Prof. Dr. Gareth Taylor received a BS from the University
of London in 1987 and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of Greenwich
in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He has been a research member of the Brunel
University Research Centre BIPS since May 2000 and was appointed as Director in
2010. He was appointed Professor in Power Systems in 2012 and as the Head
of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering from May 2019 to
June 2023. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. He is
also a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was
also appointed as a Visiting Professor within the Control & Power Research
Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
from 1st October 2023 to 30th September 2026. His current research interests
include transmission system operation, smart grids, and power system modeling
and analysis.
Dr Chun Sing Lai received a B.Eng. (First Class Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering from Brunel University London, London, UK, in 2013 and a D.Phil. degree in engineering science from the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, in 2019. He is currently a Lecturer with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Course Director of MSc Electric Vehicle Systems at Brunel University London. His current research interests are in power system optimization and electric vehicle systems. Dr. Lai was a Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Publications Committee. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and IET Energy Conversion and Economics. He is the Working Group Chair for IEEE P2814 and P3166 Standards, an Associate Vice President of Systems Science and Engineering of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS), and Co-Chair of the IEEE SMC Intelligent Power and Energy Systems Technical Committee. He is a recipient of the 2022 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE SMC Society for "meritorious and significant service to IEEE SMC Society technical activities and standards development." He is an IET Member, IEEE Senior Member, Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
