IPEE Invited Speakers

Assoc. Prof. Qian Xiao
Tianjin University, China

IEEE PES Senior Member

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.

Assoc. Prof. Hui Hou
Wuhan University of Technology, China

IEEE PES Senior Member

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 Associate 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.

Prof. Tianzhen Wang
Shanghai Maritime University, China

IEEE Senior Member

BIO: Tianzhen Wang is Full Professor at Shanghai Maritime University and Research Affiliate researcher and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme (IRDL)of France. Her research interests include fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control methods, and application in ocean energy. She is the IEEE senior member, committee member of the IEEE Energy Storage Technology Committee, committee member of the National Ocean Energy Conversion Equipment Standardization Technical Committee, Committee member of the CAA Fault Diagnosis and Safety of Technical Process Specialized Committee, and convener of IEC/TC114 Advisory Group 2. And she has published more than 100 papers, 26 patents in China and the United States, 6 books, 5 national standards and 1 IEC standard. She won the IEC 1906 Award.

Dr. Yunfeng Yan
Zhejiang University, China

IEEE Member

BIO: Yunfeng Yan received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2019. She is currently an Associate Research Fellow with Zhejiang University. Her research interests include computer vision and power safety. Prof. Yan has led 7 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Zhejiang Provincial "Elite" Program. Prof. Yan has published more than 40 SCI/EI indexed papers, co-authored 1 course book, and obtained 18 invention patents. Prof. Yan's research achievements have won two honors, including the First Prize in Science and Technology in Zhejiang Province.

Dr. Zhaoyu Ran
Tsinghua University, China


BIO: TBA