Speakers

Adrian David Cheok
IEEE Senior Member,Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), United Kingdom (FIET)
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Professor Adrian David Cheok AM FIET FIEAust FRSA is Full Professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Director of the Imagineering Institute, Malaysia, Visiting Professor at Raffles University, Malaysia, Visiting Professor at University of Novi Sad-Serbia, on Technical faculty “Mihailo Pupin”, Serbia, Faculty of Ducere Business School, and CEO of Nikola Tesla Technologies Corporation. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), United Kingdom (FIET). He is Fellow of the Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He is Chief Scientist at Frost Digi and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics.

Saim Memon
CEO & Industrial Professor of Renewable Energy Engineering
Professor Saim Memon is a UK-based CEO and Industrial Professor of Renewable Energy Engineering whose work sits at the practical intersection of academic discovery, industrial R&D, and scalable market deployment, with a clear focus on technologies that deliver measurable energy and carbon reduction. He holds a PhD in Mechanical, Electrical, and Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University, an MSc in Mechatronics from Staffordshire University, a PGCE from the University of Aberdeen, and a first-class BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and holds Qualified Teacher Status awarded by the General Teaching Council for Scotland. Internationally, he is recognised as a high-impact researcher and public speaker, ranked by ScholarGPS within the top 1% worldwide in Energy and across all disciplines over the past five years. His research outputs include 150+ peer-reviewed publications and 37+ industry articles, with 2,400+ citations, an h-index of 28+, and an i10-index of 58+. He has served as Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editor across five+ journals and reviewed for 40+ journals, alongside delivering 100+ invited, keynote, and visiting lectures and building collaborations across 40+ countries. In higher education leadership, he has taught 41 modules, consistently achieved 90%+ student satisfaction, supervised PhD and postgraduate projects, and led programmes, accreditation, validation, and school-level research and academic strategy. Professor Saim has held a range of academic senior leadership roles in the UK and worldwide. He iis also specialised in creating World’s First Hyper Realistic Digital AI Professor that can teach in various languages.

Pierluigi Siano
University of Salerno, Italy
Pierluigi Siano received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively.
He is a Full Professor of Electrical Power Systems and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno.
His research activities are centered on demand response, energy management, the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, and electricity markets, and the planning and management of power systems.
In these research fields, he has co-authored more than 800 articles including more than 400 international journals that received in Scopus more than 23000 citations with an H-index equal to 73. Since 2019 he has been awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Web of Science Group. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids.
He is an Editor for the Power & Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE SYSTEMS.

Ker Pin Jern
Sunway University, Malaysia
Dr. Ker, Pin Jern is a Professor in the School of Engineering & Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia. He is a project leader or member of various government and industrial research projects, with a total amount of > RM 20 million. He has published >110 journal papers (WoS-indexed Q1 & Q2) and >60 Scopus / WoS (Q3 & Q4) indexed journal papers. His research interests are the application of artificial intelligence and development of intelligent system for energy-related applications, such as renewable energy and energy storage system. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng.) and is awarded as the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists for the years 2022 and 2023.
