Keynote Speakers

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Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Bikash Pal, Imperial College London, UK

(Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers, Fellow of The IET UK )

Bikash Pal is a Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London (ICL). He has his BEng degree (1990) from Jadavpur University (1990), and MEng degree (1992) in power engineering from The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD degree (1999) from Imperial College London as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is research active in power system stability, control, and estimation. He led three multinational and multi universities research collaboration between UK-China and UK-India in renewable energy integration and control. His research is conducted in strategic partnership with ABB, SIEMENS, GE Grid Solutions, UK, and National Grid, UK. UK Power Networks. SIEMENS R&D collaborated with him to develop fast power flow and volt-var control tools in Spectrum Power, an advanced module for distribution management system solution from SIEMENS running many power distribution utilities around the world. GE commissioned sequel of projects with him to analyse and solve wind farm HVDC grid interaction problems (2013-2019). Prof Pal was the chief technical consultant for a panel of experts appointed by the UNFCCC CDM (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Clean Development Mechanism). He has offered trainings in Chile, Qatar, UAE, Malaysia and India in power system protections, stability and control topics. He has developed and validated a prize winning 68-bus power system model, which now forms a part of IEEE Benchmark Systems as a standard for researchers to validate their innovations in stability analysis and control design. He has published about 140 papers in IEEE Transactions and authored four books in power system modelling, dynamics, estimations and control.

In 2016, his research team won the President’s outstanding research team award at Imperial College London (ICL). He is a Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to power system stability and control. He is a Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow of The IET UK. He received 2025 IEEE PES Prabha Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award for his technical contribution to power system control and estimation. He is elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK in 2023 for the impact of his contribution to the field of power engineering. He is elected as a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2025. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in power distribution system estimation and control. He was Otto Monsted Professor at Denmark Technical University (DTU) (2019) and Mercator Professor sponsored by German Research Foundation (DFG) at University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011. He worked as faculty at IIT Kanpur, India. He holds a distinguished Visiting Professorship at the North China Electric Power University and Tsinghua University, China.
He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2012-2017) and Editor-in-Chief of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2005-2012). He was Vice President, PES Publications (2019-2023). He is elected as IEEE Power and Energy Society President Elect (2026-2027) for the office of The President in 2028-2029.

Beyond his profession, he has founded KAJALBABU MEMORIAL TRUST, an education charity in India to mentor children from economically disadvantaged background.
 

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Hua GENG,  Tsinghua University, China

 (Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IET, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy)

Hua Geng received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and application from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada. He joined Automation Department of Tsinghua University in June 2010 and is currently a full professor.

His current research interests include advanced control on power electronics and renewable energy conversion systems, AI for energy systems. He has authored more than 300 technical publications and holds more than 30 issued Chinese/US patents. He was the recipient of IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, IEEE IAS Distinguish lecture. He served as general chair, track chairs and session chairs of several IEEE conferences. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IET Fellow, convener of the modeling working group in IEC SC 8A.

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Kashem Muttaqi,  University of Wollongong, Australia

 (Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the IEAust, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications)

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 30 years of academic experience and authored or co-authored more than 600 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised around 35 higher-degree research students to completion. He has attracted more than $20 million research fundings.

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.

Professor Muttaqi is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust).