Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Shunli Wang, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China

Prof. Shunli Wang is a Doctoral Supervisor, Executive Vice President of Smart Energy Storage Institute, Academic Dean of Electric Power College in Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Deputy General Manager of Daqingshan Laboratory in Inner Mongolia Electric Power Group, Visiting Professor of Xi 'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, IET Fellow, Academic Leader of National Electrical Safety & Quality Testing Center, Tianfu Qingcheng Scientific and Technological Talent, High-level Overseas Talent, Tianfu A Talents, Academic & Technical Leader of Chinese Science and Technology City, and Top 2% Worldwide Scientist. Focusing on the major national strategic needs of new energy and energy storage systems, the research of green and low-carbon energy storage is conducted in smart grids, undertaken 56 projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation and National Key Research & Development, with a Research Interest Score value of 13985, and 258 articles published on SCI-indexed famous journals with 52 articles in the First Area / TOP journals in Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 high-cited / hot ones, 63 authorized invention patents and standards and 10 books. 9 awards have been achieved, including 3 international gold medals. 17 chairmanship of international conferences, and 5 editorial boards of international periodicals. The core technical achievements have reached the international advanced level and reported by People's Daily.

 

 

Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Farhad Shahnia, Murdoch University, Australia

Professor Farhad Shahnia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently a Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT (2008-11), and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a Fellow member of Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 250+ peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and journals, as well as being an editor of 8 books. Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016. Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 40+ conferences in various roles such as General, Technical, Program, Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs. Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the 2020-2021 Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE Western Australia Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter. He was the 2023 Vice-chair of the IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.