Zhiwu Li is a Chair Professor at the Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, where he also serves as a Ph.D. supervisor. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Humboldt Scholar. He received his B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Xidian University in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. He became a Professor at Xidian University in 2002, and in 2008 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Since 2013, he has been a Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Chair Professor.

His research interests include the supervisory control theory of discrete-event systems and Petri net theory and applications, and he proposed the elementary-siphon theory of Petri nets. He has authored two monographs and published over 160 papers in journals such as the IEEE Transactions, with 50 of them selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, has been named a Global Highly Cited Researcher for three consecutive years, and his works have been cited more than 16,000 times. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, chaired the International Conference on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and participated in the R&D and industrialization of semiconductor intelligent manufacturing technologies.

 

Zhe Wang is a Professor at the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, where he also serves as a Ph.D. supervisor. He earned his B.Eng. degree from the Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University (1993-1998) and his M.Eng. degree from the same department (1998-2001). In 2001, he went to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, which he received in August 2007. His career combines industrial and academic experience: in 2006 he worked as an electronics engineer at the GE Global Research Center (USA), developing temperature and composition measurements under harsh environments, and before returning to China in 2007 he completed postdoctoral research on gasifier operation characteristics and measurement strategies at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2008 he has served at Tsinghua University as a Research Associate and then Associate Professor in the Department of Thermal Engineering, and was promoted to Full Professor in June 2018. His research has spanned carburization surface-reaction mechanisms, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), supercritical carbon dioxide corrosion, and power-plant simulation and energy strategy.

His core research areas include laser measurement (LIBS), rapid coal-property measurement, corrosion and thermophysical-property measurement of supercritical CO2 mixtures in pipelines, thermal-system simulation, and energy-system optimization. In professional service, he is the Executive Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the Chinese LIBS Expert Committee, served as Executive Secretary of LIBS 2014 (Beijing), Vice-Chair of LIBS 2016, and Vice-Chair of the ASLIBS 2015 and 2017 Asian conferences. He is an editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Inorganic Analytical Chemistry and the Journal of Applied and Laser Spectroscopy, and a guest editor for journals including Plasma Science & Technology, Spectrochimica Acta Part B, and Frontiers of Physics. As principal investigator he has led the patent licensing and LIBS coal-analysis collaboration with TSI Inc. (USA), the EU IMPACTS supercritical CO2 pipeline-corrosion project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China project "Improving the Accuracy of Coal Composition Measurement Based on Laser-Induced Plasma Spectroscopy," and multiple LIBS patent implementation licenses for the Guodian Science and Technology Research Institute and Shanxi Zijing Technology, among others. Since 2013 he has delivered more than 20 plenary/keynote invited talks at international conferences in Italy, Japan, the United States, Mexico, and Austria, covering LIBS signal enhancement, a review of LIBS development in China, and modeling of corrosion mechanisms in supercritical CO2 pipeline steels, and has published over 40 SCI papers in journals such as Applied Energy, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Plasma Science and Technology, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, and International Journal of Chemical Kinetics.

 

Tao Jiang, born in 1983, is a Professor, Ph.D. supervisor, and Vice Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Northeast Electric Power University. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeast Electric Power University in 2006 and 2011, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University in 2015. Since 2015 he has been a faculty member at the School of Electrical Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, and has been a visiting scholar at North Carolina State University (USA), the University of Tennessee (USA), and Malardalen University (Sweden). He has been selected for the National Young Talents Program, the Jilin Province "Changbai Mountain Talent Project" (Young Top Talent), as a Young and Middle-aged Professional with Outstanding Contributions in Jilin Province, an Outstanding Young Science and Technology Talent of China's electric power sector, and the "New Talent Plan" and "NEEPU Scholar" of Northeast Electric Power University, and has received honors including Jilin City May Day Model Worker, Knowledge-Based Model Employee, and Outstanding Youth.

His research interests include power system security and stability, renewable energy integration, and integrated energy systems. He has published over 120 papers in SCI/EI journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and the Proceedings of the CSEE (including 3 ESI Hot Papers and 7 Highly Cited Papers). He is currently an IEEE Senior Member, a member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, a Senior Member of the China Electrotechnical Society, and a member of the China Energy Research Society, and serves on the editorial board of Power System Protection and Control and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IET Energy Systems Integration, Alexandria Engineering Journal, and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems.