Author: Chi-Seng Lam

Chi-Seng Lam received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Macau (UM), Macau, China, in 2012. He completed the Clare Hall Study Programme at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 2019. In 2013, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He is currently an Associate Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI and the Institute of Microelectronics, UM, and also with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM. He has coauthored or co-edited four books and around 200 technical journals and conference papers. He holds six U.S. and six Chinese patents. His research interests include power converters,  power quality compensators, photovoltaic energy generation system, power management integrated circuits, and wireless power transfer. Dr. Lam was the recipient or co-recipient of the IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2016,  the Gold Medal of the 48th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions in 2023,  and the Macao Science and Technology Invention Award (Third Class and Second Class) in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He is currently the Chair of the Young Professionals in Circuits and Systems (YPCAS) of IEEE CASS, Chair of the IEEE Macau IES Chapter and the Secretary of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Power Electronics. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,  IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,  IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and  IEEE Access. He was awarded 2021 IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor and the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Distinguished Reviewer. He was also the Tutorial Speaker for IPEMC 2024-ECCE Asia, PEDG 2023, ISCAS 2021, IECON 2020, and APPEEC 2019. Since 2020, he was listed as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for three consecutive years.  Cheng Gong received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Guangxi University, Nanning, China, in 2017, and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Macau (UM), Macau, China, in 2022. From Jan. 2022 to Jul. 2023, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Microelectronics of UM. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed VLSI & Institute of Microelectronics, UM, Macau, China. His research interest includes power electronics converters, reinforcement learning in power electronics, power quality compensators, and power systems optimization.   Dr. Gong was the recipient or co-recipient of the Gold Medal of the 48th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions in 2023, UM-Akrostar Academic Award in 2022, and IEEE Macau Section IES Chapter 2020 Postgraduate Paper Contest Championship. He is currently the Chapter Officer of the IEEE Macau IES Chapter and the Member of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Power Electronics. He was also the Tutorial Speaker for PEDG 2023.   Wai-Kit Sou received the B.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Macau (UM), Macau, China, in 2019 and 2023, respectively. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Microelectronics of UM. His current research interests include power electronics, energy saving and power quality compensation.   Dr. Sou was the recipient or co-recipient of the Macao Scientific and Technological R&D Award 2022 (Ph D Level), the Gold Medal of the 48th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions in 2023. He is a member in the board of supervisors of PES/PELS Joint Chapter in IEEE Macau Section since 2018. From 2020, he is the secretary of IES Chapter under IEEE Macau Section and the member of Power Quality Subcommittee of the IEEE IES PETC. He was also the Tutorial Speaker for PEDG 2023.