Keynote Speakers | 主旨报告

Prof. Wei Xu , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wei Xu (IEEE Fellow) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, and the Ph.D. from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), in 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on design and control for linear machines and drives. From 2008 to 2012, he made Postdoctoral Fellow with University of Technology Sydney, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was one Professor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been one professor with IEECAS and Director for Key Laboratory of High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems (Chinese Academy of Sciences). He is IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow. He is the General Chair for 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA 2021) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE 2023). He has been Associate/Editor for over ten peer-reviewed IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and so on. He has authored/edited 12 books, published over 180 IEEE journal papers, been granted over 150 invention patents in the related field of LMs and drives, which has been cited by over 11,000 times with H-index 51 based on Google Scholar till December 2024.  

Prof. Josep Pou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Josep Pou (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)-Barcelona Tech, Spain. In 1990, he joined the faculty of UPC as an Assistant Professor, where he became an Associate Professor in 1993. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Professor with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. From 2016 to 2024, he was a Professor with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he was co-Director of the Rolls-Royce @ NTU Corporate Lab and Cluster Director of Power Electronics at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N). He is currently a Chair Professor with the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. From February 2001 to January 2002, and February 2005 to January 2006, he was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech, USA. From January 2012 to January 2013, he was a Visiting Professor at the Australian Energy Research Institute, UNSW. He has authored over 500 peer‑reviewed technical papers and is a co‑inventor on 10 patents. His research interests include modulation and control of power converters, multilevel converters, renewable energy, energy storage, power quality, HVdc transmission systems, and transportation electrification. He is currently Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He was co-Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He received the 2024 IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award and the 2018 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems.