Prof. Jizhong Zhu

South China University of Technology, China

IEEE Fellow

Foreign Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Italy; Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Biography:

Jizhong Zhu is a professor at the South China University of Technology (Foreign Academician of Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, CSEE Fellow) and a “National Distinguished Expert.” He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University in February 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively. He is currently the director and professor of the ISESOOC Center of the South China University of Technology, serving as a high-level talent introduced by China. Since 2018, he has acted as the Chairman of the IEEE P2781 and P2783 international standards working groups, a Member of the IEEE SMC Smart Power and Energy Systems Technical Committee, and a Member of the IEEE SMC Standards Committee; he held the Chair of IEEE PES SBLC Loads Sub-Committee, served as Senior Principal Power Systems Engineer at Alstom Grid from 2000-2015, and became an academician-level expert of the Alstom Global Expert Committee in 2013.

Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

IEEE Life Fellow

Biography:

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. Zehu Hu

Tsinghua University
Director of the Institute of Power Systems, Director of the Transportation Energy Optimization and Planning Laboratory at Tsinghua Energy Internet Innovation Research Institute, IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member

Biography:

Prof. Zehu Hu has been selected for the National Talent Support Program. He has led one key project (joint fund), one general project, and one youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as one project of the Doctoral Fund of the Ministry of Education. He has also served as project leader or key member in 8 projects under the National Key R&D Program / 973 Program / 863 Program, and 2 international cooperation projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published over 300 papers, including more than 120 SCI-indexed papers. He has been consecutively listed as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher from 2020 to 2024. He has received the "Top 100 Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers in China" awards in 2013, 2015, and 2016, and has had 9 papers selected for the F5000 Leading Paper Program. He has authored 2 monographs and co-authored 2 English monographs. He has received 8 first-prize awards at provincial/ministerial and society levels (including 2 first prizes of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education). His current research interests include electric vehicle–grid integration, applications of energy storage technologies in power systems, optimal operation and planning of power systems, and electricity markets.

Assoc. Prof. Heping Jia
North China Electric Power University
Secretary-General of the Electric Vehicle Participation in Electricity Market Technical Subcommittee under the IEEE PES Electric Vehicle Technical Committee, Youth Editorial Board Member of the Chinese core journals Electric Power Construction, Electric Power, and Science & Technology Review

Biography:

Assoc. Prof. Heping Jia has been selected for the Beijing Science and Technology Rising Star Program and the 7th China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Support Program. She has led over 10 vertical projects, including general and youth projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, general projects of the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, projects of the Beijing Social Science Foundation, and special projects of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and has participated in major projects of the National Social Science Foundation. She has published over 60 papers, including 27 SCI papers. She has co-authored 2 international standards and has published one monograph on virtual power plants in both Chinese and English as the first author. She has received multiple science and technology awards, including the Second Prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award and the Second Prize of the Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. She has served as a Technical Program Committee member for international conferences such as PowerCon 2021, SRSE 2022, SRSE 2023, and SRSE 2024, and as a Session Chair for IEEE EI2 and IEEE CIEEC international conferences.

Prof. Xiaoming Kang

University of South China, China

Leader of the New Energy Power and Energy Storage Team

Biography:

Dr. Kang achieved his bachelor and Ph.D degree in Material Sciecne and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University in 2011 and 2017, respectively. After graduation, he further served as a postdoc and research fellow in Prof. Luo Jinglli’s group (Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering) to fufil my job in the research of next generation energy conversion and storage devices, with an emphasis on exploring the oxygen evolution/reduction reaction and electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion at room temperatures. In 2022, he worked as an associated professor in School of Mechanical Engineering, University of South China. Till now, he hosted a National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shenzhen Postdoctoral innovative research programme, respectively. As a core-participant, he is a member in Shenzhen Innovative Research Team Program: Hydrogen energy and fuel cell electrocatalytic materials and Innovative project of Shenzhen graphene manufacturing innovation center: Development of graphene-based materials for anti-corrosion and antifouling of marine equipment and facilities, respectively. Besides, he once hosted a China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in 2019. Till now, he has published over 30 papers and 5 patents in Nature Communications, Chemical Communication, Polymer Chemistry, Journal of Material Chemistry A, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Chinese Chemical Letters and etc.