Speakers

Prof. Guoqiang Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)， China

Biography: Prof. Guoqiang Zhang currently serves as a Professor and Doctoral Advisor, holding the distinction of IEEE Senior Member. His research focuses on high-performance AC motor drives, including position sensorless control, efficiency optimization, and electrolytic capacitor-less drives. To date, he has authored four English monographs published by Springer (serving as Lead Editor for one and co-author for three). He has published over 100 high-impact academic papers and holds more than 40 authorized invention patents. Prof. Zhang is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and serves on the PCIM Asia Technical Committee.

Speech Title: Advances in PMSM Drive and Control Technologies for New Energy Vehicles: Challenges and Solutions

Prof. Xiangjie Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Biography: Dr. Xiangjie Kong is currently a Full Professor and Acacemic Associate Dean in the College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in School of Software, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, where he was the Head of the Department of Cyber Engineering. He is the Founding Director of City Science of Social Computing Lab (The CSSC Lab) (http://cssclab.cn/). He is/was on the Editorial Boards of 6 International journals. He has served as the General Chair or Program Chair of more than 10 conferences. Dr. Kong has authored/co-authored over 200 scientific papers in international journals and conferences including IEEE TKDE, IJCAI, ACL, IEEE TMC, ACM CSUR, ACM TKDD, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE NETW, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOJ, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TASE, IEEE TCSS, ACM TSON, ACM TSAS, WWWJ, etc.. 5 of his papers is selected as ESI- Hot Paper (Top 1‰), and 20 papers are ESI-Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%).  His research has been reported by Nature Index and other medias. He has been invited as Reviewers for numerous prestigious journals including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE NETW, IEEE TITS, TCJ, JASIST, etc.. Dr. Kong has authored/co-authored three books (in Chinese). He has contributed to the development of 14 copyrighted software systems and 30 filed patents. He has an h-index of 51 and i10-index of 122, and a total of more than 8600 citations to his work according to Google Scholar. He is named in the 2019 - 2023 world’s top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University. He is named in the 2022-2024 Best Computer Science Scientists List published by Research.com. Dr. Kong received IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE CSCWD 2024 Best Paper Award, and The Natural Science Fund of Zhejiang Province for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at more thant 10 international conferences, and delivered a number of Invited Talks at international conferences and many universities worldwide.  His research interests include big data, network science, and computational social science. He is a Distinguished Member of CCF, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Full Member of Sigma Xi, and a Member of ACM.

Speech Title: From Edge Computing to Edge Intelligence: Toward AI-Driven Internet of Vehicles in 6G Era

Prof. Zipeng Wang, Beijing University of Technology, China

Biography: Zi-Peng Wang (Senior Member, lEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, China in 2017. From July 2017 to August 2022, he was an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, U niversity of Jinan, Jinan, Shandong, China. In September 2022, he joined the Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing. He was a ResearchAssistant with the City University of Hong Kong for six months in 2016. From December 2019 to January 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. His current research interests include robust control and filtering, fuzzy modeling and control, secure control, discontinuous control systems, networked control systems, distributed parameter systems, and neural networks. Dr. Wang serves as an Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering , the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybemetics Magazine, the Applied Soft Computing and the Neural Prcessing Letters.

Speech Title: Sampled-Data Fuzzy Control for Complex Dynamic Systems

Prof. Maged Al-Barashi, Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, China

Biography:  Maged Al-Barashi, Ph.D., is a Professor of Aircraft Quality and Reliability at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Guilin University of Aerospace Technology (GUAT), Guilin, China. He has been engaged in teaching and research in electrical engineering for many years and has published more than 20 papers indexed in SCI and EI.
He received his B.Sc. in Power Systems Engineering from Aleppo University, Syria (2009), his M.Sc. in Power and Machines Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt (2015), and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2023).
From 2010 to 2017, he served as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Dhamar Industrial Technical Institute, Yemen. Between 2009 and 2012, he worked as a Sales Support Engineer and Legrand Showroom Supervisor at MAM International Corporation, Sana’a, Yemen. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Senior Technical Engineer at NEDCO for Engineering Contracting and Supplies, Cairo, Egypt. 
He has participated as a general contributor in one National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project, one Guangxi Key R&D Plan project, one Guangxi regional science and technology innovation platform capacity-building project, one joint special project of Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, one horizontal project, and one project sponsored by the Department of Education of Guangxi Province aimed at enhancing the basic capabilities of young and middle-aged teachers.
Dr. Al-Barashi currently serves as a reviewer for several international journals and has acted as a session chair, committee member, and reviewer for multiple international conferences. He has received several academic awards.
His current research interests include power quality in electronic-based power systems, aircraft quality and reliability, passive filters and their applications in high-speed railways, electric power utilization, and renewable energy.

Speech Title: Analytical Comparison and Design Evolution of Magnetic-Integrated LCL-Based Filters for Switching Harmonic Suppression in Avionics Power Systems

Prof. Jaume Anguera, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain

Biography: Dr. Jaume Anguera, IEEE Fellow, founder and CTO at the technology company Ignion (Barcelona, Spain). Professor at Ramon Llull University and a member of the Smart Society research group. He is an inventor of over 217 granted patents, most licensed to telecommunication companies, and +500 million devices have adopted his invented technology. Among his most outstanding contributions is that of the inventor of Antenna Booster Technology, a technology that fostered the creation of Ignion. The wireless industry has adopted +100M of these products worldwide to enable wireless connectivity to IoT devices through a miniature component called an antenna booster, which is 10 times smaller than conventional antennas. Author of more than 320 widely cited scientific papers and international conferences (+10000 citations, h-index 59, Google Scholar). Author of 8 books. He has participated in more than 28 competitive research projects, financed by the Spanish Ministry, CDTI, the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the European Commission, for an amount exceeding $14M, as a principal researcher in most of them. He has taught over 100 antenna courses worldwide (USA, China, Korea, India, UK, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Tunisia, Perú, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, and Spain). With over 27 years of R&D experience, he has developed part of his career at Fractus in South Korea, designing miniature antennas for major Korean companies such as Samsung and LG. Since 2017, he has been with Ignion as CTO. He leads the company's R&D activity to create new products, envisage new technologies, and provide technology strategy to scale the company's business. He has received several national and international awards (e.g., the 2004 Best Ph.D Thesis, two prizes, one by Telefónica Mobile, the 2004 IEEE New Faces of Engineering, and the 2014 Finalist European Patent Award). He has directed the master/doctorate thesis to more than 200 students, many of whom have received awards for their thesis (COIT, COITT, Ministry of Education). His biography appears in Who’sWho in the World and Who’sWho in Science and Engineering. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation, and a reviewer in several IEEE and other scientific journals. He is an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Distinguished Lecturer and vice-chair of the working group “Software and Modeling” at EurAAP. He is a Life Fellow of the Wireless, Antenna & Microwave Symposium Society.

Speech Title: Antenna Booster Technology: Enabling Wireless Connectivity for Intelligent Transportation Systems