Prof. Andy Knight
University of Calgary, Canada, IEEE IAS President
IEEE FELLOW
Andy Knight is a Professor and Head of Electrical and
Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. His
research program focuses on the challenges of integrating
renewable energy sources into electrical systems, energy
efficiency, and electrical energy conversion.
Dr. Knight was awarded the PhD from the University of
Cambridge and was a Professor at the University of Alberta
prior to joining Calgary. He is a Professional Engineer
registered in the Province of Alberta, Senior Member of IEEE
and is a recipient of prize paper awards from IEEE Power and
Energy Society (PES) and IEEE Industry Applications Society
(IAS).
He is currently the Vice President of IEEE Industry
Applications Society, a member of the Steering Committee for
IEEE Electrification Magazine, and has previously held
various roles with IEEE including Chairing the Steering
Committees the for IEEE Energy Conversion Congress &
Exposition and the IEEE International Electric Machines and
Drives Conference, as a member of the Steering Committees
for IEEE Journal on Selected and Emerging Topics in Power
Electronics, IEEE Open Journal on Industry Applications, and
Chair of IEEE Smart Grid R&D Committee.
Prof. AYMAN EL-REFAIE
Marquette University, USA
IEEE FELLOW
Ayman M. El-Refaie
received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison on
2002, and 2005 respectively. Between 2005 and 2016 he has
been a principal engineer and a project leader at the
Electrical Machines and Drives Lab at General Electric
Global Research Center. His interests include electrical
machines and drives. Since January 2017 he joined Marquette
University as the Werner Endowed Chair for Energy
Sustainability. He has over 200 journal and conference
publications. He has 48 issued US patents.
At GE, he worked on several projects that involve the
development of advanced electrical machines for various
applications including, aerospace, traction, wind, and water
desalination. He was the chair for the IEEE IAS
Transportation Systems committee and an associate editor for
the Electric Machines committee. He was a technical program
chair for the IEEE 2011 Energy Conversion Conference and
Exposition (ECCE). He was the general chair for ECCE 2014
and 2015 ECCE steering committee chair. He was the general
chair of IEMDC 2019. He was the IEEE IAS Industrial Power
Conversion Systems Department. He was the IAS Publications
Department Chair and member of the IEEE Industry
Applications Society executive board. He is currently
serving as the IAS president-elect . He is an IEEE Fellow
and a member of Sigma Xi He received several prestigious
awards including the IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion
Systems Department Gerald Kliman Innovator Award and the
2022 ICEM Arthur Ellison Achievement Award. He is the
recipient of three paper awards.
Prof. João P. S. Catalão,
University of Porto, Portugal
IEEE FELLOW
João P. S. Catalão is an IEEE Fellow. He received the M.Sc.
degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon,
Portugal, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree and Habilitation for
Full Professor ("Agregação") from the University of Beira
Interior (UBI), Covilha, Portugal, in 2007 and 2013,
respectively. Currently, he is a Professor at the Faculty of
Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto,
Portugal. He was the Primary Coordinator of the EU-funded
FP7 project SiNGULAR, a 5.2-million-euro project involving
11 industry partners. He has authored or coauthored more
than 500 journal publications and 400 conference proceedings
papers, with an h-index of 89 and more than 30,000 citations
(according to Google Scholar), having supervised more than
120 post-docs, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, and other students
with project grants. He was the General Chair and General
Co-Chair of SEST 2019 and SEST 2020, respectively, after
being the inaugural Technical Chair and co-founder of SEST
2018. He is a Senior Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS. Furthermore, he is an
Associate Editor of nine other IEEE TRANSACTIONS/JOURNALS.
He was an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
Fellows Committee Member in 2022 and 2024. He was recognized
as one of the Outstanding Associate Editors 2020 of the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, and one of the Outstanding
Associate Editors 2021 of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER
SYSTEMS. He has multiple Highly Cited Papers in Web of
Science. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards at IEEE Conferences.
Furthermore, he was the recipient of the 2017-2022 (for the
sixth consecutive year) FEUP Scientific Recognition
Diplomas. His research interests include power system
operations and planning, power system economics and
electricity markets, distributed renewable generation,
demand response, smart grid, and multi-energy carriers.
Prof.
Dajun Du,
Shanghai University, China
Du Dajun, Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Venus,
winner of Shanghai Talent Development Fund. Presided over
more than 10 projects of the National Natural Science
Foundation of China, such as the cultivation of major
research plans, the surface, the Youth Fund, the Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology, the Shanghai Municipal
Science and Technology Commission's basic key projects, and
enterprise commissions. He has published more than 130
SCI/EI papers in IEEE journals. Apply for 28 intellectual
property rights, authorize 6 invention patents, and register
9 software copyrights. He has won the first prize of the
2018 Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, the
second prize of the 2017 Shanghai Teaching Achievement
Award, the second prize of the 2013 Shanghai Natural Science
Award, the Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 IMIOT&ICSEE
International Conference, the Best Paper Award at the 2017
LSMS&ICSEE International Conference, and the 2018 China
Excellent papers of the Simulation Society, 2018 and 2016
Excellent Master's Thesis Advisor of the Chinese Institute
of Electronics, 2018 Shanghai University's 6th Postgraduate
"Good Mentor in My Mind", 2016 Shanghai University
Outstanding Communist Party Member, 2013 Shanghai University
Outstanding Young Teacher and other honorary titles.
Prof.
Weimin Wu,
Shanghai Maritime University
Weimin Wu received Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China, in 2005.
He worked as a research engineer in the Delta Power
Electronic Center (DPEC), Shanghai, from July, 2005 to June,
2006. Since July, 2006, he has been a Faculty Member at
Shanghai Maritime University, where he is currently a Full
Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering. He was a
Visiting Professor in the Center for Power Electronics
Systems (CPES), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, USA, from Sept. 2008 to March. 2009.
From Nov. 2011 to Jan. 2014, he was also a visiting
professor in the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg
University, Demark, working at the Center of Reliable Power
Electronics (CORPE). He has coauthored over 180 papers and
holds 20 patents. He has won the Elsevier Highly Cited
Scholar from 2020 to now. His areas of interests include
power converters for renewable energy systems, power
quality, smart grid, and energy storage technology.
Dr. Wu serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY ELECTRONICS and also as the
Director of “Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of ‘Full
Penetration’ Far-Reaching Offshore Ocean Energy and Power” .