Keynote SpeakerS
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
Prof. Mohan Lal Kolhe, the University of Agder, Norway
Bio:Prof. Dr. Mohan Lal Kolhe is a full professor in smart grid and renewable energy at the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the University of Agder (Norway). He is a leading renewable energy technologist with three decades of academic experience at the international level and previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities, e.g., University College London (UK / Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. In addition, he was a member of the Government of South Australia’s first Renewable Energy Board (2009-2011) and worked on developing renewable energy policies. Professor Kolhe is an expert evaluator of many prestigious international research councils (e.g., European Commission: Erasmus+ Higher Education – International Capacity Building, Royal Society London (UK), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC UK), Cyprus Research Foundation, etc.). In addition, many international organizations have invited him to deliver keynote addresses, expert lectures, workshops, etc. He has also been a member of many academic promotional committees. Professor Kolhe has been successful in obtaining competitive research funding from prestigious research bodies (such as the Norwegian Research Council, EU, EPSRC, BBSRC, NRP, etc.) for his work on sustainable energy systems. His work on energy systems and electrical & electronic engineering has been recognised in the top 2% of scientists worldwide consistently from 2020 to 2023, according to Stanford University matrices based on Elsevier data. His top 10 publications have received an average of more than 200 citations each, making him an acknowledged pioneer in his profession on a global scale.