different energy resources. Prof.Hu Song
was rewarded several prizes for science and technology,
including: 1) Two Second Class Prizes for Scientific and
Technology Process of China (in 2014 and 2019); 2) One First
Class Prize for Scientific and Technology Progress of Hubei
Province (in 2018); 3) One Second Class Prize for Scientific
and Technology Progress of Shandong Province (in 2021). PI
of one National Key Research and Development Plan for
International S&T Cooperation Projects of China, one Key
Fund for Regional Innovation of Natural Science Fundation of
China, four General Programs of National Natural Science
Foundation of China, one National High-tech R&D Program of
China (863 Program), one Major Research Plan for Technology
Innovation of Hubei Province. Participated in six National
Key and Major Projects. Prof.Hu Song has published more than
300 SCI papers (more than 70 papers as First/Corresponding
author), these papers were cited more than 3000 times, three
ESI Highly Cited Papers, H-index of him is 43. Prof.Hu Song
has publications of two sets (seven books), has got 35
Innovation Patents, including 4 International Patents.
Prof. Dongliang Zhong,
Chongqing University, China
Dr. Dongliang Zhong is a Full Professor working at the
School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Chongqing
University (CQU), China. He is a principal scientist at the
State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster & Dynamics
Control (Chongqing University). He completed his
Post-doctoral research at the University of British Columbia
(UBC), Canada in 2012. He performed collaborative research
as a senior visiting professor at the University of British
Columbia (UBC) in 2018. He has published over 30 SCI
articles in international journals and authored one book. He
has served as a principal investigator of 10 projects in
recent 5 years. His research interests include gas hydrates,
efficient exploration & utilization of unconventional
natural gases, CO2 capture and sequestration,
etc.
Prof.
Quanrui Hao,
Shandong University, China
Prof. Quanrui Hao was born in China in 1984. He received the
B.E. degree from Tian_x005f jin University in 2006, M.E.
degree from Zhejiang University in 2008, and the Ph.D.
degree from McGill University in 2013, respectively. He
joined in Shandong University in 2014 and serves as full
professor in Department of Electrical Engineering since
2020. He was selected as Future Young Scholar of Shandong
University in 2019. He also serves as the standing director
of IEEE PES DC protection and control technical com mittee
and IEEE PES DC system planning and design technical
committee. His research interests include flexible HVDC
transmission, hybrid AC/DC grid, power system stability. He
is the principle investigator of two national nature science
foundation projects and two sub-projects of natural key
research & development program of China. He has published
more than forty papers and translated two books. The main
circuit design software of multi-terminal UHVDC transmission
designed by Prof. Hao has been applied for calculation of
the real project.
Prof.
Hongtao Xu
Prof. Haochun Zhang,
Prof. Xiangning Meng,
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Hongtao Xu received his B.S. and M.S. from Xi'an Jiaotong
University in 1999, 2002 and PhD from the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University in 2005. After that, he worked in two
consulting companies of Parson Brinckerhoff and AECOM for 6
years. In 2011, he joined University of Shanghai for Science
and Technology. Now, he is active in many academic
committee, such as Youth Working Committee of China
Engineering Thermophysics Society, Boiler Technical
Committee of China Boiler and Boiler Water Treatment
Association et.al. He is also one drafter of the national
standard of GB/T 36699-2018 Technical Conditions for Boiler
Liquid and Gas Fuel Burners. Since 2013, he conducted one
NSFC project, three Shanghai Fund projects and joined two
National Key R&D Programs. Now, he has published more than
100 academic papers..
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
TBA..
Northeastern University, China
Xiangning Meng, PhD in Engineering, Supervisor of PhD
Candidates, PI of Metallurgy & Energy Network Group in
Northeastern University, China. He was Funded by JSPS
Fellowship and worked in Hokkaido University, Japan, 2012 –
2014, and Editorial Board Member of four international
peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Xiangning Meng rewarded some
prizes for science and technology as well as dissertation,
including First-class Metallurgical Science and Technology
Award of China and National Nomination Award for Outstanding
Doctoral Dissertations of China etc. His research interests
focus on high-temperature process technology and recovery
and utilization of industrial waste heat. Up to now, two
invention patents of Prof. Xiangning Meng were transformed
into scientific and technological achievements and applied
to actual large-scale production, and one academic book was
published and three NSFC projects was approved.
Prof. Yangbo Deng
Dalian Maritime University, China
Deng Yangbo is a
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Naval Architecture and
Ocean Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University. He
received the Ph.D. degree in Power Machinery and Engineering
from Dalian University of Technology. From September 2014 to
September 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar in Department of
Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder.
