Prof. Zhao Yang DONG

IEEE Fellow

City University of Hong Kong, China

Bio: Prof Z.Y. Dong is a Chair Professor and Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. His previous roles include Singapore Power Group Endowed Professor and Co-Director of SPG-NTU Joint Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; SHARP Professor of Energy System and Inaugrial Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, the University of NSW, Australia; Director of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Systems; Head of School of Electrical & Information Engineering, The University of Sydney; and Ausgrid Chair Professor and Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks provided R&D support for the Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration project of Australia. He also worked with industry as manager for power system planning with the transmission network service provider of TAS in Australia. Prof Dong's research interests include power system planning and stability, smart grid/micro grid, smart cities, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, and energy market. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has held editorial roles for several IEEE Transactions and IET Journals.

Prof. Adrian Ioinovici

IEEE Life Fellow

Shanghai University of Electric Power, China

Bio: Adrian Ioinovici, IEEE Fellow, is the Director of the Power Electronics based on Switched Capacitors (PESC) Center, the Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the "one thousand foreign experts plan", and holds honorary professorships from many universities. He got the IEEE Fellow grade for "pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters" and served as Associate Editor for many IEEE Transactions. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief and present EiC of International Journal of Power Electronics and Applications. He authorized the books Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990) and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters (Wiley, 2013). His main research interests are switching-capacitor converters and inverters, large dc gain converters, soft-switching converters. He published over 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences.

Title:Switched-Capacitor-Based Inverters for Grids Supplied by Green Energy

Abstract: The theory of energy conversion through a switched-capacitor circuit will be revised. The requirements imposed on the inverters when used in grids supplied by renewable energy cells will be discussed versus the possibilities offered by the switched-capacitors. An introduction to the classical multilevel switched capacitor inverters (SCMLI) will be followed by a detailed discussion of the SCMLIs specifically developed to answer the requirements of the green sources of energy. The speech will end by pointing out the trade-offs that have to be done in the development of these inverters, and a way forward in their research to match better the constraints imposed by the green energy cells and by the grid.

Prof. Wei Xu

IEEE Fellow

Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Bio: Wei Xu (Fellow, IEEE) received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, China, in 2008, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly focus on the design and control of linear machines and drives. From Sep. 2008 to Sep. 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, the Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and a Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. From Oct. 2013 to Dec. 2023, he was a Professor with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Since Jan. 2024, he has been a Professor with IEECAS. Dr. Xu is Director for State Key Laboratory for High Density Electromagnetic Power and Systems, an IEEE Fellow and an IET Fellow. He is General Chair of 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE). He is one Associate Editor of over ten peer-reviewed IEEE JOURNALS, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. He has published 4 books, over 180 journal papers in IEEE Series, and been awarded more than 150 intentional patents granted, which has been cited by over 11,000 times with H-index 52 based on Google Scholar statistics.

Prof. Yiming Zhang

Fuzhou University, China

Bio: Prof. Yiming Zhang, National High-Level Oversea Youth Talent, “Minjiang Scholar” of Fujian Province, Professor of Fuzhou University, Ph.D. supervisor, IEEE Senior Member, Vice Dean of School of Electrical Engineering. He was recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientist by Elsevier. His research interest is power electronics and wireless power transfer. He has authored one book from Springer and published more than 100 technical papers in renowned journals and conference proceedings. He has an H-index of 44 and has won multiple excellent conference papers including ECCE, EVS, EVCP, and CIEEC. He was recognized as the Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE TPEL and TIE. He is the PI of the Excellent Youth Project and Youth Fund from National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Outstanding Youth Project of Fujian Provincial Natural Science Foundation.

Assoc. Prof. Tao Ma

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Bio: Dr Tao Ma received his PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2015 and now he is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research is mainly related to fundamental research and applications of solar photovoltaic technology. He has acted as a Principal Investigator of 18 research projects from MOST, NSFC etc, and he has published over 150 papers in high-impact international journals with a total citation of 13,000 and h-index of 63, including 15 ESI highly cited papers and 2 ESI hot papers. Dr. Ma has received a number of awards, such as ‘Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025', 'Most Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier', 'World's Top 2% most-cited Scientists', 'Highly Ranked Scholar (Top 0.05%) in Photovoltaic & Energy', 'Excellent Young Scientist Award in Energy and Built Environment', 'Outstanding PhD Thesis Award' etc.. He currently serves as the editorial board member of several journals including 'Applied Energy (IF: 10.1)' and 'Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells (IF: 6.3)'.

Title:High-Efficiency Colored and semi-transparent Photovoltaics for Buildings Integration

Abstract:Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology is essential for developing zero-energy buildings and carbon-neutral cities. However, much effort is still required to make photovoltaic (PV) panels aesthetically pleasing. In this presentation, I will share some progress from our lab on developing colored PVs with high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) and mass producibility. This work is based on technologies such as self-assembled photonic glass and dielectric multilayer thin films, and we have been able to create solar cells in various colors, with less than a 5% reduction in PCE compared to standard cells, through spray coating microspheres of different diameters and optimally designing film stacks. Using these methods, we also achieved high-efficiency PV modules with various colors and patterns, reaching PCEs of up to 21%. A demonstraion project was setup in the campus of SJTU for validating this technology and long-term performance evalutaion. This research lays the foundation and provides motivation for the future development of colored PVs for integration into sustainable buildings and cities.