Conference Chairs

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- Honorary Chairman -

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Saad Mekhilef

Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef is a Fellow of the IEEE and IET. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, He is an editorial board member for many prominent journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics, IET Renewable Power Generation, Journal of Power Electronics, and the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. Prof. Mekhilef has been recognized by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the world's Highly Cited researchers, ranking in the top 1% of engineering researchers globally. He actively engages in industrial consultancy for major corporations on power electronics and renewable energy projects.. 


- General Chairs -

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Pierluigi SIANO

Pierluigi Siano, IEEE PES Senior Member, is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Cities Laboratory affiliated with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno,Italy. His research focuses on demand response strategies, energy efficiency management, and the integration of distributed renewable energy resources, with a core focus on advancing low-carbon energy utilization pathways and supporting carbon neutrality objectives. A highly distinguished scholar in the engineering field, he was named a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science Group for three consecutive years (2019, 2020, 2021). He also serves as an Editor for the Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Systems.

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Mohamed Benbouzid

Mohamed Benbouzid Since September 2004, he has been affiliated with the University of Brest, France, where he currently serves as a Full Professor in electrical engineering. Additionally, he holds the distinguished positions of a Distinguished Professor and a 1000 Talent Expert at the Shanghai Maritime University in Shanghai, China. Prof. Benbouzid primary research interests and expertise include control of electric machines, variable-speed drives for traction, propulsion, and renewable energy applications. Benbouzid is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the IET. He is a Subject Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation.

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Karamanis Dimitrios

Professor of Alternative Energy Sources at the Department of Environmental Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece. Prof. Karamanis has thirty years of research experience in the fields of alternative energy sources with special emphasis on wind and solar energy utilization technologies in the last decade. Participating in competitive National and International research programs as scientific coordinator and researcher, he has published over 110 scientific papers in scientific journals, patents and chapters in books. Prof. Karamanis teaches courses on renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and RES applications in Departments of the Universities of Ioannina and Patras since 2006.


- Program Chairs -

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Marc Rosen

Dr. Marc Rosen, H-Index 115, is a Professor of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Ontario Tech University, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. With over 70 research grants and contracts and 900 technical publications, including numerous books, He is an active researcher in sustainable energy, sustainability, and environmental impact. Dr. Rosen’s other areas of expertise include the following: exergy analysis, heat transfer, thermodynamics, integrated energy systems, modelling and simulation of energy systems, renewable energy, thermal energy storage etc. He has received numerous awards and honours, including an Award of Excellence in Research and Technology Development from the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Engineering Institute of Canada’s Smith Medal for achievement in the development of Canada.

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RINI NUR HASANAH

She is a Senior Member, IEEE and a lecturer at Universitas Brawijaya, Malang. H-Index 119. She has authored numerous articles in scientific journals, both national and international. Upon completing the program at Auburn, she intends to develop a longer-term international collaboration with them focused on renewable energy、Power Generation and Energy Consumption etc. In addition, she looks forward to becoming an ambassador-scholar to enhance research collaborations between US institutions (especially Auburn) and Indonesian institutions (especially her home institution, Brawijaya).

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Chong Kok Keong

Prof. Dr. Chong Kok-Keong,SMIEEE, he has been working in the field of solar energy engineering for more than 25 years and his research interest including emerging solar cell technologies, concentrating solar power, nanomaterials, and green technologies. For publication, he has published more than 133 articles in high impact journals including Nature, which has made him in Stanford University’s list of top 2% rank worldwide. To date, he has been elected as Fellow of Academy of Science Malaysia 2019, Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology (AAET) 2018, Global Young Academy 2014. For editorial services, he is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research and International Journal of Photoenergy (Hindawi).


- Publication Chairs -

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Prof. Baojie He

He is currently leading the Centre for Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Cities with the focus on Low-Carbon Urban Planning and Design. Baojie has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in high-ranking journals and delivered more than 100 invited talks in reputable conferences/seminars. Baojie has been invited to act as Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors of several international reputuable journals. Baojie received the received the Most Cited Chinese Researchers Title in 2024 and 2025, Highly Cited Researcher Title (Clarivate) in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Sustainability Young Investigator Award in 2022, the Green Talents Award (Germany) in 2021, and National Scholarship for Outstanding Study Abroad Students (China) in 2019. Baojie was ranked as one of the Top 2% Scientists by the Mendeley from 2020 onwards.

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Bimal Kumar Bose

Bimal Kumar Bose,IEEE Life Fellow, Bose is an electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, scientist, educator, and currently a professor emeritus of power electronics in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His fields includes Power Electronics, Motor Drives electrical engineering, artificial intelligence In 2017, Bose was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to advancing power electronics technology and power conversion and education. He was elected a fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2024.

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Jianmin Zhang

Professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University; IEEE Senior Member; Deputy director of Zhejiang Technology Center for Regional Energy Internet; . His main research directions include Regional energy Internet plus and microgrid technology, new energy (small hydropower, photovoltaic) grid-connected technology, carbon emission/carbon sink risk assessment, and cybersecurity AI technology.He is principal investigator (PI) of 1 National Natural Science Key Fund (Smart Grid Joint Fund), 1 National Natural Science Foundation, 1 Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Key Fund and 1 Zhejiang Provincial Key Research & Development Program.



- Program Committee -

Name

Afiliation

Country

Prof. Dr. Mariofanna Milanova University of Arkansast at Little Rock America
Assoc. Prof. Maciej Dzikuć University of Zielona Gora Poland
Prof. Sourav Bose NIT Uttarakhand India
Prof. Song Han Guizhou University China
Prof. Serdar Ethem Hamamci Inonu University Turkey
Prof. Onn Chiu Chuen Universiti Malaya Malaysia
Prof. Teng Zhou Hainan University China
Prof. Kiran Adnan Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Malaysia
Prof. Heyong Wang South China University of Technology China
Dr. P. Chandra Babu Naidu Crescent University India
Prof.Hwang Sheng Lee Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Malaysia
Prof. Grigorios N. Beligiannis University of Patras Greece
Prof. Ghani Albaali Princess Sumaya University for Technology Jordan
Assoc. Prof. Bala Murugan M S Vellore Institute of Technology India
Prof. Addisson Salazar Afanador Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aloysius Yapp Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Malaysia
Dr. Mahmoud Al Shawabkeh Guangxi Minzu Normal University China
Assoc. Prof. Ajay Kumar Agarwal Jb Knowledge Park India
Prof. P. K. Sethy Sambalpur University India
Dr. Maharani Abu Bakar Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Jingsong Li Dalian University of Technology China
Assoc. Prof. Manousakis Nikolaos University of West Attica Greece
Assoc. Prof. Hidir Duzkaya Gazi University Turkey
Prof. Mohd Lazim Abdullah Universiti Malaysia Terengganu  Malaysia
Prof. Ankit Sharma
Chitkara University India
Prof. Ratil Hasnat INTI International University Malaysia
Prof. Dardan Klimenta University of Priština Kosovska Mitrovica



Organizing Committee -


Wu Zhicheng,  Wang Zhanzhan,  Xu Xiaohang,  Li Guangwei,   Hao Yingjun