Plenary Speakers

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Prof. Yusheng Xue 
NARI Group Corporation/State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, China
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Yusheng Xue received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Liege, Belgium, in 1987. He has been an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering since 1995. He is now the Honorary President of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Automation of Electric Power System (in Chinese) and that of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy(in English). He is one of the leading experts in the area of power system stability analysis and control. The Complementary–Cluster Energy–Barrier Criterion (CCEBC) developed by him is a rigorous theory and quantitative method for general motion stability of non-conservative and non-autonomous systems. The Extended Equal-Area Criterion (EEAC) developed by him has been proved to furnish a necessary and sufficient condition for stability of multimachine systems. The outstanding performances of EEAC have been demonstrated by on-line operation records in many EMS environments all over the world, and by off-line engineering services of a world-wide commercialized software package. A Wide-Area Monitoring Analysis Protection-Control system (WARMAP) innovated by him has been developed and extensively applied to 4/5 of the provincial and national grids. He received a National Prize on Science in 1977, a National First Prize of Achievement in the Advance of Science and Technology in 1996, National Second Prizes respectively in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, and 2018.

 

Prof. Xiaohong Guan (IEEE Fellow)
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

ProfessorXiaohong Guan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control Engineering from TsinghuaUniversity, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D.degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from theUniversityofConnecticutin 1993. He was a senior consultingengineer with Pacific Gas and Electric from 1993 to 1995. He visited the Division of Engineering andApplied Science, Harvard University 1999-2000. Since 1995 he has been with the Systems Engineering Institute at XianJiaotong University, Xian, China, and was appointed as the Cheung KongProfessor of Systems Engineering in 1999, and Dean of Faculty of Electronic andInformation Engineering since 2008. From2001 he has also been with the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and severed the Head of Department ofAutomation, Tsinghua University, 2003-2008. Professor Guan is a member of ChineseAcademy of Science and IEEE Fellow. His research interests include economicsand security of networked systems, optimization based planning and schedulingof electrical power and energy systems, manufacturing systems, etc., and cyber-physicalsystems including smart grid, etc.

 

Prof. Kaushik Rajashekara（IEEE Fellow）
University of Houston, USA
Member of the US National Academy of Engineering
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Dr. Kaushik Rajashekara received his BE, ME, and PhD from Indian Institute of Science. He joined Delphi division of General Motors Corporation in Indianapolis, IN, USA as a staff project engineer in 1989.  In Delphi and General Motors, he held various lead technical and managerial positions, and was a Technical Fellow and the Chief Scientist for developing electric machines, controllers, and power electronics systems for electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicle systems.  In 2006, he joined Rolls-Royce Corporation as a Chief Technologist for More Electric Architectures and power conversion/control technologies for Electric, More Electric, and Hybrid Electric Aircrafts.  In August 2012, he joined as a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Since September 2016, he is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in University of Houston.  Prof. Rajashekara was elected as a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2012, Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2013, and Chinese National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for his contributions to electric power conversion systems in transportation. He is a recipient of 2021 IEEE Medal on Environmental and Safety Technologies, and 2013 Richard Kaufmann award, and several other awards. He has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conferences, has 37 U.S. and 15 foreign patents; and has written one book, and contributed individual chapters to 8 books.  His research interests are in the area of power/energy conversion, Transportation Electrification, Renewable Energy, and Subsea Electrification.

 

Prof. Leila Parsa （IEEE Fellow）
University of California Santa Cruz,
Jack Baskin School of Engineering, USA

Leila Parsa received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2005.,She is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. From 2005 to 2016, she was a Faculty Member with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. Her research interests are in design, analysis and control of electromechanical energy converters and power electronics converters for various applications.,Dr. Parsa was the recipient of several awards including the 2009 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Member Award, and 2006 IEEE Industry Applications Society Transactions Paper Award. She has authored or coauthored more than 100 journal and conference publications. She has served in technical program committee of several IEEE conferences and acted as a Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference in 2015. She is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.