Speakers of ICPEA 2024
Prof. Hongbing Sun, Vice president, 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. 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).