Prof. Ismail Musirin, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Prof. Ir. Dr. Ismail Bin Musirin obtained Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons) in 1990 from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MSc in Pulsed Power Technology in 1992 from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia in 2005. He is currently a Professor of Power System at the School of Electrical Engineering (formerly known as the Faculty of Electrical Engineering), College of Engineering, UiTM and headed the Power System Operation (POSC) Computational Intelligence Research Group. He has published over 400 papers in international indexed journals and conferences. He has been given the opportunity to review papers in IEEE Transactions, Elsevier Science, WSEAS, John Wiley, IET and some other publishers. He has chaired more than 20 international conferences since 2007. To date, he has delivered keynote speeches at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Dubai, Korea, China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. His research interest includes Power System Stability, Distributed Generation Optimization, Artificial Intelligence Applications, Optimization Algorithms Derivations and Machine Learning Applications.
Prof. Farhad Shahnia, Murdoch University, Australia (IEEE Senior Member)
Farhad Shahnia (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical power engineering (first class Hons.) from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2004 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor with Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia. His research interests include distribution networks, power quality, and application of power electronic in power systems.
Prof. Jeyraj Selvaraj, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia (IEEE Member)
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.
Assoc. Prof. Sara Deilami, Macquarie University, Australia
Dr Sara Deilami completed her masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Power Engineering from Curtin University. She currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, where she also serves as the Associate Director of Smart Grid Cities (SGC) and a member of the Transforming Energy Market (CTM).
Her primary research interests focus on Grid Integration, including Electric Vehicle Charging, Wireless Technology, Renewable Energy Integration, Power Quality, and Power System Protection. with 20 years of work experience in both Academia and Electrical Engineering industry, she is leading the power and energy research and works on numerous industry projects on electrified transportation, buildings, and communities at Macquarie University. Additionally, she is an advocate for sustainable development goals.
Dr Deilami is the Vice Chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) in NSW Section.