Keynote Speakers

Dr. CHI Yongning
(Keynote Speaker)

China Electric Power Research Institute, China

Speech Title: Renewable Power Plants Interaction with Power Grid and Grid Code Practices

Brief Bio:Dr. Chi Yongning is the chief engineer of renewable energy research center of CEPRI (China Electric Power Research Institute), and serves as the secretary of IEC TC 8/SC 8A “Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Generation” since year 2014. He is the expert member of IEA GIVAR Advisory Group, and also a member of CIGRE and IEEE. His research interests includes modeling, control and integration analysis of renewable energy generation. He was responsible for formulating the Chinese connection code for wind power and PV, and led several national level research projects with regard to renewable energy grid integration, offshore wind integration and system analysis. He was honored with the UVIG Achievement Award in 2016, the ESIG Excellence Award in 2019 respectively. <personal page>

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Shanming Wang
(Keynote Speaker)

Tsinghua University, China

Speech Title: Electromagnetic Vibration of PM motors and its reduction

Brief Bio: Shanming Wang, is a Professor of Dept. of E.E, and a vice director of the State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power System and Generation Equipment, of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. In 2001 he received the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. After that he became a teacher in Tsinghua University. He was a visiting scholar in Stuttgart University in 2006 and in Purdue University in 2013.His research interests include vibration and its control of electric machines, analysis and control of electric machines, hybrid excitation PM synchronous machines, the simulation of electrical machines and power electronics systems, and fault analysis for electric machines and its protection. He published more than 90 papers and 20 patents in this area. Now he is an IEEE Senior Member. He was the editor of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE) and a member of IEEE Nikola Tesla Award Committee from 2015-2018. He got National Award for Technologic Invention (second prize, 2012) “The Multi-Loop Analysis Method of AC Machines and Its Applications”. <personal page>

Dr. Zhong Wang
(Keynote Speaker)

Beijing Xintai Energy Co. LTD, China

Speech Title: Consideration and practice of renewable energy trading in Chinese power market

Brief Bio: Zhong Wang, Senior Engineer, General Manager and Director of Beijing Xintai Energy Co., Ltd.; Representative member of the Market Management Committee of Beijing Power Exchange Center; Tsinghua University Power System and Automation Ph.D.; Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada; 2 papers published in SCI (Science Citation Index); Published more than ten papers on EI (Engineering Index) and registered more than ten invention patents; Twice interviewed by CCTV News Channel and Economic Channel.

Prof. Quanrui Hao
(Keynote Speaker)

Shandong University, China

Speech Title: Small-signal models and control of MMC and MMC-based flexible HVDC grid

Brief Bio: Prof. Quanrui Hao was born in China in 1984. He received the B.E. degree from Tian¬jin University in 2006, M.E. degree from Zhejiang University in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 2013, respectively. He joined in Shandong University in 2014 and serves as full professor in Department of Electrical Engineering since 2020. He was selected as Future Young Scholar of Shandong University in 2019. He also serves as the executive member of IEEE PES DC protection and control technical com¬mittee and IEEE PES DC system planning and design technical committee. His research interests include flexible HVDC transmission, hybrid AC/DC grid, power system stability. He is the principle investigator of two national nature science foundation projects and two sub-projects of natural key research & development program of China. He has published more than forty papers and translated two books. The main circuit design software of multi-terminal UHVDC transmission designed by Prof. Hao has been applied for calculation of the real project. <personal page>

Prof. Weihao Hu
(Keynote Speaker)

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,China

Speech Title: Artificial Intelligence and its Application in Renewable Energy Systems

Brief Bio: Weihao Hu (IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2012, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a Full Professor and the Director of Institute of Smart Power and Energy Systems, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. He was an Associate Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, and the Vice Program Leader of Wind Power System Research Program at the same department. He has led/participated in more than 15 national and international research projects and he has more than 170 publications in his technical field. His research interests include artificial intelligence in modern power systems and renewable power generation. Dr. Hu is an Associate Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation, a Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy Special Issue on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Power Systems, a Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Transactions of China Electrical Technology Special Issue on Planning and operation of multiple renewable energy complementary power generation systems, and a Guest Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS Special Section on Enabling very high penetration renewable energy integration into future power systems. He was the Technical Program Chair for IEEE INNOVATIVE SMART GRID TECHNOLOGIES Asia 2019 and is the Conference Chair for the Asia Energy and Electrical Engineering Symposium. He is currently the Chair for IEEE Chengdu Section PELS Chapter. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, U.K. <personal page>

