| Prof. Ali Reza Kamali,Fellow of Royal Society of ChemistryUniversity of Cambridge, UK/Northeastern University, China Ali Kamali is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Green Energy and Environmental Materials Research Centre (E2MC) at Northeastern University. He directs the China-UK Joint Research Centre for Advanced Materials, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge, he is the Founding Director of four materials technology firms, focused on commercialising his inventions on clean technologies for the sustainable production of advanced materials and the recycling/upcycling of waste materials for demanding applications, including energy storage and environmental protection. With over £46 million in research funding, his work has resulted in more than 50 patents, licensed to leading companies worldwide, and the publication of around 200 articles. Ali has delivered over 60 invited lectures at national and international events and has received several distinguished awards, including the NSFC Excellent International Scientist Fellowship, the International Khwarizmi Award, the Rose Award of Shenyang, and the Armourers & Brasiers Award. He currently chairs the AiScholar Academic Committee and supervises graduate and post-doctoral researchers in China and the UK. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and on national grant review boards including the EPSRC Peer Review College. |
| Prof. Wei XuIEEE Fellow, IET FellowInstitute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences 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. |
