Daigo Yonetsu completed the course requirements of the latter half of the doctoral program in engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering of Kansai University in 2003, and then became a research associate in the Faculty of Engineering. He became a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering Science of the same university in 2007. He became an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering Science of the same university in 2015. He holds a D.Eng. degree and is engaged in research on optimal design simulations of electrical equipment, electric field optimal design simulations of electric power equipment and optimal design of cable size for economy and environment. He received a 2007 IEIEJ Paper Encouragement Award, and a 2020 IEIEJ Academic Encouragement Award. He is a member of IEEE, IEIEJ, IEEJ, the Japan Society for Simulation Technology, and JSAEM.

Professor Kwati Leonard is an associate professor at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER) at Kyushu University. He earned his PhD in Applied Chemistry from the University of Kagoshima, Japan 2011. That same year, he established his expertise by receiving the prestigious JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers. He then joined Kyushu University, where he made significant contributions to the advancement of energy conversion devices. In 2012, he was honored with a Young Scientist Award at the International Conference on Nanostructure-Enhanced Photo-Energy Conversion held in Tokyo, Japan. Professor Leonard specializes in solid-state electrochemistry and proton-conducting materials. His research currently focuses on processing ceramic proton conductor membranes for electrochemical devices. Since 2018, he has also been a visiting senior research scientist at the Institute of Energy Materials and Devices (IMD), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

Dr. Muammer Koç is the Founding Professor and founding Head (fmr) of the Division of Sustainable Development at HBKU. Previously, he held senior scientist, director, associate professor, professor, chair and dean/director positions at various universities in the US and Turkey. He has a PhD degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University (1999) and Executive MBA degree from the University of Sheffield, UK (2014). His research and teaching interests are on sustainability, resiliency; advanced manufacturing, 3DP; energy policies and technologies; design thinking, innovation and education systems; organizational and social efficiency; zero-waste policies and technologies. He has 400+ publications in various international journals and conferences. In addition to his teaching and research activities, he provides consultancy to business, government and educational institutes for strategic transformation, business optimization, restructuring, business reengineering.

Dr. Daisuke Kodaira is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Korea, in 2020. His research focuses on advanced energy management systems, including electric vehicle charging coordination, blockchain-based peer-to-peer energy trading, photovoltaic generation and demand forecasting, and reinforcement learning for battery scheduling. He contributes novel algorithms and control strategies that bridge cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques with practical power system applications. He is an active member of the Investigation Specialist Committee of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ).

Hakim Nesreddine is currently an R&D project leader at Hydro-Quebec, a major Canadian electric utility. He is a holder of a BSc in climate control engineering and a PhD in mechanical engineering. He also earned a Master of Business administration (MBA) with a concentration in project management. Over the course of his career, he has acquired extensive experience in energy industry, both from a technical and business perspective. His expertise includes distributed power generation, waste heat recovery and energy conversion. During the last decade, Dr. Nesreddine led multidisciplinary teams dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies and applications in partnership with leading companies. His current projects focus on integrating sustainable solutions and implementing advanced control logic for demand flexibility to decarbonize buildings and industrial processes. He has made numerous scientific and technical contributions, including peer-reviewed research papers, chapter books and patents. During his career, he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Sherbrooke where he has taught undergraduate courses in science/engineering and acted as an adviser to PhD candidates. He has given several plenary lectures at international conferences and has been a member of expert panels on green energy and energy efficiency. In addition, Dr. Nesreddine has served on the steering Committee of the Canada Green Building Council and has participated in numerous technical committees and working groups of the Canadian Standard Association (CSA). Dr. Nesreddine is involved in international research collaborations with universities and public R&D laboratories to promote open innovation and professional/student exchanges. He is a member of the scientific and R&D committee of Institut Nordique du Québec and member of the advisory committee of NSERC Chair on energy efficiency in industry.

Kiamran Radjabli earned his Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Moscow Power Engineering Institute. He is a Professional Engineer licensed in Ontario, Canada. He provided energy management consulting services to a number of electrical utilities in North America and abroad. Kiamran has over 25 years of experience in EMS/SCADA and real time applications, generation and transmission, power network analysis, power system modeling, and system simulation.

Wongkot Wongsapai works as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Chiang Mai University, where he is Deputy Director of Science and Technology Research Institute (STRI) and he’s also head of the Energy Technology for Environment Research Center (ETE).
From his more than twenty five years of experience, he manages in more than 125 energy projects from various organizations, e.g. IEA, the World Bank, Giz, JICA, ERIA, Ministry of Energy, in four main types; i.e. (i) energy efficiency improvement in industrial, service, and household sector, including developing the database system for designated factories and buildings of the country (ii) renewable energy technologies in biogas and biomass, (iii) energy policy and planning and (iv) greenhouse gas management particularly in NDC and MRV and marginal abatement cost (MAC) of the country.
He also serves as the expert position in climate change working group under Thailand’s Ministry of Energy for Thailand since 2018. He also was a committee in the renewable energy development plan (in bioenergy) and as expert in the national sub-committee in Thailand GHG reductions in energy and waste Sector which have task to approve the methodology and the results of Thailand GHG mitigation projects.
He was also a project manager of the Thailand Small-scale Livestock Waste Management Program, the first Clean Development Mechanism-Programme of Activities (CDM-PoA) in Thailand. He was also project director under the World Bank’s Partnership for Market (PMR) Thailand, covering developing the baseline and target setting for energy efficiency performance in Thailand 11 major industrial and commercial sectors; e.g. thermal power plant, oil refinery, cement, iron, and steel, etc. He was the project manager of the national climate change technology needs assessment (TNA) in the energy sector. His expertise also includes developing the capacity building program in energy and climate change issues.
For the Engineering Institute of Thailand under H.M. the King’s Patronage (EIT), he acts as Member: Foreign Affairs Committee Member. He also serves ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (AFEO) as AEI Boiler Committee and Member of AFEO Energy Working Group since 2017.
From an academic perspective, he has many international papers, including the ISI and Scopus indexed Energy Reports, Energy Policy, Energy for Sustainable Development, Energies, Sustainability, Chemical Engineering Transactions, etc.

Michael Pesin is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Advanced Grid Research and Development Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity. His organization is responsible for the development and management of projects for next-generation electricity delivery technologies and supporting activities to accelerate their introduction to the marketplace.
Mr. Pesin has over 35 years of experience in the electric utility industry. He is a licensed professional engineer and spent the majority of his career at electric utility companies leading engineering and technology organizations and directing the development and execution of advanced technology programs.
Prior to joining the DOE, Mr. Pesin was also the founder and president of a management consulting company working with utilities, technology companies, and investors and served as a board member at several technology organizations. Mr. Pesin is actively involved with a number of electric power industry groups and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Farzin Asadi received his BSc in Electronics Engineering, MSc in Control Engineering, and PhD in Mechatronics Engineering. Currently, he is with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Asadi has published more than 40 papers in ISI/Scopus indexed journals. He wrote 25 books as well. His research interests include switching converters, control theory, robust control of power electronics converters, and robotics.

Dr. Paprapee Buason received his B.S. and M.S. de- grees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Electri- cal Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, USA. Dr. Buason’s research interests lie in power sys- tems, focusing on developing algorithms and solving advanced optimization problems to enhance the reliability and resiliency of power grids.