Keynote Speakers

 

		Jizhong Zhu, South China University of Technology, China   IEEE/IET/CSEE Fellow/AAIA Fellow

 

Jizhong Zhu is a Professor of South China University of Technology, National Distinguished Expert, and Foreign Corresponding Academician of Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, Italy. He is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, CSEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, AIIA Fellow, Chair of IEEE PES Smart Building, Loads, Customer Systems Technical Committee (China), Chair of IEEE Standard P2781 - Load Modeling and Simulation, Chair of IEEE Standard P2783 – Quick Response System, Chair of IEEE Standard P3436 – EV Charging Load Prediction, IEEE SMC Technical Committee member on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems. He is also an Expert of International Electrotechnical Commission WGs IEC SEG6, IEC TC22 AHG1, IEC TC22 AHG2, respectively. Dr. Zhu has worked at ALSTOM Grid Inc. in Washington State, Howard University in Washington, D.C., the National University of Singapore, Brunel University in England, Chongqing University in China, and China Southern Power Grid. He was a Fellow with ALSTOM Grid Inc., and an honorable advisory professor of Chongqing University. He has hosted and participated in more than 20 international large-scale power engineering projects, as well as led and participated in the compilation and formulation of 6 IEC and IEEE international standards. He has published six books, as well as over three hundred papers in the international journals and conferences. He has authorized more than 20 national patents and won more than 10 international and domestic academic awards. His research interest is in the analysis, operation, planning and control of power systems, integrated energy systems, smart grid, power markets as well as applications of renewable energy

 

 

 

 

		Hoay Beng Gooi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore   IEEE Life Fellow

 

Hoay Beng Gooi (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus in 1985. He was Assistant Professor with Lafayette College, Easton, and Senior Engineer/Team Leader with EMPROS (now Siemens), Minneapolis. In 1991, he joined as a Senior Lecturer with the School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and was an Associate Professor (1999–2023). He was the Deputy Head of Power Engineering Division, Chairman of Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (Electrical) Sub-Committee for Professional Engineers Board Singapore, and Co-Director with Singapore Power Group-NTU Joint Lab. Dr Gooi was the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Editor Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is a member of Energy Technical Committee, Institution of Engineers Singapore, a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, USA and Singapore, and an IEEE IES Distinguished Lecturer. Currently, he serves on the IEEE Access Editorial Board.

 

 

 

 

		Ronghai Qu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China   IEEE Fellow

 

Ronghai Qu received the B.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA, in 1993, 1996, and 2002, respectively, all in electrical engineering.,In 1998, he joined the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortiums, University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a Research Assistant. He became a Senior Electrical Engineer at Northland, a Scott Fetzer Company, Watertown, NY, USA, in 2002. Since 2003, he has been with the General Electric Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA, as a Senior Electrical Engineer in the Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory. He has authored more than 230 published technical papers and is the holder of more than 50 patents/patent applications. Since 2010, he has been a Professor with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.,Dr. Qu is a Full Member of Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of several awards from the GE Global Research Center since 2003, including the Technical Achievement and Management Awards, and also the 2003 and 2005 Best Paper Awards, third prize, from the Electric Machines Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society at the 2002 and 2004 IAS Annual Meeting, respectively.

 

 

 

 

		Josep M. Guerrero, Aalborg University, Denmark   IEEE Fellow

 

Josep M. Guerrero (S’01-M’04-SM’08-FM’15) received the B.Sc. degree in telecom engineering, M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and PhD degree from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona.
Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is responsible for the Microgrid Research Program. From 2019, he became a Villum Investigator by the Villum Fonden, which supports the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM) at Aalborg University, being Prof. Guerrero the founder and Director of the same center (www.crom.energy.aau.dk). In 2020, he initiated neuroscience studies and research. As a result, in 2022 he received the M.Sc. degree in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute of Neuroscience (INc) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently pursuing an M.Sc. degree in Sleep: Physiology and Medicine at the University of Murcia, Spain. In 2023 he joined the Technical University of Catalonia as an ICREA Research Professor.
His research interests are oriented to different microgrid frameworks like energy microgrids, hydrogen and biomass, water micronets, biological systems, seaport microgrids and electrical ships, airport microgrids and more electrical aircrafts, space microgrids and smart medical systems. In these fields, he has been researched distributed and cyber-physical energy systems, cybersecurity for microgrids and smart grids, neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence for energy systems, machine learning and applications using signal processing, bioinformatics, bio-inspired computing, and natural computing, and quantum computing for complex energy networks.
Prof. Guerrero is an Associate Editor for several IEEE TRANSACTIONS. He has published more than 1,000 journal papers in the fields of microgrids and renewable energy systems, which are cited more than 100,000 times. During ten consecutive years, from 2014 to 2023, he was awarded by Clarivate Analytics as Highly Cited Researcher. In 2021, he received the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, for his pioneering contributions to renewable energy based microgrids. In 2022, he received the IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, for contributions to making the hierarchical control of microgrid systems a practical reality. In 2023, he was the IEEE Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award recipient for contributions to modelling and control of power electronics based microgrids.

 

 

 

		Jun Xiao, Tianjin University, China   IEEE Fellow

 

Xiao Jun, Professor at Tianjin University and also serves as the Vice Chair of the IEEE PES Distributed Energy Resources and Distribution System Planning Subcommittee. He is recognized as a 'New Century Excellent Talent' by the Chinese Ministry of Education and a 'Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher' and 'World's Top 2% Scientist'. Prof. Xiao has been engaged in research on urban distribution system planning for a long time and has accomplished more than 400 distribution system planning projects in over 70 cities in China, such as Beijing and Shanghai. He is founder of Distribution System Security Region (DSSR) and Total Supply Capability (TSC) theory. He has also led 9 highest-class research projects sponsored by the Chinese central government, including the National Key Research and Development Program, the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), the National High Technology Research and Development (863 Program), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Prof. Xiao has published over 130 SCI/EI papers, two monographs, over 30 Chinese patents, and one U.S. patent. He has received the China National Award of Science & Technology twice and also received the 'Distinguished Individual Contribution Award' by IEEE PES.