KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban
University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway (IEEE Senior Member）
P. Sanjeevikumar (Member’12, Senior Member’15, IEEE), Fellow Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE’18, India), Fellow Institution of Engineers (FIE’18, India), Fellow Institution of Engineering & Technology (FIET’19, UK) and Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers India (CEng.). Received his Bachelor (First Class), Master (Distinction), Ph.D Degree in Electrical Engg. from the University of Madras, Pondicherry University (India, 2002, 2004), University of Bologna (Italy, 2012). Research work focused in the field of Power Electronics and Drives includes Multi-phase Machines, Multilevel & DC-DC Converters and applications of renewable power generation system. He has authored 250 plus scientific research papers and has received the Best Paper Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON’13, IET-CEAT’16 and five best paper award from ETAEERE’16 sponsored Lecture note in Electrical Engineering, Springer book series. He serves as an Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal, IET Power Electronics Journal, subject editor of IET Renewable Power Generation Journal, subject editor of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution Journal, IEEE Access Journal, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Journal of Power Electronics (JPE-Korea), FACETS Journal (Canada). Involved as member on invitation with various capacities in the committee for more than 4500 plus various international conferences including the IEEE and IET.
Prof. Jizhong Zhu
South China University of Technology, China (IEEE Felllow)
Dr. Zhu Jizhong is a national high-level overseas talent introduced to China, an academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a foreign academician of the Bologna Academy of Sciences in Italy, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (a foreign fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and Technology in the UK, a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, a fellow of the International Federation of Artificial Intelligence Industries, a researcher of the Royal Society in the UK, a leading talent in Guangzhou for innovation, a professor and doctoral supervisor at South China University of Technology, an adjunct professor and doctoral supervisor at Chongqing University, and serves as the chairman of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems (China) of the Academy of Engineering, an editorial board member of international journals such as MPCE, the chairman of the IEEE P2781 Working Group on Load Modeling and Simulation International Standards, the chairman of the IEEEP2783 Working Group on Fast Load Response System International Standards, a member of the IEEE SMC Standards Committee, and a member of the IEEE SMC Special Committee on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, a member of the Sino-Swiss Smart Grid Technology Expert Committee, and a member of the National Expert Committee on Power Demand Side Management Standards. He has served as a member of the first National Innovation and Excellence Award Review Expert Committee, as well as a review expert for various national and provincial talent and project evaluations, as the chairman of the American Electric Power Load Subcommittee, and as the chairman of the Asia-Pacific Working Group.