Keynote speaker
Prof. Kai Strunz,
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Kai Strunz received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. (summa
cum laude) degrees from Saarland University,
Saarbrücken, Germany, in 1996 and 2001, respectively.
From 1995 to 1997, he pursued research at Brunel
University in London. From 1997 to 2002, he worked at
the Division Recherche et Développement of Electricité
de France in the Paris area. From 2002 to 2007, he was
an Assistant Professor of electrical engineering with
the University of Washington in Seattle. Since September
2007, he has been Professor with the Department of
Sustainable Electric Networks and Sources of Energy,
Technische Universität Berlin. He is Guest Professor of
the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing.
Dr. Strunz is editor of the open access IET Engineering
Journal launched in 2013. Further editorial board
memberships include CSEE Journal of Power and Energy
Systems since 2015, IET Renewable Power Generation 2007
to 2017, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2006 to
2010, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics
in Power Electronics 2013 to 2014.
Dr. Strunz is the Vice Chair of the IEEE Power and
Energy Society (PES) Committee on Energy Development and
Power Generation, Chair of the Subcommittee on
Distributed Energy Resources, and Vice Chair of the
Working Group on Dynamic Performance and Modeling of
HVDC Systems and Power Electronics for Transmission
Systems. In 2012, Dr. Strunz was the General and
Technical Program Chair of the IEEE PES Innovative Smart
Grid Technologies (ISGT) Europe 2012 in Berlin. He
received the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award 2015 and the
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power
Electronics First Prize Paper Award 2015.
Prof. Mohamed Benbouzid, IEEE Fellow
University of Brest, France
Mohamed Benbouzid received the Ph.D. degree in
electrical and computer engineering from the National
Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, in
1994, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches
degree from the University of Amiens, Amiens, France, in
2000.
After receiving the Ph.D. degree, he joined the
University of Amiens, Amiens, France where he was an
Associate Professor of electrical and computer
engineering. Since September 2004, he has been with the
University of Brest, Brest, France, where he is a Full
Professor of electrical engineering. Prof. Benbouzid is
also a Distinguished Professor and a 1000 Talent Expert
at the Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.
His main research interests and experience include
analysis, design, and control of electric machines,
variable-speed drives for traction, propulsion, and
renewable energy applications, and fault diagnosis of
electric machines.
Prof. Benbouzid is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the
IET. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International
Journal on Energy Conversion and the Applied Sciences
(MDPI) Section on Electrical, Electronics and
Communications Engineering. He is a Subject Editor for
the IET Renewable Power Generation.
Prof. M. S. Muyeen,
Qatar University, Qatar
Dr. S. M. Muyeen is presently working as a Professor in
the Electrical Engineering Department of Qatar
University, Doha, Qatar. He received his Ph.D. from the
Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan, in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering and worked in Japan under the
versatile banner of the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science (JSPS). He holds visiting/adjunct positions
with many foreign universities, e.g., Shanghai Maritime
University, China, Curtin University, Australia,
Shanghai University of Electric Power, China.
His research interests are industry-oriented, focusing
on power electronics, electrical machines, FACTS, energy
storage systems (ESSs), renewable energy, HVDC systems,
power system stability and control, and smart grids. He
has published more than 275 articles in different
journals and international conferences, including 160+
Journal articles. He has published 7 books as an author
or editor. He has been a keynote speaker and invited
speaker at many international conferences, workshops,
and universities. Dr. Muyeen has been the recipient of
many research awards, including The Petroleum Institute
‘Research/Scholarship Award 2012’ and best paper awards
from IEEE conferences many times. He has been awarded
the IEEE WA Outstanding Engineering Award 2017, jointly
from IEEE PES and PELS societies, for his leadership
role, research, and service-related activities.
During his scientific career, he has been involved in
various professional service activities, both nationally
and internationally. He serves on the editorial panel
for many prestigious journals from IEEE, IET, and other
publishers including IEEE Transactions on Energy
Conversion (editor), IEEE Power Engineering Letters
(editor), IET Renewable Power Generation (associate
editor), and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
(subject editor), Frontiers in Energy Research
(Specialty Chief Editor of Smart Grid Section),
Electroncis (Section EIC) etc. He has organized many
international conferences for IEEE and other
organizations in various capacities, including as
General Chair, Advisory Chair, Technical Committee
Chair, Special Session/Tutorial/Workshop Chair, Steering
Committee member, etc. He is deeply involved with the
IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) University Education
Sub-Committee (UESC) under the Power and Energy
Education Committee (PEEC) and currently holds the
Vice-Chair position of UESC.
Dr. Muyeen has secured many national and international
research and infrastructure development grants as a
leading investigator. He has established strong
collaborations with renowned international universities
and research centers worldwide. He has an intense
connection with the R&D wings of leading industries like
ABB, Siemens, Hitachi, Toshiba, Oztronenergy, Western
Power, Horizon, ADNOC, and others. Dr. Muyeen is a
senior member of the IEEE, Fellow of Engineers Australia
(FIEAust) and Charted Professional Engineer (CPEng) of
Engineers Australia.