Dr. Wei-Jen Lee

The University of Texas at Arlington,
United States of America

Professor (The University of Texas at Arlington, UTA), Ph.D., PE, Fellow IEEE

Chair, IEEE Smart Grid (Jan2023 – Present)

Co-Chair, IEEE, Future Direction Committee: Climate Technologies Sustainability. (April 2023 - Present)

Council Member, United Nations Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET). (May 2022 - Present)

Member, IEEE TAB Hall of Honor Selection Committee. (January 2022 - Present)

Chair, IEEE Technical Activity (TA) Climate Change Program. (January 2022 - Present)

Chair, Outreach Subcommittee, IEEE Ad Hoc Committee to Coordinate IEEE Response to Climate Change (CCIRCC). (January 2022 - Present)

Chair, Education Committee, IEEE Smart Cities. (January 2017 - Present)

Steering Committee Member, IEEE Smart Cities. (January 2017 - Present)

President, IEEE, Industry Application Society. (January 2021 - December 2022)

President Elect, IEEE Industry Application Society. (January 2019 - December 2020)

Chair, IEEE-IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Department. (January 2015 - December 2016)

Chair, Energy Systems Committee of the IEEE-IAS I&CPS Department. (January 2005 - May 2009)

Chair, Power System Engineering Committee of the IEEE-IAS I&CPS Department. (January 1997 - December 1998)

Published more than 200 journal papers and more than 300 conference proceedings

Dr. Ming Yang

Shandong University,
China

          Ming Yang is a Professor with Shandong University and "Taishan Scholar" Distinguished Professor of Shandong Province, China. He was selected as the World's Top 2% Scientists of 2022/2023 released by Stanford University. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, he was an exchange Ph.D. student with Energy System Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA. His major research interests include power system operation and scheduling, new energy generation forecasting. In the past 15 year, he has worked on more than 30 projects to solve the problems of the optimal integration of renewable energy into power systems, which are supported by the government, domestic and international companies. He has published four books and more than 150 peer-reviewed papers (with more 100 journal papers) that have more than 3800 citations. He won several prizes awarded by the People's Government of Shandong Province, Chinese Electrotechnical Society, etc. He serves as an associate editor/editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems/Power Engineering Letters/Industry Applications, Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, IET Renewable Power Generation. He is the co-chair of IEEE IAS I&CPS Asia Operation Committee, founding chair of IEEE I&CPS ASIA, member of Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Generation Subcommittee of IEC (IEC SC8A), Deputy Director of National IOT Information Technology and Systems Engineering Experimental Teaching Center of China, and executive member of Intelligent Energy Standards Committee of Chinese Electrotechnical Society.

Dr. Issarachai Ngamroo

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang,
Thailand

          Issarachai Ngamroo received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand, in 1992. He received M.Eng and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan in 1997 and 2000, respectively, under the Japanese Government Scholarship. He worked at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand in 2000 until 2006. In 2007, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, KMITL and was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2012. His research interests include power system stability, dynamics, and control. From his research contributions, he was conferred the KMITL Award for Outstanding Research 2015, KMITL Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award 2018, Senior Research Scholar Fellowship from the National Research Council of Thailand 2020, and World Ranking of Top 2% Most-Cited KMITL Engineering School Researchers 2023. He was the leader of the Senior Research Scholar Project of "Intelligent control-based smart renewables for power system stability enhancement" from 2020-2023 granted by the National Research Council of Thailand. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.