His main research interests include the analyze and reduce
reaction mechanisms of fuel, the advanced combustion
technology and the pollutant emission control of marine
power plant. He conducted three NSFC projects and two Dalian
Fund projects. He has published more than 40 academic
papers.
Assoc. Prof.
Zhen Wu,
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Dr. Zhen Wu, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Chief Scientist of
the National Key R&D Program of China, Vice Chairman of
Chinese Energy Society, Hong Kong Scholar Fellow and Vebleo
Fellow. He is currently the Associate Editor of e-Prime:
Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy
and Frontiers in Thermal Engineering, the Academic Editor of
Automotive Innovation, the editorial board member of Rare
Metals, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, and Results
in Engineering, and the Topic Editor of Energies. He is also
the member of review panel of European Research Council
(ERC) project. He received B.A. degree from School of
Material and Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University in
2009. And then he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Power
Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from Xi'an
Jiaotong University. From Sep 2013 to Sep 2014, he made
research in Kyoto University as a visiting scholar. In 2017,
he was selected as Hong Kong scholar fellowship in the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include
hydrogen storage materials and systems based on metal
hydride, hydrogen fuel cell energy system modeling and
optimization, thermal analysis of hydrogen energy system,
energy conversion technology, and so on. So far, he has
published more than 100 scientific and conference papers in
the research field of hydrogen energy system.
Assoc. Prof.
Wentao Huang,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr. Wentao Huang (IEEE S’13-M’15-SM’20) is the associate
professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the Deputy
Director of the Shanghai Research Center of Intelligent
Ships’ Integrated Power System. His research interests focus
on marine integrated power system and port integrated energy
system. He received Shanghai Sailing Program in 2022 and
Shanghai Youth Talent in 2016, First Prize of Technological
Invention of Shanghai in 2018, First Prize of Science and
Technology Progress of Shanghai in 2019, and IEEE PES Best
of the Best Paper Award in 2019. In 2022, he was awarded the
China Youth May Fourth Medal.
Assoc. Prof.
Feng Gong,
Southeast University, China
Feng Gong is working as an Associate Professor in School of
Energy and Environment, Southeast University, China. He is
serving as the vice-director of Key Laboratory of Energy
Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education. He
received his Bachelor degree in Sichuan University, China,
and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from National University
of Singapore, Singapore. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow
at the University of Oklahoma for a short period. His
current research interests are focused on green ammonia
synthesis, low-grade energy harvesting, and multiscale
modeling of energy conversion, transfer and storage. He has
published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and 50 of them
are first author or corresponding author. The total citation
of his publications is more than 2600 with a H index of 28.
Assoc. Prof. Boyu Qin,
Xi'an Jiaotong
University, China
Boyu Qin is an Associate Professor and Doctoral
Supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an
Jiaotong University. He received the B.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in
2011 and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Tsinghua University in 2016. His main research
interests include power system stability analysis and
control, integrated energy systems, power system planning
and operation, energy policy and low carbon economy, energy
storage technologies and MMC-HVDC transmission systems. He
is the author of about 60 journal and conference papers
indexed by SCI/EI, holds more than 10 invention patents. Dr.
Qin is a recipient of the Second Prize for Outstanding
Achievements in Scientific and Technological Research of
Shaanxi Universities. He received the Excellent Paper Award
3 times in international academic conferences. He has served
as an active reviewer for several IEEE Transactions, IET
series, and other international journals. He is an assiciate
editor of Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems.
Assoc. Prof. Zhen Tian,
Shanghai Maritime University, China
Zhen Tian received her B.E. from Hunan University in 2010
and Ph.D. from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016.
From 2015 to 2016, she was a joint-Ph.D. student in
Department of Fluid Mechanics in the University of
Nottingham, UK. She joined Shanghai Maritime University in
2016, where she is now an associate professor. In 2018, she
was a visiting professor in the World Maritime University,
Sweden. She has been awarded Shanghai Teaching Expert in
2020. She was granted Youth Talent Project by China
Association for Science and Technology in 2022. Her research
interests include the micro heat and mass transfer, electric
ship thermal management, LNG cold energy utilization, and
ORC. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers
including Energy Conversion and Management, Energy, Applied
Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Refrigeration,
etc.
