Dr. Jessica Bian is the President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES). She is a visionary leader and architect, has spearheaded electric industry's reliability metrics and grid risk assessment. Currently she is the Vice President of Grid Services at Grid-X Partners. Before that, she was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Director of Performance Analysis at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Under her leadership, a total of 18 industry-wide reliability indicators were established to determine grid reliability, adequacy, and associated risks. She is widely recognized as a pioneer and trusted world leader in the field.
Before joining NERC, Dr. Bian was with PJM, ERCOT and Westinghouse Electric. She earned her Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Taiyuan University of Technology, China; Master of Science from the Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China; and Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was the PES President-Elect (2020-2021) and Secretary (2016-2019).
King-Jet Tseng was born in Singapore and received B.Eng. (First Class) and M.Eng. from National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England. He has more than 30 years of academic, research, industrial and professional experience in electrical power and energy systems. He has been the Head of Power Engineering Division in Nanyang Technological University and the Board Member of the Singapore Green Building Council. He co-founded the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability for the Tropics (SinBerBEST) program funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation, and the Electrical Power Systems Integration Laboratory @ NTU, a Rolls-Royce research facility. He has graduated more 30 PhD students, published more than 300 papers and inspired a number of technology startup companies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, a Fellow of IES and registered as Chartered Engineer with UK Engineering Council. Currently, he is the Professor and Leader for Electrical Power Engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology, working on his vision of future urban electrical distribution architecture which can provide flexible and heterogeneous power quality.
Qing-Hua Wu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Queens University of Belfast (QUB), Belfast, U.K., in 1987. He was a Research Fellow and subsequently a Senior Research Fellow at QUB from 1987 to 1991. In 1991, he joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K., as a Lecturer, where subsequently, he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer. In September 1995, he joined the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., to take up his appointment to the Chair of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. He is currently with the School of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, as a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Energy Research Institute. He has authored or coauthored more than 440 technical publications, including 220 journal articles, 20 book chapters, and three research monographs published by Springer. His research interests include nonlinear adaptive control, mathematical morphology, evolutionary computation, power quality, and power system control and operation. Prof. Wu is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and InstMC and a Chartered Engineer.
Zhifang Yang is currently a Professor at Chongqing University. His research interests include power system optimizaiton and electricity markets. He has conducted multiple projects from NSFC, power companies and etc. He has published more than 60 journal papers as the first author or corresponding author. He has won multiple technical awards from Chongqing government, the Ministry of Education, and etc.
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