Ahmed Abu Siada – Curtin University, Australia

Prof. Ahmed Abu Siada, Curtin University Australia, received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Egypt and his PhD degree from Curtin University, Australia, all in Electrical Engineering.

He is a full professor and the head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Curtin University. He has published more than 300 Journal and conference papers and holds several patents on condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and remnant life estimation of high voltage assets. He has delivered several keynote speeches in various IEEE and international conferences and has been a general chair for the IEEE iSPEC 2022, CMD 2018 conferences.

Prof Abu-Siada is the founding editor-in-chief of 2 international journals and an editor for several journals such as IET GTD.

Masahiro Kozako – Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Prof. Masahiro Kozako received the B.Eng., M.Eng., and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu-shi, Japan, in 1997, 1999, and 2002, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology. He worked with Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, for three years, and the Kagoshima National College of Technology, Kirishima, Japan, for three years, as an Assistant Professor. He was a Visiting Researcher with the LAPLACE, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 2011. His research interests concern the development of new insulating polymer nanocomposite materials and the development of diagnostic techniques for electric power apparatus. Prof. Masahiro is also a member of the Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging (JIEP), the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), and the Conseil International des Grands Réseaux Electriques or International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE).

Guan-Jun Zhang – Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Prof. Guan-Jun Zhang was born in Shandong Province, China, in October 1970. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China, in 1991, 1994 and 2001, respectively.From July 1994, he worked as a Teacher Assistant with the State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment and the School of Electrical Engineering at XJTU, and since June 2004, he has been a full Professor with XJTU. From October 1998 to September 1999, he was a Visiting Researcher with Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, engaged in electroluminescence and discharge phenomena of solid insulating materials. From August 2006 to February 2007, he was a Senior Visiting Fellow with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US, engaged in secondary electron emission characteristic and plasma simulation. From August to October 2008, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow with Saitama University, Japan, engaged in flashover physics in vacuum. His current research interests concentrate on high voltage insulation and discharge phenomena, especially dielectric response phenomena and condition maintenance of oil-paper insulation system, surface discharge and flashover across solid insulation, low temperature plasma and biomedical applications.

He has published more than 150 journal articles and conference papers and 12 Chinese patents. He received 2003 China National Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2004 China New Century Excellent Talents in University, 2006 China Fok Ying Tong Research Award for University Young Teachers, 2008 IEEE Chatterton Young Investigator Award of 23rd International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV), 2011 Distinguished Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and other awards and prizes from Chinese Government.

He has served as the international advisory committee member, program committee member, secretary, section chair/co-chair for IEEE DEIS and other conferences for more than ten times, such as CMD, ISEIM, ICPADM and ACED, etc.

Zenichiro Kawasaki – Osaka University, Japan / RAIRAN Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore

Prof. KAWASAKI Zenichiro, President of RAIRAN Singapore Pte. Ltd., received the B.Eng., M.Eng., and Dr. Eng. degrees at Osaka University. He is also an Emeritus Professor at Osaka University. He has been developing a wide variety of remote sensing systems such as lightning mappers and precipitation radars, and studying the mechanism of lightning discharges and their related phenomena with their own developed observation equipment. One of the outstanding researches in his career is to develop VHF broadband digital interferometers and observations with the VHF broadband interferometers. He conducted an observation campaign in Darwin, Australia, for more than a decade and revealed important new information about the leader developments. Furthermore, he proposed a new technique to trigger lightning by means of high energy laser and succeeded in laser-triggered lightning in the field experiment for the first time.

He also participated in the development and study of the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) as a principal investigator in Japan and clarified the relationship between lightning discharges and thunderstorm characteristics. Furthermore, he designed his own VHF broadband lightning sensors for space. These sensors were already launched in 2009 and 2012, and they succeeded in recording VHF emissions from lightning discharges in space.

He has played an important role in the International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE) and has been the president of the ICAE from 2007. He organized two ICAE meetings held in Beijing, China on 2007 and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011 as a president. He has devoted to the activities of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) as a chair of the International Commission of Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE). As one of the activities, he organized Atmospheric lightning: physical processes with regional and global impacts session of the Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013 as a symposium lead convener. Additionally, he supervised 23 PhD students, who have been actively engaged in the AGU events.

Shinichi Kobayashi – Chubu Electric Power Co.,Inc., Japan

He was born in Nagano, Japan on 2nd June 1966. He received the B.E. degree from Yokohama National University, Japan in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan in March 2014. He joined Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. in 1989, is presently engaged in Engineering Center of Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc. He is an individual member of CIGRE and IEE of Japan.

Thongchart Kerdphol – Kasetsart University, Thailand

Thongchart Kerdphol received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees (Hons.) in electrical engineering from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, in 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kyutech, from 2016 to 2017. In 2018, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering and Energy Systems (IEE), Clausthal University of Technology (TU Clausthal), Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany. Since 2019, he has been a Senior Research Fellow with the Power System and Renewable Energy Laboratory (Mitani-Watanabe Lab), Kyutech. He is currently a Lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Kasetsart University. His research interests include power system stability, robust power system control, intelligent optimization, and smart/micro-grid control. Dr. Kerdphol is also a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineering of Japan (IEEJ).

June-Ho Lee - Hoseo University · South Korea