Prof. Zhe Chen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Keynote Speech Title:
Modern Power Systems in Energy System Transition
Abstract: The global energy system is undergoing a profound transformation towards a cleaner, more efficient and sustainable system, driven by the large-scale application of renewable energy and technological innovations. This transition is characterized by the accelerating electrification of various energy sectors, including power generation, heating, cooling, and transportation. Traditional fossil fuel technologies are being replaced by clean energy solutions such as wind turbines, photovoltaics, hydrogen conversion systems, heat pumps, electric vehicles, and carbon capture technologies. Power electronics technology and digitalization serve as critical enablers for the efficient integration and control of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, and electrified infrastructure.
This keynote will describe the structure and characteristics of modern power systems, provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in advanced energy technologies, explore the inherent challenges and highlight some relevant research activities from our work.
Bio: Dr. Chen is a Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Professor Chen’s main current research interests are wind energy, power electronics, power system, modern energy systems and AI applications in energy system. In these areas, he has led many international and national research projects and has supervised many PhD, Postdoctoral researchers and visiting PhDs/scholars.
Dr. Chen is a member of editorial boards for many international journals, served as a member for research funding evaluation panels of many countries. He is a Fellow of IET, a Chartered Engineer in the U.K., a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Prof. Adrian oinovici
Shanghai University of Electric Power, China
Keynote Speech Title: Switched-capacitor Power Electronics Circuits As Front End In Grids Supplied By Photovoltaic Energy
Abstract: Basic notions about the energy conversion through a switched-capacitor circuit will be provided. The requirements imposed on the front-end circuit in grids supplied by solar energy will be discussed. Basic switched-capacitor dc-dc converters and dc-ac inverters will be explained. The main part of the speech will be dedicated to the presentation of the state-of the art common ground switched capacitor inverters with continuous input current. By showing what are still the limitations of these circuits, the discussion will finalize by tempting a forecast of future developments of such circuits in order to match perfectly the constraints imposed by the green sources of energy.
Bio: AAdrian Ioinovici, IEEE Fellow, is the Director of the Power Electronics based on Switched Capacitors (PESC) Center, the Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the “one thousand foreign experts plan”, and holds honorary professorships from many universities He got the IEEE Fellow grade for “pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters” and served as Associate Editor for many IEEE Transactions. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief and present EiC of International Journal of Power Electronics and Applications. He authorized the books Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990) and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters (Wiley, 2013). His main research interests are switching-capacitor converters and inverters, large dc gain converters, soft-switching converters. He published over 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences.
Prof. Jose I. Leonbr
UUniversidad de Sevilla, Spain
Keynote Speech Title:
Modular Power converters: Concept, Applications and Operation
Abstract: Modular power converters are complex power conversion systems built by the series/parallel connection of mature power modules. This concept (also called power electronics building blocks-based converters, PEBB-based converters) is becoming more and more popular in the last decade. It is an attractive commercial solution for many applications where the requirements (voltages and/or currents) are critical. In the talk, the concept of modular converters is introduced, showing the possible applications where they are currently applied. Also, the operation of this kind of power systems will be addressed, presenting recent research results in order to enhance their performance.
Bio: Jose I. Leon (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Cadiz, Spain. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications engineering from the Universidad de Sevilla (US), Seville, Spain, in 1999, 2001, and 2006, respectively.
He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, US. Since 2019, he has been Chair Professor with the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His research interests include modulation and control of power converters for high-power applications and renewable energy systems.
Dr. Leon was a co-recipient of the 2008 Best Paper Award of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, the 2012 Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and the 2015 Best Paper Award of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. He was the recipient of the 2014 IEEE J. David Irwin Industrial Electronics Society Early Career Award, the 2017 IEEE Bimal K. Bose Energy Systems Award, and the 2017 Manuel Losada Villasante Award for excellence in research and innovation. In 2017, he was elevated to the IEEE fellow grade with the citation “for contributions to high-power electronic converters.” In 2018 and 2025, he has been included in the Highly Cited Researchers List published by Clarivate.
Prof. Guoqiang Gao
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Keynote Speech Title: Research Progress on Pantograph-Catenary Sliding Electrical Contact for High-Speed Railways
Abstract: High-speed train get the power from the electrical contact of pantograph-catenary system. With the increasing of train’s speed, Pantograph arc occur frequently due to the departure of pantograph strip and contact line. The arc has a significant effect on power supply of high speed train. In the presentation, a MHD Model of Pantograph arc would be introduced in the process of rising and lowering pantograph. The influence factors have been analyzed such as current, vibration gap, cross wind and so on. Arc’s erosion model has been built and the erosion process has been analyzed. The overvoltage and harmonic characteristics induced by pantograph arc in the traction power supply system have also been studied.
Bio: Guoqiang Gao, professor of Southwest Jiaotong University, winner of National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund (2019), Sichuan Provincial Fund for Distinguished Youth (2018), Chairman of IEEE P2752 international standards working group. His main research field focus on the power supply of high speed railway system. Some research results have been applied to the CIT400 high-speed train. He won the first prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, the first prize of Science and Technology Award of China Railway Society. He has written more than 100 paper.
Prof. Qiji Ze
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Keynote Speech Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Bio: Qiji Ze is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at the Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2011 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University and then Stanford University. His research interests include magnetically actuated soft robots and biomedical applications, magnetic actuation and electromagnetic control of soft actuators, and electric machine systems and control. He has published more than 40 journal papers, including Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS. He was the recipient of the Cozzarelli Prize Finalist Award and ASME Henry Hess Award.
