PREVIOUS INVITED SPEAKERS
A/Professor Farhad Shahnia, Murdoch
University, Australia
Chair of IEEE Western Australia Section, Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow
member of Engineers Australia,
Member of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
A/Professor Farhad Shahnia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering
from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is
currently an A/Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a
Lecturer at Curtin University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT
(2008-11), and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power
Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a Fellow member of
Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of the
Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart
grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 200+
peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and
journals, as well as being an editor of 6 books.
Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also
received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET
Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his
articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric
Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal
articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the
Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the
recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin
University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange
Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016.
Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and
Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET
Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation,
IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International
Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 35+ conferences
in various roles such as General, Technical, Publication, Publicity,
Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs.
Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the 2020-2021
Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE Western Australia
Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter. He is currently the
2021-2022 Secretary of the IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.
Email: F.Shahnia@Murdoch.edu.au
A/Professor Md. Hasanuzaman, University
of Malaya, Malaysia
Associate Editor of the Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier;
Associate Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Renewable
Energy Resources
Dr. Md. Hasanuzaman is currently working as Associate Professor at the
Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), UM Power Energy
Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia (QS
World Ranking 65 and Asia University Ranking 8 for 2022). He was listed
among the World's Top 2% Scientists for the year 2021 & 2020. He was
Program Coordinator (Master of Renewable Energy, September 2012 to
September 2020), Double Degree Programme with Master of Energy Science,
Kyoto University, Japan. He is an Associate Editor of the Alexandria
Engineering Journal, Elsevier; Associate Editor in Chief of the
International Journal of Renewable Energy Resources; and has been a
Guest Editor for Renewable Energy, Elsevier. He is an editor and author
of the book Energy for Sustainable Development published by Elsevier.
His research interests include thermal engineering, renewable energy,
energy and buildings, energy policy, transport and electric vehicles. He
has also authored and co-authored more than 100 research papers and 50
conference proceedings. Dr. Hasan has more than 4300 citations with an
h-index of 34 in the Scopus index and 6200 citations with an h-index of
40 in the google scholar index. Dr. Hasan has supervised and supervising
more than 50 postgraduate students. He has secured and managed more than
7 million Ringgit national and international research grants as a PI &
co-PI. He received a University of Malaya Excellence Award 2012 for his
outstanding achievement in PhD.