Biography: Professor Yonghua Song has been serving as the ninth Rector of the University of Macau since 9 January 2018. Professor Song has held a number of leadership positions at British and Chinese universities and has rich experience in higher education management at a senior level. He has been actively promoting internationalization and institutional cooperation and is particularly familiar with the development and operational models of higher education institutions in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Professor Song received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. from Chengdu University of Science and Technology (now Sichuan University) and the China Electric Power Research Institute in 1984 and 1989 respectively. In 2002, he was awarded DSc by Brunel University for his outstanding contributions to power system research and knowledge. In 2014, he was awarded Honorary DEng by University of Bath. In 2019, he was awarded Honorary DSc by University of Edinburgh. In 1989, Professor Song conducted his post-doctoral research at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. In 1991, he went to the UK and held various teaching and research positions at University of Bristol, University of Bath and John Moores University. In 1997, Professor Song was appointed Professor of Power Systems at Brunel University. He was also the Royal Academy of Engineering/British Energy/Siemens Chair of Power Systems. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was also appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Studies at Brunel University. In 2007, he took up a Pro-Vice Chancellorship and Professorship of Electrical Engineering at the University of Liverpool, holding the Executive President position at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University in Suzhou, China.

In 2009, Professor Song was invited to return to China as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Assistant President at Tsinghua University. He was appointed Director of Chinese National Office of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts in the same year. From November 2012 to December 2017, Professor Song served as Executive Vice President at Zhejiang University, Founding Dean of International Campus and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Higher Education at Zhejiang University. He played an active role in promoting globalization, planning of university development and facilitating the recruitment of top young talents at Zhejiang University. Professor Song has also served as Vice President of the second and third councils of the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS), where he focuses on promoting and formulating education development strategies, education planning, as well as conducting research and advising on major policy-making. He was elected Vice President of the Chinese Educators’ Association of Macau in 2019, Vice President of the eighth council of the China Association of Higher Education in 2022 and the President of Macao Association for Higher Education Development in 2025.

Professor Song is a chair professor in electrical engineering at University of Macau and the Director of State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City. He has long been engaged in research on power system analysis and control, and is internationally known for his systemic and innovative contributions to the safe and efficient operation of low carbon power systems. In 2020, Professor Song won a second prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award and the prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. In 2022, he was awarded the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize. In 2023, he was awarded the Third National Innovation Excellence Award. Professor Song was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2004, an IEEE fellow in 2008 and a member of the Academia Europaea in 2019. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), a fellow of the International Euro-Asia Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the eighth and ninth councils of the China Electrotechnical Society (CES) and Vice President of the ninth and tenth councils of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE). Professor Song has an early connection with Macao as he has been appointed an advisor to the Science and Technology Committee of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government since 2002. In 2023, he was awarded the Medal of Merit – Education by the Macao Special Administrative Region Government in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of education.

Biography: Pierluigi Mancarella is the Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at the University of Manchester, UK. His key research interests include techno-economic modelling and analysis of multi-energy systems, grid integration of renewables and distributed energy resources, energy infrastructure planning under uncertainty, and security, reliability, and resilience of low-carbon networks.

Pierluigi is the Energy Systems Program Leader at the Melbourne Energy Institute, a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), an IEEE Power and Energy Society Distinguished Lecturer, the Convenor of the CIGRE (International Council of Large Electric Systems) C6/C2.34 Working Group on “Flexibility Provision from Distributed Energy Resources”, holds the 2017 veski innovation fellowship for his work on urban-scale virtual power plants, and is a recipient of the international Newton Prize 2018 for his work on power system resilience in Chile. He is author of several books and over 300 research papers and reports, and is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and the Oxford Open Energy journal.