Dr. Qunfang Wu
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Invited Speech Title: Fault-tolerant Control of Open-Phase Faults in DTP-PMSM Drive Systems
Bio: Qunfang Wu received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2018. From September 2018 to August 2020, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI, USA. Since September 2020. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has authored or coauthored more than 90 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the holder of more than 40 Chinese patents, and 3 US patents.
His research interests include high-efficiency high-power density power conversion and power electronics reliability. Dr. Wu was the Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2022) , the Changkong Scholar Award of NUAA(2023) . He was the recipient of the Jiangsu Province Excellent Youth Fund (2025).
Dr. Yang Qi
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Invited Speech Title: Coordinated Control of Multi-active Bridge Converter
Bio: TBA
Dr. Jun Zhang
Hohai University, China
Invited Speech Title: Condition Monitoring of the Power Converter Based on the Thermal Time Constant
Bio: Jun Zhang obtained his B.S. degree from Anhui University, China, in 2014 and Ph.D. degree from Chongqing University, China, in 2019, all in the Electrical Engineering. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Power Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China. His research interests include the reliability of power electronics.
Dr. Lefei Ge
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Invited Speech Title: A Shared-Bridge Five-Level Converter with Independent Phase Control for Four-Phase Switched Reluctance Motors
Bio: Lefei Ge (Member, IEEE), received the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 2020. He serves as an editorial board member of international SCI journals Electrical Engineering, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, and IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (IF=5.2), as well as a guest editor of IET Power Applications. And he was the chairperson of the sub venues of seven top international conferences. He has published 17 papers in top international journals of the IEEE Trans series as the first author, with a total of 1069 Google citations, among which 2 paper was selected as an ESI highly cited paper. He has published two monographs as the first author, which have be published in the E.ON Energy Research Center in Germany in 2022 and the National Defense Industry Press in China in 2025. He has applied for 35 invention patents as the first inventor (17 authorized in the past 5 years), with a patent transformation amount of 1.4 million yuan, and participated in the compilation of 4 group standards. Additionally, he was selected into the list of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2025 jointly released by Stanford University (USA) and the international authoritative academic publisher Elsevier. He has been engaged in motor optimization design and control for a long time, involving fields such as multi electric aircraft, high-speed rail systems, new energy generation, and electric vehicles, having rich experience in researching this special issue.
Dr. Zhi Cai
China Electric Power Research Institute, China
Invited Speech Title: General Designing and Data Support of Electric Power Spot Market
Bio: Zhi Cai (M’20) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2006 and 2009. Currently, he is an associate professor in China Electric Power Research Institute. His research interests center around modeling and analyzing problems in power system. Recently, he is working on the construction of various provincial electricity spot markets and China's transregional electricity spot market. He is a peer reviewer of Journal of Cleaner Production. He has authored more than 20 publications in journals and proceedings of international conferences.
Dr. Wentao Yang
Guangxi University, China
Invited Speech Title: Complementary Technology for Optimal Control of Adjustable Demand-Side Power Load Resources
Bio: Received the B.E. degree from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree fromZhejiangUniversity, Hangzhou, China, in 1991, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, China. His research interests include the electricvehiclemanagement, integrated energy coordination, and electricity market transactions.
Dr. Tianxiang Yin
University of Nottingham, UK
Invited Speech Title: Research on the Modular Multilevel Converter with SiC Devices and Its Modulation Scheme
Bio: Tianxiang Yin received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering and is currently an Assistant Researcher with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He previously conducted postdoctoral research with the Control and Power Research Group (CAP) at Imperial College London and the Power Electronics and Machines Centre (PEMC) at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on high–power-density converters for flexible HVDC transmission and distribution. He has published over 20 papers and holds more than 10 granted invention patents. He has received five conference awards, including the IEEE APEC Outstanding Presentation Award. His flexible HVDC converter scheme won the Excellent Product Award at the China Hi-Tech Fair. He is also a recipient of the IEEE TIE Outstanding Reviewer Award.
Dr. Yuhua Du
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Invited Speech Title: Large
Signal Stability Assessment for Islanded MGs with A Mix of
Gri-Following and Grid-Forming Inverters: A Networked
Oscillators-Based Approach
Bio: Yuhua Du received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2019. He was a Research Aide with Argonne National Laboratory in 2018. In February 2022, he was with the School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, as a Professor. He is recognized as one of the Top five Reviewers for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid for 2022. He serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and Guested Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. His research interests include voltage source converter modeling and control, microgrid distributed control, and microgrid hardware-in-the-loop testbed.
Dr. Hengjie Li
Lanzhou University of Technology, China
Invited Speech Title: Optimization Planning for Urban Electric Vehicle Charging Station and Charging Guidance Strategy for Electric Vehicles under the Grid Ecology
Bio: Hengjie Li received the Ph.D. in Control Theory and Control Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China, in 2009. Now, he is the director and associate professor at the Institute of New Energy Power Generation and Integrated Energy Systems at the Lanzhou University of Technology. His research interests include Interaction mechanism of electric vehicle and power grid，power/integrated energy system emergency and energy efficiency management of electricity consumption.
Dr. Kecheng He
Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China
Invited Speech Title: Online Coordinated Scheduling and Operation Strategy for Truck-Based Mobile Charging Stations
Bio: Kecheng He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2025. From 2024 to 2025, he was an assistant researcher at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K., where he participated in collaborative research on smart transportation and energy systems. He is currently an associate professor with Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, China. His research interests focus on electric vehicle charging infrastructure planning, mobile energy systems, and optimization of integrated transportation-energy networks. He has published several papers in top journals including IEEE TSG, IEEE T-ITS, and IEEE TTE. Dr. He also holds several Chinese and U.S. patents and has been actively involved in major national and international research projects. He serves as a reviewer for journals such as Applied Energy, IEEE TSG, TTE, TVT, etc.