Prof. Suhua Lou

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

IEEE Senior Member

Biography: Suhua Lou (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 1996, 2001, and 2005, respectively. She is currently a Professor with HUST. Her research interests are in areas of power system planning, power economics and renewable energy integration.

Speech Title: Configuration Method of Multiple Types of Energy Storage in Power Systems with High/Ultra-High Proportion of New Energy

Prof. Rui Quan

Hubei University of Technology, China

Biography: Quan Rui, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, and External Doctoral Supervisor at China Three Gorges University. His main research focuses on hydrogen energy and fuel cells, thermoelectric power generation, control and energy management of new energy vehicles, and artificial intelligence. In recent years, he has led one project under the National Key R&D Program of China, one National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program (rated excellent upon completion), one NSFC Youth Program, one talent program project from the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and one industry-university-research collaboration subsidy project from Hongshan District. He has also presided over more than 10 enterprise-commissioned technical development projects. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published over 40 SCI/EI-indexed papers in top-tier domestic and international journals such as Energy Conversion and Management, Renewable Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, and the Journal of Electrotechnical Society (including one paper awarded the Outstanding Paper Award by the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and two ESI Highly Cited Papers). He has been granted 22 invention patents as the first inventor and co-authored one national-level planning textbook as associate editor. He has been selected as an expert for the Key Special Project "Energy Storage and Smart Grid" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, an academic backbone of the "Nanhu Scholar" program at Hubei University of Technology, and a "Technology Deputy" in the second batch of the Hubei Provincial Program and the 2021 Jiangsu Provincial Program. He currently serves as a peer review expert for the NSFC, a science and technology award evaluation expert for Hubei and Guangdong provinces, a youth editorial board member of EcoEnergy, a member of the Education Working Committee of the Hubei Electrotechnical Society, and a senior member of the China Society of Automotive Engineers.

Speech Title: Research and application of thermoelectric generation technology for automotive exhaust heat recovery