Speakers
Fellow of the AAAS, ACM,and IEEE
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Biography: Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.He also serves as the Chair of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.Before then, he served as the Director of the Advanced Digital SciencesCenter in Singapore, as well as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor ofElectrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the CoordinatedScience Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Hereceived his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has received a number of awards for hisresearch contributions, which include the IEEE CS Technical AchievementAward (1998), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE-CS W. WallaceMcDowell Award (2006), the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award(2006), the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS TsutomuKanai Award (2009), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in ComputerScience of the University of California, Berkeley (2011). Wah's current research interests are in the areas of bigdata applications and multimedia signal processing. Wah cofounded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chiefbetween 1993 and 1996, and is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems. He currentlyserves on the editorial boards of Information Sciences, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Journalof VLSI Signal Processing, and World Wide Web. He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various capacities,including Vice President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM,and IEEE.
Prof. Yang HAN
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Biography:
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)