2025 the 12th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Engineering (CPESE 2025)
Makoto Hagiwara (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1979. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2001, 2003, and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2015, he has been an Associate Professor in the same institute, whose name is changed to Institute of Science Tokyo from 2024. His research interests include dc-to-dc converters for electric trains/vehicles, high-voltage high-power converters for utility applications and renewable energies, and HVDC technologies. Dr. Hagiwara was the recipient of the 2010 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Sapporo/ECCE-Asia) second prize paper award, the 2012 and 2013 IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Power Converter Committee first prize paper awards, the 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, the 2023 TPEL AE Excellence Award, and the 2024 Nagamori Award.
Nguyen Gia Minh Thao obtained the B. Eng. (honors) degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2009, and the Dr. Eng. degree in electrical engineering and intelligent control from Waseda University, Japan, in 2015. From 2015 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Waseda University and Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. From 2020 to 2023, he was an Assistant Professor in Nagoya University and Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. Since 2023, Dr. Thao has been an Associate Professor in Shimane University, Japan, where he is the head of the Electric Motors and Energy Systems Laboratory. He has been a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, since 2022. He has also been a Guest Editor for special issues of refereed journals such as Electronics and IET The Journal of Engineering. Moreover, he has been an Editorial Member of Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, since 2021. His research interests include advanced control methods, electric motors and drives, renewable energy systems, power electronics, intelligent battery management systems, electromagnetic analysis and evaluation, computational intelligence, and electric vehicles.
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