CEECT 2025 Speakers

 

Prof. XU Zhao

(Keynote Speaker)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, China

Speech 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, China

Speech 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, China

Speech 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, China

Speech 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. <Learn More>

 

 

 

 

Past Speakers

Prof. Tek-Tjing Lie

Auckland University of Technology,
New Zealand

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,
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, 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

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, 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,
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