Prof. Jianjun Xu

Northeast Petroleum University, China

Jianjun Xu, male, Han ethnicity, professor, postdoctoral fellow, member of the Communist Party of China, doctoral supervisor at Northeast Petroleum University, and adjunct master’s supervisor at Heilongjiang University. Born in 1971, a native of Rugao City, Jiangsu Province.

In 1995, he graduated from Daqing Petroleum Institute majoring in Automation and was simultaneously recommended for admission to the master’s program in Industrial Automation. In 1998, he received his master’s degree and stayed at the institute to work. In 2002, he began doctoral studies in Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering; during this period, he pursued further studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2006, he graduated with a doctoral degree. In 2011, he completed his postdoctoral research at the Electrical Engineering Postdoctoral Research Station of Harbin Institute of Technology.

He is a New Century Excellent Talent of Heilongjiang Provincial Universities and Director of the National First-Class Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Automation. He has received titles such as “Model Worker,” “Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker,” “Outstanding Communist Party Member,” and “Advanced Worker of the Association for Science and Technology.”

He is an editorial board member of Electrical Technology and a standing council member of the Heilongjiang Instrument and Meter Society. He is a special reviewer for multiple international academic journals (IETE Journal of Research, Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics) and Chinese academic journals (Proceedings of the CSEE, Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, Automation of Electric Power Systems, Power System Technology, Guangdong Electric Power, Journal of North China Electric Power University, etc.), and has been named an Outstanding Reviewer for Power System Protection and Control and Electrical Technology. He is a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and national and provincial science and technology progress awards, etc. He was Co-Chair of the ESAT2021 International Conference and has been invited to give plenary academic lectures at more than ten international conferences, including IEEE conferences.

As a core member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Team for Oil and Gas Information and Control Engineering, his research activities focus on the fields of “Power System Automation” and “Energy Conversion and Control Technology.” He has been responsible for more than 50 projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and various scientific and technological tackling projects; many achievements have been appraised as “internationally advanced” and “domestically leading.” He has published more than 100 papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions and Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, with more than 30 indexed by SCI and more than 40 by EI, including 2 ESI highly cited papers and 1 hot paper. He has published 9 books and textbooks, been granted 8 invention patents, won 7 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and 5 provincial and ministerial teaching awards.

Prof. Chengxi Liu

Wuhan University, China

Chengxi Liu, male, born in 1985, is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and National-level Specially Appointed Young Expert at the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a Senior Member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE), an IET Member, and a CIGRE Member, and serves as the Chinese representative of CIGRE Working Group WG C2.18. He currently serves as a member of the Power Generation and Grid Integration Special Committee of the China Renewable Energy Association, a member of the New-Type Power System Special Committee of the China Energy Research Society, and a member of the New-Type Power System Special Committee of the Guangdong Electrical Engineering Association.

He has long been engaged in research on stability analysis, operation control, and simulation algorithms for new-type power systems. His specific research areas include power system stability and control, grid integration control of renewable energy and energy storage, integrated energy optimization and control, and the application of big data and artificial intelligence in power systems. He proposed an analytical power flow calculation and vulnerability assessment algorithm for complex power grids based on an analytic continuation framework. He has published more than 80 academic papers, including more than 30 SCI-indexed papers, and has applied for/been granted more than 10 Chinese and U.S. patents. His Google Scholar citations are 1,999, with an h-index of 26.