Professor-level Senior Engineer Huachun Yang

Henan Fluorine Based New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., China

(Director of the National Manufacturing Innovation Center for Fluorine-based New Materials; Vice Chairman of Henan Fluorine Based New Materials Technology Co., Ltd.)

Professor-level Senior Engineer; Director of the National Manufacturing Innovation Center for Fluorine-based New Materials; Vice Chairman of Henan Fluorine Based New Materials Technology Co., Ltd.; Director, Technical Committee Director, and Head of the Postdoctoral Research Station at Do-Fluoride New Materials Co., Ltd.; Doctoral Supervisor at Tianjin University and Henan Polytechnic University.

He concurrently serves as a review expert for the National Science and Technology Progress Award, Head of the Expert Group of the Inorganic Fluorine Branch of the China Inorganic Salts Industry Association, an expert at the Henan Intellectual Property Rights Protection Center, and a member of the Fluoride Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Nonferrous Metals.

He has been selected for the National Hundreds-Thousands-Ten-Thousands Talent Project and as a “Zhongyuan Scholar,” and is a recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council. He has been awarded titles including “Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions,” “National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker,” and “Outstanding Expert of Henan Province.” He has presided over and completed more than 30 national and provincial projects, including the National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program), the National Industrial Strong Foundation Project, the National Green and Low-Carbon Technology Research Project, the National Key R&D Program, and major science and technology projects of Henan Province. He has received over 10 national and provincial/ministerial science and technology awards, including the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the China Patent Excellence Award, the Special Prize of the Henan Provincial Patent Award, and the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. He has been granted more than 100 patents and achieved over 20 scientific and technological achievements.

Prof. Chun Sing Lai

Tianjin University, China

(TC Co-Chair of Intelligent Power and Energy Systems of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society)

Prof. Chun Sing Lai received his B.Eng. (First Class Hons.) in electronic and electrical engineering from Brunel University London in 2013 and his D.Phil. in engineering science from the University of Oxford in 2019. He is currently a Yingcai Professor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. His research focuses on smart grid, energy system modeling, computational intelligence, and electric vehicle systems. Prof. Lai has organized and chaired various IEEE workshops and conferences related to smart cities and smart grids, including roles as Publications Co-Chair and Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, and Conference Chair for the 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Human-Computer Interaction. He serves as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Publications Committee, Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and IET Energy Conversion and Economics. He also chairs IEEE working groups P2814 and P3166 and leads the IEEE/SMCS Intelligent Power and Energy Systems Technical Committee. His honors include the 2020 Best Paper Award at IEEE ISC2, the 2022 IEEE SMC Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2024 IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award, the 2025 Chester W. Sall Memorial Award, Best Associate Editor and Excellent Reviewer Awards in 2024, and the IEEE SMC Early Career Award in 2025. He co-authored the book *Smart Energy for Transportation and Health in a Smart City* (IEEE Press/Wiley, 2023) and has six highly cited journal papers on Web of Science. Since 2021, he is ranked among the top 2% of active scientists worldwide by Stanford University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, UK Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

Prof. Xiong Liu

Jinan University, China, SMIEEE

Dr. Xiong Liu (Senior Member, IEEE), received the B.E. degree majored in electrical engineering and automation and M.Sc. degree majored in power electronics and electrical drive from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2013.

From September 2011 to January 2012, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. From April 2013 to December 2013, he was a Postdoc Research Fellow with the Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University. From December 2013 to July 2020, he worked as a Principal Technologist in Rolls-Royce Electrical, Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte. Ltd. During the work in Rolls-Royce, he has led various research projects in Rolls-Royce@ NTU Corp Lab and supervised 3 Ph. D students. From September 2020 till now，he is an associate professor in the Energy and Electricity Research Center at Jinan University. In his current position, he has led various research projects including one NSFC funded project, and won the sponsorship from Major Talent Program of Guangdong Province. He has published more than 60 papers including 15 first and corresponding authored tier-1 top SCI IEEE Transactions papers, 6 patents granted in US or Europe, and a few Chinese filed patent applications pending review. He has been nominated as World’s Top 2% Scientists 4 times by Stanford and Elsevier in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024 respectively.

Prof. Hui-Hwang GOH

Taylor's University Malaysia, Malaysia, SMIEEE

Prof. Hui-Hwang GOH received the B.Eng. (with Hons.) and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in 1998, 2002, and 2007, respectively. He was a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, China, from 2020 to 2024. In 2025, he joined the School of Engineering, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include embedded power generation modeling and simulation, power quality studies, renewable energies, and dynamic equivalent.