Kwok W. Cheung
Founder and CEO, KC-Exousia Consulting, USA
IEEE Fellow
Kwok W. Cheung (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 1991. He joined the GE Grid Solutions (formerly ALSTOM Grid Inc.) in 1991, where he is currently the Director of Research and Development of Network Management Solutions focusing on innovation and technology. He has been a Registered Professional Engineer of the State of Washington since 1994. His current interests include electricity market design and implementation, smart grid, renewable energy integration, energy forecasting, power system stability, and microgrid.
Dean Sharafi
Strategic Advisor – Energy Transition, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Australia
Dean Sharafi is the Strategic Advisor on energy transition at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Dean holds a degree in Applied Physics, a degree in Electrical Engineering and a degree in Business Management. He has over thirty years of experience in power system engineering which includes Power System Protection, High Voltage Systems, Asset Management and Power System and Electricity Market Operation.
Dean is a senior member of the IEEE and has been involved with IEEE Power and Energy Society for twenty years including serving at the Governing Board from 2017 to 2022.
Dean has published many papers on power system protection, condition monitoring, asset management and power system operations. He lectured for a decade as a Sessional Academic on Power System Earthing at Curtin University in Western Australia.
Dean is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Journal and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Weihao Hu
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Weihao Hu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, both in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2012.,He is currently a Full Professor and the Director of the Institute of Smart Power and Energy Systems (ISPES), University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. His research interests include artificial intelligence in modern power systems and renewable power generation.
Muhammad Junaid
China University of Mining and Technology
Muhammad Junaid received his Ph.D. (2020), M.S. (2015), and B.Eng. (2011) in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Power system engineering. 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, in Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, SARHAD University of Science & Information Technology, in Pakistan.
Dr. Junaid's research focuses on alternatives to the SF6 gas and key technologies for fault current interruption, including vacuum interrupters, cryogenic dielectrics, and high voltage insulation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, 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). He has been involved in 10 funded projects, presiding over 8 of them, and holds 13 patents and 57 publications.