Keynote Speakers
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
IEEE Senior Member
Dr Jahangir Hossain received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Eng. degrees from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Bangladesh, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales in 2010, Australia, all in electrical and electronic engineering. He also completed Graduate Certificate in Higher Education degree from Griffith University in 2014.
He is currently an Professor with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Before joining there, he served as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Macquarie University for three and a half year, Senior Lecture and a Lecturer in the Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Australia for five years and as a Research Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Previously, he worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh for six years. His research interests include renewable energy integration and stabilization, voltage stability, micro grids and smart grids, robust control, electric vehicles, building energy management systems, and energy storage systems.
Prof. Zugang Liu is a distinguished professor and PhD supervisor at China Jiliang University. With over 40 years of research and professional experience both in China and overseas, he has held senior positions including Principal Scientist at Nanoco (a London Stock Exchange-listed company), Leading Physicist at CDT (a NASDAQ-listed company), and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Professor Liu is one of the earliest Chinese researchers dedicated to OLED research. He has been recognized as a Shanghai Rising-Star Scientist, a High-Level Overseas Talent of Zhejiang Province, and an expert at the Zugang Liu Expert Workstation in Yunnan Province.
His research integrates fundamental scientific exploration with industrialization-oriented studies, focusing on cutting-edge and applied research in flexible optoelectronics using environmentally friendly materials and low-cost printing technologies.
He has published more than 200 academic papers in high-impact domestic and international journals, including ACS Energy Letters, ACS Nano, and Advanced Science. He also holds over 10 authorized international invention patents and more than 50 Chinese invention patents.
China Jiliang University, China
Hubei University of Arts and Science
Wangnan Li is a Professor, doctoral supervisor, and a high-level talent of Hubei Province. He serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member of the journal EcoEnergy. His research has long been dedicated to perovskite thin-film photovoltaic technologies and the development of key materials for flexible and semitransparent perovskite photovoltaic devices. As the principal investigator, he has led over 10 provincial and ministerial-level vertical projects, including projects for the Central Committee for Military-Civilian Integration, sub-projects under the National Key Research and Development Program, and key research and development programs of Hubei Province, in addition to multiple industry collaboration projects. He has published over 60 SCI-indexed papers and has been granted eight invention patents (including two international patents) as the primary inventor. He has received several honors, including the second prize in the Hubei Province “Workers’ Cup” Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (Education, Science, Culture, Health, and Sports Sector), the Xiangyang “May 1st Labor Medal,” the title of “Top Ten Innovative Dream Chasers,” and the first prize for scientific and technological progress in Xiangyang.