IPEE Invited Speakers

Assoc. Prof. Qian Xiao
Tianjin University, China

IEEE PES Senior Member

Speech Title: Research on Flexible Control of AC/DC Distribution Systems for Economic-Security Operation Management

BIO: Qian Xiao received the Ph.D. degree and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Tianjin University, where he is currently an associate professor (exceptional promotion) and Ph.D. supervisor. He has been awarded 2020 (the First Session) Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award of China Power Supply Society, 2022 Selective Introduction of Postdoctoral Science Funding Winners, Fan-Ke Outstanding Review Experts for Postgraduate Dissertations, long-term visiting scholar of Aalborg University, Denmark (2018.10-2019.11). His research interests include distributed energy and distribution network/microgrid, power electronics technology (multilevel converter, etc.) and its application in integrated energy system and BESSs, and other power electronics-based power systems. He is the principal investigator of 11 items of representative longitudinal funding, including the Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and State Grid Corporation of China (Key Program), Subproject of National Key Research and Development Program of China, Joint Funds of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (General Program), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Special Foundation Program and General Program), the Key Program of Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Power System Operation and Control of Tsinghua University, Program of Education and Teaching Reform, and etc. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published more than 20 papers in top SCI journals (top 20%), including more than 10 papers in first-class journals (top 5%) on Journal Citation Ranking from the Chinese Academic of Science. As the first inventor, he holds more than 10 granted invention patents (including an international invention patent), 3 national software copyrights, and 1 licensed patent. He has been awarded 1 First Prize and 3 items of Second Prize of the ministerial and provincial-level awards (including the Second Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award in 2022, ranking 2nd). In addition, he received the Excellent Supervisor Award of the 2022 China International Solar Decathlon Competition (Final Champion), Excellent Supervisor Award of Tianjin University, Best Paper/Presentation/Poster Awards of international conferences, 2022 Top Ten Associate Editor Award of the first-class SCI journal, and Excellent Reviewer Awards of EI authoritative journals, such as Proceedings of the CSEE, Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, and Automation of Electric Power Systems.

Prof. Hui Hou
Wuhan University of Technology, China

IEEE PES Senior Member

Speech Title: A Distributed Market-Aided Restoration Approach of Multi-Energy Distribution Systems Considering Comprehensive Uncertainties from Typhoon Disaster

BIO: Dr Hui Hou received the B.S. degree from Wuhan University, Wuhan, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, in 2009. She is currently is currently an Professor and Ph.D supervisor at the Department of Electrical Engineering,School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology. During 2015-2016, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include risk assessment of power system, energy internet, electric vehicles, etc. She is now an associate editor for PCMP (Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems) and a member of China Electric Power Research Institute Journals Center Youth Expert Group.
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Dr. Shan He
Aalborg University, Denmark

IEEE Senior Member

Speech Title: Passivity-Based Control of Grid-Connected Converters

BIO: Shan He (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, China, in 2015, the M.S. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2018, and the Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2022, all in electrical engineering. His research interests include gridconnected renewable system, power-to-x, reliability, battery management, and motor drive.
Since 2022, he has been with the Department of Energy, Aalborg University as a postdoc. In 2021, he was a visiting researcher with Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. In 2023, he was a research associate in Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. He serves as Associate Editor for Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, and guest associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

Dr. Zhaoyu Ran
Tsinghua University, China


Speech Title: Coordinated Regulation of Dielectric Properties of Polymer Films for High-temperature Capacitive Energy storage

BIO: Ran Zhaoyu’s main research direction is the improvement of insulation reliability for electrical equipments. She obtained bachelor’s degree and doctoral degree from Tianjin University in 2017 in 2022, respectively. Since 2022, she has been an assistant researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, focusing on the insulation performance improvement methods of polypropylene films in converter valve capacitors, as well as molecular and interface design of high-temperature energy storage dielectric materials. She was selected for the “ZhengYan Young Scholars” program at Tsinghua University. She has published over 40 academic papers (23 as the first author), authorized 12 national invention patents, published 2 chapters of English monographs, and has presided over the National Natural Science Foundation, Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant, and Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Fund (evaluated by domestic and international experts as 8 A). She has received awards such as the Excellent Graduate Student of the China Electrotechnical Society and the Best Oral Presentation Award at international conferences (APET, PSET).