Speakers 2024
Speakers 2024
Invited Speaker I
Prof. Peng Wang
IEEE Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography Sketch: Dr Peng Wang (IEEE Fellow) received his B.Sc. degree from Xian Jiaotong University, China, in 1978, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1995 and 1998 respectively. He joined School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 1999, retired in 2023 as a full professor. His research areas include power system reliability, resilience, architecture, economics, smart grids and hybrid AC/DC micro grids.
He was “Cluster Director” of ERI@N’s Smart Grids and Microgrids program in NTU from 2010 to 2020. He is a pioneer in the AC/DC Hybrid Smart Grids field and his leadership enabled NTU to garner close to S$55 millions in research funds out of which Prof Wang is a PI or co-PI of over S$10 m worth of projects, which contributed significantly towards Sinapore’s sustainability targets. As a PI of the multi-million projects, he was also engaged in government organizations and industries in Singapore, China and Europe to address the sustainability goals of the world.
Speech Title: Challenges for Control and Operation of Future Hybrid AC/DC Power Systems: Architectures; Stabilities; Reliabilities; Economics
Abstract: Over 140 years since Thomas Edison built the world first DC distribution network in New York USA and Westinghouse started its development of AC power systems, significant changes have been happening in sources, architectures, loads and system operating economy. These changes have created and are creating many challenge problems in system Architectures, Stabilities, Reliabilities, Economics for power engineers and research scientists to control and operate more complicated Hybrid AC/DC Power Systems: In this talk we will discuss some major problems for us to solve.
Invited Speaker II
Prof. Zhonggang Yin
Xi'an University of Technology, China
Biography Sketch: Yin Zhonggang, professor of Xi'an University of Technology, leader of the Electrical Engineering discipline, director of the Science and Technology Department, national level young talent, leader of the provincial key innovation team, and director of the provincial university engineering center. He has long been engaged in research in the fields of AC motor control and power electronics technology, with over 160 published papers, including over 40 SCI Zone 1 IEEE Trans. papers as the first or corresponding author. Presided over more than 40 national, provincial and ministerial level, and school-enterprise cooperation projects. Presided over 3 awards from national level societies/provincial and ministerial level, including 1 first prize and 2 second prizes. He has been awarded more than 10 provincial and ministerial level honors, such as National “Ten Thousand People Plan” Young Top Talents, Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, and Provincial “Outstanding Communist Party Member in Colleges and Universities”. He is the AE of IEEE TIE and other journals. He is also the director of the China Electrotechnical Society, the vice chairman of the inverter committee of the Chinese Power Supply Society, and the vice chairman of the Xi'an Power Electronics Society.
Speech Title: Control of AC Motor Drive System under Extreme Operating Conditions
Abstract: Currently, high-performance motor drives are developing in the direction of high performance, high reliability, and improvement of extreme operating quality. However, AC motors are essentially complex control objects with characteristics such as nonlinearity, multi variables, strong coupling, and time-varying parameters. How to improve the control performance of AC motors under extreme operating conditions, especially the limit speed, model mismatch, mechanical oscillation, and low-noise control, has become a key problem to be solved and a research hotspot for the current high-performance control of AC motors. The report will analyze the influencing factors of high-performance control of AC motors under extreme operating conditions, and explore the techniques for improving the control performance of AC motors. In addition, the application and development trend of AC motor control system performance enhancement methods will be discussed using some of the team's research and engineering experience in this area as examples.
Invited Speaker Ⅲ
Prof. Wu Chen
Southeast University, China
Biography Sketch: Wu Chen received the Ph.D. degree from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2009 in electrical engineering. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Senior Research Assistant with City University of Hong Kong. In 2010 and 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with FREEDM, USA. Since 2011, he has been an Associate Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he has been a Professor since 2016. He is the Director of the Center for Advanced Power-Conversion Technology and Equipment, including three professors, five associate professors and nearly 100 postgraduate students. He is also the Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the School of Electronic Engineering. He has authored or coauthored three books and more than 120 technical articles published in journals and conference papers. His research areas include soft-switching dc–dc converters, MMC, high power converters for AC/DC hybrid distribution network, and AC/DC system stability analysis. Professor Chen currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE JESTPE, Journal of Power Electronics, CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, and Journal of Power Supply.
Speech Title: Topology and control of medium voltage DC transformer
Abstract: Medium voltage DC transformer (MVDCT) is the key equipment of the flexible DC distribution network. In this talk, some new topologies of MVDCT are introduced to improve the power density, and some new control strategies to realize soft switching over wide voltage/load range are also presented.