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.

Prof. Quanxin Zhu

Hunan Normal University, China

Biography:

Professor Quanxin Zhu is a Xiaoxiang Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Hunan Normal University, who has been recognized as a recipient of the Special Allowance from the State Council of China, a Leading Talent in Science and Technology Innovation of Hunan Province, a Furong Scholar Distinguished Professor, and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Computational and Stochastic Mathematics (Ministry of Education) and the Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Control and Optimization of Complex Systems. His research focuses on Markov processes, stability, and control of stochastic nonlinear systems, resulting in over 300 SCI publications in top journals including Automatica, IEEE TAC, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He has received numerous awards such as the First Prize of the Hunan Natural Science Award, First Prize of the Jiangsu Higher Education Natural Science Award, and has been consistently named a Global Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2023. He has presided over 6 NSFC projects and 10 provincial/ ministerial-level research programs. In addition, he holds leadership and editorial roles in several academic committees and international journals, including Editor-in-Chief of Complex Systems Stability & Control and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

Prof. Shaohua Luo

Guizhou University, China

Biography:

Shaohua Luo is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Guizhou University. He is recognized as an outstanding young scientific and technological talent of the province, leader of a provincial innovation research group, a specially appointed expert for the provincial "Enterprise Innovation Post," and an academic leader in his discipline at Guizhou University. His main research areas include dynamic analysis of special electromechanical systems and networks, circuit design and intelligent control, and the development and application of electromechanical control systems based on ARM/FPGA architectures. In recent years, he has led research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, the Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has also participated in the national "863 Program" and various National Natural Science Foundation projects (key, general, and international (regional) cooperation and exchange projects). Professor Luo has achieved significant theoretical and applied results in key scientific and technological fields such as MEMS/NEMS, autonomous intelligent systems, dynamics analysis of high-performance electromechanical drive systems and equipment, integrated circuit design, intelligent control, and system integration. He has published over 60 research papers in authoritative academic journals both domestically and internationally, obtained more than 20 granted invention patents (including one U.S. patent and four U.K. patents), and transferred two patents. He received the second-class Excellence Fund Award and has been invited multiple times to give academic presentations at international conferences. His related research outcomes have been positively cited by renowned experts in the field, such as Academician Bin Ning from Beijing Jiaotong University, Professor Zhongliang Jing from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Professor Donald C. Wunsch (IEEE Fellow) from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. Additionally, he has more than four years of experience working as an engineer in state-owned and foreign-funded enterprises.

Prof. Yu Zhao

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Biography:

Prof. Zhao Yu is a Tenured Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), where he serves as an NPU Soaring Scholar and core member of Prof. Huang Panfeng's Soaring Research Team. Professor Zhao has long been engaged in research on cooperative decision-making, planning and control for swarm intelligence systems. To date, he has published over 100 academic papers, including 18 works in top-tier control journals IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) and Automatica (7 of which are full papers). He has served as principal investigator for more than 10 research projects. He has received the Second Prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award (1 time), the First Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Graduate Education Achievement Award (1 time), the National Best Paper Award on Complex Networks (1 time), and the Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Academic Paper Award in Natural Science (2 times). He has been consecutively listed in the World's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists.