Keynote Speakers of ICSGSC
Prof. Shu Hung Henry CHUNG (Fellow of IEEE)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Henry Shu-Hung Chung (Fellow, IEEE and HKIE) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 1991 and 1994, respectively.
Since 1995, he has been with the City University of Hong Kong, where he is currently the Dean of Students, a Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Director of the Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research. He has edited one book, authored one book and nine research book chapters, and more than 500 technical papers including 240 refereed journal papers in his research areas, and holds 80 patents. His current research interests include renewable energy conversion technologies, energy harvesting, smart grid technologies, and computational intelligence for power electronic systems.
Dr. Chung was recipient of 2021 IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award for his contribution to energy utilization technologies for smart cities. He received CityU Outstanding Research Award in 2020 and CityU Teaching Excellence Awards in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Power Electronics Letters between 2014 and 2018. He was also the Chair of the Technical Committee of the High-Performance and Emerging Technologies, IEEE Power Electronics Society in 2010–2014. He was the recipient of numerous industrial awards for his invented energy saving technologies.
Title of Speech: Synergistic Evolution: The Convergence of Signal Processing, Communication Technologies and Computational Intelligence for Smart Energy Systems
Prof. Xiaorong Xie (Fellow of IEEE and IET)
Tsinghua University, China
Xiaorong Xie (Fellow, IEEE and IET) is Professor and Director of the Flexible Transmission and Distribution Systems Research Institute at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include power system stability analysis and control, sub-synchronous resonance/oscillation, grid integration of renewable energy, and flexible transmission and distribution systems. His work is supported by China National Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists and National Key Research and Development Programs. He has published 4 monographs, over 300 papers, and won 1 National Science and Technology Progress Award. He is currently serving as Editor of several international journals, including the IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery. He is a member of the IEC TC8/SC8A JWG5, CIGRE WG C4/B4.52 and CIGRE WG C4.49.
Title of Speech: Mitigating Wide-band Oscillations using New-type Power System Stabilizers
Prof. Denis Sidorov
Melentiev Energy Systems Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Denis Sidorov (IEEE SM) was born in Irkutsk, Russia, in 1974. He received the Ph.D. and Dr. habil. degrees (math & physics sciences) from Irkutsk State University, Russia, in 1999 and 2014, respectively. From 2000 till 2004, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Universit de Technologie de Compigne. He gained his industrial experience at ASTI Holdings Pte Ltd, Singapore and Huawei Technologies Co. He was Research Professor at Tampere University of Technology and Siegen University supported by DAAD. Since 2014, he has been a Leading Researcher at Energy Systems Institute of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. He serves as Chair Professor of Sino-Russian Research Center for Advanced Energy and Power Systems in HIT since 2024. His current research interests include ESS, inverse problems, bifurcation and advanced control. He is the author of 150 sci articles and 3 monographs.
Title of Speech: Mathematical modeling and system-level control of ESS dynamics
Prof. Jing Ma (Fellow of IET)
North China Electric Power University, China
Ma Jing, male, professor, doctoral supervisor, IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member. Reporter obtained a bachelors degree and a doctorate degree in power system and automation from North China Electric Power University in 2003 and 2008 respectively. From September 2008 to September 2009, reporter worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech, USA. Reporter concurrently served as the leader of the Sixth National Technology Forecast Energy Field Expert Group, the chairman of the Youth Branch of the CIGRE China National Committee, the deputy director of the Youth Working Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society, and the editorial board member of the journals "IET Renewable Power Generation" and "Power System Protection and Control". Reporter has been engaged in research on system security protection in new energy and AC-DC power grid environments for a long time. Reporter has presided over 6 national projects, published more than 100 academic papers in authoritative academic journals at home and abroad, and authorized more than 90 international/national invention patents; Published 5 monographs in Chinese and English; Won 5 provincial and ministerial first prizes.
Title of Speech: Key Technologies and Applications of Dynamic Steady State Control for High Permeability New Energy Power Systems
Prof. Adrian Ioinovici (Fellow of IEEE)
Shanghai University of Electric Power, China
Adrian Ioinovici, IEEE Fellow, is the Leader of the Power Electronics based on Switched Capacitors (PESC) Center, the Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the “ one thousand foreign experts plan”, and holds honorary professorships from many universities. Previously, he served as a Professor and Director of the Power electronics for renewable energy Centre, Sun-Yat-sen University, Guangzhou under the “One thousand experts” program and as a Full Professor in the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He got the IEEE Fellow grade for “pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters”. He is on leave from Holon Institute of Technology, Israel.
Title of Speech: COMMON GROUND SWITCHED CAPACITOR MULTILEVEL INVERTERS (SCMLI) FOR GRIDS SUPPLIED BY PHOTOVOLTAICS