SPEAKER

Loi Lei Lai (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (First-Class Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K., in 1980 and 1984, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the City, University of London, London, U.K., in 2005. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor with the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He was a Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Professor and the Chair of Electrical Engineering with the City, University of London. His current research areas are in smart cities and smart grid. He was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE/PES) UKRI Power Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000, a Special Award from the City, University of London in 2005 and is its honorary graduate, the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper in 2006 and 2009, the IEEE/SMCS Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014, the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2016, and his research team received a Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference in October 2020. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter, a member of the IEEE Smart Cities Steering Committee, and the Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Standards Committee. He was a member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee; the Director of the Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, China; a Vice President for Membership and Student Activities with IEEE/SMCS; a Fellow Committee Evaluator for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society; and an IEEE PES Lifetime Achievement Award Assessment Committee Member. He is a Fellow of IET.