ETFG 2023

Honorary Chairs

Wei-Jen Lee
President, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS)

Andy Knight
Vice President, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS)

General Chair

Kashem Muttaqi
IEEE Fellow, Chair of IEEE IAS IACC and Deputy EiC of IEEE TIA, AE for IEEE TSE and IEEE TIA
Senior Professor and Director, ARC Future Grids Training Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia

Technical Chair

Professor Danny Sutanto
Past Regional Representative of IEEE PES Region 10, Past Area Chair of IEEE IAS Region 10, Deputy Director, ARC Future Grids Training Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia

Local Organising Chair

Ms Marjo Niemela
Centre Manager, ARC Future Grids Training Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia

Publication Chair

Dr Rabiul Islam
AE for IEEE TEC and IEEE TIE, University of Wollongong, Australia

Finance Chair

Associate Professor Ashish Agalgaonkar
University of Wollongong, Australia

Hospitality Chair

Dr Sasha Nikolic
Secretary, IEEE Australia Council 2021-2022, Past Chair, IEEE NSW Section, University of Wollongong, Australia

Public Relations Chair

Associate Professor Raad Raad
Head of School, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong

Professor M.A. Hannan
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia

Program Chair

Professor Sukumar Kamalasadan
Past Chair of IEEE IAS IACC, IEEE PES Power and Energy Education Committee,The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Publicity Chairs

Professor Fei Gao
IEEE Fellow, Secretary of IEEE IAS IACC, Distinguished Lecturer – IEEE IAS, Past EiC of IEEE ITeN, AE for IEEE TIE, IEEE TIA, TTE and IEEE OJIES, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France

Dr Biju K
Secretary of IEEE IAS/IES/PELS Jt. Chapter – IEEE Kerala section, Past Secretary of IEEE PES – IEEE Kerala section, College of Engineering Munnar, India

Industry Chairs

Dr Nishad Mendis
IEEE IAS Board Member, AE for IEEE TEC, Bureau Veritas

Dr Hadi Lomei
Principal Engineer, Essential Energy

Paper Review Chairs

Professor Saleh Saleh
Vice Chair (Publications) of IEEE IAS IACC, Past Chair of IEEE IAS PSPC, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Professor Suryanarayana Doolla
Vice Chair (Operations) of IEEE IAS IACC, IEEE IAS Board Member, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Tutorial Chair

Professor Gerard Ledwich
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Special Sessions Chairs

Professor Kazuhiro Nogita
Director Nihon Superior Centre for the Manufacture of Electronic Materials, The University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Anurag K. Sirvastava
IEEE Fellow, Past Chair, IEEE PES Power and Energy Education Committee, West Virginia University, USA

Sponsorship Chairs

Professor Danny Sutanto
Past Regional Representative of IEEE PES Region 10, Past Area Chair of IEEE IAS Region 10, Deputy Director, ARC Future Grids Training Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia

Professor Arindam Ghosh
IEEE Fellow, Curtin University, Australia

Women in Engineering (WIE) Chairs

Associate Professor Rukmi Dutta
Vice-Chair, IEEE-IAS EMC, AE for IEEE TEC and IEEE TIA, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Dr Sarah Lyden
University of Tasmania, Australia

Awards Chair

Akshay Rathore
Professor, IEEE Fellow, IEEE IAS Awards Department Chair, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore

Exhibition Chair

Professor Michael Negnevitsky
IEEE Fellow, Vice Chair of IEEE PES EDPG, Chair of the IEEE PES International Practices Subcommittee, Chair of the IEEE PES Working Group on High Renewable Energy Penetration in Remote and Isolated Power Systems, Vice Chair of the IEEE PES Working Group on Asian and Australasian Infrastructure, Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems, University of Tasmania, Australia

