HEEPS 2023 keynote speakers

Prof. Fujun Zhang, China

Beijing Jiaotong University

Introduction:

Fujun Zhang is professor and doctoral supervisor of Beijing Jiaotong University. In 2010, he was selected into the "Red Orchard" talent plan. In 2014, he was selected into the "Excellent 100 Talents" plan. He was selected as one of the top 1% Chinese highly cited scholars of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His main research areas are olar cells, photodetectors abd light sources. Besides, he presided over projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education's basic research business fees for colleges and universities, and the Excellence 100 Talents Program. In the past five years, he has published more than 40 academic papers in IF>10 journals as corresponding author, and has been cited more than 10000 times (Google). Among them, 27 papers have been highly cited by ESI. One paper was rated as "China's 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers". He is a member of the editorial board of Scientific reports, Energies, and a reviewer of more than 40 internationally renowned journals.

Prof. Dr. Mohan Lal Kolhe, Norway

University of Agder

Introduction:

Professor (Dr) Mohan Lal Kolhe is with the University of Agder (Norway) as full professor in ‘electrical power engineering with focus on smart grid and renewable energy’ in the Faculty of Engineering and Science. He has also received the offer of full professorship in smart grid from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has more than three decades’ academic experience at the international level on electrical and renewable energy systems. He is a leading renewable energy technologist and has previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities e.g. University College London (UK / Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. He was also a member of the Government of South Australia’s Renewable Energy Board (2009-2011) and worked on developing renewable energy policies. He was also leading the EU FP7 Smart Grid-ICT project ‘Scalable Energy Management Infrastructure for Household’ as Technical Manager.His academic work ranges from the smart grid, grid integration of renewable energy systems, home energy management system, integrated renewable energy systems for hydrogen production, techno-economics of energy systems, solar and wind energy engineering, development of business models for distributed generation etc. He also did extensive teaching in renewable and electrical energy systems engineering as well as in energy economics.

He has been successful in winning competitive research funding from the prestigious research councils (e.g. EU, EPSRC, BBSRC, NRP, etc.) for his work on sustainable energy systems. He has published extensively in the energy systems engineering. He has been invited by many international organizations for delivering expert lectures / courses / key note addresses / workshops. He has also been member of many academic promotional committees.

Prof. Dr. M. Prabhakar

Vellore Institute of Technology

Introduction:

My research experience is focused on developing, testing and implementing high gain DC-DC converters for integrating renewable energy sources to a DC bus. I started my research in the year 2012 and I have been actively involved in synthesizing more than 20 high gain DC-DC converters. The voltage gain of the developed converters range from 15 to 25. The test results obtained from the prototype versions of the power electronic converters have been published in reputed journals. From May 2022, I am associated with Centre for Smart Grid Technologies (CSGT), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India as a Professor. In recent times, I am involved in synthesizing high gain multi-input converters. Presently, I am working on implementing machine learning-based algorithms to integrate the multiple photovoltaic (PV) sources to a common DC bus through asymmetric multi-input converters. This particular work is being funded by my university, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India under “Seed Fund Grant” proposal.

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