Keynote Speakers
- Professor Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Distinguished Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Professor David Hill, The University of New South Wales, Australia
- 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
- Distinguished Professor Osama Mohammed, Florida International University, USA
He was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania and Tallinn Technical University (TTU) in Estonia. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, harmonics and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 600 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of four monographs and editor of ten books in power electronics and its applications. He has received 30 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014 and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020 he serves a President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences too.He is nominated in 2014-2018 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour joined Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) in 1983 where he is presently a University Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the Bodine Chair Professor, Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, and Associate Director of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) at Illinois Tech. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Laureate of KIA (Khwarizmi International Award), and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is listed as a highly cited researcher on the Web of Science (ranked in the top 1% by citations demonstrating significant influence among his peers).
Dr. Shahidehpour has been the Principal Investigator of $60 million grants and contracts on power system operation and control, smart grid research and development, and large-scale integration of renewable energy. His DOE project on Perfect Power Systems has converted the entire Illinois Tech Campus to an islandable microgrid. He has initiated CSMART (Center for Smart Grid Applications, Research, and Technology) at Illinois Tech for promoting the smart grid cybersecurity research and implementation and enhancing the resilience of wireless networked communication and control systems in smart cities. He is a member of the SPIKE Center in the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech, which is facilitating the design and the implementation of affordable microgrids in impoverished nations.
Dr. Shahidehpour was the 2009 recipient of the honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is the holder of Nourbakhshian Endowed Chair Professorship at the University of Kashan, Iran, and Otto Monsted Professorship at the Technical University of Denmark. He is a Research Professor at King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), Sharif University of Technology, Tabriz University, and Tehran University (Iran), as well as several universities in China including Tsinghua University, Hohai University, Nanjing Normal University, Xian Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology, Chongqing University, Southeast University, North China Electric Power University, Zhejiang University, and Hunan University.
Dr. Shahidehpour was the recipient of the IEEE PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award, IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, IEEE PES T. Burke Hayes Faculty Recognition Award for his contributions to hydrokinetics, IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award, Edison Electric Institute’s Power Engineering Educator Award, C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor Award, Romanian Association of Engineers’ Outstanding Author Award, Illinois Technology Association’s Technologist of the Year Award, Sigma Xi Society’s Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, Electrical Engineering Department Head Association’s Innovative Program Award, and Illinois Tech’s Research Leadership and Excellence in Teaching Awards. (ResearchGate)
Dr. Shahidehpour has supervised and worked with 175 graduate research students and visiting scholars in his Center. He has co-authored six books and 780 papers on electric power system operation and planning and was the recipient of six best paper awards for his IEEE publications (Google Scholar). He is an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer who has made over 500 presentations at technical forums and conferences and served as the VP of Publications for the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Dr. Shahidehpour served in 1999-2000 as the National President of HKN (Electrical Engineering Honor Society) and was a member of the HKN Board of Directors for eight years.
David J. Hill is Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at The University of Sydney. He is conducting and supervising research on future power grids with high renewables in the Centre for Future Energy Networks. He is also Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Electrical Energy Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. For 2021-22, he is Professor of Energy Systems in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (UNSW Sydney).
He received the BE (Electrical Engineering) and BSc (Mathematics) degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976 in a world-renowned research group for Systems and Control engineering. He then did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley before starting his academic career back at the University of Newcastle.
During 2013-2020, he held the positions of Chair of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Centre for Electrical Energy Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong; he was also the Program Coordinator for the multi-university RGC Theme-based Research Scheme Project on Sustainable Power Delivery Structures for High Renewables.
He previously held positions at the University of Sydney including the Chair of Electrical Engineering during 1994-2002 and again in 2010-2013 along with an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship. He was Foundation Director of the Centre for Future Energy Networks during 2010-2018 and part-time Professor 2013-2020.
During 2005-2010, he was an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University and, from 2006, also a Theme Leader (Complex Networks) and Deputy Director in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems. He has also held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Munich and in Hong Kong (City and Polytechnic Universities). He holds several honorary positions in Australia, Hong Kong and China. He is also a consultant in the area of power and energy issues in Australia and internationally. During 1996-1999 and 2001-2004, he served as Head of the respective departments in Sydney and Hong Kong. He holds or has held numerous honorary professorships in Australia, Hong Kong and China.
Professor Hill has pursued a range of research interests over his career in energy systems, control systems, complex networks, learning systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks with the aim to bring science to accelerate the clean energy transition.
Professor Hill is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA, the International Federation of Automatic Control, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and has been selected as the 2022 IEEE Control System Society Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize winner.
Sanjib Kumar Panda received a Bachelor of Engineering Degree with 1st Class Honours from Sardar Vallabhabhai Regional College of Engineering and Technology, Surat, India, in 1983. He was awarded the Gold Medal for securing the highest marks not only amongst the B. Engg. (Electrical) but also for securing the highest marks amongst all the B. Engg. (Civil, Mechanical and Electrical) students. He also earned a Masters of Technology Degree from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 1987. He was awarded the Gold Medal for securing the highest marks amongst all the M. Tech. (Electrical) students. Subsequently, he earned a PhD. Degree from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1991. He was awarded the Nehru Cambridge Fellowship and Overseas Research Studentship from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust for Cambridge University for his PhD studies, 1987-1991.
