Keynote Speaker I

Prof. David Wenzhong Gao

University of Denver, USA

 

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Biography: David Wenzhong Gao received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering, specializing in electric power engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
He is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Renewable Energy and Power Electronics Laboratory at the University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA. He teaches courses such as Renewable and Efficient Power and Energy Systems, Power Generation, Operation and Control, Power System Protection. He has conducted extensive research in areas of power and energy systems including renewable energies, microgrids, distributed generation, smart grid, power delivery, power electronics application, power system protection, power system restructuring, and hybrid electric vehicles. He has published more than one hundred fifty refereed technical papers in international journals and conferences. He has co-authored a book entitled “Modern Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” published by John Wiley & Sons in United Kingdom. His research has been funded by many funding agencies and sponsors including US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Army Research Office, US Office of Naval Research, Tennessee Valley Authority, US Electric Power Research Institute. In 2009, he won the prestigious US National Science Foundation CAREER award for wind power research. He received the Best Paper Award in the Complex Systems Track at the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Jan. 2002. Since June 2003, Dr. Gao has been a Senior Member of the IEEE till 2021 when he was named a Fellow of IEEE.
Dr. Gao currently serves as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, an Associate Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS, and he has been an active Reviewer of leading journals and conferences such as the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, the IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS; IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. He currently serves as the Secretary of IEEE Power Electronics Society Denver Section. He has been active in various technical committees of IEEE societies and conference organizing committees. He is a member of the Power and Energy Education Committee (PEEC) of IEEE PES (Power and Energy Society). He served as General Chair to host 2012 IEEE Symposium on Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA) in Denver, CO, USA. He was a Technical Co-chair for IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference, held in Dearborn, MI, USA, September 7-11, 2009. He was also a Technical Program Co-chair in the Organizing Committee of 2013 IEEE GreenTech Conference held in Denver, April 2013. He will serve as the General Chair to host North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2016), September 18-20, 2016, Denver, USA. Dr. Gao has been invited to serve on the grant review panel for many funding agencies including the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

 

Keynote Speaker II

 

Prof. Chen Shen
Tsinghua University, China

 

Speech Title: From Traditional Power System Simulation to Digital Twins
Abstract: Based on the characteristics of new power systems, this talk firstly analyzes a series of challenges faced by traditional power system simulation tools in meeting the current research and construction needs of new power systems. Then, the concept, characteristics and advantages of digital twin in promoting the research and construction of new power systems are introduced. The difference and relation between traditional simulation and digital twin technology are compared. This talk also introduces CloudPSS-XStutio, a digital twin construction tool proposed by the reporter's team, and some engineering practices based on the tool.

 

Biography: Chen Shen received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He was a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Missouri-Rolla from 1998 to 2001. He served as a senior application developer in ISO New England, USA, during 2001-2002. He has been a professor of the Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University since 2009. He is currently the Director of Research Center of Cloud Computing and Intelligent Decision-making, Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua University. He was supported by the Ministry of Education’s Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities in 2009. His researches focus on power system analysis and control, including fast modeling and simulation of smart grids, cloud computing and AI application in power systems, stability analysis of power systems with renewable energy generation, emergency control and risk assessment of power systems, operation and control for microgrids. He is leading more than 20 projects, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Tech Research and Development Program (863) of China, Key Project of Chinese National Programs for Fundamental Research and Development (973), National Key Research and Development Program of China etc. Chen Shen has more than 150 journal and conference publications and owns 22 paterns. He has authored 1 book.

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Chongru Liu
North China Electric Power University, China

 

Speech Title: Application of artificial intelligence in oscillation detection and transient stability evaluation
Abstract: TBA

 

Biography: Chongru Liu, Ph.D., professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, director of the Academic Affairs Office, a distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education. Her research interest is focus on stability control, modeling simulation and engineering application of MMC-HVDC systems and large-scale new energy transferred by DC transmission systems. She has won 1 provincial and ministerial special prize, 2 first prizes, 5 second prizes, and 3 gold medals for domestic and foreign inventions.
She serves as the executive director of the Beijing Society of Electrical Engineering, the chairman of the Science Popularization and Education Working Committee, the member of the International Cooperation Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, the director of the China Electrotechnical Society, the member of the National Technical Committee for the Standardization of Power System Management and Information Exchange, the member of the Power System Automation Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, the director of the Capital Women Professors Association, and the associate editor of CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems.

刘崇茹，博士，华北电力大学电气与电子工程学院教授，博士生导师，教务处处长，教育部长江学者特聘教授，北京市科技新星，教育部新世纪优秀人才。主要从事柔性直流系统及大规模新能源直流外送系统的稳定控制、建模仿真及工程应用等方面的基础理论研究及核心技术研发。主持国家重点研发计划项目课题、国家自然科学基金企业联合基金重点项目及集成项目课题。获得省部级特等奖1项、一等奖2项、二等奖5项，国内外发明金奖3项。

担任北京电机工程学会常务理事、科普与教育工作委员会主任委员、中国电机工程学会国际合作工作委员会委员、中国电工技术学会理事、全国电力系统管理及其信息交换标准化技术委员会委员、中国电机工程学会电力系统自动化专业委员会委员、首都女教授协会理事、CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems副编辑。

 

Keynote Speaker VI

 

Prof. Wei Yao
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

 

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Biography: Prof. Wei Yao received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, HUST, Wuhan, China. He obtained the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He has granted more than 30 research projects including 4 NSFC projects. He has authored/ corresponding authored 54 SCI indexed journal papers, including 14 ones selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers, and won 2 provincial first class prizes (both ranked second). Currently, he is an associate editor/editor of 6 SCI/EI indexed journals. His current research interest focuses on the stability analysis and control of power system integrating high penetration renewable energy.

 

 

Keynote Speaker V

Prof. Yunfei Mu
Tianjin University, China

 

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Biography: Yunfei Mu, Professor at School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. He serves as the Executive Deputy Director of the National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Microgrid and Intelligent Distribution Systems. His research mainly focuses on integrated energy systems and intelligent distribution system. He has undertaken several projects as the principal investigator, including the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, and Joint Fund of the NSFC-SGCC, etc. He has been awarded four first-class prizes for provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress.