Invited Speeches

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Kerui Li

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Dr. Kerui Li is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He received the B.Eng. degree from the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2013, the M.Eng. degree from the Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2021. After finishing his PhD degree, he served as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University and a Research Assistant Professor at both The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include power electronics and wireless power transfer.
Dr. Li's professional services and research have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Outstanding Reviewer Award (2025), two IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Awards (second place in 2024 and first place in 2023), the IEEE Power Electronics Society Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award (2022), and the University of Hong Kong Power Engineering Prize (2020).



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Yang Wu

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Yang Wu is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2017, with Excellent Graduate Award. She obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same department at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2022, with Excellent Ph.D. Graduate Award.
From October 2022 to June 2025, she has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark, where she has received the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. She concurrently served as a Technical Specialist at AI Stability, Denmark, where she has developed a stability prediction software for power electronic converters. From March to June 2024, she was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Her research interests include power converter modeling and analysis, condition monitoring and health management of electrical assets, and advanced sensing technologies. She has published 37 SCI/EI-indexed papers, including 12 first-author papers in IEEE Transactions journals. 7 of her first-author papers have been selected as Popular Papers of IEEE. She holds 15 granted patents in China and the United States. She is the recipient of the IEEE IAS CMD Thesis Award, EECS Rising Star by Georgia Institute of Technology, and has won two Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards at international conferences. She also serves as a Technical Program Committee member for several international conferences, including IEEE ECCE (2024, 2025) and IEEE ITSC (2022).



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Shuang Zhao

Hefei University of Technology, China

Dr. Shuang Zhao is an Associate Professor at Hefei University of Technology. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 2019.
In 2018, he was an assistant research scientist at ABB Corporate Research Center, Raleigh, NC, USA. In 2019, he joined Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. El Segundo, CA, USA serving as a Product Application Engineer. In 2022, he joined Hefei University of Technology where he serves as an Associate Professor and Huangshan Scholar.
Dr. Zhao's research interests include wide bandgap (WBG) device packaging and testing, modeling/simulation, advanced gate driver technologies, high-frequency power conversion, and special power supply technologies. He has published over 60 academic papers (20+ IEEE Trans articles), been granted 2 U.S. patents and more than 10 China patents, and authored 1 book.
He currently serves as a Guest Editor for multiple journals including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, and IET Power Electronics. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Member of the China Electrotechnical Society. He has also been the recipient of multiple Excellent Paper Awards at IEEE conferences such as APEC, PCIM etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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