He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore as a Lecturer in 1992. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor. He has served as Director (Education) at the Design Technology Institute, a joint-venture between NUS and TU/e, The Netherlands and funded by EDB, Singapore. He has served as the Group Head of the Drives, Power and Control Group from 2007-2009. He was appointed as Area Director, Power & Energy Research Group of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at NUS on 1st January 2010.
Dr. Panda has carried out extensive research in various areas of control of electric drives and power electronic converters. He has co-authored 1 book and published more than 175 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. His current research interests are in energy harvesting both at high power level as well as at very low-power level for wireless sensor nodes and networks, control of distributed renewable energy generation, assistive technology and mechatronics.
Dr. Panda has been very active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and presently a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has served in various capacities as Chapter Officer in the IEEE Singapore Section Joint Power Electronics and Industry Applications Society Chapter. He has served as the Chairman of the IEEE Singapore Section in 2004. He was the Organizing Chairman for the International IEEE Power Electronics and Drives Systems Conference in 2003 as well as the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies in 2008. He is the recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal. He was awarded the Best Volunteer Award by the IEEE Singapore Section in 2006.
Pierluigi Mancarella is Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at the University of Manchester, UK. His key research interests include techno-economic modelling and analysis of multi-energy systems, grid integration of renewables and distributed energy resources, energy infrastructure planning under uncertainty, and security, reliability, and resilience of low-carbon networks.
Pierluigi is the Energy Systems Program Leader at the Melbourne Energy Institute, an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Power and Energy Society Distinguished Lecturer, the Convenor of the CIGRE (International Council of Large Electric Systems) C6/C2.34 Working Group on Flexibility Provision from Distributed Energy Resources, holds the 2017 veski innovation fellowship for his work on urban-scale virtual power plants, and is a recipient of the international Newton Prize 2018 for his work on power system resilience in Chile. He is author of several books and over 300 research papers and reports, and is a journal editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and Oxford Open Energy.
In the past few years, Pierluigi has supported the Finkel Review panel, the Australian Energy Market Operator, the Australian Energy Market Commission, and the Australian Energy Regulator on relevant research and consultancy projects on power system security, reliability, and resilience, and has led and been involved in several projects via the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Cooperative Research Centres.
Andrew M. Knight (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary. His research interests include energy conversion and clean and efficient energy utilization. He is a Professional Engineer registered in the Province of Alberta, Canada. He is a recipient of the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award and three Best Paper Awards from IEEE IAS. He is currently the Vice President of IEEE IAS and was previously the IAS Publications Chair, the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE ECCE and IEEE IEMDC, and the Chair of IEEE Smart Grid Research and Development Committee.
Professor Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas, Arlington, in 1978, 1980, and 1985, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
In 1986, he joined the University of Texas at Arlington, where he is currently a professor of the Electrical Engineering Department and the director of the Energy Systems Research Center.
He has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141, 339, 551, 739, 1584, and 3002.8 development. He is the President of the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS), the chair of IEEE TAB (Technical Activity Board) Climate Change Program, co-chair of IEEE Sustainable Development Ad Hoc Committee, member of IEEE Ad Hoc Committee to Coordinate IEEE’s Response to Climate Change (CCIRCC), member of IEEE TAB Hall of Honor Committee, member of United Nations (UN) Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), and the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena Research Project.
Prof. Lee has been involved in research on Utility Deregulation, Renewable Energy, Arc Flash Hazards and Electrical Safety, Smart Grid, MicroGrid, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Virtual Power Plants (VPP), AI for Load, Price, and Wind Capacity Forecasting, Power Quality, Distribution Automation, Demand Response, Power Systems Analysis, Short Circuit Analysis and Relay Coordination, Distributed Energy Resources, Energy Storage System, PEV Charging Infrastructure Design, AMI and Big Data, On Line Real Time Equipment Diagnostic and Prognostic System, and Microcomputer Based Instrument for Power Systems Monitoring, Measurement, Control, and Protection.
He has served as the primary investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred and ten funded research projects. He has published more than two hundred and ten journal papers and three hundred conference proceedings. He has provided on-site training courses for power engineers in Panama, China, Taiwan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Singapore. He has refereed numerous technical papers for IEEE, IET, and other professional organizations.
Prof. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE, member of National Academy of Inventors, and registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Dr. Osama A Mohammed serves as a Distinguished University Professor, Associate Dean of Research, and at the College of Engineering and Computing. He is also the Director for the School of Electrical Computer and Enterprise Engineering Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL, USA. In addition, he is the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory, FIU, and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Mohammed is world-renowned for his expertise in various research topics in power and energy systems. Specifically, he has interests in computational electromagnetics, design optimization, and physics-based modeling in electric drive systems and other low-frequency environments. His interests also include; electromagnetic signatures, wide-bandgap devices and switching modeling and techniques, ship power systems modeling and analysis, energy storage systems, and power electronics. His recent research projects include; smart-grid distributed control, interoperability, and energy cyber-physical systems. He currently has active research projects with several federal agencies in these areas. He has authored nearly 800 articles in refereed journals and other refereed international conference records. He has also authored a book and several book chapters and holds 15 patents awarded, and several others are pending. He has made numerous keynotes and invited presentations at academic and industrial organizations and conferences worldwide in addition to being a general chair of 10 major IEEE international conferences.
Professor Mohammed is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society ACES. He is a recipient of the prestigious IEEE Power and Energy Society Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award and the Outstanding Research Award from FIU in 2012, and the 2017 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor at FIU.
Professor Mohammed received the master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. His bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with distinction and honor from Zagazig University, Egypt, 1977.