Prof. Zhe Chen

Aalborg University, Denmark

Bio: Zhe Chen (IET Fellow, IEEE Fellow) earned a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Northeast Electric Power University in Jilin, China, and a Ph.D. from Durham University in the United Kingdom. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he serves as the principal investigator for the department’s wind power system research project and as the Danish principal investigator for the wind energy project at the Sino-Danish Education and Research Center. His research interests span power systems, power electronics and motor control, wind energy technology, and modern power systems. Professor Chen has led numerous research projects and published over 400 academic papers in these fields. He currently serves on the editorial board of *IEEE Transactions on Power Systems* and as an associate editor for *IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics*. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK.

Prof. Shouxiang Wang

Tianjin University, China

Bio: Deputy Dean of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. Engaged in the research and application of key technologies for the operation and control of microgrids and distribution networks to facilitate new energy accommodation.

He has achieved core innovative breakthroughs in multiple technical fields, including high-reliability operation and safety protection of DC microgrids, situation awareness and resilience enhancement of new distribution networks.

He has been the PI over 7 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 2 national key R&D programs. He has published more than 280 SCI/EI indexed papers, among which over 10 are ESI Highly Cited Papers and Top 5000 Outstanding Chinese Journal Papers. He has authored 3 monographs.

He holds 28 authorized invention patents, and has formulated 1 international standard and 2 industrial standards, filling the domestic gap in design specifications for microgrids. His research achievements have been successfully applied to over 100 practical engineering projects in more than 20 provinces and municipalities including Tianjin, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shandong, solving numerous technical difficulties.

He was awarded the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and seven First Prizes of Provincial/Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards (4 as the first completer). He has received honors including Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of China Electric Power, Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of Tianjin, and Fok Ying Tung Excellent Young Teacher Award of the Ministry of Education.

He was selected into the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, the National Huang Danian-style Teacher Team, and one of the first Innovation Teams in Key Fields of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Additionally, he has been listed as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher for consecutive years.

Speech Title:  Resilience Assessment and Improvement Strategies of Distribution Networks Against Disasters

Prof. Lianbing Li

Hebei University of Technology, China

Bio: Lianbing Li, male, Han nationality, member of the Communist Party of China, born in February 1972.

He received his B.Eng. degree in Industrial Electrical Automation from Hebei University of Technology in July 1993, his M.Eng. degree in Power Electronics and Electric Drives from Tianjin University in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Machines and Apparatus from Hebei University of Technology in March 2003. From October 2003 to October 2005, he completed his postdoctoral research at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan, in the research group led by the renowned electric vehicle expert Prof. Yoichi Hori.

Currently, he is a Professor, "Yuanguang Scholar", and Ph.D. Supervisor in the Smart Energy Department, School of Electrical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology. He serves as the research lead at the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Power Distribution Equipment and Systems, Chairman of the Hebei Electrotechnical Society, Council Member of the China Electrotechnical Society, Council Member of the China Power Supply Society, and Vice Chairman of the Tianjin Power Supply Society.

His long-term research focuses on microgrids and high-quality power supply, intelligent substation operation and maintenance with power big data analysis, cable health monitoring and fault diagnosis, power trading and virtual power plants, and optimization and emergency support of power material management. He has led 2 key projects under the National Key Technology R&D Program, 7 provincial/ministerial research projects, and over 50 industry collaborative projects. He has published more than 110 high-level research papers, authored 4 books, and participated in formulating 3 national and industrial standards.

He has received 1 First Prize of Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 Tianjin Technological Invention Award, 2 Third Prizes of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the China Electrotechnical Society, and 2 First Prizes of the Science and Technology Award from the Hebei Electrotechnical Society. His research achievements have generated an output value exceeding 860 million yuan. He has been honored as an Advanced Individual in Supporting Enterprise Development in Hebei Province, an Outstanding Teacher of Hebei Province, and was nominated as an Advanced Worker of the China Association for Science and Technology system.

Speech Title:  Research on Green Power Direct-Connection Trading Mechanisms and Multi-Agent Game for Zero-Carbon Data Center Microgrids