Prof. Zhe Chen
IET Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Aalborg University, Denmark

Biography:

Dr Chen received M.Phil. degree in Power Electronics from Staffordshire University, England, Ph.D. degree in Power and Control, from University of Durham, England. Dr Chen has been a full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark since 2002. He is the Danish Principle Investigator for Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), the leader of Wind Power System Research program at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University.

Professor Chen’s main current research interests are wind energy，power electronics, modern power system and energy systems. He has led many international and national research projects and has supervised many PhD, Postdoctoral research and visiting scholars. Dr Chen is a panel member for many research project evaluations, including European Research Council and other European national research funding organizations. He has served as an international evaluation expert for many research funding organisations, including Belgian, Canada, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Netherland and UK, etc. He has more than 700 technical publications. Google Scholar citation over 21000（H-index 66）.

Dr Chen is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a Subject Editor (wind turbine control) of IET Renewable Power Generation, an Associate Editor of IET Smart Grid, and a member of editor boards of many international journals, a Fellow of IET, a Chartered Engineer in the U.K., and a Fellow of IEEE, a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Prof. Om P. Malik
Life Fellow IEEE
University of Calgary, Canada

Biography:

Om P. Malik (Life Fellow, IEEE) received a bachelor’s degree (National Diploma) in electrical engineering and the M.E. degree in electrical machine design from the University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 1952 and 1962, respectively, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of London, London, U.K., in 1965, and the D.I.C. degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., in 1965. In 1968, he joined the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is also actively involved in IFAC and is currently the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Power Plants.

Prof. Hazlie Mokhlis
(Chairman of IEEE PES, Malaysia Chapter for 2020-2022)
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Biography:

Hazlie Mokhlis received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng. (Hons)) degree and a Master of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sc) in Electrical Engineering from the Universiti Malaya in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He received Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester in 2009. He is currently Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya. He held several important positions; Deputy Dean of Research (2013-2014), Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies (2014-2015, 2017-2018), Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2018-2019, 2021-2022), and Head of Department (2015-2017) at the Faculty of Engineering. Currently, as Chairman for Cluster Innovative Industry & Sustainability Science at the university level. Dr Hazlie is actively involved in research as a Principal Investigator with a total amount of research grants more than RM 3 million. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 publications in international journals and proceedings in the area of Power Systems and Energy. Up to now, he had successfully supervised 40 Ph.D., 12 Master (by research), and 56 Master (Mix-mode and Course Work) candidates. He is also active as a reviewer for many reputable journals and several international conferences in the area of power and energy system. His outstanding research had been recognized by Stanford University in 2021, 2022 and 2023 as the Top 2% of scientists in the world. In 2021 he was awarded Top Research Scientist Malaysia by Academic Science Malaysia. Besides research, he is also active in the development of Malaysian Standards as a member of Working Group in the Development of Malaysian's Power System Analysis and Studies (WG6) and Expert Representative in IEC for project TC 8/PT 62786. He is also an external examiner/assessor for many local universities for the Electrical Engineering programme. He was chairman of IEEE Power Energy Society, Malaysia Chapter session 2020-2022. Hazlie is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and Fellow Member Institute of Engineering Technology (UK). Currently, Associate Editor for IEEE Access journal and e-PRIME journal. His research is focusing on improving the efficiency and resiliency of power system operation.

Prof. Yang Han
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Biography:

Yang Han (S’08-M’10-SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, where he has been an Associate Professor in 2013, and Full professor in 2021. From March 2014 to March 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include the ac/dc microgrids, active distribution networks, power quality, grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems, active power filters, multilevel converters, and static synchronous compensators (STATCOMs). Dr. Han has received several national and provincial projects, and more than 30 industrial projects in the area of power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, and power quality analysis and compensation. He holds more than 40 issued and pending patents. Dr. Han was listed as “World’s Top 2% Scientist 2022” by Stanford University in 2022, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in CPESE 2021, the Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2020 and 2022, Science and Technology Award from Sichuan Electric Power Company in 2019, Academic Talent Award by UESTC, in 2017, Baekhyun Award by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics, in 2016. He has published a book “Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters for Microgrid Applications”, ISBN: 978-3-030-74512-7, Springer. He served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Power Electronics and IEEE ACCESS (2019-2020).

Prof. Songgang Qiu
West Virginia University, USA

Biography:

Qiu has extensive experiences in the analysis and design of power generator, gas and liquid fuel burners, and heat exchangers. He is currently working on the development of a SOLID FUEL BURNER. This burner is to be used to gasify supplied charcoal, combusts and transfers heat to a Stirling engine for power generation. He is also developing an advanced Stirling generator for combined heating and power generation under a DOE ARPA-E grant. 

Qiu has served as PI for numerous research projects funded by DOE, DoD (Army, Navy, Air Force) and NASA. He was the prime designer of an Advanced Radioisotope Stirling Generator (ARSG) for NASA/DOE. He is the lead inventor of 9 issued US patents. 

Prof. Farhad Shahnia
Murdoch University, Australia

Biography:

A/Professor Farhad Shahnia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently an A/Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT (2008-11), and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a Fellow member of Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 250+ peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and journals, as well as being an editor of 6 books.
Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016.
Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 40+ conferences in various roles such as General, Technical, Program, Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs.

Prof. Marc A. Rosen
Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada

Biography:

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and he was a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 900 publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency improvement). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors.

Prof. Masafumi Yamaguchi
Toyota Technological Institute Nagoya, Japan

Biography:

Masafumi Yamaguchi has received his Ph.D. degree from Hokkaido Univeristy, Japan (1978). He is now Professor Emeritus and Invited Research Fellow at the Toyota Technological Institute, Japan, Visiting Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chairman of the PV R&D Review Committee under the NEDO, former Project Leader of the PV R&D Project under the NEDO, former Research Supervisor of the Creative Clean Energy Generation using Solar Energy under the JST. He has contributed to science and technology for blue light emitting diodes, semiconductor materials and physics, and high-efficiency solar cells and modules. He has discovered superior radiation-resistance of InP-realated materials and solar cells. His group has proposed and developed some key technologies for high-efficiency multi-junction solar cells. Most recently, his group has developied new world record efficiency (33.7%) InGaP/GaAs/Si 3-junction tandem solar cell module. He has received numerous awards such as the Becquerel Prize from the Eurpean Commission in 2004, the William Cherry Award from the IEEE in 2008, the PVSEC Award in 2011, the WCPEC Award in 2014 for his outstanding contribution to the development of science and technology of photovoltaic solar energy, and to the International collaboration and cooperation.

Speech Title: Great Impact of Solar Powered Electric Vehicles toward Creation of Clean Energy Society

Abstract: The renewable energy is very important to create clean energy society. Especially, the photovoltaics (PV) is expected to contribute as the primary energy with cumulative installed PV with 22TW by 2050 according to the Shell’s Sky Scenario [1]. However, because global cumulative PV capacity installed is only 1.19TW in the end of 2022, further development of science, technology and deployment of PV is necessary.
For realizing the above scenario and vision, we need to conduct the following issues:

1. Development of high performance, low cost and highly reliable PV materials, cells, modules, and systems.
2. Further development of smart energy management including regulations, and self-consumption in cooperation with storage battery technologies.
3. Development of new application fields such as automobile applications towards the creation of future clean energy infrastructures.