Prof. Dr. Jahangir Hossain

University of Technology Sydney,  Australia

Dr. Jahangir Hossain received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Eng. degrees from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Bangladesh, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales in 2010, Australia, all in electrical and electronic engineering. He also completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education degree from Griffith University in 2014. 

He is currently a professor Professor with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Before joining there, he served as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Macquarie University, for three and a half years; a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in the Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia, for five years; and a Research Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Previously, he worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, for six years. His research interests include renewable energy integration and stabilization, voltage stability, microgrids and smart grids, robust control, electric vehicles, building energy management systems, and energy storage systems.

Prof. Ismail Musirin

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Prof. Dr. Ismail Musirin has 22 years of research experience in the field of power system engineering. He has received numerous research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia (MOHE) and the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI). Most of his research dealt with the development of algorithms and techniques for solving problems in power systems involving voltage stability, economic power dispatch, transient stability, distributed generation, renewable energy optimization, power system optimization, and the application of artificial intelligence in power systems. 

With his vast experience in electrical engineering and artificial intelligence, he was appointed as one of the research grant evaluators seven years ago by the Minister of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE). He has also had the opportunity to evaluate research grants at the international level. One of the most important recognitions received by him is the opportunity given by the Ministry of Security, Kazakstan, to review a research proposal from the country. Besides, he has delivered speeches on research proposals at several universities in Malaysia. 

Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Professor Dr. Saad Mekhilef is a Charted Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is an associate editor of various top journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the Journal of Power Electronics. He has been a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, since June 1999. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Director of the Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL). He authored and co-authored more than 400 publications in academic journals and proceedings, including 253 International Scientific Indexing, ISI publications, and five books with more than 34,500 citations and 90 H-indexes. A total of 116 Philosophy Doctorate (Ph.D.) and Master Degree candidates have successfully graduated under his supervision. He has filed six intellectual property (IP) claims in his expertise. He is frequently invited to give honorary keynote lectures at international conferences, congresses, meetings, and symposiums.

Saad Mekhilef has been listed by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the most highly cited (Hi.Ci) engineering researchers in the world and included in "Thomson Reuters" The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2018–2021). He is actively involved in industrial consulting for major corporations in power electronics and renewable energy projects. His research interests include power conversion techniques, control of power converters, maximum power point tracking (MPPT), renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grids, microwaves, and wireless technologies.

Prof. Jeyraj Selvaraj

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Professor Ts. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in power electronics and drives jointly from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2009. He is currently a professor and deputy executive director of the University Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya. He is also a member of IEEE, IEM, and the working group committee on photovoltaic standards of the Department of Standards Malaysia. With more than 15 years of experience in solar energy fields, he has monitored more than 75 onsite inverter tests under the FiT, LSS, and NEM schemes in Malaysia and published more than 70 high-impact journals, 50 conference papers, and 4 book chapters. He is one of the recipients of the NAM research training fellowship for young scientists and the Royal Academy Engineering UK’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowship in 2016 and 2017, respectively. In 2019, he was awarded the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Fellowship, followed by the Asian Universities Alliance Scholarship in 2020.