Prof. Kai Yang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

Visiting scholar at the University of Leuven in Belgium and visiting professor  at  the University of Changwon in Korea. In recent years, he has presided over four National Natural Science Fund projects, two major national science and technology projects, one national support plan, one 863 Project, one provincial fund, one international cooperation project, and more than 40 other school-enterprise cooperation projects. He has published more than 200 papers of the first author in the important academic journals at home and abroad, among which 170 papers are included in Sci/ei. There are 45 patents for invention and 38 patents for utility model.

Prof. Fushuan Wen,  IEEE Fellow

Zhejiang University, China

Professor Fushuan Wen received the BE and ME degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the PhD degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1991, all in electrical engineering. He joined the faculty of Zhejiang University in 1991, and has been a full professor and the director of the Institute of Power Economics and Information since 1997, and the director of Zhejiang University-Insigma Joint Research Center for Smart Grids since 2010. 

He has been undertaking various teaching, research and visiting appointments in National University of Singapore (NSTB Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Fellow), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Research Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor), University of Hong Kong (Research Assistant Professor), South China University of Technology (University Distinguished Professor), University of New South Wales in Australia (ARC Project Senior Fellow, Senior Visiting Fellow), Queensland University of Technology in Australia (CSIRO and ARC Project Visiting Fellow), Brunei University of Technology (Professor in Power Systems), Technical University of Denmark (Otto Monsted Guest Professor in Power Systems), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (Visiting Fellow), Murdoch University in Australia (Adjunct Professor), Tallinn University of Technology (Professor in Energy Systems), Hangzhou Dianzi University in China (Yusheng XUE Education Foundation Distinguished Professor), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia (Honorary Visiting Scientist), Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (Visiting Principal Research Scientist).

His research interests include: 1) power economics and electricity markets; 2) power system investment, planning and operation optimization; 3) smart grids and electric vehicles; 4) power system alarm processing, fault diagnosis and system restoration; 5) artificial intelligence 

Zengkai Liu received his Ph.D and BSc from China University of Petroleum (East China) in 2016 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an associate professor at China University of Petroleum (East China). After one year’s postdoctoral research in University of Duisburg-Essen (Duisburg, Germany), he worked as a Humboldt Research Fellow with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (Geesthchat, Germany). His current research interests include: 1) Oil spill risk assessment and decision making and 2) Safety and reliability of well control. Until now, he has authored and co-authored more than 56 peer-reviewed journal papers such as Water Research, Environmental Pollution, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Energy. He has published 3 books and obtained 10 Chinese invention patents and 5 international patents. He was the winner of Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Sino-Germany Postdoc Scholarship supported by German Academic Exchange Service and China Scholarship Council. 

 Prof. Abdul Hasib Chowdhury

Bangladesh University, Bangladesh

Dr. Abdul Hasib Chowdhury has 25 years of experience in power system reserach. His research interests include power system planning, stability, reliability analysis, contingency and security analysis, vulnerability analysis, power quality analysis etc. He has carried out extensive studies on Bangladesh Power System (BPS), and developed under-frequency load shedding and islanding scheme for BPS. He has first-hand experience accomplishing important national projects in Bangladesh power sector including: “Grid Failure Investigation Project”; “Electromagnetic transients and stability studies to identify the root cause of blackout in the Bangladesh power system”; “Reliability analysis of a major transmission corridor”; “Impact studies of different power plants on Bangladesh power system”; “Energy Efficiency and Integration of Renewable Energy into the Grid in Bangladesh”; “Gid Integration Strategy for Solar PV in Bangladesh,” “Study on Grid Stability in Bangladesh.” His works also include policy, rules, and regulations pertaining to Bangladesh power system.

Prof. Mohd Shakir Bin Md Saat 

Albukhary International University, Malaysia 

Expert area is on controller synthesis of polynomial control system. Also in wireless power transfer technologies especially in Capacitive Power Transfer system. Has published more than 80 journals and refereed conference proceedings. Has published 1 book on Polynomial Discrete-Time System (Publisher: Springer). Reviewer to many reputable journals such as IEEE Transaction, Sensors, Energies, COMPEL, and many others.