PEED 2026

Duc Truong Pham

Professor, University of Birmingham, UK.

Research field: Mechanical, manufacturing, computer and systems engineering.

Duc Truong Pham received the Sir Joseph Whitworth Prize (1996, 2000), Thomas Stephens Group Prize (2001, 2003), and Donald Julius Groen Prize (2004) from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; being appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 New Year Honours for services to engineering; and earning the 5th ICMR Best Paper Prize (2007). His global academic leadership is evidenced by over 50 international keynote addresses and visiting chairs at École Centrale de Paris (Professeur Invité), HUST-China (Consulting Professor), University of Canterbury-New Zealand (Erskine Fellow), Université Paul Verlaine-France, King Saud University-Saudi Arabia, Wuhan University of Technology (Strategic Scientist), and Xi’an Jiaotong University (Honorary Professor). Throughout his career, he has: authored 600+ technical papers and 17 books; supervised 100+ PhD completions; secured £30M+ in research funding; driven industry innovation as a consultant to multinationals/SMEs, creating jobs through knowledge transfer; and received the Lifetime Achievement Award (2016, World Automation Congress) and Distinguished International Contribution Award (2017, IEEE/IFIP). He currently holds fellowships in the Royal Academy of Engineering, Learned Society of Wales, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Boris Andrievsky

Professor, St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

Research field: Control system, transfer function, control loop, control signal, optimal control, time constant, analysis system, asymptotically stable, control problem, human operator, linear time-invariant, manual control.

Boris Andrievsky (M'00–SM'04) received Diploma degree in electrical engineering and the Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) degree in control engineering from the Baltic State Technical University (BSTU), Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1972 and 1979, respectively, the Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degree in 2005 from the Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences (IPME RAS), Saint Petersburg, Russia. From 1972 to 2000, he held different positions with BSTU. Since 1998, he has been with the IPME RAS, where he is currently a Leading Research Fellow. He also serves as a Professor with ITMO University and the Principal Research Fellow with Saint Petersburg State University, both at Saint Petersburg, Russia. He has authored over 200 research papers, several monographs and textbooks. His research interests include adaptive and variable structure control, control of oscillations, applications to control in aerospace, control of mechanical systems and signal processing. He is also the Senior Member of IEEE from 2004.

Farhad Shahnia

Professor, Murdoch University, Australia.

Research field: Power system, renewable sources, objective function, renewable energy, renewable energy sources, battery capacity, convolutional neural network, copper loss, electric vehicles, energy storage systems, investment costs, long short-term memory.

Professor Farhad Shahnia (Senior Member, IEEE) received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently an A/Professor at Murdoch University. Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 100+ peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and journals, as well as being an editor of 6 books. Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016. Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 35+ conferences in various roles such as General, Technical, Program, Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs. Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the 2020-2021 Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE Western Australia Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter. He is currently the 2021-2022 Secretary of the IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.

Nadeem Javaid

Professor, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.

Research field: Energy optimization in smart grids, wireless sensor networks, big data analytics, and blockchain.

Nadeem Javaid (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in electronics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris-Est, France, in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is currently Tenured Professor and Founding Director of the Communications Over Sensors (ComSens) Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad Campus. He has supervised 203 master’s and 32 Ph.D. theses. He has authored over 950 articles in technical journals and international conferences. He was a recipient of the Best University Teacher Award from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, in 2016, and the Research Productivity Award from the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, in 2017. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is also an Editor of the Sustainable Cities and Society Journals.

Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad

Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

Research field: Power system reliability, smart grid, renewable and distributed energy resources, power system operation.

Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1986, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1989, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, and a Visiting Professor with Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad is a Member of the Center of Excellence in Power System Control and Management with the Electrical Engineering Department. He also is the Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Associate Fellow of the Iran National Academy of Sciences. He is the Member of IEEE Power and Energy Society from 1994.

Jiashen Teh

Associate Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.

Research field: Electric vehicles, dynamic line rating, state of charge, monte carlo simulation, renewable energy, wind power, battery capacity, battery degradation, battery performance, battery state of charge, charge behavior, control method.

Jiashen Teh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia, in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. in 2016. Since 2023, he has been an Associate Professor with Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia. He is currently a Chartered Engineer conferred by the Engineering Council, U.K. and The Institution of Engineering and Technology, as well as a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. His research interests include probabilistic modeling of power systems, grid integration of renewable energy sources, and reliability modeling of smart grid networks. For three consecutive years in 2019, 2020 and 2021, he was among the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers according to field ranked by Stanford University. In 2021, he was the recipient of the IEEE PES Malaysia Outstanding Engineer Award.

Yiming Zhang

Professor, Fuzhou University, China.

Research field: Wireless power transfer, power electronics, renewable energy.

Yiming Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA and a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Full Professor with Fuzhou University. He has authored 1 book from Springer, authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include wireless power transfer and resonant converters. Dr. Zhang was the recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations of Tsinghua University in 2016. He was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2019 and 2022, and a Distinguished Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2020. He was the Publication Chair of the international conference 2022 International Conference on Wireless Power Transfer.

Muhammad Junaid

Associate Professor, China University of Mining and Technology, China.

Research field: Short-circuit current, current limitations, fast switching, rated voltage, short-circuit fault, electric aircraft, electric field strength, electrode gap, electrode geometry, electrode materials, power system.

Muhammad Junaid (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2020. Since late 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at King's College Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan. He has been involved in ten funded projects, presiding over eight of them, holds 11 patents, and 56 publications. His research focuses on alternatives to the SF6 gas and key technologies for fault current interruption, including vacuum interrupters, cryogenic dielectrics, and high voltage insulation. Dr. Junaid He is a member of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS), and IAENG Hong Kong, and a life member of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).