Speakers

Prof. Xingkui Mao

Fuzhou University, China

Xingkui Mao, PhD, doctoral supervisor, Professor of Fuzhou University, P.R.C, deputy director of FujianProvinceKey Laboratory of New Energy Power Generation and Power Conversion, director of Fuzhou University New Energy and Energy Storage Application Technology Research Center, senior visiting scholar of Denmark University of Science and Technology, former deputy secretary-general of Transformer and Inductor Special Committee of China Power Supply Society. He has been selected as one of Outstanding Youthof Fujian Province Universities and won the first prize of Science and Technology Progress of Fujian Province, as well as the Inspiring Award for Outstanding Young Teachers and the first Prize for teaching of Fuzhou University.

He is mainly engaged indata center power supply, new energy generation and energy storage, wireless power transfer, high-frequency magneticcomponents of power electronics. He has presided lots of research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Outstanding Young Researchers Fund of Fujian Province Universities, etc. He has also conducted in-depth technical research and development cooperation with well-known companies such as Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd and China Railway Electrification Bureau Group Co.,Ltd. He has served as reviewers for the National Natural Science Foundation of China,and academic journals and conference for IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, IEEE APEC,IEEE ECCE,etc. He has published more than100 papers includinginIEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics,IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,etc,and applied for nearly 30 patents.

Prof. Zhen Zhang

Tianjin University, China

Zhen Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, and the head of Embedded Computing and Control Research Centre. He has been a visiting scholar of IBM Research Institute and a Humboldt Scholar of Technical University of Munich, and joined the School of Electrical and Information Engineering of Tianjin University in 2014. Invited by Wiley-IEEE and Cambridge University Press, he has published two academic monographs in English, more than 90 papers and 23 invention patents. He has presided over more than 10 projects of National Natural Fund, Key Special Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Science and Technology Commission Fund of the Central Military Commission, Installation and Development Fund for Basic Research, and provincial and ministerial level projects. He is also the chairman of Humboldt Research Fellowship, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Fellowship, JSPS Visiting Fellowship and other international academic research funds. He has been awarded several international academic research grants. He is the chairman of IES Chapter - Tianjin of IEEE Beijing Section, the editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Magazine, etc. He was awarded the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Best Paper of the Year Award, the IEEE J David Irwin Early Career Award, and the Ambassador of the Technical University of Munich.