Prof. Qiang Yang (IET, IAAM, AAIS Fellow)

Zhengjiang University, China

Biography: Professor Qiang Yang received Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from Queen Mary, University of London, London, U.K., in 2007 and worked in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, U.K., from 2007 to 2010. He visited the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria Canada as a visiting scholar in 2015 and 2016. He is currently a full Professor at the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, and has published more than 400 technical papers, filed more than 100 national patents, co-authored 4 books, and edited 3 books and more than 10 book chapters. His research interests over the years include smart energy systems, large-scale complex network modeling, control and optimization, learning based optimization and control. He is a Member of European Academy of Engineering (EAE), an Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), a member of U.S. National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Lifetime Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), a Senior Member of IEEE and a Distinguished Member of China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Yiming Zhang (Vice Dean)

Fuzhou University, China

Biography: Prof. Yiming Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is now a full professor with Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China. He has authored 1 book from Springer, authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include wireless power transfer for electric vehicles and mobile phones, and power electronics converters.

Prof. Yiming Zhang was the recipient of the National Oversea High-Level Talent Program and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations of Tsinghua University in 2016. He was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2019 and a Distinguished Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2020.

Prof. Maode Ma(Fellow of IET)

Qatar University, Qatar

Biography: Prof. Maode Ma is a Fellow of IET, and received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. He is now a research professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has over 500 international academic publications including over 260 journal papers. His publication has received more than 10,700 citations in Google Scholar. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and the International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. Prof. Ma has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.