Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Mo-Yuen Chow earned his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983; Ph.D., 1987). Dr. Chow joined as a Professor at UM-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute in 2022. He was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Chow's recent research focuses on distributed control and management, smart micro-grids, batteries management, and mechatronics systems. 

Dr. Chow has established the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation, and Control Laboratory. He is an IEEE Fellow, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics 2014-2018, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2010-2012. He has received the IEEE Region-3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the IEEE ENCS Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the IEEE ENCS Service Award, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Anthony J Hornfeck Service Award, and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

Prof. Zhenbin Zhang

Shandong Univeristy, China

Zhenbin Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics (EAL), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, with “summa cum laude”. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy and Smart Grid at Shandong University. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge and the Technical University of Munich. Prof. Zhang has authored one monograph and one textbook on the design and control of wind power conversion systems. He has published over 200 papers, cited more than 5,800 times, with an H-index of 37. Prof. Zhang was selectedselected as a recipient of China's “1000-Talent-Plan”.He has led more than ten national and provincial research projects, including the National Key R&D Program and two General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His work has earned multiple accolades, such as the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the China Electrotechnical Society, the Gold Medal at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition, and Second Prizes for Science and Technology Progress in Anhui and Shandong Provinces. Prof. Zhang is an Associate Editor for prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and has been consecutively listed among Stanford University's top 2% scientists for lifetime and annual scientific impact rankings.

Prof. Yiming Zhang

Fuzhou University, China 

Professor Yiming Zhang is the recipient of the National Youth Talent Program, “Minjiang” Scholar of Fujian Province, a full professor and Ph.D supervisor of Fuzhou University, and IEEE Senior Member. He was recognized as the World' s Top 2% Scientist by Elsevier. His research interest is power electronics and wireless power transfer. He has authored one book from Springer and published more than 100 technical papers in renowned journals and conference proceedings. He has an H-index of 44 and has won multiple excellent conference papers including ECCE, EVS, EVCP, and CIEEC. He was recognized as the Outstanding Reviewer for EEE TPEL and TIE. He is the PI of the Excellent Youth Project and Youth Fund from National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Outstanding Youth Project of Fujian Provincial Natural Science Foundation.

Prof. Chen Chen

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Chen Chen is a professor at School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, USA, in 2013 and worked at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, from 2013 to 2019. His primary research is power system resilience and modeling & analysis of cyber-physical energy systems. He has led multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program, State Grid Corporation, and China Southern Power Grid. In recent years, he has published over 80 papers in high-impact journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE and TPWRS, with Google Scholar citations over 16,000. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and recipient of the 2017 IEEE PES Chicago Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award.

Prof. Zaifang Li

Jiaxing University, China 

Zaifang Li, PhD, Professor, EU“Marie Curie Fellow”, Distinguished Professor of“Nanhu Scholars” at Jiaxing University, and Executive Deputy Director of a provincial-level platform. His research focuses on conducting polymers, organic/perovskite solar cell materials and devices, with a particular emphasis on high-conductivity PEDOT:PSS electrode materials. To date, he has published over 100 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals such as Energ. Environ. Sci., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Adv. Mater. He was selected as one of the top 1% most highly cited Chinese authors by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2021. He has led over 20 projects, including 6 funded at the national or provincial-ministerial level. He serves as a reviewer for well-known journals such as Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Adv. Energy Mater.

Prof. Chen Chen

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Mingbo Niu, Professor and PhD advisor, is the Director of the Shaanxi International Innovation Research Centre for TEI fusion and Sustainability, and Heading the IVR Low Carbon Research Institute, Chang’an University, Shaanxi, China. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in British Columbia. He has coauthored more than 100 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Elsevier, and Optical Society of America (OSA) papers and supervised numerous projects. His research interests include the internet of vehicles (IoV), vehicle-to-road (V2R) infrastructure, cooperative microgrids, massive multiple input multiple outputs (M-MIMO), image signal processing, low-carbon smart cities, transportation-energy fusion, and renewable power theory. Dr. Niu is a specialized committee member of the Internet of Things (IoT) Committee at the China Institute of Communications (CIC). He served as the General Chair of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Traffic Systems and Smart City, Xi’an, China, 2024, and an Academic Editor for InTech Publishing, EU. He received numerous awards, including a Chinese Government Award (CGA), two University of British Columbia University Graduate Fellowships (UGFs), and a Huawei Tech Ltd., Special Fellowship. He has ever worked with the State Key Laboratory on Underwater Information and Signal Processing, China.