Chair: Dr. Yachen Tang, Univers, USA
Dr. Tang received the B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2011, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He was working as Post-Doc Researcher and Research Engineer with GEIRI North America, CA, US and he is currently a Staff Research Engineer with Univers, CA, US. He has published more than 60 SCI/EI journal/conference papers, 1 textbook “Electric Power: Distribution Emergency Operation”, 1 bookchapter “Construction and Application of Spatiotemporal Graph Model for Modern Power Systems”, and more than 20 invention patents. He is a member of the Youth Experts Group with Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering. His primary research interests are graph database and graph computing applications in power systems, electricity carbon accounting and analysis, data modeling for heterogeneous and homogeneous data sources, knowledge graph, machine learning, smart grid, and digital image processing.
Co-chair: Assoc. Prof. Jian Dang, Xi’an University of Technology, China
Dr. Dang received his Ph.D. degree from Xi'an University of Technology in 2018. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology. He has presided over 24 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Foreign Expert Introduction Project, key research and development projects in Shaanxi Province, as well as projects commissioned by enterprises such as State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, Power Construction Corporation of China, Huaneng Group, and Longi. The relevant research results have been applied in fields including power system, hydropower, photovoltaics, and wind power. He has won the First Prize of the Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second and Third Prizes of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of the Shaanxi Higher Education Science and Technology Award. He has published over 60 academic papers in high-level journals and has been granted 13 invention patents. His main research areas include fault diagnosis and performance evaluation of power equipment, power graph calculation, clean energy multi-energy collaboration and safety regulation, and smart grid technology.
Co-chair: Dr. Suwei Zhai, Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd, China
Dr. Zhai Mainly engaged in technical research on the coordinated operation and control of sources, grids, loads, and storage in new power systems. At Electric Power Systems Research Journal of the Franklin Institute、 Published 8 SCI/EI indexed papers, applied for over 8 invention patents, and obtained 4 authorized patents (ZL201810255776.6, ZL201710906143.2, ZL201810768249.5, ZL201711142952.7) in well-known domestic and foreign journals such as electric power construction and power grid technology. Led 1 Chinese PhD postdoctoral grant, 1 Yunnan Province special grant, and 1 Yunnan Power Grid Corporation technology project. Participated in multiple National Natural Science Foundation, Yunnan Province technology projects, and China Southern Power Grid Corporation technology projects.