Speakers of ICPEA 2024
Prof. Hongbin Sun, President of Taiyuan
University of Technology, China
IEEE FELLOW/IET FELLOW
Professor Sun has held several significant positions,
including Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Office at Tsinghua
University, Convener of the Tsinghua University Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Education Coordination Committee, Secretary-General
of the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education
Alliance, and Executive Director of the China University Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Education Research Center. He has also served
as a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and
Vice President of Taiyuan University of Technology. Currently, he is
the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President
(acting as the executive vice president) of Taiyuan University of
Technology. He also serves as the Director of the Energy Internet
Energy Management and Control Research Center at Tsinghua
University, Vice Chairman of the Ministry of Education Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Education Steering Committee, a member of the
Tsinghua University Academic Committee, and the Chairman of the
Academic Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
His primary research areas include smart grids and energy internet.
In 2008, he received the second prize of the National Technological
Invention Award (ranked 2nd), and in 2018, he received the first
prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked
1st). Professor Sun has been selected as a leading talent in
scientific and technological innovation in the Ten Thousand Talents
Program of the Organization Department of the Central Committee,
part of the National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talent
Project, a national expert with outstanding contributions in middle
and young age, an IEEE Fellow, and an IET Fellow. He has also
received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
and was part of the "Beijing University Pioneering and Outstanding
Activities Advanced Deeds Reporting Group" and the Ministry of
Education's "National Model for Teaching and Educating People
Advanced Deeds Reporting Group." He has twice won the National
Teaching Achievement First Prize (ranked 1st and 3rd).
Prof. Jizhong Zhu, South China University of
Technology, China
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, CSEE Fellow
Zhu Jizhong is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of
Electric Power, South China University of Technology. IEEE Fellow,
Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, IET
Fellow (Member of the British Institute of Engineering Technology),
Visiting Researcher of the Royal Society, Guangzhou Innovation
Leader, Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Tutor of Chongqing
University, Acting as IEEE PES Intelligent Building, Load And
Customer System Technical Committee (China) Chairman, MPCE and other
international journal editors, IEEE P2781 and P2783 two standards
working group chairman, IEEE SMC Standards Committee and IEEE SMC
Intelligent Power and Energy System Specialized Committee member,
national power demand side Member of the Management Standards
Committee, member of the Expert Committee of Guangdong Overseas
Chinese Returnees Association. He has served as a member of the
first National Innovation Competition Award Evaluation Committee,
the chairman of the IEEE Power Load Subcommittee, and the chairman
of the IEEE SBLC Asia Pacific Working Group.
Zhu Jizhong was promoted to a professor at Chongqing University at
the age of 28 in the early 1990s. In 1994, he was selected as an
outstanding young scientist in China by the Royal Society and the
Chinese Association for Science and Technology. He was awarded the
Royal Society Fellowship Award, the fifth Fok Yingdong National
University Young Teacher Research Award, second The Sichuan Youth
Science and Technology Award, the first Chongqing outstanding young
teacher, won 7 provincial science and technology progress awards
from the State Education Commission, and was selected as the
national advanced individual during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period
and the national outstanding returnee representative during the
first return to China in 1996. China's "Science and Technology
Daily" (1993) and the US "Washington Post" (1998) were selected as
"Science and Technology Rising Stars".
Professor Zhu Jizhong worked in universities and companies in the
United Kingdom, Singapore and the United States from 1995 to 2015.
After returning to China full-time at the beginning of 2016, he
worked in China Southern Power Grid Research Institute and South
China University of Technology. Now he is the head of the research
team (center) for the optimization operation and control of the
integrated smart energy system of South China University of
Technology. In addition, he also served as an expert in the IEC
(International Electrotechnical Commission) China National Standards
Committee, as well as an expert in the establishment of a power spot
market research group by the National Development and Reform
Commission and the National Energy Administration, and participated
in the compilation of China's power spot market functional
specifications. In 2016 and 2017, he won the MPC E Annual
Contribution Award and the Outstanding Special Editor Award,
respectively. In 2018, he was awarded the title of "Scientific
Chinese Person of the Year". In 2019, he was awarded the Guangzhou
High-level Outstanding Talent and China Southern Power Grid's 2019
Science and Technology Progress Award. One special prize and one
third prize, as well as the 2018 IEEE SBLC Special Committee Annual
Contribution Award and the IEEE PES Global Bulletin Award. Presided
over or participated in more than 20 international large-scale power
engineering projects, published more than 200 papers in
international journals and important academic conferences, applied
for more than 40 national patents, has authorized more than 10
national patents, and published 4 English books as the only author (
IEEE, Wiley, etc.), among which the "Optimization of Power System
Operation" published by Wiley-IEEE in 2009 was rated as an excellent
book and was republished in 2015. After returning to China for more
than four years, he completed two monographs "Theory and Technology
of Safe and Economic Operation of Grids" and "Methods of Power
Market Operation in a Multi-Energy Environment" which were published
by China Electric Power Press in September 2018 and by Machinery
Industry Press in November 2019, respectively. publishing.
Prof. Ming Xu, Chairman of Powerland Technology Inc., China
Prof. Gengfeng Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Prof. Yunfei Mu, Tianjin University, China
Prof. Wenping Qin, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Prof. Yang Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yang Han (S’08-M’10-SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree
in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU),
Shanghai, China, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China,
where he has been an Associate Professor in 2013, and Full professor
in 2021. From March 2014 to March 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar
with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University,
Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently with the School of Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include the
ac/dc microgrids, active distribution networks, power quality,
grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems, active power
filters, multilevel converters, and static synchronous compensators
(STATCOMs).
Dr. Han has received several national and provincial projects, and
more than 30 industrial projects in the area of power electronics,
smart grid, microgrid, and power quality analysis and compensation.
He holds more than 40 issued and pending patents. Dr. Han was listed
as “World’s Top 2% Scientist” (single year and whole career) by
Stanford University in 2022, and highly cited Chinese researchers by
Elsevier in 2023. He was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award
in CPESE 2021, the Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2020
and 2022, Science and Technology Award from Sichuan Electric Power
Company in 2019, Academic Talent Award by UESTC, in 2017, Baekhyun
Award by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics, in 2016. He has
published a book “Modeling and Control of Power Electronic
Converters for Microgrid Applications”, ISBN: 978-3-030-74512-7,
Springer. He served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Power
Electronics and IEEE ACCESS (2019-2020).