Keynote Speakers

Prof. Zhigang Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (IEEE Fellow)

Experience: Zhigang Liu, IEEE Fellow, is a Second-level Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University and holds visiting or adjunct positions at Tongji University and Southwest University. Recognized as a National High-level Talent and a recipient of the Special Allowance from the State Council. He has received numerous prestigious honors including the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Special Prize and First Prize from the China Railway Society, the Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Award, the Zhan Tianyou Achievement Award, the Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Award, the Fok Ying-Tong Youth Foundation Award, the Mao Yisheng Railway Science and Technology Award, the Elite Award from the China Transportation Association, the Outstanding Scientific Worker Award from the China Electric Power Industry, and a National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination. He has been selected for multiple national and provincial talent programs such as the Mid-young-aged Leading Innovative Talents by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Mid-young-aged Transportation Innovation Leaders by the Ministry of Transport, the New Century Excellent Talents Program by the Ministry of Education, and the Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province. His editorial roles include serving as a member of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee for the IEEE I&M Society, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2022-2024), and editorial board member for journals including IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TITS, IEEE TVT, and Acta Automatica Sinica. Globally recognized for his scientific impact, he ranks among the World's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists based on the lifetime scientific influence ranking spanning from 1960 to 2024, and is listed as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier.

Speech Title: Analysis and Suppression of Electrical Instability for Multi-vehicle Interconnected Systems in Electrified Railways

Prof. Yutian Liu, Shandong University, China (IEEE Senior Member)

Experience: Yutian Liu is a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Shandong University, an expert receiving special government allowances from the State Council, a national candidate for the "Hundred Thousand Talents Project," a distinguished professor under the "Taishan Scholars" program of the Shandong Provincial Government, and one of the "Top Ten Excellent Teachers" in Shandong Province. He serves as the chairman of the IEEE PES Jinan Chapter, chairman of the IEEE PES Power System Dynamic Technical Committee (China), and is an editorial board member of journals such as IJEPES, MPCE, and CSEE JPES. He has undertaken and participated in 16 national-level scientific and technological projects, published three monographs with Science Press and Springer, and authored over 90 papers in SCI journals and more than 300 papers in EI journals. He holds more than 30 authorized international invention patents and Chinese invention patents, and has received eight Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards. His research focuses on the safety and stability assessment and control of large-scale AC-DC hybrid power systems, the analysis of new power systems, and decision-making for the self-healing restoration of large-scale power outages.

Prof. Jianzhong Xu, North China Electric Power University, China (IEEE Senior Member)

Experience: Jianzhong Xu, born in 1987, is a Professor and PhD Supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering, North China Electric Power University. He serves as the Party Branch Secretary of the New Energy Grid Research Institute and specializes in electromagnetic transient modeling and simulation of renewable energy power systems within Professor Chengyong Zhao's research team. He conducted a two-year research visit at the laboratory of Professor Ani Gole, the Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He has served as an editorial board member of China Journal of Electrical Engineering, Outstanding Contribution Award/Excellent Editorial Board member for 8 consecutive years, a member of 60 excellent scientific research teams in China for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the journal, 60 excellent reviewers in China; an editorial board member of Automation of Electric Power Systems, a youth editorial board member of China Electric Power and Intelligent Electric Power, an associate editor of CSEE JPES, and a contributing editor of domestic and international journals for 5 times. He has been selected as one of the China Knowledge Network Highly Cited Scholars TOP 1%.

He has led research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation General and Youth Programs, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation General Program, and three sub-projects under the National Key Research and Development Program of China. As first or corresponding author, he has published 52 SCI-indexed papers, including 31 papers in IEEE Transactions journals, with four of these papers recognized as highly cited works, each receiving over 200 citations. He has also authored 60 papers in the Proceedings of the CSEE. He has authored four monographs, two of which were published as the first author, and holds 51 authorized international and national invention patents alongside six software copyrights.  

He was awarded the Outstanding Young Science and Technology Talent Award of China Electric Power, the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of China Electrotechnical Society (row 2), the Second Prize of Technical Invention of the Ministry of Education (row 2), the First Prize of Technical Invention of Guizhou Province (row 5), and the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of China Electric Power (row 7). He was awarded the National First Prize in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Simulation Innovation Application Competition, received the First Prize in the HVDC Transmission and Power Electronics Competition twice, and earned 16 awards for his publications. These include the "Top 10 Best Books of the Year" by China Machine Press, two First Prizes for Outstanding Papers from the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), and a paper in Scientia Sinica recognized as one of "China’s Top 100 Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers." 

Speech Title: Electromagnetic Transient Fine Modeling and Simulation Methods for Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Stationsu

Prof. Shuyou Yu, Jilin University, China

Experience: Shuyou Yu graduated from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2011 with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. From February 2010 to December 2011, he worked as an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of System Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart. Since March 2012, he has been working in the Department of Control Science and Engineering at Jilin University, where he has held positions as an Associate Professor and Professor (since September 2017). Currently, he serves as a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Process Control, a member of the IFAC TC 6.1 Technical Committee on Process Control, the Vice Chair of the Professional Committee on Predictive Control and Intelligent Decision-Making of the Chinese Association of Automation, a member of the Professional Committee on Process Control of the Chinese Association of Automation, the Chair of the Academic Committee of the School of Communication Engineering at Jilin University, and a member of the University’s Academic Committee. He is the principal investigator of one National Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund project (key support project), one key support project from the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department, and one technology innovation guidance project from the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department. He has also been involved in two general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and one international (regional) cooperation project, and has participated as a major contributor to one key project of international cooperation funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. His current research interests include predictive control theory and the application of predictive and robust control in vehicle platooning and electromechanical system control.

Speech Title: Robust Synthesis of Nonlinear Predictive Control