Atsuo Kawamura (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. After the five-year-stay at the University of Missouri-Columbia as a faculty member, he joined Yokohama National University in 1986, and in 1996 he became a professor. He served as a dean of College of Engineering Science and Graduate School of Engineering from 2013 to 2015. He has become Professor Emeritus in 2019, and now is a professor of endowed chair (Power Electronics) at the same university. He has served to completion of 38 Ph.D and 147 Master’s and 179 Bacheler’s students. He holds 7 patents and has published more than 130 journal papers and 320 international and 560 domestic conference papers, and 9 books. (h-index(Google) is 45.)
His research interests include power electronics, digital control, electric vehicles, robotics, train traction control, etc. He received several awards including several Transactions Prize Paper Awards from IEEE and IEEJ.
Dr. Kawamura is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan(IEE of Japan).

Liuchen Chang received B.S.E.E. from Northern Jiaotong University in 1982, M.Sc. from China Academy of Railway Sciences in 1984, and Ph.D. from Queen’ University in 1991. He joined the University of New Brunswick in 1992 and is a Professor Emeritus at UNB. He was the NSERC Chair in Environmental Design Engineering during 2001-2007, and the Principal Investigator of Canadian Wind Energy Strategic Network (WESNet) during 2008-2014. He is a long-time volunteer for IEEE of 30 years and is the President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (2021-2022).
Dr. Chang was a recipient of CanWEA Templin Award for his contributions in the development of wind energy technologies, Innovation Award for Excellence in Applied Research in New Brunswick for his contributions in smart grid and renewable energy technologies, and PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in distributed energy systems. He is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. He has published more than 400 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Chang has focused on research, development, demonstration and deployment of renewable energy based distributed energy systems.

Since Oct. 1996, he is professor at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he leads the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA). In Oct. 2006 became director of the E.ON Energy Research Center of RWTH Aachen University, where he also founded the Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems (PGS). He is director of the RWTH CAMPUS Cluster Sustainable Energy and leads the German Federal Government BMBF Flexible Electrical Networks (FEN) Research CAMPUS. He has a doctor honoris causa degree of TU Riga, Latvia.

He has published over 700 technical papers and is holder of more than 70 patents. Dr. De Doncker is recipient of the IAS Outstanding Achievements Award and the IEEE Power Engineering Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award (2008). In 2010, he became member of the German National Platform for electro-mobility. He is the recipient of the 2013 Newell Power Electronics IEEE Technical Field Award, and the 2014 IEEE PELS Harry A. Owen Outstanding Service Award. In 2015 he was awarded Fellow status at RWTH University. In 2016 he became member of the German Academy of Science and Technology (ACATECH). 2017 he became Member of the International Advisory Board of French automotive research institute VEDECOM. He has been awarded the 2020 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering.

Jin-Hwan Jung received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology in 1999. After joining Hyundai Motor Company in 1999, he worked as the head of the power conversion system engineering design team and the head of the Electrification Development Group.

Currently, he is working as the head of the Electrification Design Center. He led the in-house and localization development of power electronic parts such as motors, inverters, converters, and chargers in all models of Hyundai-Kia eco-vehicles. Recently, he has been receiving various awards such as IR 52 Jang Young-sil Awards and Korea Technology Awards with the multi-input fast charging system and the V2X system and so on.

Based on these world's best technologies, he played a key role that Hyundai Motor Company is becoming the first mover in the global EV market.

Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering. PH.D. supervisor. Vice-Dean of New Concept Vehicle Institute, Director of the Green Transportation Center, Tsinghua University. IET Fellow. IEEE IAS Beijing Chapter Chairman. Chairman of Transportation Electrification Committee of China Power Supply Society. Vice-Chairman of Electrical Automation Committee of Chinese Association of Automation, Chairman of Academic Committee. Vice-Chairman of Power Electronics Society of China Electro- technical Society. Delta School Award in 2003, Tianshan scholar in 2013.

The main research fields are high performance and high power AC motor control system and its application， vector control and direct torque control theory of AC motor and its digital realization, high voltage and high power converters and their applications in energy saving, high-speed traction drives and ship propulsion...etc. He has completed 6 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 4 projects of key R & D plan and 13 projects of international cooperation program and many other projects. 11 national invention patents have been authorized, and more than 400 papers have been published, of which 52 are included by SCI and 261 by EI, 4 monographs have been published. He has won the second prize of Science and Technology Achievement Award of National Ministry of Education, Beijing Science and Technology Award, Electrical industry - Zhengtai Science and Technology Award, Second prize of Science and Technology Award of China Electrotechnical Society, many best papers in the conference.

He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1980, 1983, and 1986, respectively. Since 1991, he has been a member of faculty of School of the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, where he is currently a Professor. He has been IEEE fellow since year 2000. He published more than 140 IEEE reviewed journal papers and more than 340 international conference papers in the area of power electronics. For a year of 2015, he served as the president of Korea Institute of Power Electronics. He received Outstanding Achievement Award from IEEE IAS in 2016 and he is recipient of William E. Newell award from IEEE PELS in 2017. His current research interests are on control of electrical machines, electric vehicles, electric propulsion of ship, and power conditioning system for renewables.