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Keynote Speakers

Keynote 1

Challenges and Opportunities of Self-Sensing Control for Induction Motor Drives

Dr. Ralph Kennel – The Technical University of Munich

Ralph M. Kennel was born in 1955 at Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 1979 he got his diploma degree and in 1984 his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Kaiserslautern.

From 1983 to 1999 he worked on several positions with Robert BOSCH GmbH (Germany). Until 1997 he was responsible for the development of servo drives. Dr. Kennel was one of the main supporters of VECON and SERCOS interface, two multi-company development projects for a microcontroller and a digital interface especially dedicated to servo drives. Furthermore he took actively part in the definition and release of new standards with respect to CE marking for servo drives.

Between 1997 and 1999 Dr. Kennel was responsible for “Advanced and Product Development of Fractional Horsepower Motors” in automotive applications. His main activity was preparing the introduction of brushless drive concepts to the automotive market.

From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Kennel was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England, UK). From 1999 – 2008 he was Professor for Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University (Germany). Since 2008 he is Professor for Electrical Drive systems and Power Electronics at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany). His main interests today are: Sensorless control of AC drives, predictive control of power electronics and Hardware-in-the-Loop systems.

Dr. Kennel is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (former IEE) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. Within IEEE he was Treasurer of the Germany Section as well as Region 8 – furthermore he has been Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS).

Dr. Kennel has received in 2013 the Harry Owen Distinguished Service Award from IEEE-PELS, the EPE Association Distinguished Service Award in 2015 as well as the EPE Outstanding Achievement Award in 2019.

Dr. Kennel was appointed “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) from 2016 to 2019 and as “Visiting Professor” at the Haixi Institute by the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2021. There he was appointed as “Jiaxi Lu Overseas Guest Professor” in 2017. In 2018 Dr. Kennel was appointed Guest Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China. In 2019 Dr. Kennel was appointed “Honorary Chair Professor“ (“distinguished visiting professor”) at Shandong University in Jinan, China.

Keynote 2

Dr. Junk-Ik Ha – Sensorless Control from Position to Current and Temperature 
 
Jung-Ik Ha (S’97–M’01–SM’12–F’18) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1995, 1997, and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2002, he was a researcher in Yaskawa Electric Co., Japan. From 2003 to 2008, he worked for Samsung Electronics Co., Korea as a senior and principal Engineer. From 2009 to 2010, he was a chief technology officer, LS Mecapion Co., Korea. Since 2010, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University where he is now a Professor. He was a Visiting Scholar of Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), MA, USA from 2016 to 2017.
Dr. Ha has authored and co-authored more than 200 journal and conference papers in the area of power electronics and motor drives. His research interests include circuits and control in high efficiency and integrated electric energy conversions for various industrial fields. He has been elevated to an IEEE Fellow for the contribution to sensorless control of ac drives. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Power Electronics.