Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 960 + papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, etc., with citations 68100 + times and h-index of 130 (google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 170 + plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 170 + Chinese and International patents. He has been honored with 30 + prestigious awards and prizes including the First-class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2023 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2023 in the field of chemical engineering science. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley) and Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier).

Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) with 1st class honors. Then he obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on the fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities of offshore wind energy at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.

A Adrian Joinovici, IEEE Fellow, is the Director of the Power Electronics based on Switched Capacitors Center, the Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the one thousand foreign experts plan", and holds honorary professorships from many universities. Previously, he served as a Professor and Director of the Power electronics for renewable energy Centre, Sun-Yat-sen University, Guangzhou under the "One thousand experts" program and as a Full Professor in the Nanjing University of aeronautics and Astronautics. He got the IEEE Fellow grade for "pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters" He authorized the books Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990) and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters (Wiley, 2013), translated to Chinese in 2017, and the chapter Power Electronics in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (San Francisco, Academic, 2001). His main research interests are switching-capacitor converters and inverters, large de gain converters, soft-switching converters. He published over 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences. He has given keynote speeches or tutorials at many IEEE conferences. He has been a number of terms the Chairman of the Technical Committee on Power Systems and Power Electronics of the IEEE CAS Society. He served as an Associate Editor for Power Electronics of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, and of Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC), and he was a Guest Editor of special issues of different IEEE Transactions. He was an Overseas Advisor of the IEICE Transactions, Japan. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education.