Dr. Kien Wen Sun was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, United States. From 1995-2000, he was on the faculty of the Electronic Engineering at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. He jointed the faculty of Department of Physics as a professor at National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, from 2000-2005. Since year 2005, he became a professor of Department of Applied Chemistry at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly known as National Chiao Tung University), Hsinchu, Taiwan. During his sabbatical in 2012, he was a visiting professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Sun was appointed as the Department Chair of Applied Chemistry at NCTU from 2012-2014. He was also a Joint Appointment Professor at Department of Electronics Engineering and Director of the Center of Nano Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung University from 2016-2019. His research interests include femtosecond laser and laser spectroscopy in III-V compound semiconductors, spintronics, nanoimprint, nanolithography, nanoelectronics, organic/inorganic solar cells, diamond related nanomaterials, perovskites and perovskite LEDs, and chemosensors. He has published more than 200 SCI journal papers in above research fields. He is a member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and Fellow of Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES). He was given the Rudolph A. Marcus Award by Publishing Division of Cognizure and LOGNOR in 2017 and Taiwan Future Tech Award on 2020. He has served as reviewers for numerous high impact international journals, such as Nature Communications, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Materials, The Innovation, Nanoscale Horizons, etc. He served as Guest Editors of several Special Issues of Chemosensors and Talanta Open and is currently a Topic Editor and an Editorial Board Member (analytic chemistry) of Chemosensors.

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.

Kwan San Oscar Hui is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia. He previously held academic appointments at the University of East Anglia, UK (Lecturer, 2016–2019; Reader, 2019–2024), Hanyang University, South Korea (Assistant Professor, 2013–2016), and City University of Hong Kong (Lecturer, 2008–2013). He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008.
Professor Hui’s research centres on energy storage, conversion, and advanced materials. Recognised since 2020 among the world’s top 2% of scientists in Materials, Energy, and Nanoscience, he has authored over 263 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 65; citations: 13,355+) in leading journals including Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, and Advanced Energy Materials. He is an inventor on a U.S. patent (US9040007B2) and actively contributes to international expert panels such as the Royal Society and UKRI. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and the Higher Education Academy (UK), and currently serves as Chair of the Device Technologies for Energy Storage Ad Hoc Committee of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (USA).

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).

Kwun Nam Hui is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), University of Macau. He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2009 and held academic appointments at Pusan National University before joining the University of Macau in 2015. Dr. Hui research focuses on advanced electrode and catalytic materials for energy storage and conversion, including lithium–sulfur, potassium-ion, sodium-ion, and aluminum-ion batteries, as well as supercapacitors and electrocatalytic systems (ORR, OER, HER, CO₂RR, NRR). His group combines nanostructure design, lattice/strain engineering, molecular dynamics, and DFT calculations to accelerate charge transfer and reveal fundamental reaction mechanisms.
Dr. Hui has published over 275 SCI-indexed papers in top journals including Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, and EES Batteries. He has an h-index of 69 with more than 15,500 citations (Google Scholar). Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford/Elsevier) since 2021, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, serves as Editor-in-Chief of three international journals, and holds over 50 patents.

Dr. Yukai Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology at Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2025. His research interests include inertia estimation and compensation methods for power systems, grid-forming converter applications for stability support, and operational strategies for battery energy storage systems. His work emphasizes bridging theoretical analysis with practical techniques to address the stability challenges of modern low-inertia power grids. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ).

Dr. Hironobu Matsuo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Integrated Energy Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology in 1997 and has since been actively engaged in academia at Shizuoka University.
His research focuses on the integration of renewable energy technologies, with particular emphasis on solar energy utilization, hybrid solar heat pump systems, battery degradation modelling, and microgrid planning for rural and off-grid regions.
His work addresses key sustainability challenges, aligning closely with SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).
He has authored and co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Japan Solar Energy Society, contributed to academic books, and presented at international conferences including Grand Renewable Energy and SOLARIS. He serves as a co-investigator in the JICA–JST SATREPS project promoting renewable microgrid deployment in Tanzania and has been actively involved with the Japan Solar Energy Society, including as a former board member. He also mentor’s graduate students and holds patents related to building energy systems. He is a member of JSES, ISES, IEEJ, and AIJ.

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.