Keynote Speakers

Prof. Heath Hofmann (IEEE Fellow)

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan, USA

Biography: Heath Hofmann (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. He is currently a Professor and the Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Energy, and NASA, among others. His research interests include power electronics, specializing in the design, analysis, and control of electromechanical systems. Specific interests are propulsion drives and energy storage systems for electrified transportation.

Prof. Euisik Yoon (IEEE Fellow)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan, USA

Biography: Euisik Yoon (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1990. From 1990 to 1996, he was with industry, including the National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara, CA and Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA. He took faculty positions with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, during 1996–2008. In the academic year of 2000–2001, he was a Visiting Faculty with the Agilent Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with the University of Michigan, where he is also a Professor and the Director of the NSF International Program for Advancement of Neurotechnology (IPAN). He was the Director of Solid-State Electronics Laboratory during 2011–2015 and the Director of Lurie Nanofabrication Facility during 2011-2016 with the University of Michigan. His research interests include MEMS, integrated microsystems, and VLSI circuit design. Dr. Yoon was on various Technical Program Committees, including the Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference 1998, International Sensor Conference 2001, IEEE Asia–Pacific Conference on Advanced System Integrated Circuits 2001 and 2002, International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers) 2003, 2005, IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2006–2008, and IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 2006, 2009, 2010, 2021–2022. He was also on the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) program committee during 2003–2007 and was the General Chair of International Symposium on Bio Micro & Nanosystems 2005. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Solid-State Circuit Letters during 2018–2021. He is a co-founder of NeuroLight Technologies, a for-profit manufacturer of neurotechnology.

Prof. Pierluigi Siano (Senior Member, IEEE)

Department of Management and Innovation Systems
University of Salerno, Italy

Biography: Pierluigi Siano (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Professor and the Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory, Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. Since 2021, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg. His research interests include demand response, energy management, the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, electricity markets, and the planning and management of power systems. In these research fields, he has coauthored more than 700 articles, including more than 410 international journals that received in Scopus more than 18000 citations with an H-index equal to 77. From 2019 to 2022, he was awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Web of Science Group. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is an Editor of the Power & Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Systems Journal.

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