Prof. Chen Chen
(Keynote Speaker)

Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China

Speech Title: Utilizing Distributed Renewable Energy Sources to Achieve Resilient Distribution Systems

Brief Bio: Chen Chen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 2013. Presently, he is a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. Prior to joining XJTU, he has over six-year service at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA, with the last appointment as Energy Systems Scientist at Energy Systems Division. His research interest includes power system resilience, distribution systems and microgrids, demand side management, and cyber-physical system analysis. He was an editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is also the recipient of the IEEE PES Chicago Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2017. <personal page>

Dr. Sijie Chen
(Keynote Speaker)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Speech Title: A blockchain consensus mechanism that optimizes energy dispatch and trading

Brief Bio: Dr. Sijie Chen is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. His research interests include energy blockchain, electricity market, demand response, and transactive energy system. He is a recipient of 2017 Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology, a recipient of 2017 Shanghai Pujiang Talent Award, a recipient of Youth Expert by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a recipient of China Power Technology Innovation Second Prize. <personal page>

Invited Speakers

Dr.Jianxiao Wang
(Invited Speaker)

North China Electric Power University, China

Speech Title: Toward Transportation and Energy Systems integration: RE2H Technology

Brief Bio: Jianxiao Wang received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2014 and 2019. He was a visiting student researcher at Stanford University, CA, USA. He is currently an assistant professor with North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. His research interests include smart grid operation and planning, hydrogen and storage technology, transportation and energy systems integration, electricity market and data analytics. He has published in top journals including Nature Communications, Energy & Environmental Science, etc. He received IEEE PES China Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2021, and Beijing Young Talent Award in 2020. He is an Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems. <personal page>

Senior Engineer, Ling Peng
(Invited Speaker)

Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Co. Ltd., China

Speech Title: Offshore wind grid connection using VSC-HVDC technology

Brief Bio: Ms. Ling Peng received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei Province, China, in 2003 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2006. She joined China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) after graduation from university and worked as a R&D engineer for two years and another four years in project execution within China. The major interest was HVDC valve and valve testing. After that she joined the overseas business development and marketing team, aiming for building and enhancing the reputation of HVDC Flexible technology worldwide. Within the team, her role is commercial manger taking the responsibility of cost estimates, contract negotiation and marketing. The team tendered many overseas HVDC EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) projects, mainly in Germany. In February 2022, an EPC contract providing HVDC converter stations onshore and offshore was secured in Germany. She is now delivering the project.

Dr. Shuli Wen
(Invited Speaker)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Speech Title: Marine Mobile Multi-Energy Network Towards Carbon Neutrality

Brief Bio: Dr. Shuli Wen received the B. E degree in the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in School of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, in 2016. He has once served as a Research Fellow in Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2017 till 2020. Now he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research interests include mobile microgrid, renewable integration, energy storage system machine learning, and computational intelligence. He has published over 30 papers in this area including two ESI highly cited papers on marine power system. Dr. Wen was also Shanghai High-level Talents and Shanghai Pujiang Talents. He has organized several special issues in various top-tier international conferences. <personal page>

Dr. Manyun Huang
(Invited Speaker)

Hohai University, China

Speech Title:Data-driven situation awareness for electrical power systems

Brief Bio: Manyun Huang (S’15-M’20) received the B.E. degree and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. From September 2017 to September 2018, she was a visiting scholar at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Currently, she is an associate Professor in the College of Energy and Electrical Engineering at Hohai University. Her research interests are in the theory and algorithms of power system state estimation as well as power system analysis. <personal page>

Dr. Di Cao
(Invited Speaker)

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Speech Title: Distributed Voltage Control Method of Active Distribution Networks based on Multi-Agent System

Brief Bio: Dr. Cao Di is a lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interest is voltage regulation of distribution network based on artificial intelligence technology. As the co-author, he has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is the receipt of best paper awards of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy in 2020. He is a guest editor of IET Renewable Power Generation special section on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energy. He was served as a session chair for IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Asia 2019.