Chair: Assoc. Prof. Yu Zheng, Wuhan University, China
Yu Zheng was born in 1992. He is an Associate Professor at Wuhan University and was selected for the 5th batch of the "Bo Xin Plan" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He obtained his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Wuhan University between 2010 and 2020. From 2018 to 2019, he participated in a joint Ph.D. training program at the High Voltage Institute of the China Electric Power Research Institute. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Wuhan University from 2020 to 2024 and has continued to work at the university since then. He is the Secretary of the Electrical Equipment Digital Twin Working Group of the IEEE PES Subcommittee on Power Transmission and Distribution, a member of the Electrical Testing Subcommittee of the China Electrotechnical Society, and a Youth Committee member of the Plasma and Applications Subcommittee of the China Electrotechnical Society. He has led two national-level projects and several projects from the State Grid and Southern Grid companies. He has published more than 20 SCI/EI papers, holds 8 authorized patents, and has received the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China Electrotechnical Society and the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from State Grid Corporation of China.
Co-chair: Assoc. Prof. Shengxin Huang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Shengxin Huang holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Automation Engineering, Hefei University of Technology. He is a Master's supervisor, and his main research areas include long air gap discharge behavior and physical mechanisms, as well as lightning strike attachment processes, mechanisms, and simulation.
Co-chair: Dr. Wen Wang, China Electric Power Research Institute, China
Mrs. Wen Wang holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and is an engineer at the Department of High Voltage, China Electric Power Research Institute. Her main research areas include long eco-friengly gas discharge behavior and physical mechanisms and arc simulation.