Prof. Marc A. Rosen

University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering

Biography: 

Marc A. Rosen, Ph.D., is a Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen has served as President of the Engineering Institute of Canada and of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. He has acted in many professional capacities, including Editor-in-Chief of various journals and a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 70 research grants and contracts and 900 technical publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, sustainability, and environmental impact. Much of his research has been carried out for industry. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto, and Ryerson University in Toronto, where he served as Chair the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honours, and is a Fellow of numerous societies .

Prof. Jia Cui

Shenyang University of Technology, China

Vice Chair of the Digital and Intelligent Subcommittee of the IEEE PES Transformer Committee

Biography:

Jia Cui is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Shenyang University of Technology, as well as the deputy director of the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering. His main research areas include interdisciplinary studies such as the energy internet, clean energy consumption in new power systems, electricity markets, and big data in power systems. He serves as the vice chair of the Digital and Intelligent Subcommittee of the IEEE PES Transformer Committee, a member of the Renewable Energy Generation Grid Connection Professional Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, a member of the Youth Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, a member of the Energy Storage Technology Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society in China, and a member of the Technical Committee of the Liaoning Province Smart Grid Cloud Computing Professional Technology Innovation Center. He has long served as an editorial board member and review expert for top-tier international and domestic academic journals, including *Applied Energy*, *IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid*, *Journal of Chinese Electrotechnics*, *Journal of Electric Power Technology*, *Automation of Electric Power Systems*, and *Power System Technology*. He has hosted and participated in more than 30 projects, including those from the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education, the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and science and technology projects from the State Grid Corporation of China. He has published over 30 research papers in top-tier journals listed in the SCI (Chinese Academy of Sciences). He has been granted over 30 authorized invention patents, as well as 2 software copyrights, and has authored 3 monographs.