Prof. Graziano Chesi

The University of Hong Kong, China

IEEE Fellow

Biography:

Graziano Chesi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. He received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna. He served as associate editor for various journals, including Automatica, the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Systems and Control Letters. He also served as chair of the Best Student Paper Award Committees of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He authored the books "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" (Springer 2009), "Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming" (Springer 2011), and "LMI-Based Robustness Analysis In Uncertain Systems" (Now Publishers 2024). He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for contributions to control of nonlinear and multi-dimensional systems.

Prof. Jing Ma

Shanghai University of Electric Power, China

Biography:

Jing Ma, male, born in 1981, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, and an IET Fellow. His research focuses on operation analysis and coordinated control of new energy power systems, as well as optimization and resilience of integrated energy systems. He earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (2003) and Ph.D. in Power Systems and Automation (2008) from North China Electric Power University. From 2008 to 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research at Virginia Tech, USA. He has led seven national projects including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key R&D Program. He received six first-class awards from the Ministry of Education and provincial governments, and a special gold medal at the International Geneva Invention Exhibition. He holds 7 international and 73 national invention patents, published four monographs, and authored over 60 papers in renowned international journals such as The Innovation, Nature Communications, and IEEE Transactions, with 59 SCI-indexed papers. One paper was selected among the F5000 top academic papers, and another won the IET RPG Best Conference Paper Award. He contributed to two international and two national standards. Currently, he serves as Deputy Leader of the Expert Group for the Ministry of Science and Technology’s “14th Five-Year” Key R&D Program, Chair of the CIGRE China Youth Committee, and holds leadership roles in IEEE PES and several academic committees. He is also an editorial board member of several journals including CSEE JPES and IET RPG.