Speakers

Prof. Ismail Musirin

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Speech Title: Integrated Computational Intelligence Optimization Technique in Extended Economic Dispatch in Power System

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. Dr. Saad Mekhilef

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Speech Title: The Role of Power Electronics in Achieving a Modern Carbon-Neutral Society

Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef is an IEEE and IET Fellow. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, an Honorary Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, and a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He authored and co-authored more than 700 publications in academic journals and proceedings, five books with more than 54,000 citations, and more than 85 Ph.D. students who graduated under his supervision. He serves as an editorial board member for many top journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics, IET Renewable Power Generation, E-Prime, Journal of Power Electronics, and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.

Prof. Mekhilef has been listed by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the world's Highly Cited (World's Top 1%) engineering researchers. He is actively involved in industrial consultancy for major corporations on power electronics and renewable energy projects.

Prof. Jeyraj Selvaraj

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Speech Title: Power Electronics for Renewable Energy

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.