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Professor Ismail Musirin

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Professor Dr. Ismail Musirin has got 22 years of research experience in the field of Power System Engineering. He has received numerous research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia (MOHE) and Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI). Most of his researches dealt with the algorithms and techniques development in solving problems in Power System involving voltage stability, economic power dispatch, transient stability, distributed generation, renewable energy optimization, power system optimization and application of artificial intelligence in power system. With his vast experience in electrical engineering and artificial intelligence, he has been appointed as one of the research grant evaluators since seven years ago by the Minister of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE). He has also been opportunity to evaluate research grant at the international level. One of the most important recognition received b him is the opportunity given by the Ministry of Security, Kazaksthan to review a research proposal from the country. Besides, he has delivered speeches on research proposals at several universities in Malaysia. 

Professor Hongwei Li
Southwest Petroleum University, china

Hongwei Li is currently the professor and the director of the Faculty Committee of the School of Electrical information at Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU). In 2010, he was selected as a visiting Scholar of "Light of the West" organized by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Ministry of Education. In 2015.4-2015.10, he was a visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Texas (UTA). In the past five years, he has undertaken or participated in a number of national and provincial research projects. He has published more than 100 scientific and technological papers.His research interests include distribution network (micro-grid) analysis and control, integrated energy system, intelligent motor control, control system design of oilfield electrical equipment and energy saving technology, etc.

Associate Professor Norzanah Rosmin 
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Norzanah Rosmin is an Associate Professor at Centre of Electrical Energy Systems (CEES), Faculty of  Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia. She obtained her B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering in 1999, M.Eng in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and PhD in Renewable Energy in 2015 from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. She has 23 years of experience in teaching electrical engineering courses and supervision of students projects and also research. She is an expert in Renewable Energy (RE) areas such as wind and solar energy control system, RE system and integration, smart/microgrid system simulation, energy efficiency, and also electrical energy audit and management system. She was invited to share her expertise through research, workshop, and tutorials both locally and internationally. Her vast knowledge in this area has also led to publications in books, journals and conference proceedings. She is also involved as a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) for ASEAN Energy Management Scheme (AEMAS) and also Registered Electrical Energy Manager (REEM) certified by Malaysian Energy Commission. She has the quality and the ability to become an excellent academician and innovators not only in the research area, teaching activities, and also the community projects. Her involvement in community projects are such as the knowledge transfer on the smarter agricultural-based technology system (such as freshwater lobsters’ cultivation, hydroponics and fertigation plantations) by implementing renewable energy and Internet-of-things (IoT) application to diversify economic activities in rural/B40 areas. This is integral to help the local communities by improving their incomes, and also to sustain long-term growth. She also got numbers of awards for the innovation projects based on her expertise.

Associate Professor Nor Asiah Muhamad
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei

With millions of homes and businesses relying on the National Grid, engineering research in high voltage electrical energy systems is very important in protecting from surges, preventing blackouts, and ensuring safety and efficiency from the grid across. her research interest lies in detecting incipient faults for condition monitoring of electrical power equipment as well as at the transmission system to ensure continuous supply from generation to the end-user. Besides that, she also doing research to find and do the improvement of new insulation material developed for high voltage equipment applications. Her interest in this area had gone deeper and the research is continued through her research students and grants that she managed to obtain. Below is the list of the grants that she manage to obtain as Principle Investigator:i. International grant: 1, ii. National grants: 4 iii. Contract Research with industry: 2 iii. Universiti internal Grant: 6. Now, besides the power transformer as the major equipment being studied, her research had extended to other equipment in power system industries. The other equipment that she have started to study are high voltage cables, pole insulators, and switchgear. As the insulating system is the main approach that she normally used in her research, this had open the door for her to explore new research topics that are in the area of insulating material for high voltage application development, testing, and improvement. Besides research in high voltage engineering, her interest in doing research in the area of energy efficiency on building and energy sources management is gained. This interest grew when she started teaching energy resources planning and efficiency subjects for the master’s degree course. As for now, most of her master by course students are doing energy efficiency and green index building research for their dissertation. The summary of her publication from 2011 until today is as below: i. Research books: 2 books ii. Indexed journal as the main/corresponding author: 36 papers iii. Non-indexed journal as the main/corresponding author: 4 papers iv. Indexed journal as a co-author: 30 papers v. Non indexed journal as a co-author: 8 papers vi. Chapter in research book (tier 1): 12 chapters vii. Conference proceeding: 74 papers.

Nur Islami

Universitas Riau, Indonesia

Nur Islami received his B.Sc. from Universitas Riau and his M.Eng from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, and Ph.D. degrees from University of Malaya, Malaysia. He worked in Caltex Pacific Indonesia (an Oil Company) in 1997-2000. He joined Universitas Riau, Indonesia as Lecturer from 2000 until now. He was as Visiting Senior Lecturer in University of Malaya (56 QS World Rangking), Malaysia from 2006 to 2015. During this period (2006-2015) he also was an instructor and consultant for the environment and exploration company that was related to the geophysics. He received the Prof. since 2020 in the field of Geophysics. His research is correlated with the geophysical method for the environment, groundwater, earth mitigation and earth resources exploration.

Riyang Shu

Guangdong University of Technology, China

Riyang Shu received his BSc degree from the Dalian University of Technology (2012) and his PhD degree from the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Longlong Ma (2017). Afterwards, he joined the Guangdong University of Technology as a lecturer and was appointed as an Associate Professor in 2018. He was a visiting scholar in Prof. Ning Yan’s Group at the National University of Singapore from June to December 2018. His research focuses on the catalytic conversion of renewable biomasses into fuels and chemicals.

Sen Guo

North China Electric Power University, China

Dr. Sen Guo received the B.S.degree in economics, the M.S. degree in industrial engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in energy management from the North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, in 2009, 2013 and 2016, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor and Master Supervisor in School of Economics and Management at North China Electric Power University. He obtained Beijing Outstanding Young Fund in 2017, and National Natural Science Foundation Fund of China in 2018. He has also hold several projects with electricity power enterprises such as SGCC. His research interests include energy economics and environment, carbon economics, and energy system optimization. He has published more than 50 journal papers in SCI-indexed journals such as Applied Energy and Energy.