Prof. Wei Xu 

Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wei Xu (Fellow, IEEE) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, China, in 2008, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on the design and control of linear machines and drives.

From Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, the Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and a Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was a Professor with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been a Professor with IEECAS. Dr. Xu is Director for State Key Laboratory for High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems, an IEEE Fellow and an IET Fellow. He is General Chair of 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE). He is one Associate Editor of over ten peer-reviewed IEEE JOURNALS, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. He has published 4 books, over 180 journal papers in IEEE Series, and been awarded more than 150 intentional patents granted, which has been cited by over 11,000 times with H-index 52 based on Google Scholar statistics. 

Prof. Yanbing Jia

Taiyuan University of Technology, China

YanbingJia, professor and doctoral supervisor, IEEE Senior member，the vice dean of the Electrical and Power Engineering College of Taiyuan University of Technology. He is the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Power System Operation and Control in Shanxi Province, a strategic expert of the Shanxi Provincial Science and Technology Department, a Shanxi Province University Teaching Master, and an outstanding doctoral dissertation supervisor for Shanxi Province's graduate students. He has been engaged in scientific research in the fields of AC/DC hybrid microgrid optimization operation, integrated energy system operation and control, optimization operation of new energy power systems, and risk assessment of power systems for a long time. He has led over 10 national and provincial-level projects, as well as over 20 enterprise technology research projects. He has constructed a demonstration project of AC/DC hybrid microgrid, developed platforms such as the optimization platform for fire and storage secondary frequency regulation, the "source-load" low-carbon economic dispatch platform for integrated energy systems, and the platform for security and stability analysis of new power systems. He has received 3 provincial and ministerial-level science awards and 7 industry science and technology progress awards. He has published over 100 papers as the first or corresponding author, with over 60 papers published in EI and SCI-indexed journals, Authorized over 30 invention patents and obtained over 30 software copyrights.