CEECT 2025 Speakers

Prof. XU Zhao
(Keynote Speaker)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, ChinaSpeech Title: Securing the Future Grid: A Historical and Technical Perspective on Fault Ride-Through Control for Renewables
Brief Bio: Prof. Zhao Xu received the B.Eng. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1996, the M.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2006, all in electrical engineering. From 2006 to 2010, he was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. Since 2010, he has been with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Leader of Smart Grid Research Area. He is also a foreign Associate Staff of the Centre for Electric Technology, Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include smart grid, renewable energy, and applications of AI and big data analytics. He has extensive research project experiences involving collaborations with academia, industrial, and business sectors. Prof. Xu was the recipient of several awards for research excellence, including the 2017 State Award in Nature Science from MOE, China. He is currently the Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of PES/IELS/IAS/PELS. He has served/is serving as an editor for a number of IEEE Transactions and IET journals. <Personal Webpage>

Prof. Zhongbao Wei
(Keynote Speaker)
Beijing Institute of Technology, ChinaSpeech Title: TBD
Brief Bio: Wei Zhongbao, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Machinery and Vehicle, Beijing Institute of Technology, was selected as a National high-level Young talent, the World's Most cited Scientist, and Elsevier China's most Cited Scholar. He is mainly engaged in the management and control research of new energy vehicles, batteries and fuel cells. He has published more than 100 academic papers, been cited more than 6,000 times, authorized more than 20 patents, and compiled 1 textbook. He presided over a number of national projects and topics such as the key project of the National Nature Joint Fund, the Young Scientist Project of the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Nature Surface project, and the basic product innovation research project of GF Science and Technology Bureau. The related research achievements won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, the first prize of the Innovation Technology Award of the Chinese Simulation Society, the third prize of the Science and Technology Award of China Machinery Industry, and the best paper award of top journals and conferences. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and other vehicles, electrical, transportation field of the top academic journals deputy editor, and 7 well-known international academic journals guest editor. <Personal Webpage>

Prof. Bo Yang
(Keynote Speaker)
Kunming University of Science and Technology, ChinaSpeech Title: Artificial Intelligence based Optimization in New Power Systems
Brief Bio: Prof. Bo Yang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Liverpool in 2015 supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC). He has authored two Chinese monographs as the first author and published over 180 SCI journal papers (including 11 ESI papers and 3 hot papers) and 30 EI journal papers. He has led 33 research projects, including two National Natural Science Foundation of China and three Yunnan Province basic Research Programs. He has received numerous awards, including the First Prize for Technological Innovation from the China Electricity Council in October 2018, the Second Prize for Innovation in Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation in December 2018, and the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Yunnan Power Grid Company in December 2023. He was awarded as the "Yunnan Province Ten Thousand Talents Program - Young Top Talents" (provincial level) in December 2018, Highly Cited Chinese Scientist from 2021-2024 by Elsevier, top 2% of scientists globally in terms of lifetime scientific impact and annual influence from 2022-2024, as well as China Knowledge Network Top 1% of Highly Cited Scholars for 2024. From October 2023 to January 2024, he was fully funded by the to conduct research as a visiting scholar at the University of Liverpool. He also serves on the Youth Working Committee of the Eighth Council of the China Electrotechnical Society, as an executive director of the IEEE PES China Energy Informatics and Systems Technology Subcommittee and the Dynamic Power System Artificial Intelligence Applications Technology Subcommittee. He has been playing General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Power Science and Technology (ICPST 2023-2025), indexed by EI). <Personal Webpage>

