Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow

IEEE Life Fellow

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Mo-Yuen Chow earned his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983; Ph.D., 1987). Dr. Chow joined as a Professor at UM-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute in 2022. He was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Chow's recent research focuses on distributed control and management, smart micro-grids, batteries management, and mechatronics systems. 

Dr. Chow has established the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation, and Control Laboratory. He is an IEEE Fellow, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics 2014-2018, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2010-2012. He has received the IEEE Region-3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the IEEE ENCS Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the IEEE ENCS Service Award, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Anthony J Hornfeck Service Award, and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

Prof. Zhigang Liu

IEEE Fellow

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Liu Zhigang, graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Railway Electrification and a second major in Computer Application, received his PhD in Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2003. He has long been engaged in research on high-speed railway rolling stock-traction system, Pantograph-OCS system . He is currently the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TIM; Associate Editor of IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TITS and IEEE TVT.

Prof. Wei Xu

IEEE Fellow

Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wei Xu (Fellow, IEEE) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, China, in 2008, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on the design and control of linear machines and drives.

From Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, the Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and a Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was a Professor with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been a Professor with IEECAS. Dr. Xu is Director for State Key Laboratory for High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems, an IEEE Fellow and an IET Fellow. He is General Chair of 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE). He is one Associate Editor of over ten peer-reviewed IEEE JOURNALS, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. He has published 4 books, over 180 journal papers in IEEE Series, and been awarded more than 150 intentional patents granted, which has been cited by over 11,000 times with H-index 52 based on Google Scholar statistics. 

Prof. Junbo Zhao

IET Fellow

University of Connecticut, USA

Junbo Zhao is the director of DOE Northeast University Cybersecurity Center for Advanced and Resilient Energy Delivery (CyberCARED) and Castleman Term Professor in Engineering Innovation at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He is also a Research Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He was an Associate Director of the Eversource Energy Center for Grid Modernization and Strategic Partnerships from 2022 to 2024. He was also an assistant professor and research assistant professor at Mississippi State University and Virginia Tech from 2019-2021 and 2018-2019, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2018. His advisor is Prof. Lamine Mili (IEEE Life Fellow). He did a summer internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2017.