| Prof. Wei XuIEEE Fellow, IET FellowInstitute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wei Xu (Fellow, IEEE) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, China, in 2008, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on the design and control of linear machines and drives. From Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, the Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and a Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was a Professor with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been a Professor with IEECAS.Dr. Xu is Director for State Key Laboratory for High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems, IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow. He is General Chair of 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics. He is one Associate Editor of over ten peer-reviewed IEEE JOURNALS, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. He has published 10 books, over 180 journal papers in IEEE Series, and been awarded more than 150 intentional patents granted, which has been cited by over 1,1000 times with H-index 52 based on Google Scholar statistics. |
| Prof. Yihua Hu,Fellow of the IET and member of the UK Young AcademyKing’s College London, UK Dr Yihua Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, a position he holds alongside being a Fellow of the IET and member of the UK Young Academy. He was previously the group head of electrical engineering at the University of York and was awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship and EPSRC Power Electronics Centre Impact Acceleration Fellowship in 2020 and 2017 respectively. Dr Hu has published 150 journal papers in IEEE Transactions journals, with over 7800 citations since 2018 and h-index of 54. He is the author of 15 patents and serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Scientific Reports and IET RPG. His research interests include renewable power generation, electric vehicles, smart energy conversion systems and non-destructive test technology. He was a finalist for the Technology transfer category of the IET Innovation Awards in 2019, and a spin out launched by Hu and one of students attracted a ¥10million venture capital investment. His supervised PhD students were awarded the prestigious IET Postgraduate Award in 2021 and STEM for Britain award in 2022. In the past four years in his role as a Principal Investigator, Dr Hu has secured over £1.5M research funding from research councils and industry partners. |
 | Assoc. Prof. Quanfeng Li Shanghai Dianji University, China Dr. Quanfeng Li is a Shanghai Pujiang Scholar and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Machines, School of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University. He also serves as Director of the Sino-German Excellence Center and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York, UK. He has led or participated in more than 10 research projects, including Sino-UK collaborative projects, China’s National New Energy Vehicle Key Project, the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, Shanghai municipal projects on technology introduction, digestion and absorption, as well as university-enterprise cooperation and corporate-sponsored projects. He has published over 20 academic papers in well-known domestic and international journals such as TIE, TTE, and TEC, with more than 10 indexed by SCI/EI. He is a reviewer for journals including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, and IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and is a member of IEEE and the Shanghai Mechanical Engineering Association. His current research focuses on low-vibration-noise technologies for electric vehicle motors and drive systems, fault diagnosis and life prediction, electromagnetic compatibility, high-quality special motor development, and the frontier applications of wireless power transfer in modern medical equipment. |