Assoc. Prof. Farhad
Shahnia,
Murdoch University, Australia
A/Professor Farhad Shahnia received his PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT),
Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently an A/Professor at Murdoch
University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin
University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT (2008-11),
and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power
Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a
Fellow member of Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE,
and member of the Australasian Association for Engineering
Education.Farhad’s research falls under Distribution
networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored
one book and 11 book chapters and 100+ peer-reviewed
scholarly articles in international conferences and
journals, as well as being an editor of 6 books.
Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences
and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best
Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission &
Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed
under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power
System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015
journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read
articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the
Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin
University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist
Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and
Engineering in 2016.
Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor,
and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE
Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET
Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy
Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on
Electrical Energy Systems and has served 35+ conferences in
various roles such as General, Technical, Program,
Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special
Session Chairs.
Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the
2020-2021 Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE
Western Australia Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
Chapter. He is currently the 2021-2022 Secretary of the
IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.
Assoc.
Prof. Yifei Wang,
Harbin Institute of
Technology (Shenzhen), China
Dr. Yifei Wang is currently an Associate Professor in School
of Mechanical Engineering and automation, Harbin Institute
of Technology, Shenzhen. He received his B.Sc. degree from
Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and
Technology of China in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree from
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong
Kong in 2016. Afterwards, he worked as a Postdoc in the same
university. His research interest is mainly focused on
microfluidic energy conversion and battery additive
manufacture, including fuel cells, metal-air batteries,
aqueous ion batteries and electrolyzers. Till now, he has
published over 50 scientific articles in these areas and
filed 5 related patents. He is also a guest editor for
Energies (IF 3.0), editing a special issue on “Advances in
Fuel Cells and Metal-Air Batteries” (open for submission).
Assoc. Prof.
Ce Shang,
Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China
Ce Shang received his B.E. from Zhejiang University in 2011
and Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2016.
He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017 as an
assistant professor, where he is now an associate professor.
His research interests include the operational planning and
reliability evaluation of power and energy systems, using
tools of operations research and machine learning.
Assoc. Prof.
Xiao Wu,
Southeast University, China
Xiao Wu is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at
School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University. He
received his B. S. degree and Ph. D. degree in Energy
information and Automation in Southeast University, Nanjing,
China, in 2008 and 2014. Since 2019, he has been a visiting
professor in Department of Chemical and Biological
Engineering in the University of Sheffield, UK.
Prof. Wu has been investigators in over 20 research grants
with funding from European Union, Royal Society, NSFC, MOST
and Industry. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers
including Applied Energy, Energy, Fuel, IEEE Trans. Energy
Conversion. He has been awarded Jiangsu Outstanding Youth
Foundation, Royal Society-Sino-British Trust International
Fellow, Excellent young scholar of Jiangsu Engineering
Thermophysics Society, Young Science and Technology Talents
of Jiangsu Province in the last three years. His main
research area is in Process Systems Engineering for Energy
and Environment, including Process Modelling, Simulation,
Control and Optimization, Big Data and Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Power Plants，Carbon Capture, Utilization
and Storage (CCUS) and Integrated Energy System (IES).
Dr. Geng Qiao,
Head of Energy Storage Department / Senior Research Engineer
Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Europe GmbH
Kantstrasse 162, Germany
TBA..
Assoc. Prof.
Hongchang Li,
Xinjiang University, China
Hongchang Li (S’12-M’16-SM’21) received the B.Eng. and
D.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong
University, Xi’an, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively.
From August 2014 to August 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar
with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA,
U.S. From July 2016 to July 2019, he was a Research Fellow
with the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. Since 2020, He has been an Associate
Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering,
Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China. His research interests
include wireless power transfer, high-frequency power
conversion, and distributed energy storage systems.
Assoc. Prof. Fei Gao,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Fei
Gao is currently an associate professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai , China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Power Electronics, Machines, and
Control (PEMC) Research Group, The University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, UK, in 2016. From Mar. 2010 to Sep. 2012, he
worked in Jiangsu Electric Power Research Institute,
Nanjing, State Grid Corporation of China. From 2016 to 2019,
he was with Department of Engineering Science, University of
Oxford, UK as a postdoctoral researcher. Since July 2019 he
joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an associate
professor. His current research interests include control
and stability in microgrids, more electric transportation
systems, and wireless power transfer. Dr. Gao won the
European Union Clean Sky Best PhD Award in 2017 and IET
Control & Automation Runner Up PhD Award in 2018.
Dr. Fernando Pérez López
Fernando is the MaintenanceAI global solution leader based
in the Riyadh office. He joined McKinsey in 2016 after
working 3 years as a Reliability engineer for Maersk
Drilling and 2 years as a corrosion researcher. His main
areas of expertise are in Reliability analytics and
predictive maintenance across industries.