Invited Speakers
Assoc.Prof. Muhammad Junaid
China University of Mining and Technology, China
Muhammad Junaid received his Ph.D. (2020), M.S. (2015), and B.Eng. (2011) in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Power system engineering. Since late 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at King's College Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, SARHAD University of Science & Information Technology, in Pakistan. Dr. Junaid's research focuses on alternatives to the SF6 gas and key technologies for fault current interruption, including vacuum interrupters, cryogenic dielectrics, and high voltage insulation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS), and IAENG Hong Kong, and a life member of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). He has been involved in 10 funded projects, presiding over 8 of them, and holds 11 patents and 56 publications.
Dr. Song Ke
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Song Ke is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Research Centre for Grid Modernization, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University in 2024. He is a Member of IEEE and an active member of IEEE PES and IEEE Young Professionals. He has served as a reviewer for journals including TSE, TII, TIA, Energy, IET ECE, RSER, SETA, EPSR, as well as leading Chinese journals such as Automation of Electric Power Systems and Power System Technology. He was selected for the Wiley Open Science Excellent Author Program in 2023 and 2024, received the Best Paper Award of IET ECE in 2023, and was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer of IET ECE in 2024. His research focuses on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interaction, frequency response control strategies of electric vehicles, battery management system enhancement for V2G, microgrid resilience improvement, and frequency control. He has published more than 30 academic papers, including 8 SCI-indexed and 5 EI-indexed papers as the first or corresponding author.