Speakers

Prof. Yun Wang, University of California

ASME Fellow, RSC Fellow

Yun Wang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanics and Engineering Science from Peking University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He went to the Pennsylvania State University where he earned his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006. Dr. Wang joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the University of California, Irvine in 2006. He has produced over 100 publications in PEM fuel cell, Li-air battery, and other energy systems, including three books on PEM Fuel Cell and a Practical Handbook of Thermal Fluid Science. Dr. Wang served as Track chair/co-chair, session chair/co-chair, conference chair and committee member for many international conferences on fuel cell, thermal energy, and machine learning. Dr. Wang received 2018 Reviewer of The Year from the Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage and is currently Professor at the UC Irvine, ASME fellow, RSC fellow, and associate editor for the journal of heat and mass transfer.

Prof. Qiang Yang, Zhejiang University

BCS Fellow, IET Fellow, IAAM Fellow, IEEE Senior Member

Qiang Yang (M’03-SM’18) received Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from Queen Mary, University of London, London, U.K., in 2007 and worked in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, U.K., from 2007 to 2010. He visited the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria Canada as a visiting scholar in 2015 and 2016. He is currently a full Professor at the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, and has published more than 350 technical papers, filed 70 national patents, co-authored 2 books, and edited 2 books and several book chapters. His research interests over the years include smart energy systems, large-scale complex network modeling, control and optimization, learning based optimization and control. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), a Senior Member of IEEE and a Distinguished Member of China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Qingsheng Li, Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd.

Qingsheng Li, professor-level senior engineer, expert contacted by the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, strategic senior technical expert of China Southern Power Grid, recipient of the special allowance from the provincial government. He serves as General Manager of the Energy Economics Research Office at the Grid Planning Research Center of Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd., Director of the Key Laboratory of Multi-Energy Systems and Simulation of Guizhou Power Grid, and Master's supervisor for Electrical Engineering at Guizhou University. He is one of the first batch of industrial mentors (graduate supervisor category) in Guizhou Province, a high-level innovative talent in Guizhou Province, Standing Director of the Energy Storage Market and Planning Technology Subcommittee of the Energy Storage Technology Committee of IEEE PES China, Senior Member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, and Member of the Energy Internet Professional Committee. His main research focuses on distribution network planning, energy storage technology, etc.