Saifur Rahman

(IEEE Fellow)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

 

Saifur Rahman is the director of the Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, where he is the Joseph Loring Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment at the University. He also served as a program director in engineering at the U.S. National Science Foundation between 1996 and 1999. He has published over 300 papers on conventional and renewable energy systems, load forecasting, uncertainty evaluation, and infrastructure planning.,Prof. Rahman is currently serving as the Vice President of the IEEE Publications Board, and a member of the IEEE Board of Governors. He has served on the IEEE Power Engineering Society Governing Board for five years, first as the Vice President for Education and Industry Relations and then as the Vice President for Technical Information Services. In 2000 he served as the chairman of the IEEE Lifelong Learning Council. He is also a member-at-large of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee.

 

 

Zhihui Zhan

(IEEE Fellow)
South China University of Technology, China

 

Zhi-Hui Zhan received the bachelor's degree and the PhD degree in computer science from the Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou China, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He is currently the Changjiang Scholar Young professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. His current research interests include evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and their applications in real-world problems and in environments of recommender system, cloud computing, and Big Data. He was a recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award in 2021, the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation from National Natural Science Foundations of China (NSFC) in 2018, and the Wu Wen-Jun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the IEEE CIS Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation and the China Computer Federation Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation. He is one of the World's Top 2% Scientists for both Career-Long Impact and Year Impact in Artificial Intelligence and one of the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in Computer Science. He is currently the chair of Membership Development Committee in IEEE Guangzhou Section and the vice-chair of IEEE CIS Guangzhou Chapter. He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the Neurocomputing, the Memetic Computing, and the Machine Intelligence Research.

 

 

Mladen Kezunovic

(IEEE Fellow)
Texas A&M University, USA

 

Mladen Kezunovic (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1974, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, in 1977 and 1980, respectively. He has been with Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, for 33 years, where he is currently a Regents Professor, a Eugene E. Webb Professor, and the Site Director of the “Power Engineering Research Center” Consortium. He acted for over 30 years as the Principal Consultant of XpertPower Associates, a consulting firm specializing in power systems data analytics. His expertise is in protective relaying, automated power system disturbance analysis, computational intelligence, data analytics, and smart grids. He has authored over 600 articles, given over 120 seminars, invited lectures, and short courses, and consulted for over 50 companies worldwide. He is a CIGRE Fellow, an Honorary and Distinguished Member, a registered Professional Engineer in TX, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.