Prof. Feiqi Deng

                                                                                              Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Biography:   Feiqi Deng was born in 1962. He received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering

from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, in June 1997. Since October 1999, he has been a professor with South China University of Technology and the director of the Systems Engineering Institute of the university. He is currently a member of Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT), Chinese Association of Automation, and and now he is serving as the chair of the IEEE CSS Guangzhou Chapter, the director of the TCCT Technical Committee on Stochastic System Control, the vice editor-in-chief of Journal of South China University of Technology, and member of the editorial boards of the journals: IEEE Access, AIMS Mathematics, Control theory and Applications and All about Systems and Control. His main research interests include stability, stabilization and Control of of complex systems.

                                                                                                  Prof. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

                                                                                              Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Biography:   Subhas holds a B.E.E. (gold medallist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India). Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is the Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Mechatronics etc. He has supervised over 50 postgraduate students and over 150 Honours students. He has examined over 75 postgraduate theses.

He has published over 450 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written ten books and fifty two book chapters and edited eighteen conference proceedings. He has also edited thirty five books with Springer-Verlag and thirty two journal special issues. He has organized over 20 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 404 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures. As per Scholargoogle, his total citation is 16086 and h-index is 64.

                                                                                                                Prof. Jizhong Zhu

                                                                                        South China University of Technology, China

Biography: Prof. Jizhong Zhu is a Professor and director of ISESOOC center in SCUT and National Distinguished Expert in China. He is Chair of IEEE P2781 and P2783 Standard working groups since 2018, core member of IEEE PES SBLC Technical Committee, member of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on intelligent power and energy systems, and member of IEEE SMC Standard Committee, as well as was Chair of IEEE PES SBLC Loads Subcommittee during 2017-2019. He worked at ALSTOM Grid as a Senior Principal Power Systems Engineer and Senior Expert during 2000-2015, and became a Fellow of Alstom Expert Committee in 2013. His research interest is integrated smart energy system optimal operation and control (ISESOOC), as well as smart grid and renewable energy applications. He has published six books as a sole author, and published over 200 papers in the international journals and conferences.