Prof. Zhao Yang DONG

IEEE Fellow

City University of Hong Kong

Bio: Prof Z.Y. Dong is a Chair Professor and Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. His previous roles include Singapore Power Group Endowed Professor and Co-Director of SPG-NTU Joint Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; SHARP Professor of Energy System and Inaugrial Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, the University of NSW, Australia; Director of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Systems; Head of School of Electrical & Information Engineering, The University of Sydney; and Ausgrid Chair Professor and Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks provided R&D support for the Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration project of Australia. He also worked with industry as manager for power system planning with the transmission network service provider of TAS in Australia. Prof Dong's research interests include power system planning and stability, smart grid/micro grid, smart cities, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, and energy market. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has held editorial roles for several IEEE Transactions and IET Journals.

Prof. Yiming Zhang

Fuzhou University, China

Bio: Prof. Yiming Zhang, National High-Level Oversea Youth Talent, “Minjiang Scholar” of Fujian Province, Professor of Fuzhou University, Ph.D. supervisor, IEEE Senior Member, Vice Dean of School of Electrical Engineering. He was recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientist by Elsevier. His research interest is power electronics and wireless power transfer. He has authored one book from Springer and published more than 100 technical papers in renowned journals and conference proceedings. He has an H-index of 44 and has won multiple excellent conference papers including ECCE, EVS, EVCP, and CIEEC. He was recognized as the Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE TPEL and TIE. He is the PI of the Excellent Youth Project and Youth Fund from National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Outstanding Youth Project of Fujian Provincial Natural Science Foundation.

Assoc. Prof. Tao Ma

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Bio: Dr Tao Ma received his PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2015 and now he is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research is mainly related to fundamental research and applications of solar photovoltaic technology. He has acted as a Principal Investigator of 18 research projects from MOST, NSFC etc, and he has published over 150 papers in high-impact international journals with a total citation of 12,000 and h-index of 56, including 15 ESI highly cited papers and 2 ESI hot papers. Dr. Ma has received a number of awards, such as ‘Most Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier’, ‘World’s Top 2% most-cited Scientists’, ‘Highly Ranked Scholar (Top 0.05%) in Photovoltaic & Energy’, ‘Excellent Young Scientist Award in Energy and Built Environment’, ‘Outstanding PhD Thesis Award’ etc.. He currently serves as the editorial board member of several journals including ‘Applied Energy (IF: 10.1)’ and ‘Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells (IF: 6.3)’.