Keynote Speeches
C. K. Michael Tse
City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongChi K. Michael Tse graduated from the University
of Melbourne. He has held a Chair Professorship since 2005, and is
currently a Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at City
University of Hong Kong. His concurrent leadership roles as
Associate Vice-President (Innovation) and Director of the Academy of
Innovation involve the management of a large-scale integrated
investment, incubation and education platform for venture creation.
He is/was honorary professor and distinguished fellow with several
Australian, Canadian and Chinese universities, including Melbourne
University, RMIT University, University of Western Australia,
University of Calgary, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
(being Chang Jiang Scholars Chair), Northeastern University, etc.
His research interests are in power electronics and nonlinear
systems.
He has been awarded numerous invention, research and teaching
prizes. Among them, the IEEE CASS Charles A. Desoer Technical
Achievement Award 2022 recognized his "outstanding contributions and
continued leadership in the development of research in complex
behavior of power electronics and energy systems". He was twice
recipient of the President's Award in Research while working with
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been listed in the top
2% of the Stanford’s ranking list (science-wide databases of
standardized citation indicators), and was ranked 28th worldwide
(among 111,935 scientists in this subfield) for his career-long
impact in the subfield of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Since 2023, he has made a series of pledges to create a number of
scholarships for undergraduate students in Hong Kong and Australia.
In April 2025, partnering with a local painter, he staged a duo
exhibition “Blooming Calligraphy" at Carrousel du Lourve, Paris.
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.
Kwok Wai Ma
Infineon, SingaporeKwok Wai Ma graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering and Ph.D. in Power Electronics, in 1988 and 1995 respectively. He joined Infineon Technologies in 2005 and is currently Senior Principal Engineer, leading all system application engineering activities in Asia Pacific region for Industrial and Consumer Power applications, from product application, application development, technology launch and application innovation, in wide range of appliance, industrial and infrastructure applications. Since 2014 he has led the technology launch activities of SiC power device in Asia.
Sanjib Kumar Panda
National University of Singapore, SingaporeSanjib Kumar Panda (S’86-M’91-SM’01-F’21) received B. Eng. Degree from the South Gujarat University, India, in 1983, M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1991, all in electrical engineering. He was the recipient of the Cambridge-Nehru Scholarship and M. T. Mayer Graduate Scholarship during his PhD study (1987-1991). Since 1992, he has been holding a faculty position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Dr. Panda has published more than 525 peer-reviewed research papers, co-authored one book and contributed to several book chapters, holds six patents and co-founder of three start-up companies. His research interests include high-performance control of motor drives and power electronic converters, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, building energy efficiency enhancement etc. He had served as Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions e.g. Power Electronics, Industry Applications, Energy Conversion, Access and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He had also served as the Chair of the IEEE PELS Technical Committee, TC-12: Energy Access and Off-grid Systems from 2021-23. He is a member of the Global Energy Access Forum. Dr. Panda serves as IEEE PELS R-10 Membership Chair and a Member of the IEEE PELS Conference Committee. Dr. Panda was awarded the ACE Alumnus Award from SVNIT in Dec. 2025.