Speaker Bios:
Prof. Daniel Kammen
USA
Academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor and Chair of Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Professor Kammen is Chair of Energy and Resources Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.
The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; Former Science Envoy, United States Department of State. Strategy Advisor of GLOGDA.
Prof. Saifur Rahman
USA
Director, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute. President, IEEE Power & Energy Society, 2018 and 2019
Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment. He is an IEEE Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He was the president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) for 2018 and 2019. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He has served as the chair of the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering. He has published over 150 journal papers and has made over six hundred conference and invited presentations. In 2006 he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the vice president for publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, energy internet, blockchain, IoT sensor integration, etc.
Dr. Zhang Jonathan
France
President of the French-Chinese Energy Association
Dr. Zhang is the foreign academician candidate of the Russian National Academy of Engineering. he graduated from the French National Center for Scientific Research with a doctorate in artificial intelligence and human factors engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in the R&D and engineering of artificial intelligence and human factors engineering in advanced energy industry. As high executive of Areva, a Fortune Global 500 company, he is mainly responsible for human factor engineering, artificial intelligence and instrument control system research and development, engineering design and other work of the new European reactor EPR2 and the fourth generation nuclear reactors. He was the project director of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, and the project director of European FP5 program, the main members include Siemens, Alstom, bombardier, the French national railway company, RATP, alcatel. Dr. Zhang led the establishment of the Human Factor Engineering Safety Assessment System in the field of nuclear energy in China, which won the second prize of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The system established by Dr. Zhang is still in use today. He was the first to apply artificial intelligence in a comprehensive and systematic way to the expert system of nuclear power plants.
Ms. Arvea Marieni
Germany/Italy
Partner at Brainscapital Srl Società Benefit
Arvea, a Hamburg-based Italian entrepreneur, strategy adviser and innovation manager specialising in EU China environmental cooperation. She is Head of the Energy Transition Program at the newly established Strasbourg Policy Centre, a member of the board and partner at Brainscapital Benefit Company and Principal Consultant with GcM Consulting Srl, established by Giancarlo Michellone. In addition to this, she is the Sustainability Columnist for Brussels Morning, an EU and International Affairs journal.
Arvea has extensive industry experience in R&D and innovation projects, PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships), start-ups and market development, circular economy models and climate change projects. She is an expert evaluator for Horizon, the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, as well as for other national innovation agencies such as the Italian Finpiemonte, and the Latvian LIAA. She serves as advisor to the boards of Arbio, a Peruvian NGO working to protect the Amazon rainforest, the Chinese-led WGDO (World Green Design Organization) and to Resilience Frontiers, a UN-led interagency program launched by a UNFCCC official.
Dr. Xiaofeng Zhang
USA
President of Global Green Energy Alliance (GLOGDA), Chair of IEEE PES China Smart Village Committee (ISVC).
IEEE Life Senior Member, Vice President of IEEE Smart Village (ISV), China Working Group (CWG); Chair of the Silicon Valley Women Alliance (SVWA).
Xiaofeng has over 30 years of experience in Smart Grids, Electricity Markets and Renewable Energy. She has worked with global leading companies in USA. She was Marketing Director, Howard Industrial Inc. and JA Solar USA; Sr. Project Manager at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (NYSE:PCG); Product Manager and China Marketing Manager at ABB Inc. (NYSE:ABB). Previously she worked with the Chinese Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) in Beijing, where her research project OPF won a National Scientific Technology Award. She served as a panelist at various Smart Grid conferences, in areas of “Voltage/VAR Optimization” and “Market-Based Demand Response”, etc. She is a co-author of the book “Electricity Market Operation System”.
Dr. Shay Bahramirad
Vice President of Climate and Resilience at Quanta Technology, IEEE PES Vice President of New Initiatives and Outreach.
Shay Bahramirad is the Vice President of Climate and Resilience at Quanta Technology. She is responsible for assisting cities and utilities with climate change risk assessments for their assets, operations, and services and for developing mitigation strategies and investment strategies for adapting to climate change. Her work powers the planet by reducing carbon emissions, creating cleaner air for everyone, and making communities resilient. Dr. Bahramirad has held several positions in the Energy Sector, including Vice President of Engineering and Smart Grid at ComEd, the electric utility in Chicago, USA. In these roles, she has overseen and executed “grid of the future” visions, technical roadmaps, analytical frameworks, and investment strategies. Dr. Bahramirad is an editorial board member of the Electricity Journal, an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the IEEE PES Vice President of New Initiatives and Outreach, overseeing the organization’s engagement with policymakers globally and developing strategies for the next generation of frameworks including smart cities. She is the founder of PES WiP (Women in Power).
Prof. Qinghua Wu
China/UK
Professor of the School of Electric Power Engineering, SCUT, Dean of the Energy Research Institute of South China University of Technology
He is a National Distinguished Professor, Leader of Guangdong Innovation Team and Member of the First Academic Committee of Guangdong Laboratory of Advanced Energy Science and Technology.
He has long been engaged in the academic research of power system and its automation and informatization, and has done a lot of pioneering work in artificial intelligence, power electronics, complex system and other disciplines of simulation and optimization calculation and its application in power and energy systems. He combines intelligent computing, system engineering, and power system knowledge as one. He is a trailblazer in smart grid scientific research and in the application of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary power systems in the world. He has published more than 350 SCI papers in international authoritative journals, more than 300 international academic papers, and 5 scientific research monographs published by Springer, the world's most authoritative publisher. Professor Wu is an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, a CSEE Fellow, a British registered engineer, Professor Guangbiao of Zhejiang University, a guest and advisory professor in many Chinese universities, has served as a member of the organizing committee and technical committee of international academic conferences and a member of the presidium for many times.
