ICHQP 2024 | Chengdu, China

Keynote and Plenary Sessions

Prof. Wilsun Xu

Fellow, IEEE

University of Alberta, Canada

Speech Title: TBD

Brief Bio: Wilsun Xu (Fellow, IEEE) is a professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. He obtained PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1989 and worked in BC Hydro of Vancouver, Canada for 7 years before joining the University in 1996. Dr. Xu has been conducting power quality research, education, and consulting for over 30 years, especially in the field of power system harmonics. He was elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to power system harmonics research in 2005 and served as the Power Quality Industrial Research Chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada from 2007 to 2020. In recent years, Dr. Xu pioneered the research on power disturbance data analytics, a field that uses power quality disturbance data to support equipment and system condition monitoring.

Prof. Dario Zaninelli

Senior Member, IEEE

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Speech Title: TBD

Brief Bio: Dario Zaninelli (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, in 1989. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include power system harmonics and power system analysis. He is a member of AEI and the Italian National Research Council Group of Electrical Power System.

Prof. Yilu Liu

Fellow, IEEE

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA

Speech Title: Quality of Power in the New Era

Brief Bio: Yilu Liu (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 1989. She is currently the Governor’s Chair of The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 2016, she is elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is also the Deputy Director of the DOE/NSF-cofunded by the Engineering Research Center CURENT. Prior to joining UTK/ORNL, she was a Professor with Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. She led the effort to create the North American Power Grid Frequency Monitoring Network, Virginia Tech, which is currently operated at UTK and ORNL as GridEye. Her research interests include power system wide-area monitoring and control, large interconnection-level dynamic simulations, electromagnetic transient analysis, and power transformer modeling and diagnosis.

Prof. Yi Zhang

Ph.D., P. Eng., FCAE, FIEEE, FEIC
Vice President R&D and Chief Technology Officer

RTDS Technologies Inc., Canada

Speech Title: Studying Power Quality Problems with Real Time Digital Simulator

Brief Bio: Yi Zhang (Fellow, IEEE) joined RTDS Technologies Inc. in 2000, where he now serves as Vice-President R&D and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He has over 30 years of experience working in power system simulation and analysis. His expertise includes Real Time EMT Simulation, Voltage Stability and HVDC, etc. As a principal member of the RTDS development team, he developed many simulation models and algorithms on RTDS Real Time Simulator in the past 24 years. He pioneered in using real time simulators for large power system study. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering and a registered professional engineer in the province of Manitoba.

Program

Program

The program is rolling update. If you have an interest to host a panel or tutorial session, please contact scufrankwang@163.com. This technical program will be consists of:

Keynote and Plenary Sessions

Prof. Wilsun Xu

Prof. Dario Zaninelli

Prof. Yilu Liu

Prof. Yi Zhang

Tutorial Sessions

Panel Sessions

Panel 1："Synchro-Waveforms Data Analytics and Applications"

Chair: Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, University of California, USA

Brief Bio: Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, Professor and Bourns Family Faculty Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Smart Grid Research Lab, Associate Director, Winston Chung Global Energy Center, University of California, Riverside

Panel 2："Issues and Challenges of Harmonic Modeling Simulation, and Assessment"

Chair: Roberto Langella, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy

Brief Bio: Roberto Langella, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member, Chair of the IEEE PES TF on Harmonic Modeling, Simulation, and Assessment, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Full Professor in Electrical Power Systems at the University of Campania

Panel 3："Turning data into information: Recent developments and future needs in Power Quality data analysis"

Chair: Jan Meyer, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Brief Bio: Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member, Professor at Technische Universitat Dresden, appointed speaker of the Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility Branch of the International Power Supply Conference, and Chairman of the German branch of Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility

Panel 4："Advanced Modeling, Control, Operation, and Planning of AC/DC Microgrids"

Chair: Yang Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

brief Bio: Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member, Professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Visiting scholar at Department of Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Program at a glance