Keynote Speakers

Prof. Saad Mekhilef (IEEE Fellow)
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & University of Malaya, Malaysia

Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef is an IEEE and IET Fellow. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, an Honorary Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, and a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He authored and co-authored more than 600 publications in academic journals and proceedings, five books with more than 47,000 citations, and more than 85 Ph.D. students who graduated under his supervision. He serves as an editorial board member for many top journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics, IET Renewable Power Generation, E-Prime, Journal of Power Electronics, and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. His research interests include Power Conversion Techniques, Control of Power Converters, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), Renewable Energy, and Energy Efficiency.

Assoc. Prof. Eng. Lorant Andras Szolga | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN), Romania

Lorant A. Szolga has been an IEEE member since 2018. He is Assoc. Prof. at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology (ETTI) from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN), Romania. He is a member of the Optoelectronics Group. He is responsible for the EMIMEO (Erasmus Master on Innovative Microwave Electronics and Optics) Erasmus Mundus program for TUCN.
Lorant received his BAc and MSc, both in Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering, from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2005 and 2008. He obtained his PhD title in Electronics in 2013.
His main interests in the field of research are renewable energies (organic solar cells, dye-synthesized solar cells) and optoelectronic-based sensors and applications (medicine, agriculture, security systems).