Zhenbin Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics (EAL), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, with “summa cum laude”. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as a Research Fellow and the group-leader for “Modern Control Strategies for Electrical Drives” group in EAL. Since 2017, he has held the position of full professor and International Collaboration Ambassador of Shandong University, China. From 2018 to 2022, he was a guest professor in TUM with the “August-Wilhelm Scheer Professorship Award.” In 2019, he was selected as a recipient of China's “1000-Talent-Plan”. In 2020, he was appointed as the director for “International Joint Center for Intelligent Energy and Advanced Energy Conversion Systems”. In 2022, he was also elected as IET Fellow. In 2024, he was appointed as a guest professor in TUM with the “Hans Fischer Fellowship”. Dr. Zhang is a recipient of the VDE-Award, Germany. He has authored 2 monographs and more than 160 papers. He has also made several invited presentations at international conferences and seminars. In addition, he was elected the general chair of IEEE-PRECEDE-2021 conference, and Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. His research interests include power electronics and electrical drives, sustainable energy systems, smart- and microgrids.
Title of Talk : Recent Advances of Encoderless Control of Modern Energy Conversion Systems and Power Electronics