Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

IEEE  Fellow

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. Janaka Bandara Ekanayake

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

IEEE  Fellow

Janaka Bandara Ekanayake obtained BScEng (First Class Honours) from Peradeniya University in 1990 and PhD from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK in 1995. He has published over 80 refereed journal papers and 100 conferences papers and co-authored 7 books. He has a Google Scholar h-index of 45 with 11839 number of citations, the highest for engineering in Sri Lanka. He has held research grants in Sri Lanka and UK that total 2 million GBP An article published by researchers from Stanford University and Elsevier BV in 2020 ranked him among the top 2% of researchers in the world (2nd in Sri Lanka). He obtained the CVCD Excellence Awards in 2018, NSF Research Award for Scientific Excellence in 2018, and 7 Presidential Awards for Research. Prof. Ekanayake is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), and IESL. He is also recognized as an IEEE PES distinguished lecturer. He has given keynote and invited speeches at many conferences in the UK, China, and India. Prof. Ekanayake has contributed to renewable energy generation and integration in the UK, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. He a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion (2007 to 2019), IET Journal of Renewable Energy (2015 to date), Journal of Wind Energy (2013 to date), and Ceylon Journal of Science (2016 to 2018). He was the Organising Vice Chairperson of the First IEEE PES conference of Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (2012) held in Tianjin, China. Prof. Ekanayake is the Chair Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Peradeniya. He is also a visiting professor at Cardiff University, UK and Universiti Tenaga National, Malaysia. Further, he served as a Visiting Professorial Fellow of the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, the University of Wollongong, Australia for the period 2017 - 2020. He is the Chairman of the Expert Committee on Renewable Energy since May 2020 and was Chairman of the NIFS (2019).

Prof. Mingming Zhang

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

As a leading talent under the Ten Thousand Talents Program, National Excellent Youth, recipient of the CAS Hundred Talents Program, and Class A talent under Shenzhen's "Peacock Plan," as well as an expert in the National Key Special Programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Deputy Director of the Wind Energy Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society, Deputy Director of the Guangdong Engineering Thermophysics Society, Vice Chair of the IEEE PES New Energy Technology Subcommittee, and Associate Editor of Renewable Energy, he has conducted applied fundamental and key technology research on wind energy, solar energy, hydrogen energy, multi-energy complementarity and system integration, and low-altitude aircraft. He has led over 20 projects, including the Ministry of Science and Technology's 863 Program, key research and development initiatives, international cooperation projects, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grants for outstanding youth, key projects, and general projects, as well as joint funding projects in Guangdong, the Guangdong-Hong Kong collaboration, CAS Hundred Talents Program, and pioneer initiative projects. He has published over 300 academic papers, including more than 90 in SCI-indexed journals; delivered over 60 invited academic reports domestically and internationally; and filed or obtained over 50 invention patents. He has received more than 10 awards, including the AIAA Young Scholar Award, the Outstanding Performance Award in the CAS Hundred Talents Program Final Evaluation, the Second Prize of the National Energy Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of the CAS Science and Technology Contribution Award, the First Prize of the China Energy Innovation Award, the Second Prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of the China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Young Scholar Award.

Prof. Yutao Qiu

Chief Expert of State Grid Corporation of China, China

IET  Fellow

Yutao Qiu, Professor of Engineering, is the Chief Expert of State Grid Corporation of China, a Model of State Grid, a National Model Worker, an Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker in China's Electric Power Industry, and an IET Fellow. He currently serves as a member of the Relay Protection Committee of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the Power System Protection and Control Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society (CES), the Relay Protection Standardization Technical Committee for the Electric Power Industry, the National Standardization Technical Committee for Measuring Relays and Protection Equipment, the Energy Internet Equipment Technology Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society, and the National Standardization Technical Committee for Power Equipment Condition-based Maintenance and Online Monitoring. He is also the Vice Chairman of the IEEE PES Protection and Control Integration Subcommittee, the Chairman of the IEEE PES Hangzhou Chapter, and a member of the State Grid Corporation's Relay Protection Expert Group. His main research directions are power system relay protection and safety automatic control. He has led or participated in numerous important projects and research initiatives for State Grid Corporation and Zhejiang Electric Power Company. He has achieved a series of accomplishments in areas such as the operation and maintenance of relay protection in smart substations, key technologies for UHV relay protection, active distribution network protection and control technology with high penetration of renewable energy integration, local protection and substation area protection technology, online monitoring and intelligent diagnosis technology for smart substations, and traveling wave protection technology. He has received provincial/ministerial-level scientific and technological awards 62 times, published 92 papers in various domestic and international scientific journals, been granted 145 authorized patents, authored 24 textbooks, and has successively led or participated in the formulation of 69 national standards, industry standards, and enterprise standards.

Prof. Wei Wang

Southeast University, China

National-level Young Talents, Assistant Dean

Wei Wang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, is a National-level Young Talent, a Distinguished Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province, a Stanford University Top 2% Most Cited Scientist Worldwide, one of the first "Zhishan Young Scholars" at Southeast University, and serves as a member of the Party Committee and Assistant Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Southeast University. He has long been engaged in research on electric machine systems and their control, with specific application areas including machine system diagnosis and control, servo systems, electrified transportation, and condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of power equipment. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, the China Electrotechnical Society (CES), and the China Power Supply Society. He serves as a member of the Variable Frequency Power Supply and Electric Drive Committee of the China Power Supply Society, an Editorial Board member for the SCI journal Electronics, and a Youth Editorial Board member for the EI journal CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems (CES TEMS) and the Chinese core journal Journal of Electrical Engineering. He has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one sub-project of the NSFC Major Program, one sub-project of the National Key R&D Program, one Special Support Project and one General Project of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, one Distinguished Young Scholar Fund Project and one Youth Fund Project of Jiangsu Province, one Aeronautical Science Fund project, and over ten other projects. As of May 2025, he has published 40 papers as the first/corresponding author in authoritative journals domestically and internationally, including 1 ESI Hot Paper and 2 ESI Highly Cited Papers. He holds 37 granted Chinese invention patents and has received 4 provincial/ministerial-level awards.