2026 Keynote Speaker / 主旨报告
Prof. Kang Li
University of Leeds, UK
H-index 68, Director of the Institute of Communication and Power Networks
Speech Title: Intelligent State Estimation and Control of Battery Storage Systems to Support Transport Decarbonization
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The global economy will be greatly shaped by the transformed energy landscapes. Battery storage systems play a vital role in decarbonizing the whole energy chain from accepting renewable generations to electrification of transport and other sectors. The talk presents some recent studies in intelligent state estimation and control of Li-ion battery systems and substantial engineering applications to support railway and road electrification/decarbonization.
BIO: Kang Li holds the Chair of Smart Energy Systems and is the Director of the Institute of Communication and Power Networks at School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. A control engineer by training, he is interested is in the development of holistic sensing, modelling, control, and optimization systems to support low carbon transition of power, transport and manufacturing sectors. His work on the development of minimal-invasive cloud-based energy consumption and process condition monitoring platform (Point Energy Technology) has been successfully adopted in food processing and polymer processing industries, winning 2015 Institute of Measurement and Control ICI Best Application prize, 2016 Northern Ireland INVENT award and 2016 finalist of the Sustainable Energy Awards 2016 from Sustainable Energy Authority of Republic of Ireland. In battery research, he has proposed constrained multi-objective battery charging control strategies for batteries and promoted the application of Fibre Bragg Grating sensor technologies for battery state monitoring and estimation to improve battery safety and state estimation accuracy. In partnership with leading industrial partners in the power and transport sectors, he is currently leading the technological innovation on the development and demonstration of railway Energy Hubs, a first of the kind novel microgrid solution to revolutionize railway decarbonization, transforming the inflexible rail demand to flexible load, and providing flexibility and ancillary services to the power grid. Prof Li has published over 300 international journal papers and edited 19 international conference proceedings in his area, winning over 15 national and international prizes and awards, including 2019 Springer Nature ‘China New Development Award’ in recognition of the ‘exceptional contributions to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals’.
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