Keynote Speakers
Prof. Zuyi Li , Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Zuyi Li is an IEEE Fellow, a Changjiang
Scholar of the Ministry of Education, and a Qiushi Distinguished
Professor at Zhejiang University. He is a globally renowned scholar
in the field of power systems, dedicated to addressing the high
uncertainty, low reliability, and low resilience issues arising in
the development of renewable energy and smart grids under the carbon
neutrality strategy.
Prof. Li received his B.S. from the Department of Electrical Power
Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 1995; his M.S. from
the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, in
1998; and his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT),
USA, in 2022. Before returning to China, he was a Full Professor and
Grainger Chair Professor at IIT. He joined Zhejiang University
full-time in November 2022.
He serves as a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
(TSG) and a Subject Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation (IET
RPG). He has published more than 100 papers in the IEEE Transactions
series (TPWRS, TSG), flagship journals in power systems, with over
20,000 citations on Google Scholar. As a principal investigator or
co-principal investigator, he has led and participated in 24
research and education projects on renewable energy and smart grids
funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE), and he is responsible for two
projects/subprojects under the National Key R&D Program of China.
His research interests include intelligent dispatch of power
systems, electricity market design, microgrids and networked
microgrids, and user-side energy internet.
Prof. Tapan Saha , The University of Queensland, Australia
Prof Tapan Saha was born in Bangladesh and
immigrated to Australia in 1989. Tapan received his PhD from the
University of Queensland in 1994. Previously, Tapan obtained a B. Sc
in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka in 1982 and a Master of
Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi in 1985. He has been with the University of
Queensland since 1996, where he has been a Professor of Electrical
Engineering since 2005. Previously he was an Adjunct Professor of
Xi'an Jiaotong University and Hunan University in China. Previously
he worked in James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville
for two and a half years and in BUET for three and a half years.
Tapan Saha is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineers
Australia. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of
Engineers Australia and a Registered Professional Engineer of the
State of Queensland (RPEQ). He is on the National Engineering
Register (NER). Prof Saha is on the APEC Engineer Register and on
the Register of International Professional Engineers. His current
research projects are in the fields of: Renewable energy integration
to electricity grid，Smart condition monitoring for transformers and
other ageing assets.
Prof. Fausto P. Garcia Marquez, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha,Spain
Fausto works at UCLM as a Full Professor (Accredited as Full Professor from 2013), Spain, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University, UK, a Lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute, a Research Fellow at INTI International University&Colleges, Malaysia, and has been a Senior Manager in Accenture (2013-2014). He obtained his European PhD with maximum distinction. He has been distinguished with the prices: Nominated Prize (2025), Runner Prize (2023), Nominate Prize (2022), Gran Maestre (2022), Grand Prize (2021), Runner Prize (2020) and Advancement Prize (2018), Runner (2015), Advancement (2013) and Silver (2012) by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM), First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award (2017), etc. He has published more than 310 journal papers (219 JCR: 106-Q1; 66-Q2; 35-Q3; 12-Q4), some recognized as: “Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications” (Q1, IF. 8.49, one of the most downloaded in first 12 months of publications, 2023), “Applied Energy” (Q1, IF 9.746, as “Best Paper 2020”), “Renewable Energy” (Q1, IF 8.001, as “Best Paper 2014”); “ICMSEM” (as “excellent”), “Int. J. of Automation and Computing” and “IMechE Part F: J. of Rail and Rapid Transit” (most downloaded), etc. He is the author and editor of over 71 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, Intech, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega,…), more than 130 international chapters, and 6 patents. He is the Editor of 5 Int. Journals, Committee Member in more than 70 Int. Conferences. He has been the Principal Investigator in 5 European Projects, 8 National Projects, and over 150 projects for Universities, Companies, etc. His main interests are: Artificial Intelligence, Maintenance, Management, Renewable Energy, Transport, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science.