Keynote Speeches
Akshay Kumar Rathore
National University of Singapore, SingaporeAkshay Kumar Rathore is a Professor and Director
of Power and Energy Research Area in the department of electrical
and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore.
His research focuses on power electronics and control of electric
motor drives. He is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of several
prestigious awards, such as IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding
Young Member Achievement Award, Isao Takahashi Power Electronics
Award, IEEE David Irwin Early Career Award, IEEE Bimal Bose Award
for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, Nagamori
Award, and the distinguished alumnus award (young achiever) from IIT
(BHU) Varanasi, India.
Prof. Rathore has contributed to above 300 papers on soft-switching
current-fed DC/DC converters, multilevel inverters, and DCM
rectifiers, including about 110 IEEE Transactions. He edited a book
on advanced concepts and technologies for electric transportation,
published by CRC Press in 2022. He has delivered above 200 invited
talks, keynotes, and tutorials in several events across the globe.
Presently, he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power
Electronics Society, an IES Society AdCom member, Chair of the IEEE
IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Achievement Award Committee and is
serving on the committees of the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering,
IEEE Nikola Tesla Award and IEEE Fellow Committee.
Hoay Beng GOOI
Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeHoay Beng GOOI received his PhD degree from Ohio
State University, USA. He was Assistant Professor with Lafayette
College, USA and Senior Engineer with EMPROS/Siemens, USA. He was
Associate Professor of EEE and Deputy Head of EEE Power Engineering,
NTU Singapore; Founding Co-Director, Singapore Power Group-NTU Joint
Lab (US$20M); Director of Renewable Energy, Science and Technology
Master Program, a concurrent degree offered by NTU and Ecole
Polytechnique, France; Programme Lead, NTU-Wuhan University Joint
Education Program; and Chairman of Fundamentals of Engineering
Examination (FEE - Electrical) Sub-Committee for Professional
Engineers Board (PEB) Singapore. He served as a committee member of
Singapore Standards Council; Founding Chair of IEEE Singapore Life
Member Affinity Group; Guest Editor for Journal of Modern Power
Systems and Clean Energy; and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems (T-PWRS). He won 2021 Outstanding IEEE T-PWRS Editor Award.
At NTU, he led and co-led several high-impact projects with a total
grant of more than US$10M. They include developing a
hardware-in-the-loop platform for hybrid microgrids funded by the US
Navy, and an online monitoring system for switchgear for the
Singapore national grid operator. He spearheaded projects on solar
intermittency mitigation with energy storage and blockchain-based
energy trading.
He is an Emeritus Associate Professor at EEE, NTU; a registered
professional engineer in Pennsylvania, USA and Singapore; an
independent microgrid consultant in Singapore; a Life Fellow of
IEEE; an IEEE IES Distinguished Lecturer; and a member of IEEE
Access Editorial Board; Energy Technical Committee, Institution of
Engineers Singapore; and FEE (Electrical) Sub-Committee for PEB
Singapore.
Yuhao Zhang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongYuhao Zhang is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He also serves as the Associate Director of the HKU Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits. Before joining HKU, he was the Shirish S. Sathaye Associate Professor with Virginia Tech, leading the power semiconductor research at the Center for Power Electronics Systems, the largest academic research center in power electronics in the U.S. He received his Ph. D. and S. M., both in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017 and 2013, respectively. He has authored over 200 papers (including 3 Nature-series papers, 21 IEDM papers, 20+ T-PEL papers as the corresponding author) and 2 book chapters and holds 8 granted U. S. patents. He is a co-author of over 10 highlight/feature/prize papers. His work has been cited over 12,000 times with a h-index of 57 and been widely covered by Nature Electronics, Semiconductor Today, Compound Semiconductors, EE Times, etc. over 100 times. He received the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories Doctoral Dissertation Award, two IEEE George Smith Awards (best paper award of the year in IEEE Electron Device Letters) in 2019 and 2023, four Technical Highlights of IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025, the ECCE Best Paper Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award and Faculty Fellow Award of Virginia Tech, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Compound Semiconductor Young Scientist Award, and the He Xiang Jian Young Scientist Award. His students received the Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and several APEC Best Presentation Awards. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the TPC member of many conferences (e.g., IEDM, APEC, ECCE, WiPDA, EDTM).
Speech Title
Next-Generation Power Devices: Emerging Materials, Architectures, and Applications