- Jian YANG, Ph.D, Professor. He obtained his PhD degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2010. He has been a teacher in Xi’an Jiaotong University since Apr. 2010 and became a full professor since Jan. 2020. He is also a visiting scholar at Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University (Sweden) from Jan. 2019 to Jan. 2020. Now, he is a core member of Innovation Team in MOST Key Research Area (Energy). Meanwhile, he has been session chairs, session co-chairs or session co-organizers for many international conferences. Furthermore, he has also presided over many important research projects from both government and corporations, such as research projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Sub-project supported by National Key R&D Program of China, research project supported by State Grid Corporation of China, etc., and he has also received the 2024 Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Awards (First Prize for Technological Invention). Until recently, he has been authors or co-authors for more than 100 research papers, including more than 60 international journal papers, and applied for 18 national invention patents (9 issued).