I have been involving and serving professional societies for more than three decades. The experience has been extremely positive and rewarding. It allows me to meet many colleagues, friends, scholars, researchers all around the worlds, and have established national and international connections and friendship through the professional activities, edifying each others, develop mutually beneficial programs to advance education, research, and technology developments.

IEEE Society Office, Committee Memberships

  • 2019 – present, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Fellow Nomination Advisory Committee Chair
  • 2011 – present, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Administrative Committee Life Member
  • 2009 – 2011, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Administrative Committee Senior Member
  • 2007 – 2009, IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Industrial Electronics Society Chapter Chair
  • 2003 – 2009, IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Executive Committee Member
  • 2007 – 2009, IEEE PES Intelligent Fault Management (detection, diagnosis, prognosis, prediction, mitigation) Task Force Chair.
  • 1998 – 2008, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Administrative Committee Member
  • 2006-2007, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Vice President – Publication
  • 2003 – 2006, IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter Chair
  • 2000 – 2001, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Vice President – Member Activities
  • 1998 – 2001, IEEE Neural Network Council Administrative Committee member
  • 1996-2000, IEEE Neural Network Council Regional Interest Group Committee Chairman
  • 1996-1998, Triangle Area Neural Network Society President
  • 1995-1997, IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section University Liaison
  • 1992 – present, IEEE Power Engineering Society Intelligent System Application Committee Member
  • 2007 – present, IEEE Fellow
  • 1992 – 2006, IEEE Senior Member.
  • 1995-1997, IEEE Power Engineering Society Electric Machinery Committee, IEEE 1410 Motor Maintenance and Failure Analysis Working Group Member,.
  • 1994 – present, IEEE Power Engineering Society Power Engineering Education and Research Committee Member
  • 1992 – present, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • 2005 – 2012, IEEE Systems, Men, and Cybernetics Society
  • 1987 – present, IEEE Control Society

Conference Committee Chair (Since 2010)

  • IEEE IECON 2027, General Chair, Shanghai, China, October, 2027.
  • IEEE ICIT 2026, General Chair, Monterey, Mexico, March, 2026.
  • IEEE IECON 2025, General Chair, Madrid, Spain, October, 2025.
  • IEEE IESES 2025, General Chair, Beijing, China, September, 2025.
  • CCRIS 2025, Conference Chair, Guangzhou, China, August, 2025.
  • EPEE 2025, General Chair, Hangzhou, China, September, 2025.
  • IEEE IESES 2023, General Chair, Shanghai, China, July, 2023.
  • IEEE ICIT 2022, General Co-Chair, Shanghai, China, March, 2022.
  • IEEE IESES 2020, General Chair, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, April, 2020.
  • IEEE IECON 2019, General Co-Chair, Lisbon, Portugal, October, 2019.
  • IEEE ISIE 2019, General Chair, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2019.
  • IEEE IECON2018, General Chair, Washington, DC, October, 2018.
  • IEEE AMC 2018, Technical Program Co-Chair, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2018.
  • IEEE ISIE 2017, Technical Track Co-Chair on Power Systems and Smart Grids, International Advisory Board member, Edinburgh, UK, June, 2017.
  • Resilience Week Symposia 2015 Steering Committee, https://secureweb.inl.gov/Resweek2015/Default.aspx.
  • IEEE IECON 2015 Program Co-Chair
  • IEEE ICIT 2015 Track co-chairs of “Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics”
  • IEEE IECON 2014 Power Systems Track Co-Chair
  • IEEE IECON 2013 Technical Co-Chair
  • IEEE ISIE 2013 Technical Co-Chair
  • IEEE ISIE 2012 General Co-Chair.
  • IEEE IECON 2010 General Co-Chair.
  • IEEE ISIE 2010 Track Chair for Control Systems & Applications.
  • IEEE INDIN 2010 Track Chair for Distributed, Embedded and Networked Control.
  • IEEE ICIT 2010 Tutorial Co-Chair, Viña del Mar, Chile, March 7-10, 2010.

