Prof. Concettina Buccella

University of L'Aquila, Italy

(IEEE Fellow)

Concettina Buccella was born in L'Aquila. She received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of L'Aquila, Italy, in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1995. After graduation, from 1988 to 1989 she was a research engineer with Italtel SpA, R&D Center in L'Aquila, Italy. In 1991 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of L'Aquila, where she became an assistant professor in 1994 and since 2002 she is an Associate Professor of Electrotechnics.

Her research interests deal with smart grids, power converters, modulation techniques, management of renewable energy, analitical and numerical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility, controlled active shields, power line communications, models of biological systems with particular attention to the human eye, applications of neural networks and wavelet transform. She authored more than 120 papers mostly published on IEEE Transactions and on IEEE conference proceedings.

Concettina Buccella is a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2003, and a member of the Power Electronics Committee and of the Smart Grids Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, for many years she was a member of the Electrostatic Process Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. She was an evaluator of research projects, Ph.D. candidates and in promotions to Full Professor and to Associate Professor rank for several foreign institutions and universities. Concettina Buccella is a reviewer for many international journals, mostly IEEE Transactions, including TIE and TII. She was a member of the Steering Committee and a teacher of the Post M.S. Master “Energy Manager” at the Faculty of Engineering, University of L’Aquila. During 2009-2011, she was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Special Section on: "Methods and Systems for Smart Grids Optimization" (published on October 2011). She has been a committee member, a reviewers and a session chair in international conferences; currently a she is a Track Chair for “Power Systems” at the 39-th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2013, November 10-13, 2013, Vienna, Austria) and a Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on intelligent Energy Systems “Managing the Complexity in Energy Systems” (IWIES 2013, November 14, 2013, Vienna, Austria). She is a Member of Scientific Committee of International Conference on Renewable Energy for Developing Countries (REDEC’14) Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 26-27, 2014. She is a Program Committee member of IEEE IWIES 2014 which will be held in conjunction with IEEE SMC 2014 (www.smc2014.org) on October 8, 2014 in San Diego, CA, USA. She is Program Committee member of International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications, (EFEA 2014) that will be held at Supmeca Campus in Paris, on the 19-21 November 2014. Concettina Buccella has been a Co-Founder of DigiPower Ltd., a University of L’Aquila spin-off, founded in 2007 and operating in the field of industrial electronics, power systems, smart grids, modeling, electromagnetic compatibility. Since 2012 she has been the C.E.O.

She has been a co-recipient of the 2012 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transaction Industry Information for the paper: “Smart Grid Technologies: Communication Technologies and Standards”, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 7, N. 4, pp. 529 - 539, Nov. 2011. (authors: V. C. Gungor, D. Sahin, T. Kocak, S. Ergüt, C. Buccella, C. Cecati, G. P. Hancke) and a co-recipient of the 2013 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transaction Industry Informatics for the paper: “Digital Control of Power Converters - A Survey ”, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 8, N. 3, pp. 437-447, Aug. 2012. (authors: C. Buccella, C. Cecati, H. Latafat).

Prof. Hongwei Wu

University of Hertfordshire, UK

(Fellow of FIMechE, FRAeS, FEI)

Professor Hongwei Wu (FIMechE, FRAeS, FEI) is a full Professor of Thermofluids in the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, and Leader of the Research Group in Monitoring Climate and its Impact (MCI) at University of Hertfordshire. Professor Wu is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of esteemed organisations such as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS), the Energy Institute (FEI), and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Academic Champion, a visiting professor at East Kazakhstan State Technical University, and a member of the UK Turbulence Consortium. He received his BEng, PhD (Joint PhD Programme with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - HKUST) in Thermofluids all from Beihang University. He has an academic and research profile previously developed at Northumbria University, University of the West of Scotland, Birmingham University and Brunel University London in UK, as well as at the University of British Columbia & University of Alberta in Canada.

Professor Wu's research mainly focuses on Advanced Cooling Technology, Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Renewable Energy and Energy System, Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS), Two Phase and Multiphase Flow, Fluid-Solid Conjugate Heat Transfer, Modelling/Simulation methods (CFD)-DNS, LES, MDS, Optimisation and Process Control, AI-Machine Learning (ML)-Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). He leads various UK/EU based research projects funded by the Horizon Europe, EPSRC, British Council, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, Innovate UK, and various industry partners.

Professor Wu has published more than 180 papers with over 130 peer-reviewed journal publications including top journals such as Applied Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Power Sources, etc. His commitment to academic excellence extends to serving as a frequent reviewer for leading journals and holding editorial roles as an Editor or Editorial Board Member for many international journals. He plays pivotal roles as a general Chair/co-Chair and session Chairs/co-Chairs, OCM and TPC members, as well as presenting as plenary and keynote speaker at numerous International Conferences. He serves as a Panel Member for EPSRC Engineering Prioritisation, EPSRC New Horizons, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) and Interview Panel, and British Council International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF). He is an UKRI Talent Panel College Member and EPSRC Peer Review Full College Member. He also serves as External Examiner for PhD Viva at many other Universities.