Prof. King Jet TSENG,
Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, IES Fellow

King-Jet Tseng was born in Singapore and studied at Gan Eng Seng School and Hwa Chong Junior College before receiving his B.Eng. (First Class) and M.Eng. from National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in United Kingdom. He has more than 30 years of academic, research, industrial and professional experience in electrical power and energy systems. He has been the Head of Power Engineering Division in Nanyang Technological University and the Board Member of the Singapore Green Building Council. He co-founded the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability for the Tropics (SinBerBEST) program and the Electrical Power Systems Integration Laboratory @ NTU, a Rolls-Royce research facility. He has directly supervised and graduated about 30 PhD students and also inspired a number of technology start-up companies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET, a Fellow of IES and registered as Chartered Engineer with UK Engineering Council. Currently, he is the Professor and Advisor for Electrical Power Engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology, working on his vision of future urban electrical distribution architecture which can provide flexible and heterogeneous power quality for greater sustainability. He continues to contribute to International Electrotechnical Commission as a standardization expert for grid-integrated electrical energy storage systems. He has made important contributions to interior permanent magnet synchronous machines, resilient grid interconnection of distributed energy resources, dynamic voltage compensation, arc modeling for transient simulations and energy storage systems in utility applications. Publications: >300; Citations: >10,900; h-index: 54

 

Prof. Zhongsheng Hou,
Qingdao University, China
IEEE FELLOW, CAA Fellow

Zhongsun Hou (born in 1962) obtained his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 1994 and completed his postdoctoral research at Harbin Institute of Technology in 1997. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University in the United States. He formerly served as the Head of the Department of Automatic Control at Beijing Jiaotong University, a Second-Level Professor, and was selected as a "Leading Talent" in Beijing Jiaotong University's "Excellence 100" program. He is currently a Chief Professor at Qingdao University and the Director of the Institute of Systems Science. He is an IEEE Fellow and a CAA Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation. He serves on the IFAC Technical Committee on "Adaptive and Learning Systems" and the IFAC Technical Committee on "Transportation Systems." Professor Hou is the founding Chair of the Chinese Association of Automation's Technical Committee on "Data-Driven Control, Learning, and Optimization." He also founded the IEEE Data-Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference and serves as its General Chair. He has served or is currently serving on the editorial boards of journals such as "Acta Automatica Sinica," "Control Theory and Applications," "Control and Decision," and "Systems Science and Mathematics." Additionally, he has been a guest editor for special issues on "Data-Based Control, Decision-Making, Scheduling, and Fault Diagnosis" for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and was the lead guest editor for the special issue on "Data-Driven Control and Learning Systems" for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

 

 

Prof. Jidong Lu, South China University of Technology, China
Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholars Program" Distinguished Professor

Prof. Jidong Lu, born in July 1957 in Changshu, Jiangsu Province hold a Ph.D. in Engineering in 1988 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and conducted post-doctoral research in National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) of France from 1991 to 1993 . He is currently the director of R&D Center of Clean Utilization of Energy of Guangdong Province. For many years, he has been engaged in research and development in areas such as coal combustion mechanisms and process simulation, optimization design, operation and maintenance of thermal systems and equipment, pollution control, and solid waste treatment. He has undertaken numerous national-level research projects, including topics under the National Basic Research Program (973), the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863), Key R&D projects, major international cooperation projects, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Doctoral Fund. He has received one National Natural Science Award (Second Class) and one National Scientific and Technology Progress Award, and various provincial and ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards (First, Second, and Third Class). He has published over 400 research papers in domestic and international academic journals and conferences. In 1994, he was selected for the Ministry of Education’s Cross-Century Outstanding Talent Program, and in 1998, he was recognized as a Cross-Century Academic Leader in Hubei Province. In 2000, he received support from the Ministry of Education’s Young Backbone Teachers Program. In 1999, he was selected as a member of the "National Talents Project" (first and second tiers) and was awarded the State Council Special Allowance in the same year. In 2000, he was appointed as a specially appointed professor under the "Changjiang Scholars Program."