Student Activity Chair

Dr Samson Yu
AE for IEEE TIA, Deakin University, Australia

• Professor Danny Sutanto, University of Wollongong
• Professor Michael Negnevitsky, University of Tasmania
• Professor Arindam Ghosh, Curtin University
• Professor Lianzhou Wang, The University of Queensland
• Professor Zaiping Guo, University of Adelaide
• Professor David Hill, The University of New South Wales
• Professor Kazuhiro Nogita, The University of Queensland
• Associate Professor Evan Franklin, University of Tasmania
• Associate Professor Rukmi Dutta, The University of New South Wales
• Associate Professor Raad Raad, University of Wollongong
• Associate Professor Ashish Agalgaonkar, University of Wollongong
• Professor M. A. Hannan, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia
• Dr Samson Yu, Deakin University
• Dr Md. Rabiul Islam, University of Wollongong
• Dr Sarah Lyden, University of Tasmania
• Professor Gerard Ledwich, Queensland University of Technology
• Dr Jahangir Hossain, University Technology Sydney, Australia
• Dr Gang Lei, University Technology Sydney, Australia
• Dr Youguang Guo, University Technology Sydney, Australia
• Dr Georgios Konstantinou, The University of New South Wales, Australia
• Dr. Enamul Haque, Deakin University Australia
• Professor Sukumar Kamalasadan, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
• Professor Saleh Saleh, University of New Brunswick, Canada
• Professor Suryanarayana Doolla, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Prof. Fei Gao, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France

• Ms. Marjo Niemela, University of Wollongong
• Senior Professor Kashem Muttaqi, University of Wollongong
• Professor Danny Sutanto, University of Wollongong
• Associate Professor Raad Raad, University of Wollongong
• Associate Professor Ashish Agalgaonkar, University of Wollongong
• Dr Md. Rabiul Islam, University of Wollongong
• Dr Sasha Nikolic, University of Wollongong
• Ms. Celia Chan , University of Wollongong
• Mr. Tim McDonald, University of Wollongong
• Mr Safdar Rasool, University of Wollongong

• Professor Dylan Lu, University Technology Sydney, Australia
• Associate Professor Jin Ma, University of Sydney, Australia
• Professor Akshay Kumar Rathore, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
• Professor Sheldon Williamson, Ontario tech university, Canada
• Dr Sridhar Pulikanti, DIgSILENT Pacific, Australia
• Dr Deepak Ronanki, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
• Professor Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, President, PELS
• Professor Bhim Singh, IIT Delhi, India
• Professor S M Muyeen, Qatar University, Qatar
• Prof Akhtar Kalam, Victoria University, Australia
• Prof Syed Islam, Federation University Australia, Australia
• Dr Mohamed Gamal Hussien, Tanta University, Egypt
• Professor Chengming Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Dr Yi Liu, HUST, China
• Professor Wei Xu, HUST, China
• Professor Jianxun Jin, Tianjin University, China
• Professor Abdul Ofoli University of Tennessee United States of America
• Professor Saad Mekhilef, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Professor Joe Dong, NTU, Singapore

• Professor Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Professor David Hill, The University of New South Wales, Australia
• Distinguished Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Professor Sanjib Kumar Panda, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Professor Pierluigi Mancarella, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Professor Andrew M. Knight, University of Calgary, Canada
• Professor Wei-Jen Lee, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Professor Bikash Pal, Imperial College London, UK
• Professor Josep Pou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Professor Bhim Singh, IIT Delhi, India
• Professor Gerard Ledwich, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Professor Zaiping Guo, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Professor Anurag K. Sirvastava, West Virginia University, USA
• Professor Ambrish Chandra, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
• ProfessorMahinda Vilathgamuwa, IEEE Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Dr Tomy Sebastian, IEEE Fellow, Halla Mechatronics, USA
• Professor Mohammad Nasir Uddin, IEEE Fellow, Lakehead University, Canada
• Professor Osama A. Mohammed, IEEE Fellow, Florida International University, USA
• Professor Ahmed Al-Durra, Khalifa University, UAE
• Professor Hua Geng, IEEE Fellow, Tsinghua University, China
• Professor Joachim Holtz, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
• Professor Chandan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
• Professor K Gopakumar, Indian Institute of Science, India
• Professor Akshay Kumar Rathore, Singapore Institute of Technolog, Singapore
• Professor Ambrish Chandra, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
• Professor Fei Gao, French CNRS Institute FEMTO-ST, France
• Professor Yousef Ibrahim, Federation University Australia, Australia
• Professor Xingbo Yu, RMIT University, Australia