Keynote Speakers

  • A keynote speaker at the 11th Asia Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering (ACPEE 2026), “Empowering Grid Transformation Through Dynamic Energy Management System (D-EMS)”, Beijing, China, April 15-19, 2025.
  • A keynote speaker at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2025), “Advancing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Control with Dynamic Energy Management System (D-EMS)”, Wuhan, March 26-28, 2025.
  • A plenary speaker at the 8th International Conference on Advanced Algorithms and Control Engineering (ICAACE 2025), “Dynamic Microgrids and Energy Storage Management: Rethinking ‘Digital Twins’ for Battery Situation Awareness in Multi-agent System”, Shanghai, March 21-23, 2025.
  • A keynote speaker at The 19th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA2024), “Leveraging Networked Microgrids for a Sustainable, Greener, and Resilient Power Systems”, Kristiansand, Norway, August 5-8, 2024.
  • A plenary speaker at the Workshop3: Intelligent Autonomous and Learning of Complex Dynamic Systems, 第43届中国控制会议（CCC 2024）, “Disaster Relief Empowerment through Collaborative Distributed Control of Energy Resources”, Kunming, July 28-31, 2024.
  • A keynote speaker at the 3rd Symposium on Intelligent System Theory and Application, Shanxi, June 6-10, 2024.
  • A plenary speaker at IEEE/CAA Conference, Jinan, May 24-26, 2024.
  • A keynote speaker at IEEE CAA Conference, Beijing, Sept 22-24, 2023.
  • A keynote speaker at ACIRS 太智能机器人系统国际会议, online, July 07-09, 2023.
  • A keynote speaker (online) at IAEEEE conference, Jeju, Korea, October 15-17, 2022.
  • A keynote speaker at 溥渊国际青年科学家论坛, December 12, 2022.
  • A plenary speaker at the Global Summit on Power and Energy Engineering (GSPEE2022), Dubai, UAE, March 23-25, 2022. https://www.thescientistt.com/power-energy-engineering-2022.
  • A keynote speaker at 2021 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Conservation (ICREC 2021), Shenzhen, China during November 26-28, 2021. https://10times.com/e1sp-gf59-4k7h/speakers
  • A keynote speaker of 4th International Joint Conference on Clean Energy and Smart Grid (CCESG 2021), “Resilient Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System: Application in Cyberphysical Networked Microgrid,” Budapest, Hungary, July 9-11, 2021. http://www.ccesg.org/
  • A keynote speaker on “Mechatronics Education with iSpace Platform,” 2021 The International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR-2021), Shanghai, China, January 8-10, 2021. http://www.icccr.org/
  • A keynote speaker on A Holistic Approach to Battery Modeling and State Estimation, IEEE IES Webinar, 9 December 2020. ies-webinar@ieee-ies.org)
    A forum speaker, “Resilient Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System: Application in Cyberphysical Networked Microgrid,” Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Sept 5, 2020.
  • A keynote speaker of the IEEE 2ND International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems, “Resilient Networked Microgrids Energy Management System,” Cagliari, Sardinia, September 1 – 3, 2020. http://www.ieses2020.org/
  • A keynote speaker of 4th International Joint Conference on Clean Energy and Smart Grid (CCESG 2021), “Resilient Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System: Application in Cyberphysical Networked Microgrid,” Budapest, Hungary, July 9-11, 2021.
  • A forum speaker, “Resilient Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System: Application in Cyberphysical Networked Microgrid,” Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Sept 5, 2020.
  • A keynote speaker of the IEEE 2ND International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems, “Resilient Networked Microgrids Energy Management System,” Cagliari, Sardinia, September 1 – 3, 2020.
  • A keynote speaker of the 4th SJTU Future Information Technology International Forum for Young Scholars, “Resilient Cyberphysical System: Networked Microgrids Energy Management Systems,” June 1, 2019.
  • A keynote speaker of “2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology”, March 17-19, 2015, Seville, Spain, on the topic of ” When e-Transportation Meets Distributed Renewable Energy Resources”.
  • A keynote speaker of “3rd International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems” on August 10-12, 2010 on the topic of “Time-sensitive distributed control systems”.

IEEE IES Distinguished Lecture

  • “Empowering Grid Transformation Through Dynamic Energy Management System (D-EMS)”, IEEE IES Distinguished Lecture, Paris, France, May 23, 2025.
  • “Smart/Micro Grid Management”, IIT Mandi, Mandi, India, Sept 21, 2020.
  • “Advanced Microgrid Management System: Centralized vs. Distributed and the Role of Batteries”, Chuo University and IEEE IES Distinguished Lecture, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, Feb 26, 2019.
  • “Collaborative Distributed Control With Applications on Microgrid Management System”, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, Nov 17, 2017.
  • “Collaborative Distributed Control With Applications on Microgrid Management System”, University of Macau, Macau, China, Nov 15, 2017.
  • “Collaborative Distributed Control With Applications on Microgrid Management System”, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Nov 13, 2017.
  • “Collaborative Distributed Control on Smart Micro-Grid Energy Management”, Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Santiago, Chile, Sept 8, 2017.
  • “Collaborative Distributed Control on Smart Micro-Grid Energy Management”, Electronics department of Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaíso, Chile, Sept 4, 2017.
  • “Collaborative Distributed Control on Smart Micro-Grid Energy Management,” Lehigh ECE Distinguish Lecture Series, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 10, 2016.
  • “When E-Transportation Meets Renewable Energy Resources,” IEEE IES Distinguished Lecture, November 13, 2014, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • “When E-Transportation Meets Renewable Energy Resources,” Panelist Speech, Modern Engineering and Technology Seminar 2014 (METS 2014), November 10, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • “Legacy, Smart, and Smarter Power Grids”, IEEE IES Distinguished Lecture, May 5, 2014, Vigo, Spain.