Speakers

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Pei Zhang is a Professor at Tianjin University. He was Vice Dean of International School of Renewable Energy at Beijing Jiaotong University. He was the Director of Smart Grid in Resource Group of Accenture and the Program Manager leading Grid Operation and Planning group at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in USA. He obtained his Ph. D. degree from Imperial College, United Kingdom. His research interests include power system operation and planning, power market and application of AI into power system. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the computational methods of smart control centres and probability-based planning and operation. He was awarded the Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association for his contribution to application of artificial intelligence into power system. He was elected as Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering Fellow in 2024. He was ranked as the world’s top 2% of scientists for Lifetime Scientific Influence.

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Jingang Lai, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. National Distinguished Young Scholar, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. From 2015 to 2021, he conducted research at institutions including RMIT University (Australia) and RWTH Aachen University (Germany). He previously served as a Guest Professor at the E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University. He is an IEEE Senior Member and Vice Chairman of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Wuhan Chapter. He has published more than 80 papers in SCI journals such as IEEE Transactions and Automatica. He has led or participated in over 30 research and talent projects, including: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects, EU Horizon 2020 projects, Australian ARC Discovery Projects (DP), National Key R&D Program of China (Science and Technology Innovation 2030), Key (Joint) Projects of NSFC, and Science and Technology Projects of China Southern Power Grid. He serves as a reviewer for project proposals of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the European Research Council (ERC). He is currently or has been an Associate Editor for 7 international SCI journals, as well as a Guest Editor for multiple SCI journals.

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Zhe Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in power electronics from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from the Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, in 2010.,From 2014 to 2021, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he has been the Head of Studies in charge of Electrical Engineering M.Sc. Programme since January 2018. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 transactions and international conference papers and filed more than 20 patent applications. Dr. Zhang was the recipient of the awards and honors, including Best Paper Awards in IEEE conferences of ECCE, IFEEC, and IGBSG, Best Teacher of the Semester, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, etc. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and IEEE Access, and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics.

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He has been selected as the Chief Young Scientist for the National Major Projects by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), named among Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, and recognized as an Outstanding Young Energy Professional by the China Energy Research Society. Additionally, he was appointed as a “Feitian Scholar” Chair Professor (5th Cohort) by Gansu Province in 2024, and recognized as a Leading Talent under the “Longcheng Talents Plan” of Jiangsu Province in 2022. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves on the editorial boards of Information Processing in Agriculture and Renewable Energy. He also serves as a youth editorial board member for Power System Protection and Control and Electric Power.

In recent years, he has led 6 national-level projects, including the Young Scientist Program of the National Science and Technology Major Project “New Generation Artificial Intelligence 2030” and projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), with total research funding exceeding 45 million RMB. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 72 SCI-indexed papers, 42 of which are in JCR Q1/Q2 journals and 21 in IEEE Transactions. These include 4 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 3 ESI Hot Papers. His publications have garnered a total of 2,103 citations on Google Scholar, yielding an H-index of 23 and an i10-index of 45. He holds 76 authorized invention patents (including 2 international patents) and has authored 8 monographs in Chinese and English (serving as the editor-in-chief for 2 English monographs). Furthermore, he has contributed to the formulation of 1 international standard, 2 industry standards, and 3 group standards. He has received 26 awards at the provincial/ministerial level and from tier-one academic societies, including the Second Prize of the Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked 1st) and the First Prize of the Energy Innovation Award by the China Energy Research Society (ranked 1st), both in 2020. His research outcomes have been successfully implemented in major engineering projects, including the core area of the Chinese capital, Beijing.

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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.