Prof. Yanhong Luo

Northeastern University, China

Yanhong Luo received the B.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. From 2016 to 2017, she visited the University of Texas at Arlington as a visiting scholar. She is currently with Northeastern University as a Professor. Her research interests include adaptive dynamic programming, renewable energy absorption, distributed control and optimization of energy internet, source-load-storage cooperative control, artificial intelligence applications in energy systems. She has published more than 150 SCI/EI indexed papers and served as session chairs or TPC members for more than 15 international conferences. She is a recipient of the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award of China (2020) and Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award (2015) with IEEE SMC Society. In addition, she is the former Vice-Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Programming & Reinforcement Learning Technical Committee with IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Prof. Mohamed EL-Shimy

Ain Shams University, Egypt

Dr. Mohamed EL-Shimy Mahmoud was born in Cairo, Egypt. He is currently a  professor in the department of Electrical Power and Machines - Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University. In addition, he is an electromechanical specialist, a freelance trainer and a member of many associations and professional networks. He is also a technical reviewer for some international journals and conferences. His fields of interest include power system analysis, power system economics, power system optimization, electric power distribution, renewable-energy resources and technologies, and power system reliability.

Prof. Jahangir Hossain

University of Technology Sydney, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Sydney, Australia

Dr. Jahangir Hossain received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Eng. degrees from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Bangladesh, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales in 2010, Australia, all in electrical and electronic engineering. He also completed Graduate Certificate in Higher Education degree from Griffith University in 2014. 

He is currently an  Professor with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Before joining there, he served as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Macquarie University for three and a half year,  Senior Lecture and a Lecturer in the Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia for five years and as a Research Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Previously, he worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh for six years. His research interests include renewable energy integration and stabilization, voltage stability, micro grids and smart grids, robust control, electric vehicles, building energy management systems, and energy storage systems.

Prof. Hongwei Li

Southwest Petroleum University, China

Hongwei Li is currently the professor and the director of the Faculty Committee of the School of Electrical information at Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU). In 2010, he was selected as a visiting Scholar of "Light of the West" organized by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Ministry of Education. In 2015.4-2015.10, he was a visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Texas (UTA). In the past five years, he has undertaken or participated in a number of national and provincial research projects. He has published more than 100 scientific and technological papers.His research interests include distribution network (micro-grid) analysis and control, integrated energy system, intelligent motor control, control system design of oilfield electrical equipment and energy saving technology, etc.