Prof. Chun Sing Lai

Tianjin University, China

(TC Co-Chair of Intelligent Power and Energy Systems of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society)

Prof. Chun Sing Lai received his B.Eng. (First Class Hons.) in electronic and electrical engineering from Brunel University London in 2013 and his D.Phil. in engineering science from the University of Oxford in 2019. He is currently a Yingcai Professor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. His research focuses on smart grid, energy system modeling, computational intelligence, and electric vehicle systems. Prof. Lai has organized and chaired various IEEE workshops and conferences related to smart cities and smart grids, including roles as Publications Co-Chair and Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, and Conference Chair for the 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Human-Computer Interaction. He serves as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Publications Committee, Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and IET Energy Conversion and Economics. He also chairs IEEE working groups P2814 and P3166 and leads the IEEE/SMCS Intelligent Power and Energy Systems Technical Committee. His honors include the 2020 Best Paper Award at IEEE ISC2, the 2022 IEEE SMC Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2024 IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award, the 2025 Chester W. Sall Memorial Award, Best Associate Editor and Excellent Reviewer Awards in 2024, and the IEEE SMC Early Career Award in 2025. He co-authored the book *Smart Energy for Transportation and Health in a Smart City* (IEEE Press/Wiley, 2023) and has six highly cited journal papers on Web of Science. Since 2021, he is ranked among the top 2% of active scientists worldwide by Stanford University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, UK Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

Assoc. Prof. Xiaoming Kang

University of South China, China

Leader of the New Energy Power and Energy Storage Team

I achieved my bachelor and Ph.D degree in Material Sciecne and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University in 2011 and 2017, respectively. After graduation, I furhter served as a postdoctor and research fellow in Prof. Luo Jinglli’s group (Fellow of the Canadian Academay of Engineering) to fufil my job in the research of next generation energy conversion and storage devices, with an emphasis on exploring the oxygen evolution/reduction reaction and electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion at room temperatures. In 2022, I worked as an associated professor in School of Mechanical Engineering, University of South China. Till now, I am hosting a National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shenzhen Postdoctral innovatiove research progam, respectively. As a core-participant, I am a member in Shenzhen Innovative Research Team Program:  Hydrogen energy and fuel cell electrocatalytic materials and Innovative project of Shenzhen graphene manufacturing innovation center: Development of graphene based materials for anti-corrosion and antifouling of marine equipment and facilities, respectively. Besides, I once hosted a China Postocroral Science Foundation in 2019. Till now, I have published over 30 papers and 5 patents in Nature Communications, Chemical Communication, Polymer Chemistry, Journal of Material Chemistry A, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Chinese Chemical Letters and etc.

Prof. Youwei He

University of South China, China

Dr. He Youwei is an employed professor at the University of South China, a master's tutor, a Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University, and a jointly trained Ph.D. from Ghent University in Belgium. The research direction is the study of efficient multi-objective optimization methods based on surrogate model, and has carried out multi-stage axial flow compressor design optimization, ultrasonic fan design and optimization, fuel cell cooling fan design and noise reduction optimization, aeroengine transonic airfoil design optimization, etc. Applied research. Relevant research results have been published in 17 papers in journals and international conferences such as Aerospace Science and Technology, Engineering with Computers, and ASME Turbo Expo. As the project leader, he presided over one project each of the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund, the Hunan Provincial Department of Education Scientific Research Project Key Project, and the University of South China PhD Startup Scientific Research Project. As a project participant, he has participated in many national key research and development plans, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s two-machine special project, and projects commissioned by Huawei.