Biosketch: Chul-Hwan Kim is an IEEE Fellow and earned his B. S., M. S., and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, in 1982, 1984, and 1990, respectively. He started his career as a lecturer at Jeju National University, Korea in 1990. In 1996, 1998, and 1999, he was a visiting academic professor at the University of Bath, U.K. Currently, he serves as a professor at School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, and holds position of director of the center for power information technology.
He was technical program committees co-chair of IPST(International conference on Power System Transients) 2023 and the local program committee chair of IPST 2017.
He was president of Power Engineering Society of KIEE and Korea Institute of Electrical Engineers (KIEE, 50th) in 2018 and 2021, respectively. From 2018 to 2021, he served as a review board member of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea.
Furthermore, since 2008, he is a member of technical review panel of an international conference on Developments in Power System Protection (DPSP) organized by IET, U.K. Furthermore, he serves as an esteemed editorial board member for IEEE Power and Energy magazine, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (IJEPES), and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems. Additionally, he holds the role of associate editor in Electrical Power Systems Research (EPSR) at Elsevier. His research includes power system protection, transients, distributed renewable generation, and analysis and protection of MVDC, and LVDC systems.
Biosketch: Gao Ciwei, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of the Institute of Electric Power Economics and Technology, Southeast University, with main research interests in power demand side management and demand response, power market and power regulation, power planning, energy Internet. He is a member of National Electricity Demand Side Management Standardization Technical Committee TC575, the leader of the virtual power plant standard working group, a member of the Wisdom Energy Use and Energy Conservation Specialized Committee of the Chinese Electrical Engineering Society (CSEE), the deputy leader of the Demand Side Management Group, an editorial board member of six domestic and international journals, and has published over 200 papers, one of which was selected as one of the "100 Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers in China" , and three of them were selected as F5000 top academic papers. He has been granted 55 patents, participated in the creation of 12 international and domestic technical standards, won nine provincial and ministerial awards, and one silver prize for invention in Geneva.
