ACEEE 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER I
Life Fellow, IEEE
Prof. Loi Lei Lai, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Loi Lei Lai (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (First-Class Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K., in 1980 and 1984, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the City, University of London, London, U.K., in 2005. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor with the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He was a Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Professor and the Chair of Electrical Engineering with the City, University of London. His current research areas are in smart cities and smart grid. He was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE/PES) UKRI Power Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000, a Special Award from the City, University of London in 2005 and is its honorary graduate, the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper in 2006 and 2009, the IEEE/SMCS Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014, the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2016, and his research team received a Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference in October 2020. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter, a member of the IEEE Smart Cities Steering Committee, and the Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Standards Committee. He was a member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee; the Director of the Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, China; a Vice President for Membership and Student Activities with IEEE/SMCS; a Fellow Committee Evaluator for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society; and an IEEE PES Lifetime Achievement Award Assessment Committee Member. He is a Fellow of IET.
ACEEE 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER II
Fellow, IEEE
Prof. Kai Sun, University of Tennessee, USA
Prof. Sun received his B.S. in Automation (1999) and Ph.D. in Control Science & Engineering (2004) both from Tsinghua University, Beijing. Before joining UTK, he was a Project Manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, CA for R&D programs in Grid Operations and Planning from 2007 to 2012. He conducted postdoctoral studies at Arizona State University in 2006-2007 and the University of Western Ontario in 2005. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2019-2020. Prof. Sun is a recipient of 2016 NSF CAREER award, a faculty Member of NSF/DOE engineering research center CURENT, and an IEEE Fellow.
ACEEE 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER III
Prof. Yang Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
Yang Han (S’08-M’10-SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, where he has been an Associate Professor in 2013, and Full professor in 2021. From March 2014 to March 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include the ac/dc microgrids, active distribution networks, power quality, grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems, active power filters, multilevel converters, and static synchronous compensators (STATCOMs).
Dr. Han has received several national and provincial projects, and more than 30 industrial projects in the area of power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, and power quality analysis and compensation. He holds more than 40 issued and pending patents. Dr. Han was listed as “World’s Top 2% Scientist 2022” by Stanford University in 2022, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in CPESE 2021, the Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2020 and 2022, Science and Technology Award from Sichuan Electric Power Company in 2019, Academic Talent Award by UESTC, in 2017, Baekhyun Award by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics, in 2016. He has published a book “Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters for Microgrid Applications”, ISBN: 978-3-030-74512-7, Springer. He served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Power Electronics and IEEE ACCESS (2019-2020).