Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Pierluigi Siano

University of Salerno, Italy

Biography: Pierluigi Siano (M’09–SM'14) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is a Full Professor of Electrical Power Systems and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. His research activities are centered on demand response, energy management, the integration of distributed energy resources into smart grids, and electricity markets, and the planning and management of power systems. In these fields, he has co-authored 6 international books, more than 800 articles including over 500 articles in international journals, which have received more than 25900 citations on Scopus, achieving an H-index of 77. Since 2019, he has been  awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science Group. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is an Editor for the Power & Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE SYSTEMS.

Keynote Speaker Ⅱ

Prof. King Jet Tseng

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow and IES Fellow

Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore

Biography: 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. 

Keynote Speaker Ⅲ

Prof. Wei Xu

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Institute of Electrical Engineering, 

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Biography: Prof. Wei Xu has mainly focused on design and control for linear machines and drives since 2005. He received the double B.E. degree from Tianjin University (TJU), China, in July 2002, and M.E. degree from TJU in March 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), in July 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2008 to 2012, he made Postdoctoral Fellow with University of Technology Sydney, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, respectively. From October 2013 to December 2023, he was Professor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Since January 2024, he has been Professor and Director for State Key Laboratory. Prof. Xu has been one IEEE Fellow since 2024, and one IET Fellow since 2018. He is the General Chair for 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA 2021) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE 2023). He is the funding chair for Wuhan Chapter in IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and one International Steering Committee member for LDIA. He has been (associate) editor for over 10 IEEE Journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and so on. Till March 2024, Prof. Xu has published over 190 journal papers in IEEE Series, and 4 books, and been granted for over 150 Invention Patents, which has been cited by over 12,000 times with H-index 54 based on Google Scholar.

Speech title: Advances in Design and Control for Linear Induction Machines and Drive System

Abstract: Linear induction machines (LIMs) have found more and more applications due to some advantages of direct drive with smaller volume, strongeracceleration/deceleration, lower maintenance and noise, etc. compared to rotary induction machines (RIMs). Firstly, main differences between LIMs and RIMs will be highlighted, focusing on the aspects end effects in details. Design criteria of LIMs will be specifically exposed, emphasizing the main differences with the classic rotating induction motor design, caused by the presence of end effects, large air-gaps, half-filled slots, high leakage inductances, etc. Afterwards, in order to improve the working efficiency, it will share advancements in the accurate modelling, loss minimization control strategy, multi-objective optimization technique, etc. for LIMs and drives. Researchers and engineers from electrical, mechanical and information fields may find this lecture very useful when dealing with transportation motor and drive related design, control, system integration, which can be extended to other industrial applications.

Invited Speaker Ⅰ

Assoc. Prof. Zhe Zhang

Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China