Keynote Speakers

Prof. Wei Xu is Director of the State Key Laboratory of High-Density Electromagnetic Energy and Power Systems at the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on advanced linear machines and drives. He proposed the Unequal-Amplitude Slot Phasor Analysis Methodology, improving the traction capability and energy efficiency of electrical machines and systems. He has served as General Chair of four international conferences, a Steering Committee member of LDIA, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. His work has received more than 14,000 Google Scholar citations. He is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, and CES Fellow, and an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar.

Adrian Ioinovici is an IEEE Fellow with Shanghai University of Electric Power, China, under the national “One Thousand Foreign Experts” plan. He also holds honorary professorships at several universities. He received the IEEE Fellow grade for pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters and has served as an Associate Editor for several IEEE Transactions. He authored Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters. His research interests include switched-capacitor converters and inverters, high-gain converters, hybrid switched-capacitor power electronics, and soft-switching converters. He has published more than 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conference proceedings and is Editor-in-Chief of Power Electronics Research and Applications (PERA) Transactions.

Prof. Josep M. Guerrero is a globally recognized scholar in microgrids and power electronics. From 2011 to 2025, he was a Full Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he founded the Microgrid Research Program and established the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM) as a Villum Investigator. He is now Director of CROM at Huanjiang Laboratory, China, a Distinguished Senior Researcher at the University of Valladolid, Spain, and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research spans microgrids, power electronics, cyber-physical energy systems, neuroscience-inspired AI, and related fields. He has published over 1,000 journal papers and received more than 150,000 citations. His honors include several IEEE awards and the Zhejiang West Lake Friendship Award.

Prof. Wang conducts research on electrochemical energy storage and new energy vehicle safety. He serves as Principal Investigator of a National Key R&D Program project, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. He has been listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and Elsevier Chinese Highly Cited Researcher. He has published more than 200 SCI papers, including papers in Nature Communications, with over 30,000 citations, and holds more than 50 authorized invention patents. His honors include the First Prize of Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the Energy Storage Person of the Year Award.