Invited Speakers

Jiaqi Ruan
Sichuan University, China

Short Bio: Jiaqi Ruan is an Associate Professor in the College of Electrical Engineering at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. His research interests include smart grids, artificial intelligence algorithms and applications, climate risk, cyber-physical security, and vulnerability analysis. He has published over 60 SCI/EI indexed papers, including work in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, The Innovation, and Nexus, and one of his papers was featured as a popular paper in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He has led several research projects, including a National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has chaired several panel and special sessions and has been an invited speaker at multiple international conferences. He also serves on the Youth Editorial Board of Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems and Energy Conversion and Economics.

Hongcai Zhang
University of Macau, China

Short Bio: Hongcai Zhang is an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, and Interim Associate Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Macau. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include urban integrated energy system and nexus of smart power grid with future transportation. He has received the Best Publication Award from the Natural Resources Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. Dr. Zhang currently serves as an Associate Editor of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is also a Member of the Technical Committee of the China National Committee of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE), Secretary-General of the IEEE PES China Energy and Transportation Nexus Subcommittee.

Ronggang Ni
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Short Bio: Ronggang Ni received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2010, 2013, and 2017, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting scholar at Aalborg University, Denmark.
In 2017, he joined Shanghai STEP Electric Corporation. Since 2018, he has been with Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, where he is currently Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He serves as the leader of the Shandong Provincial Youth Innovation Team, the Director of the Qingdao Technical Innovation Center for Power Integration and Energy Storage System, and the Chief Expert of the Qingdao Expert Workstation for Permanent Magnet Machine Control. He also holds committee positions in multiple academic societies, including CPSS, CES, and IEEE.
His research interests include power conversion and electric drives. He has published more than 30 first or corresponding author papers and holds over 10 authorized patents. He has presided over more than ten research projects funded by NSFC and industrial sponsors. He has served as the General Chair of ACEEE 2025, Session Chair for ECCE Asia, ICEMS, and other international conferences, and delivered numerous keynote and invited talks.
Dr. Ni has received several awards, including Second Class Prizes for Science and Technology from CAA and Qingdao Municipal Government, First Class Technological Invention Prize from SDAA, and multiple teaching achievement awards.

Chixin Xiao
Xiangtan University, China

Short Bio: Prof. Chixin Xiao is a researcher in smart grids, renewable energy systems, and intelligent optimisation for power and energy applications. He received his PhD in Smart Grid from the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2021, and his PhD in Computer Application Technology from Central South University, China, in 2009. He is currently a Professor and PhD Supervisor at Xiangtan University, China, and a Senior Member of IEEE. His research focuses on renewable microgrids, risk- and uncertainty-aware energy management, intelligent optimisation, electric-vehicle integration, and artificial intelligence for power-system decision support. His current work particularly investigates optimisation and decision-making for renewable-energy-rich power systems under operational uncertainty and network constraints. He has also held academic and research appointments in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, giving him international experience across computer science, intelligent systems, and energy-related research. He serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Energy Research and IET Energy Conversion & Economics.

Lixin Wang
Northeast Electric Power University, China

Short Bio: Lixin Wang is an Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University. She received her Ph.D. degree and has been a visiting scholar at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests include stability analysis and control of renewable energy power systems, as well as data-driven situational awareness and control of power systems. In recent years, she has led one project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one sub-project of the National Key R&D Program of China as the project leader from a participating institution, one research project funded by the Department of Education of Jilin Province, one project funded by an open research fund of a key laboratory in Guangdong Province, two open research projects funded by national key laboratories, one project funded by the Jilin Province Talent Development Fund, and eight other industry-sponsored research projects. She has also participated as a key member and technical backbone in more than ten research projects, including projects under the National Key R&D Program of China, NSFC Joint Funds and Young Scientists Fund, and science and technology programs of State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid. She has published more than 40 SCI/EI-indexed journal papers and holds 10 granted invention patents. She has received three Second Prizes of the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and one Grand Prize of the Jilin Provincial Graduate Education Achievement Award. She currently serves as a Young Assistant Editor for Power System Protection and Control and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, and as a Young Editorial Board Member for Electric Power Construction, Electrical Measurement & Instrumentation, Shandong Electric Power Technology, and Zhejiang Electric Power. She has also been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer by Electric Power Automation Equipment and Power System Protection and Control for multiple consecutive years.