{"id":577,"date":"2023-05-17T05:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/event.kiit.ac.in\/STPEC2023\/?page_id=577"},"modified":"2023-12-01T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T05:52:39","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/event.kiit.ac.in\/STPEC2023\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Liuchen Chang<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Biography\u00a0<\/b>:\u00a0Liuchen Chang received B.S.E.E. from Northern Jiaotong University in 1982, M.Sc. from China\u00a0Academy of Railway Sciences in 1984, and Ph.D. from Queen\u2019 University in 1991. He joined the\u00a0<\/span>University of New Brunswick in 1992 and is a Professor Emeritus at UNB. He was the NSERC\u00a0<\/span>Chair in Environmental Design Engineering during 2001-2007, and the Principal Investigator of\u00a0<\/span>Canadian Wind Energy Strategic Network (WESNet) during 2008-2014. He is a long-time\u00a0<\/span>volunteer for IEEE of 30 years and is the President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society\u00a0<\/span>(2021-2022).<\/span><\/p>

Dr. Chang was a recipient of CanWEA R.J. Templin Award for his contributions in the\u00a0development of wind energy technologies, Innovation Award for Excellence in Applied Research\u00a0<\/span>in New Brunswick for his contributions in smart grid and renewable energy technologies, and\u00a0<\/span>PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in\u00a0<\/span>distributed energy systems. He is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He\u00a0<\/span>has published more than 400 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr.\u00a0<\/span>Chang has focused on research, development, demonstration and deployment of renewable\u00a0<\/span>energy based distributed energy systems and direct load control systems.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Brij N. Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Biography\u00a0<\/b>: Dr. Brij N. Singh has earned BE from Madan Mohan Malviya Technical University,\u00a0Gorakhpur, ME from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of\u00a0<\/span>Technology, New Delhi, India, all in Electrical Engineering.\u00a0<\/span>In 1996, Dr. Singh joined the \u00c9cole de Technology Sup\u00e9rieure,\u00a0<\/span>Montreal, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. In 1999, he joined\u00a0<\/span>Concordia University, Montreal as a Research Fellow.<\/span><\/p>

In 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and\u00a0Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana,\u00a0<\/span>as an Assistant Professor.\u00a0<\/span>In 2007, Dr. Singh has joined John Deere as a Staff Engineer to\u00a0<\/span>lead and support silicon IGBT inverter development projects for\u00a0<\/span>the JD 644K and JD 944K Hybrid Loaders. In 2011, he joined Advanced Technology as a Senior\u00a0<\/span>Staff Engineer to lead John Deere\u2019s WBG power electronics projects.\u00a0<\/span>In 2020, Dr. Singh was named as the Region 4 Manager External Relationships with\u00a0<\/span>responsibilities to develop emerging technologies to support technology needs for the John Deere\u00a0<\/span>Tech Stack, Production Systems, Product Lifecycle Systems, Construction &amp; Road Building.\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Singh has published over 90 research articles including papers in the IEEE Transactions and\u00a0<\/span>IET Journals. He has 28 approved US patents, one trade secret, and over a dozen pending\u00a0<\/span>patents.<\/span><\/p>

In Tulane, Dr. Singh received four IEEE-Eta-Kappa-Nu teaching awards for outstanding\u00a0instructions in electrical engineering. In John Deere, he has received three innovation and one\u00a0<\/span>collaboration awards for product and technology development projects. Dr. Singh is the winner\u00a0<\/span>of the 2020 IEEE Power Electronics Emerging Technology Award for \u201cIn-Vehicle\u00a0<\/span>Demonstration of Engine-Cooled Power-Dense Scalable SiC Inverter\u201d. In 2020, Dr. Singh was\u00a0<\/span>awarded the \u201cTitle of John Deere Fellow\u201d for exemplary knowledge leadership and significant\u00a0<\/span>contributions to the power electronics engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow and life member of\u00a0<\/span>IEEE Industrial Electronics and Power Electronics Societies and lives with his family in West\u00a0<\/span>Fargo, ND, USA.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Akshay Kumar Rathore <\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Biography\u00a0<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Akshay Kumar Rathore is an IEEE Fellow and expert in power electronics and control of electrical motor drives. He is currently a full Professor and Program leader of Electrical Power Engineering Degree Program jointly offered with Newcastle University, UK. He received the Gold Medal for securing the highest academic standing in his Master\u2019s degree among all electrical engineering specializations at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He received his PhD degree in Power Electronics from University of Victoria, British\u00a0Columbia, Canada in 2008. He had two subsequent postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.\u00a0 From November 2010 to February 2016, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0 Computer\u00a0\u00a0 Engineering, National\u00a0\u00a0 University\u00a0\u00a0 of Singapore. From March 2016-Dec 2021, he served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0 Computer\u00a0\u00a0 Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada where he was listed in the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2021. He served as Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards during 2020-21.<\/p>

Dr. Rathore is a recipient\u00a0\u00a0 of\u00a0\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0 2013\u00a0\u00a0 IEEE\u00a0\u00a0 IAS\u00a0\u00a0 Andrew\u00a0\u00a0 W.\u00a0\u00a0 Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, 2019 IES Publications Service Recognition Award, 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award, 2020\u00a0\u00a0 IEEE\u00a0\u00a0 Bimal\u00a0\u00a0 Bose\u00a0\u00a0 Award\u00a0\u00a0 for\u00a0\u00a0 Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems and 2021 Nagamori Award. He published about 300 research papers in international journals and conferences, including 98 IEEE TRANSACTIONS.\u00a0<\/p>