Pierluigi is the Australian principal investigator of the US-UK-Australia Global Center in Climate Change and Clean Energy “EPICS” (“Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society”). In the past few years, he has supported the Finkel Review panel, the Australian Energy Market Operator, the Australian Energy Market Commission, and the Australian Energy Regulator on relevant research and consultancy projects on power system security, reliability, and resilience, and has led and been involved in several projects via the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Cooperative Research Centres, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Biography: Yonggang Wen is a Professor and President’s Chair in College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He serves as the Associate Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean of Graduate College at NTU. Previously he has served as the Associate Vice President (Capability Building) at President’s Office (2023),the Associate Dean (Research) at College of Engineering(2018-2023), the acting Director for Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC) (2017-2019) and the Assistant Chair (Innovation) at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (2016-2018), all at NTU. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (minor in Western Literature) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in 2008. Dr. Wen has published over 300 papers in top journals and prestigious conferences. His systems research has gained global recognitions. His work in Multi-Screen Cloud Social TV has been featured by global media (more than 1600 news articles from over 29 countries) and received ASEAN ICT Award 2013 (Gold Medal). His work on Cognitive Digital Twin for Data Centre, has won the 2015 Data Centre Dynamics Awards – APAC (the ‘Oscar’ award of data centre industry), 2016 ASEAN ICT Awards (Gold Medal), 2020 IEEE TCCPS Industrial Technical Excellence Award, 2021 W.Media APAC Cloud and Datacenter Technology Leader Award, and 2022 Singapore Computer Society Digital Achiever Tech Leader Award. He was the winner of 2019 Nanyang Research Award and the sole winner of 2016 Nanyang Awards for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, both of which are the highest recognition at NTU. He is a co-recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards from top journals, including 2019 IEEE TCSVT and 2015 IEEE Multimedia, and at international conferences, including 2023 ASPLOS, 2016 IEEE Globecom, 2016 IEEE Infocom MuSIC Workshop, 2015 EAI Chinacom, 2014 IEEE WCSP, 2013 IEEE Globecom and 2012 IEEE EUC. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), serves or has served on editorial boards for multiple IEEE and ACM transactions, and was the elected Chair for IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (2014-2016). His research interests include cloud computing, green data centre, big data analytics, multimedia network and mobile computing. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Singapore Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Distinguished Member.

Biography: Prof. Chul-Hwan Kim is an IEEE Fellow, KIEE Fellow and earned his B. S., M. S., and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, in 1982, 1984, and 1990, respectively. In 1996, 1998, and 1999, he was a visiting academic at the University of Bath, U.K. Currently, he serves as a professor at School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea(south).

He was technical program committees co-chair of IPST(International Conference on Power System Transients) 2023 and the local program committee chair of IPST 2017. Also, he is a steering committee member of IPST. He was president of Power Engineering Society of KIEE and Korea Institute of Electrical Engineers(KIEE, 50th) in 2018 and 2021, respectively.

Furthermore, since 2008, he is a member of technical review panel of an international conference on Developments in Power System Protection (DPSP) organized by IET, U.K. Furthermore, he serves as an esteemed editorial board member for IEEE Power and Energy magazine, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (IJEPES), and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems. Additionally, he holds the role of editor in Electrical Power Systems Research (EPSR) at Elsevier. His research includes power system protection, transients, distributed renewable generation, and analysis and protection of MVDC, and LVDC systems.

Biography: Professor Kashem Muttaqi is the Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ARC Future Grids ITTC), which is sponsored by the Australian Government, and several industries and Universities in Australia. He is also the Director of the Australian Power and Energy Research Institute (APERI) at the University of Wollongong (UOW), New South Wales, Australia. He is a Distinguished Professor and Discipline Leader – Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong.

Professor Muttaqi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1993, the M.Eng.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University (MMU), Selangor, Malaysia in 2001. Professor Muttaqi has 28 years of academic experience and has authored or co-authored more than 575 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised more than 30 higher-degree research students to completion and is currently supervising 15 higher-degree research students.

Professor Muttaqi is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is an Executive Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Board. He is also the Past Chair of the Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC) for the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). He has been an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Trans on Industry Applications, IEEE Trans on Sustainable Energy, and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. He is the General Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (IEEE ETFG 2025) to be held on 7–11 December 2025 at Wollongong, Australia. He was the General Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (IEEE ETFG 2023) held on 3–6 December 2023 at Wollongong, Australia. He is a Member of the EEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society.