KEYNOTE:The Role of Technology in Achieving a Modern Carbon-Neutral Society

SPEAKER: Prof. Dr. SAAD MEKHILEF

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

BIOGRAPHY: Prof. Dr. SAAD MEKHILEF is an IEEE and IET Fellow. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, an Honorary Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, and a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute of Sustainable Energy, University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He authored and co-authored more than 800 publications in academic journals and proceedings, five books with more than 66,000 citations, and more than 85 Ph.D. students who graduated under his supervision. He serves as an editorial board member for many top journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics, IET Renewable Power Generation, E-Prime, Journal of Power Electronics, and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. Prof. Mekhilef has been listed by Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the world's Highly Cited (World's Top 1%) engineering researchers. He is actively involved in industrial consultancy for major corporations on power electronics and renewable energy projects.