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Prof. Tsuyoshi FUNAKI

Osaka University, Japan

He is a principle investigator (PI) of Power System Laboratory in Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering in Osaka University. He is currently working on the research and development of renewable energy system and smart grid technology based on power electronics using incoming wide band gap semiconductor power devices; e.g. SiC, GaN, and also working on reliability assessment of power supply facilities.
He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree all from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He was on the staff of Research Associate with Osaka University in 1994, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2001. In 2002, he was an Associate Professor with Kyoto University. Now, he has been a full Professor with Osaka University since 2008.

 

Prof. Mahdi Jalili

RMIT University, Australia

Mahdi Jalili received his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and RMIT VC Research Fellow. He is currently a Professor of AI and Electrical Engineering at RMIT and also the director of RMIT EV Living Lab. He leads Intelligent Informatics and Control research group, a dynamic research group with six academic staff, 12 research fellow and more than 40 PhD students. His main research areas include complex networks, complex dynamical systems, machine learning and its applications in sustainable energy systems. He has been the organising committee and technical program committee member of many international conferences. He is associate editor or guest editor of several journals including Complexity, Frontiers of Physics, IET Smart Grid and Asian Journal of Control.

 

Prof. Musa YILMAZ

University of California Riverside, USA

He received the B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2001, 2004 and 2013, respectively. He worked at Dicle University from 2004 to 2014 and asst. professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, at Batman University since 2014. Dr. Yilmaz was a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2015 and 2016. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of California Riverside (UCR) from 2022. His research interests include smart grid, Renewable Energy, Power systems, artificial neural networks, deep learning, machine learning, signal processing and data analysis. He is a senior member of IEEE and PES. He is a partner of Biosys LLC. He has served as an editor-in -chief of the Balkan Journal Electrical and Computer Engineering (BAJECE) and European Journal of Technique (EJT). He has published more than 50 research articles and published several book chapters and frequently gives invited keynote lectures at international conferences. He has been Principal Investigator of his research team in several European and international projects.

 

Dr. Yicheng Zhou

Visiting Professor of Waseda University, Japan

Chief Researcher, Energy and Environment and Technology Research Institute, Japan

YICHENG Zhoureceived the degrees of B.S. in civil engineering, and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Hunan University, China, in 1982, and 1986 respectively, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1995. After working in TEPCO SYSTEMS and FUJITSU LIMITED, now, he is a visiting professor of Waseda University and a chief researcher of EETRI. His fields of interest include planning, operation, control, and optimization of electrical power systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, IEEJ, and project leader of ISO 37153