Yuqing Yang was born in Hebei, China, 2001. She has received her B.S. in engineering from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China, in 2024. She is currently pursuing her M.S degree at the School of Automation of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China. Miss Yang’s research interests include digital power transmission for renewable energy and energy storage devices, and intelligent control applications in industrial processes.
Song Xu was born in Zhenjiang, China in 1991. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees (first class with distinction) from the College of Electrical, Energy and Power Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in the Division of Electronics and Informatics, College of Science and Technology, Faculty of Gunma University, Kiryu, Gunma, Japan in 2020. From March 2020 to October 2020, he was a foreign researcher at Gunma University. In 2020, he joined Jiangsu University of Science and Technology and is currently an associate professor at the College of Automation. His current research interests include big data compression, digitalized power transfer to renewable energy and energy storage devices, and intelligent control applications in industrial processes.Dr. Xu’s awards and honors include the 'Best Presentation Award' three times from the ICMEMIS international conference in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. The second prize of the Yangzhou Natural Science Outstanding Paper Award and the second prize of the Jiangsu Cold Chain Society Science and Technology Progress Award.
Wei Jiang received his BSEE degree from South-west Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2003, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, in 2006 and 2009, respectively.From 2007 to 2008, he was a senior design engineer with EF Technologies L.L.C., TX, USA. In 2010, he joined Yangzhou University and founded the Smart Energy Laboratory, where he was promoted to full professor. He was appointed as the vice president of Yangzhou Polytechnic Institute in2023. He has been a visiting professor at Gunma University, Japan, in 2012, University of Strathclyde, and Aston University, UK, in 2015.He was the four-time University Excellent Teaching Award winner. His current research interests include digitalized power conditioning for renewable energy and energy storage devices and microscopic analysis of electromechanical energy conversion. He holds 2 US patents and 19 Chinese patents, 2 licensed by the industry.
Seiji Hashimoto was born in Aomori, Japan, in 1971. He received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Utsunomiya University, Japan, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Oyama National College of Technology. Since 2002, he has been a research associate in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Gunma University, where he is now a Professor in the Division of Electronics and Informatics.He has consulted for companies in control and energy applications and has been a visiting professor in China. His research interests include system identification, motion control, intelligent control, and its application to industrial fields.