Prof. Loi Lei Lai
China/UK
Professor of the School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology.
He is a National Distinguished Expert, member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee and IEEE Smart City Steering Committee, and Chairman of the IEEE Smart City Publishing Committee. Former Director of the Research and Development Center of the State Grid Energy Research Institute of China; Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor of Zhejiang University, China; Vice President of the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Association (IEEE/SMCS); Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of London and IEEE Industry The Institute of Electronics nominates fellow evaluation experts. He won the IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal in 2000, the Outstanding Engineer Award of the Power Branch of the IEEE Electric Power and Energy Institute (IEEE/PES) Republic of Ireland (UKRI); he won the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation in 2006 and 2009 Committee award papers, won the IEEE/SMCS Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014. He is an IET Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and a national high-level talent introduction and a distinguished expert of the State Grid Corporation of China.
Prof. Jizhong Zhu
China/USA
Professor of the School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology.
He is a National Distinguished Expert, leader of the integrated intelligent energy system optimization operation and control (ISESOOC) team, and has long been engaged in research in the field of power system optimization operation and safety control. Established a complete power system optimization operation and control theory, innovatively used advanced mathematical tools and power technology to form a new method of large-scale system operation control, and published 6 monographs in the world's most authoritative publishing house (IEEE, Wiley) by the sole author. Professor Zhu is a Fellow of the World Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Fellow), a Fellow of the British Institute of Electrical Engineers (IET Fellow), a CSEE Fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE Fellow), a visiting researcher of the Royal Society, Alstom Committee of Experts Academician-level expert (Alstom Fellow), Chairman of IEEE PES Intelligent Building, Load and Customer System Technical Committee (China), Editorial Board of MPCE and other international journals, Chairman of IEEE P2781 Load Modeling and Simulation International Standard Working Group, IEEEP2783 Fast Load Response System International Chairman of the Standards Working Group, member of the IEEE SMC Standards Committee and IEEE SMC Intelligent Power and Energy System Specialized Committee, member of the Sino-Swiss Smart Grid Technical Expert Committee, and former member of the First National Innovation Competition Award Evaluation Expert Committee, and IEEE Power Load Sub-specialty Chairman of the Committee, Chairman of the IEEE SBLC Asia-Pacific Working Group, etc.
Prof. Ping Yang
China
Professor of the School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology.
She is director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Experiments of Wind Power Control and Grid Technology/Guangdong Province Green Energy Technology Key Laboratory, and editorial board member of the famous Chinese magazine "Control Theory and Application". Professor Yang Ping has been committed to the research of renewable energy power generation control. The research team led by the research team carried out research on renewable energy power generation control, power quality analysis and monitoring management in 1998. At present, certain research results have been achieved in this research direction. More than 60 high-level papers have been published in important domestic and foreign journals, of which more than 20 articles have been included in the three major indexes, two textbooks have been compiled, and one textbook has been edited. He has undertaken a number of research tasks in the comprehensive utilization of renewable energy. The wind power forecasting system for wind farms developed by him has been promoted and applied in more than 60 wind farms in Mongolia, Liaoning, Xinjiang and other places in my country.
Prof. Haoyong Chen
China
Professor of the School of Electric Power Engineering, SCUT, Director of the Institute of Power Economics and Electricity Market, IEEE Senior Member.
He is the Winner of Excellent Young Scientists Fund, with main research directions include new energy generation, smart grid technology, electric power economics, electric market, general energy system and energy LoT. He carried out fruitful work regarding the interdisciplinary research direction of energy system and integrated closely with engineering application. In recent years, he has presided over a series of national, provincial and ministerial key projects including the Excellent Young Scientists Fund and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has published more than 300 academic papers in authoritative journals and conferences both domestically and internationally. Haoyong Chen serves as a council member of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, the Special Committee of New Energy Grid-connection and Operation of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, the Special Committee of Power System Control and Protection of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, the Special Committee of the Energy Internet of the Chinese Energy Research Society and the Energy Internet of the Chinese Society of Automation and other national academic organizations, as well as members of expert committees of key enterprises such as Guizhou Power Grid Company and Hainan Power Grid Company. He also established the GCPES (Global Chinese Power and Energy Society) and was awarded by the UNESCO.
Stan Kolar
Vice President of GreenCert, USA/Hong Kong.
Stan managed the first international carbon emissions trade in the world in 1993, which helped set the UN rules for trading greenhouse gas emissions in the Kyoto Protocol. He co-authored studies that the European Commission used as blueprint to set up the EU emissions trading scheme. He co-authored the ISO 14064 standard on greenhouse gas MRV, and authored UN-approved CDM project emissions accounting methodology for the power sector. Later he was a carbon trader, trading multiple carbon currencies in Europe and Asia. Stan has a degree in Economics from the School of Foreign Service as Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Dr. Qin Wang
Vice President of Global Green Development Alliance
Dr. Qin Wang is VP of Global Green Development Alliance. His major research areas focus on power system operation and planning, renewable energy integration and electricity market. He has been leading multiple research projects funded by U.S. Department of Energy, EPRI, and utilities. Prior to joining in EPRI, he was working with National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Midcontinent Independent System Operator, and ISO New England. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, and Iowa State University, respectively.