Keynote Speakers_2025
Prof. Javier Contreras Sanz (Fellow, IEEE), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Bio: Javier Contreras received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in 1989, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997. Since 1998 he has been with the University of Castilla – La Mancha (UCLM), Ciudad Real, Spain, where he is currently Full Professor. Dr. Contreras has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a consultant for several electricity companies in Spain and has participated as principal investigator in national, European and international research projects. In particular, he is currently part of a European project named Effective Uptake of Digital Services to Repower European Consumers and Communities as Active Participants in Energy Transition and Markets (EU-DREAM). He has also been part of the evaluation committee of international research projects in the European Commission, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus, Argentina and Colombia. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Prof. Gerard LEDWICH (Fellow, IEEE), Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Gerard Ledwich is a professor in Electrical Power Engineering at QUT, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and Fellow IEEE. He has held positions at University of Queensland, and in the Queensland Electricity Commission and the University of Newcastle His research interests include control systems, power electronics, power systems, condition monitoring and distributed generation. He has published extensively, and is on the editorial panel of Modern Power and Clean Energy.
Prof. Vladimir Strezov, Macquarie University, Australia
Bio: Prof Vladimir Strezov is professor in environmental science at the School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering with expertise in renewable energy, environmental assessment, air and water quality, and sustainable development. He has published 6 scholarly books and over 300 publications. Prof Strezov is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy.
Prof. Belkacem Ouldbouamama, University of Lille, France
Bio: Belkacem OULD BOUAMAMA is full Professor of automatic control at Graduate School of Engineering Polytech Lille (France), where he has been Director of the Research. He is the leader of research PERSI group at the CRIStAL laboratory of the National Center for Scientific Research in Lille, where his research activities concern Integrated Design for Supervision of System Engineering based on multiphysics Bond graph modelling. Their industrial applications are mainly process engineering, renewable energies and green hydrogen. He has authored and co-authored more 65 peer-reviewed journals, 180 conference papers and 20 books and book chapters in Diagnosis, Prognosis and bond graph modeling of mechatronic systems. He has given more than 20 invited talks and tutorials and keynotes around the globe. More details are given in https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hxUxTA9ZKY5Ol44WoTUS2eXZOTTABlgW/view?usp=sharing