Speakers

Prof. Zhe Chen

（IET Fellow, IEEE Fellow）

Aalborg University, Denmark

Biography:

Zhe Chen (Fellow, IEEE & IET) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from the Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Durham, Durham, U.K. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the Leader of the Wind Power System Research Program, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, and the Danish Principle Investigator for Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research. His research areas include power systems, power electronics and electric machines, wind energy, and modern power systems. He has led many research projects and has more than 400 publications in his technical field. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, U.K., and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.

Prof. Wei Xu

(IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow)

Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Biography:

Wei Xu (Fellow, IEEE) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, China, in 2008, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on the design and control of linear machines and drives. From Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, the Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and a Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was a Professor with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been a Professor with IEECAS. Since 2025, he has been  Dr. Xu is Director for State Key Laboratory for High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems, IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow. He is General Chair of 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics. He is one Associate Editor of over ten peer-reviewed IEEE JOURNALS, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. He has published 10 books, over 180 journal papers in IEEE Series, and been awarded more than 150 intentional patents granted, which has been cited by over 1,1000 times with H-index 52 based on Google Scholar statistics.