Conference Committee

Honorary  Chair
Professor Zhen HUANG, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Head of College of Smart Energy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof. Huang has long been engaged in research on vehicle energy, engine combustion and air pollution control. He received his bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982 and his doctor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1988. He has been the Director of the Key Laboratory of Power Machinery and Engineering of Ministry of Education since 2006. In 2000, he was appointed as the Distinguished Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars of the Ministry of Education and supported by the National Outstanding Youth Foundation. He created new methods of fuel design and combustion control and invented key technologies of engine fuel diversification. In 2018, he won the International Clean Fuel Achievement Award and the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Innovation Award of China Internal Combustion Engine Industry. In 2019, he was awarded the Fellow of the International Institute of Combustion.

Conference Chair

Professor Nengling TAI, Vice Head of College of Smart Energy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Prof. Tai is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Power Transmission and Power Conversion Control, Ministry of Education; Director of Shanghai Engineering Technology Research Center for Integrated Power System of Intelligent Ships; Vice President of Institute of Advanced Technology and Equipment; Director of Institute of Smart Grid Monitoring, Protection and Safety Control, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Conference Co-chair

Professor David Infield, University of Strathclyde, UK

Professor David Infield joined the University in 2007 as Professor in Renewable Energy Technologies.  Together with colleagues, a considerable wind energy research activity has been built up since then. For five years he was Manager of the Doctoral Training Centre in Wind Energy Systems, delivering four year PhDs with a considerable training element; this was extended into the Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems for which he played a leading managerial role before retiring and taking on the role of Research Professor.  His teaching was mainly to these Doctoral students although I also supervised Undergraduate and Masters student projects across a range of renewable energy related topics.

His main responsibility outside the University is as Editor in Chief of the IET’s Renewable Power Generation journal.

Conference Co-chair

Professor Xiaodong ZHENG,  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Xiaodong Zheng is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Deputy Director of the Smart Grid Monitoring, Protection, and Security Control Research Group. He received his Ph.D. from SJTU in 2013 and completed postdoctoral research with Prof. James S. Thorp on power system protection. His research focuses on protective relaying, HVDC/MTDC protection, renewable integration, and intelligent fault detection, leading to over 100 publications and 30 patents. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, has contributed to two IEEE international standards, and chaired sessions at major IEEE PES conferences. Supported by more than ¥30 million RMB in funded projects, his collaboration with NARI Group delivered an advanced protection device for renewable-rich grids, now operating in the East China Power Grid.

Organizing Committee Chair

Professor Yongqian LIU, North China Electric Power University, China

Prof. Liu received his bachelor's and master's degrees in hydropower engineering from North China Institute of Hydroelectric Power in 1986 and 1992, and his doctor's degree in Production automation from Nancy First University in France in 2002, and his Doctor's degree in Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In January 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Nancy First University in France. Asia-pacific editor-in-chief of Renewable Power Generation, an IET journal.

His research interest covers intelligent wind farm technology, including wind farm flow field numerical simulation, wind farm intelligent control and maintenance management integrated system, wind farm power prediction, wind turbine status diagnosis and health management, etc. His achievements won the second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018 (ranked 4th). He presided over the development of "intelligent wind farm power prediction system" and "wind turbine intelligent state diagnosis and health management system", which have been popularized and applied in many wind farms.