2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Shu is a professor-level senior engineer and Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been mainly engaged in the research and development of energy and power development strategy, power grid operation and power system planning, construction of major ultra/extra-high voltage transmission projects and key technology. His research results have promoted the implementation of the "West-East Power Transmission" strategy and national power grid interconnection, and promoted the large-scale development and utilization of clean energy. Dr Shu has won two Grand Prizes and one First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress, and the 2018 Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award.

Dr. Jessica Bian is a visionary leader and architect. She has spearheaded electric industry’s reliability metrics and grid risk assessment. Currently she is the Vice President of Grid Services at Grid-X Partners. Before that, she was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Director of Performance Analysis at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Under her leadership, a total of 18 industry-wide reliability indicators were established to determine grid reliability, adequacy, and associated risks. She is widely recognized as a pioneer and trusted world leader in the field.

Before joining NERC, Dr. Bian was with PJM, ERCOT and Westinghouse Electric. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University and published over 70 articles. She volunteers at the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES); was the Society Secretary from 2016 to 2019.

Alfredo Vaccaro received the M.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electronic engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. On March 2002 he joined the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, where he is currently a Full Professor of electrical power system and Dean of B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Energy Engineering. His research interests include interval-based methods for uncertain power system analysis, reliable computing techniques for robust power system optimization, and self-organizing architectures for decentralized smart grids computing.

Prof. Vaccaro is Editor in Chief of -Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy- Ed. Springer Nature, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grids. He is the vice-Chair of the IEEE Power System Operation, Planning and Economics - Technologies & Innovations Subcommittee. 

Zhou Xiaoxin, an expert on power systems, is from Penglai, Shandong province. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1965, and studied in IREQ, Canada in 1979. After returning to China in 1980, he successively served as engineer, deputy director, director and chief engineer of System Research Institute of Electric Power Research Institute. In 1993, he was elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1995, he was elected as a Fellow of IEEE. He is now a foreign academician of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States.

He has long been engaged in the research of power system analysis methods. In the 1970s, he began to study the mathematical models and calculation methods of modern power system analysis. Presided over the development of China's first set of "power system analysis comprehensive program" large-scale software, widely used in power systems throughout the country. Over the past 30 years, he has participated in or presided over a number of research on key technologies of large-scale ultra-high voltage transmission system engineering in China. In China's first 330kV ultra-high voltage transmission line project, the first ±500kV high voltage transmission line project and other power system engineering proposed and adopted new analytical models, calculation methods and key technologies. In the 1990s, he began the research of new flexible AC transmission system, presided over key projects such as controllable series compensation of ultra-high voltage transmission system, and devoted himself to studying the application of power electronics technology and modern control theory to power system to meet the requirements of the development of power system in the 21st century.

Prof. C.Y. Chung is the Head of Department and Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU), Hong Kong, China. His research interests include smart grid, micro grid, renewable energy, power system stability/control, planning and operation, and electric vehicle charging.

Prof. Chung is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, EIC, IET, HKIE and AAIA, and an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Canada P. Ziogas Electric Power Award and 2021 SES Educator of the Year Award. He is also a candidate for IEEE PES President-elect 2023.

Professor Janusz Bialek (FIEEE) was born and educated in Poland gaining MEng (1977) and PhD (1981) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2019 he has been Professor of Power and Energy Systems at Newcastle University, UK.

Previously, Janusz held Full Professor positions at the University of Edinburgh (2003-2009), Durham University (2009-2014), and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow (2014-2022) - dubbed “Russian MIT” – where he was the founding Director of Center for Energy Systems. In 2015-2020 he was Non-Executive Independent Director of KEGOC, Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company. In 2012 he was seconded to the Department of Energy and Climate Change of UK Government as the EPSRC Science Policy Fellow. He was a Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University (2008) and EPFL (2000). Janusz is a member of the Dispute Resolution Panel of Single Electricity Market on the island of Ireland and has been a consultant to the UK government, International Energy Agency, European Commission, Scottish Government, and several UK power companies.

Janusz’s main research interest is in the application of advanced mathematical methods to address techno-economic problems connected with the transformation of the power supply industry to a low-carbon economy. His background is in power systems, but his research is interdisciplinary and he collaborates closely with economists, mathematicians, statisticians, physicist and social scientists. He has published widely on integration of renewable generation in power systems, smart grids, power system dynamics, preventing electricity blackouts and power markets. He is a co-author of a widely-used textbook “Power System Dynamics Stability and Control”, published by J. Wiley, which is now in its 3rd Edition.

Janusz has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of multi-million research grants funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK), Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI, USA), Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science, and UK power industry.

Z.Y. Dong is currently Singapore Power Group (SPG) Endowed Professor of Power Engineering, and Co-Director of SPG-NTU Joint Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His previous roles include SHARP Professor with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He was the inaugural Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, Director of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions, Ausgrid Chair Professor and Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks providing R&D support for the AU$500m Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration project. His research interest includes power system planning, load modelling, smart grid, smart cities, energy market, renewable energy and its grid connection, and computational methods and their application in power system analysis. He has been serving as editor/associate editor of several IEEE transactions and IET journals. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Mr. Wang Gang is the Secretary General of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE). He holds a bachelor’s degree in electric power system and its automation. Before joining the CSEE, he has spent over 30 years in the electric power industry. He was the Director of Development & Planning in State Grid Anhui Electric Power Company, General Manager of Tongling Power Supply Company, as well as Chief Engineer, Vice President and President of State Grid Henan Electric Power Company. He has won more than 10 awards at provincial and municipal levels.

Vladimir Terzija received the Dipl-Ing., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Currently he is a Professor of Energy Systems & Networks at the Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is also a Distinguished Professor at Shandong University, China, as well as a Gest Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In the past, he has been with the University of Belgrade (Serbia), ABB (Germany), The University of Manchester (UK) and Skoltech (Moscow, Russian Federation). His research interests include smart grid applications; WAMPAC; power system protection; transient processes; data analytics and digital signal processing applications in electrical power and energy systems. Prof. Terzija is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fellow of IEEE, and the recipient of the National Friendship Award (China).