Professor Qing-Long Han
Professor Han is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. His research interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, time-delay systems, smart grids, unmanned surface vehicles, and neural networks.
Professor Han was awarded the 2024 IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award (the Highest Award in Industrial Electronics), the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in Systems Science and Engineering, and Cybernetics) and the 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia). He was the recipient of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2019, 2020, and 2022, respectively, the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award in 2020, and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020.
Professor Han is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic control (FIFAC), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (HonFIEAust), and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (FCAA). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate). He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a Member of IEEE IES Publications Committee, Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Network-Based Control Systems and Applications, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is currently the President-Elect, an Executive Board Member, and a Steering Committee Member of Asian Control Association (ACA). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica and the Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Professor Jizhen Liu
Professor Liu received the M.S. degree in Power Plant Engineering from the Graduate Faculty of North China Electric Power Institute, Beijing, China, in 1982. He is now an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, North China Electric Power University. His research interests include new power system power generation.
Professor Gerard-Andre Capolino
Professor Capolino was born in Marseille (France). He received a BSc in electrical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Marseille, Marseille (France) in 1974, an MSc from CentraleSupelec, Paris, France in 1975, a Ph.D. from Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France in 1978 and a DSc from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France in 1987. He held positions at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, the University of Dijon, Dijon, France, and the Mediterranean Institute of Technology, Marseille, France. In 1994, he joined the University of Picardie “Jules Verne” in Amiens, France as a Full Professor, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering (1995-1998), Director of the Energy Conversion & Intelligent Systems Laboratory (1996-2000) and Director of the European Master in Advanced Power Electrical Engineering (MAPEE) recognized by the European Commission (2004-2021). He was elevated to the rank of Chair Professor in 2013. Since September 2021, he has been appointed Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering in the same University and the same research lab. He is the founder of the consulting company GAC Conseils. He has been the recipient of the following distinctions: the IEEE-IES Eugene Mittelman Achievement Award in 2008, the ICEM Arthur Ellison Outstanding Achievement Award in 2010, the IEEE-PELS Diagnostics Achievement Award in 2011, the ICEM John Tegopoulous Outstanding Service Award in 2016, the IEEE-PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Conversion Award in 2017 and the IEEE France Section Distinguished Service Award in 2018. More than 30 DLs have been given by him till date worldwide.
Professor Jiefeng Hu
Professor Hu received his PhD from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He was involved in the research of minigrids in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Newcastle, Australia. Prior to joining Federation University Australia as an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator of Electrical Engineering, he was an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, leading an international team to develop advanced renewable energy technologies for smart cities.
Dr. Hu has obtained solid experience and track records in the field of power converters control and energy conversion systems. Since 2011, he has led or participated in several research and industry projects such as Australian Research Council (ARC) electric vehicle project, CSIRO minigrid project, Hong Kong Research Grants Council renewable energy grid integration projects, and Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission dynamic wireless power transfer project. He is also active in global academic services. He served as committee member and session chair in several international conferences. He is now an IEEE senior member, and he serves as Editors for several prestigious journals. So far, he has published more than 100 technical papers, mainly in well-known journals with high impact factors such as IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. His research interests include power electronics, renewable power generation, and smart microgrids.