His research is mainly focused on the analysis and design of novel current-fed converters (topologies and modulation), soft-switching design and modulation schemes for the dc\/dc converters, pulsating DC link (electrolytic capacitorless) inverters, and control of multilevel inverters. He is currently serving as the co-Editor-in-Chief\u00a0of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Awards Department Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, AdCom Member-at-Large and Fellow Evaluation Committee member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is serving as the Chair of IEEE IAS Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems Committee. He led and chaired the IEEE IAS Industrial Automation and Control Committee (2018-19) and IEEE IAS Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification (2016-17).\u00a0<\/p>

He served as the Paper Review Chair (eq. to co-Editor-in-Chief) of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2016-17 and 2020-21), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE IES Technology News (ITeN) (2016-18), Associate Editor of various journals, i.e., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2014-19), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2013-present), IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (2014-19), IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topic in Power Electronics (2013-19), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2016-19), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2014-2021) and IET Power Electronics (2015-19). He edited 5 special issues on the topics of electric transportation, EV charging, marine systems, more electric aircraft, machine learning in power electronics, and renewable energy conversion in different IEEE Transactions as a guest associate editor and as guest-EIC of 2 special issues.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ching-Jan Chen<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Biography <\/span>: <\/span>Ching-Jan Chen (S\u201908\u2013M\u201912\u2013SM\u201918) received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. From 2010 to 2011, he was a visiting scholar at the Center of Power Electronic Systems (CPES) of Virginia Tech., Blacksburg.

From 2011 to 2015, he was a senior IC research and development engineer with Richtek Technology Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, which is Asia No.1 fabless power IC company and CPU Power IC supplier according to revenue. His work was focused on new control scheme development and IC design of the voltage regulator controller for CPU power. In February 2015, he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

His current research interests include control, modeling, and power IC design of dc\u2013dc and ac-dc power converters for CPU and mobile devices, and GaN driver IC design. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Electrical Power Engineering Division, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, in 2016, the Outstanding Teaching Award from NTU in 2020, the Research Contribution Award from NTU EECS in 2020, and Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (\u5433\u5927\u7337\u5148\u751f\u7d00\u5ff5\u734e) from MOST, Taiwan, in 2021. He is the co-recipient of 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference Asia-Pacific (ITEC-AP) Best Paper Award and 2018 International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC) Best Poster Award. He served more than 16 times as session chair, topic chair, and financial chair in several IEEE conferences and competitions, such as ECCE, ECCE-Asia, International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC), IFEEC, WiPDA Asia, ITEC-Asia Pacific, and VLSI-DAT. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He is the Secretary and then vice-chair of the IEEE PELS Taipei Chapter from 2018 till now and received the IEEE PELS Best Chapter Award in 2018.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Biography\u00a0<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Dr Sri Niwas Singh,\u00a0<\/span>FIEEE (USA), FNAE, FIET (UK), IE(I), IETE(I), FAvH<\/span><\/p>

Prof S. N. Singh obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1989 and 1995. Presently, Prof Singh is Director, Atal Bihari Bajpayee- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior (MP), India (on leave from Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India). Before joining IIT Kanpur as
Associate Professor, Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 1988 to 1996, with Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) as Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000 and with Asian Institute of Technology,<\/p>

Bangkok, Thailand as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2002. He was Vice- Chancellor of Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology Gorakhpur\u00a0during April 2017 to July 2020.<\/span><\/p>

Dr Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof\u00a0Singh is receipt of Humboldt Fellowship of Germany (2005, 2007) and Otto- <\/span>monsted Fellowship of Denmark (2009-10). Prof Singh became first Asian to\u00a0<\/span>receive 2013 IEEE Educational Activity Board Meritorious Achievement Award\u00a0<\/span>in Continuing Education. He is also recipients of INAE Outstanding Teacher\u00a0<\/span>Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer\u00a0<\/span>Award 2016. Dr Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguish Lecturer of Power &\u00a0<\/span>Energy Society from 2019 and Industry application Society for 2019-2021. He is <\/span>also recipient of NPSC 2020 Academic Excellence Award and 2021 IEEE<\/span><\/p>

Industry Application Society (IAS) Outstanding Educator\/ Mentor Award. His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization & control, security analysis, wind power, etc. Prof Singh has published more than 550 papers (h-index=60, Citation=14k+) in International\/ national journals\/conferences and supervised 41 PhD (7 PhD under progress). He has also written 31 book chapters, 8 Edited books and 2 text-books one on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution and second is Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed three dozen of technical projects in India and abroad. His two NPTEL (YouTube) video lectures on HVDC Transmission and Power System Operation & Control are very popular. Prof Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013 & 2014, IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-18 and R10 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities (2019-2020). Dr Singh is Fellows of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), INAE, IE(I), AAIA, IETE, AvH.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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IEEE Fellow (since 2021)
Entered IEEE-ISPSD inaugural Hall of Fame (2018)<\/p>

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<\/b>Senior Fellow, Power Device Works, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan<\/p>

Academic Background<\/b>:<\/p>