Prof. Yiming Zhang
Fuzhou University, China
Biography: Prof. Yiming Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is now a full professor with Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China. He has authored 1 book from Springer, authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include wireless power transfer for electric vehicles and mobile phones, and power electronics converters.
Prof. Yiming Zhang was the recipient of the National Oversea High-Level Talent Program and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations of Tsinghua University in 2016. He was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2019 and a Distinguished Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2020.
Prof. Yu Wang
Chongqing University, China
Biography: Wang Yu, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. Recipient of the National Young Talent Program. Core member of the Power and Energy Reliability Team at the State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He previously served as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Imperial College London and as a Research Scientist at the Nanyang Technological University – Rolls-Royce Corporate Laboratory.
Prof. Wang serves on the editorial boards of several domestic and international journals, including Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. He holds multiple leadership and committee roles, including: Secretary of the Working Group of the IEEE PES Energy Internet Coordination Committee; Member of the New Energy and Energy Storage Systems Technical Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation; Member of the Smart Microgrid Technical Committee of the China Energy Society; Member of the Artificial Intelligence and Electrical Applications Technical Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society; Member of the IEEE PES Grid Resilience Technical Committee; and Member of the Working Group of the International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED). Prof. Wang has led a number of major research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the State Grid Corporation of China, the Chongqing Municipal Academician Fund, and the Defence Science and Technology Agency of Singapore.
He has published over 100 SCI/EI indexed papers in the field of smart grids and microgrids, including more than 40 papers in IEEE Transactions journals. He is also the author of one English book. His work has received over 5,000 citations, and he has been recognized as a Stanford Top 2% Most-Cited Scientist and a Web of Science Top 1% Highly Cited Researcher.