Assoc. Prof. Jiaqi Ruan
(Invited Speaker)
Sichuan University, ChinaSpeech Title: TBD
Brief Bio: Dr. Jiaqi Ruan is an Associate Professor at the College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He received his Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2023. After that, he was awarded a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Ruan is an IEEE Member and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Energy Conversion and Economics, Scientific Reports, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things, etc. His research interests include smart grids, artificial intelligence algorithms and their applications in energy systems, cyber-physical security, climate resilience, and risk management. He has authored over 40 academic publications, with representative works published in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Applied Energy, etc. His research has been recognized with multiple Best Paper Awards, including those from ECE 2024, ECE 2023, and POWERCON 2018. He has also received several Excellent Organizer Awards for his contributions to academic conferences.
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Past Speakers
Prof. Tek-Tjing Lie Auckland University of Technology, |
Prof. Z. Y. Dong The University of New South Wales(UNSW Sydney), Australia |
Prof. Qianchuan Zhao Tsinghua University, China |
Prof. Iven Mareels Federation University Australia, Australia |
Prof. Peng Wang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Prof. Frede Blaabjerg Aalborg Universitet, Denmark |
Prof. Zhe Chen Aalborg University, Denmark |
Prof. Stein-Erik Fleten Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
Prof. Anurag Srivastava West Virginia University, USA |
Assoc Prof. Fakhrul Alam Massey University, New Zealand |
Prof. Guojie Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
Prof. Li Jia
Shanghai University, |
Prof. Zhengtao Ding University of Manchester, UK |
Prof. Yifan Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China |
Prof. Shengyuan Xu Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China |
Prof. Ljubo Vlacic Griffith University, Australia |
Prof. Gerard Ledwich Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Prof. Fushuan Wen Zhejiang University, |
Prof. Arindam Ghosh Curtin University, Australia |
Prof. Xiaoyan Han State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company, China |
Prof. Qinglong Han Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
Prof. Ben M. Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
Prof. Shuzhi Sam Ge National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Prof. Hua Geng Tsinghua University, China |
Prof. Hemanshu Pota The University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia |
Prof. Wendong Xiao University of Science and Technology Beijing, China |
Assoc Prof. Loulin Huang Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
Prof. Yulong Wang Shanghai University, China |
Assoc Prof. Farhad Shahnia Murdoch University, Australia |
Dr. Dimitrios I. Doukas NET2GRID B.V., Greece |
Dr. Yan Xu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Assoc Prof. Huirong Zhao Shanghai University of Electric Power, China |
Assoc. Prof. Ningyi Dai University of Macau, China |
Assoc. Prof. Siqi Bu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
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Prof. Tek-Tjing Lie Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
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Prof. Z. Y. Dong The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia | Prof. Qianchuan Zhao Tsinghua University, China |
Prof. Iven Mareels Federation University Australia, Australia |
Prof. Peng Wang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Prof. Frede Blaabjerg Aalborg Universitet, Denmark |
Prof. Zhe Chen Aalborg University, Denmark |
Prof. Stein-Erik Fleten Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway | Prof. Anurag Srivastava West Virginia University, USA |
Assoc Prof. Fakhrul Alam Massey University, New Zealand
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Prof. Guojie Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
Prof. Li Jia Shanghai University, China |
Prof. Zhengtao Ding University of Manchester, UK |
Prof. Yifan Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China |
Prof. Shengyuan Xu Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China |
Prof. Ljubo Vlacic Griffith University, Australia |
Prof. Gerard Ledwich Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
Prof. Fushuan Wen Zhejiang University, China | Prof. Arindam Ghosh Curtin University,
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Prof. Xiaoyan Han State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company, China |
<Prof. Qinglong Han Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
Prof. Ben M. Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
Prof. Shuzhi Sam Ge National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Prof. Hua Geng Tsinghua University, China |
Prof. Hemanshu Pota The University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia |
Prof. Wendong Xiao University of Science and Technology Beijing, China |
Assoc Prof. Loulin Huang Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
Prof. Yulong Wang Shanghai University, China |
Assoc Prof. Farhad Shahnia Murdoch University, Australia |
Dr. Dimitrios I. Doukas NET2GRID B.V., Greece | Dr. Yan Xu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Assoc Prof. Huirong Zhao Shanghai University of Electric Power, China |
Assoc. Prof. Ningyi Dai University of Macau, China |
Assoc. Prof. Siqi Bu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |