Speakers

Brief introduction :

Prof. M. Prabhakar is currently working at Vellore Institute of Technology as Professor. The research experience is focused on developing, testing and implementing high gain DC-DC converters for integrating renewable energy sources to a DC bus. He started his research in the year 2012 and he have been actively involved in synthesizing more than 20 high gain DC-DC converters. The voltage gain of the developed converters range from 15 to 25. The test results obtained from the prototype versions of the power electronic converters have been published in reputed journals.

From May 2022, he is associated with Centre for Smart Grid Technologies (CSGT), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India as a Professor. In recent times, he is involved in synthesizing high gain multi-input converters. Presently, he is working on implementing machine learning-based algorithms to integrate the multiple photovoltaic (PV) sources to a common DC bus through asymmetric multi-input converters. This particular work is being funded by his university, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India under “Seed Fund Grant” proposal.

Brief introduction :

Prof. Wei Hu entered the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronic Technology at Tsinghua University in 1993 and remained at the university after obtaining his Ph.D. in 2002. He was appointed associate professor in 2008, became a doctoral supervisor in 2012, and was promoted to researcher in 2021. Additionally, in 2020, he served as the assistant to the director and the office director of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University. Prof. Wei Hu is a senior member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and IEEE, and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the UK.

Prof. Wei Hu has been dedicated to research in power system analysis and control, power big data and artificial intelligence technology, and smart energy systems in recent years. He has participated in the research of national-level scientific research projects such as the 973 National Key Basic Research Program, the 863 National High-tech Research and Development Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s major projects, key projects and general projects, the National Science and Technology Support Program, and the National Key Research and Development Program. He has published over 100 academic papers as the first or second author in domestic and international journals, obtained more than 30 authorized invention patents, and has won honors such as the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, three Gold Awards at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education’s Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.