Keynote and Invited Speakers

Prof. Zhe Chen
Aalborg University, Denmark

Keynote Speech Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA

Bio: Zhe Chen (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin, China, and the Ph.D. degree in power and control from the University of Durham, Durham, U.K., in 1997.,He is a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is the Leader of the Wind Power System Research Program with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, and the Danish Principal Investigator for the Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research. His research areas include power systems, power electronics, and electric machines. He has led many research projects and has more than 400 publications in his technical field. His main current research interests include wind energy and modern power systems.,Dr. Chen is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions On Power Electronics, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, U.K., and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.

Prof. Adrian Ioinovici
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: Adrian 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. Leon
Universidad 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. 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.

Assoc. Prof. Qunfang Wu
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Invited Speech Title: TBA
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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).

Assoc. Prof. Xinran Zhang
Beihang University, China

Invited Speech Title: Time-Varying Load Modeling of Power Systems and Its Application in Voltage Stability Problems
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Bio: TBA

Assoc. Prof. Yang Qi
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Invited Speech Title: Coordinated Control of Multi-active Bridge Converter
Abstract: The multi-active bridge converter has gained extensive application in aerospace and electric vehicles and other fields of transportation electrification due to its advantages in power density and flexibility. This report will review the latest research progress of the multi-active bridge converter in recent years. On this basis, by comparing the power transmission mechanism of the multi-active bridge converter with the ground AC power grid, the synchronization and power coordination control strategies among the converter modules will be introduced. Finally, the future trends of control technology will be discussed.

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