Speakers

Mingfei Ban, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Secretary of "Control Science and Engineering" and Director of Electrical Engineering Program of Northeast Forestry University, and a high-level talent in Heilongjiang Province. He is mainly engaged in research in the field of power system operation and control, mainly involved in the planning and operation of low-carbon integrated energy system, optimal scheduling of power system with clean power source and electric vehicle, synergistic optimization strategy of power system economic operation and air pollution prevention, microgrid with distributed power source and energy storage, and integrated monitoring system based on wind-optical-storage-unmanned aerial vehicle. He has presided over the youth project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the high-end foreign experts project of State Administration of Foreign Affairs, the excellent youth project of Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and other provincial and ministerial research projects. He has published more than 50 academic papers, of which more than 30 are SCI-recorded papers and more than 10 are EI-recorded papers, with the highest citation of 200+ in a single paper, and he has served as a member of the IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, Frontiers in Energy Research and other journals, as well as IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy and other journals reviewer. He has been cooperating with Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Southeast University and other universities for a long time to jointly train doctoral and master's degree students.

Dr. Zhiyi Li

Zhejiang University, China

In September 2007, he entered the School of Electrical Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University to start his undergraduate study and received his B.S. degree in July 2011.In September 2011, he was exempted from the examination to enter the Institute of Electric Power Economics and Information of Zhejiang University to start his graduate study and received his M.S. degree in March 2014.He was awarded a full scholarship to study for his Ph.D. degree at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA, under the supervision of D. degree in electrical engineering in August 2017, and was appointed as a senior associate researcher in the Calvin Center for Power Innovation at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the same month. in June 2019, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University , was appointed as a researcher and doctoral supervisor. As of December 2022, he has published more than 100 high-level papers, including two first-author papers published in the most influential journal in the field of electrical and electronic engineering, Proceedings of the IEEE, and he has been selected as one of the "Top 2% of the World's Top Scientists" list released by Stanford University for three consecutive years starting from 2020. He has been selected as one of the "Top 2% Global Scientists" by Stanford University for three consecutive years starting in 2020.

Assoc. Prof. Meng Song

IEEE member

Southeast University, China

Meng Song, Doctor of Engineering, joined the School of Electrical Engineering of Southeast University in March 2021, and was selected as one of the Southeast University's "Young Scholars of Zhi Shan" (Level A), Jiangsu Provincial Association for Science and Technology's Young Science and Technology Talent Enhancement Project, the Eighth Young Talent Enhancement Project of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, and the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Think Tank's Young Talent Program. He has conducted research in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida and other universities and research institutions. At present, he has presided over 2 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) face/youth projects and 2 Key Laboratory Open Funds. He has published 1 monograph in English, published/recorded 17 papers in SCI journals as the first/corresponding author, 5 papers in EI journals, and has been authorized with 6 Chinese patents; he also won 1 Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement for Excellent Achievements of the Ministry of Education, 1 First Prize of Science and Technology of Electrician of Jiangsu Province, and 1 First Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of Shanghai Electric Power Company. He is a member of the editorial board of "Power Demand Side Management", "Power Construction" and other magazines, and a member of the Youth Expert Group of Journal Center of China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI).

Prof. El-Sayed Salama

Lanzhou University, China

El-Sayed Salama is currently working as a full Professor (level 4) in School of Public Health (SPH), Lanzhou University (LZU) (China). He obtained his BSc degree at the Faculty of Science, Benha University (Egypt). He pursued MSc and PhD degrees from the Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University (South Korea). Followed by 3 years of working experience as a Post-Doc and Assistant Professor in the same department “under BK21 plus”, funded by the Korean government. He was hired as a high-level foreign talents fellow from 2018 to 2023 (Category A), SPH, LZU (China).

Prof. Salama and his research team have potential contributions to the scientific society (>120 SCI papers, 7 patents, 2 books, 1 technology transfer, and 50 invited talks). His publications (H-index of 38) appeared in top-tier journals (such as Progress in Energy & Combustion Science, Trends in Plant Science, Trends in Microbiology, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Water Research). 

Prof. Salama was listed in the top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University (since 2021-present). He also selected as the “Distinguished Expert of Science and Technology in the Ecological Industry” of Gansu Province and a member of “Gansu Society of Microbiology” (China). He is acting as an Editor, Associate Editor, and Editorial Board Member of several international journals. He is also appointed as general chair, session chair, and international committee member of international conferences. He established Green Environmental and Energy Laboratory (GEEL) since 2018 and the research team at GEEL-LZU focuses on Bioenvironmental Sciences and Bioenergy.