Junichi KITANO received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1982 respectively, and withdrew from doctoral course in 1985. Until 1989, he worked as a research associate in the same institute.

In 1989, he joined Central Japan Railway Company and has been engaged in research and development of superconducting maglev system. Presently he is a general engineering manager of Maglev Systems Development Division.

His research interests include high power conversion system, drive control system, and wireless power transmission. Also, he worked about Electro-Magnetic Compatibility and he is a member of Japanese national committee of IEC TC/77, IEC/77A and IEC/TC9.

He is a past chairman of the Linear Drive Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEE Japan). And he received the IEE Japan Industry Applications Society Technical Development Award for the practical application of superconducting maglev system. He is a fellow of IEE Japan.

Rae-Young Kim received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Hanyang University in Seul, Korea, and his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, USA. He has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Hanyang University for 15 years. He is currently the Director of the DC Grid Innovation Research Center at Hanyang University. He has worked in several academic or industrial associations and published more than 100 papers and 30 patents. His research interests include high power density converters, power semiconductor packaging and optimization, and DC grid and control for future power grids.

Ping Zheng received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1992, 1995, and 1999, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since 1995, she has been with Harbin Institute of Technology, where she has been a Professor since 2005. She is IET Fellow, CES Fellow, and the director of Key Laboratory of Electric Drives & Propulsion Technology of Ministry of Education of China.

She is the author or coauthor of more than 360 published refereed technical papers and four books. She is the holder of more than 90 Chinese invention patents. Her current research interests include electric machines and control, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, and the cloud computing of electric machine system.

She was a recipient of more than 40 technical awards, including the "National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China" from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2013, the "National High-Level Talent Program" from the Ministry of Education of China in 2014, the "1st Award of Science and Technology Progress" from Tianjin Municipality of China in 2013, and the "1st Award of Science and Technology Progress" from China Electrotechnical Society in 2022.

Dr. Bulent Sarlioglu is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of Technology and Collaboration at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium. From 2000 to 2011, he was with Honeywell International Inc.'s Aerospace Division, Torrance, CA, USA, most recently as a Staff Systems Engineer.
His expertise includes electrical machines, drives, and power electronics. He is the inventor or co-inventor of 22 U.S. patents and many international patents. In addition, he has more than 300 technical papers published in conference proceedings and journals. Dr. Sarlioglu received the Honeywell's Outstanding Engineer Award in 2011, the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, and the 4th Grand Nagamori Award from Nagamori Foundation, Japan, in 2018.

Dr. Sarlioglu is currently an IAS VTS distinguished lecturer. He served as the Chair of the PES Motor Subcommittee and was one of the co-editors of the IEEE Electrification Magazine. Dr. Sarlioglu was the General Chair of ITEC 2018, Technical Program Co-Chair for ECCE 2019, and special session chair of ECCE 2020. In 2021, He received the IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Chris Gerada is a Professor of Electrical Machines and the UoN’s Lead for the Zero Carbon Cluster.

Chris obtained his PhD in Numerical Modelling of Electrical Machines from the University of Nottingham in 2005. His core research interests include the design and modelling of high-performance electric drives and machines. Chris has led several major research consortiums and centers. He’s secured >£100M of research income as Principal Investigator and has a very strong track record of industrial engagement through industrial projects and consultancies. Chris was awarded the Grand Nagamori award (2020) for ‘contributions to advancements in high performance electrical machines and their industrial application and uptake’. He has published >500 papers. Chris held a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Electrical Machines, is also the former Chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Electrical Machines Technical Committee and is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions in Industry Applications.

Chris provides leadership in the development and successful implementation of the University’s strategies for knowledge exchange and business engagement and supports our response to the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy.

Prof. Kondo received B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees from the faculty of electrical engineering, Waseda University, Japan, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. He was with the Railway Technical Research Institute as Senior Researcher in the rolling stock control division from 1991 to 2006. Then, he was an associate Prof. and a full Prof. in Graduate School of Chiba University. Since 2018, he has been Professor in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Bio-science, Waseda University. His research interests include power electronics, AC motor drive, and their application to the mobility. Prof. Kondo is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Fellow of Japan Society of Automobile Engineers and a member of IEEE.

2011: Complete master's degree in electrical, electronic and information engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University.
2011: Join Daikin Industries and was assigned to the Shiga Plant Environmental Technology Research Institute in May and was in charge of developing control for single-phase electrolytic capacitor inverters.
2015 and now: Moved to the Daikin Industries Technology Innovation Center, and continued to work on improving power supply harmonic control in order to miniaturize single-phase electrolytic capacitor inverters.

Dr. Sato received B.E., M.E. and Dr.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Japan, in 1989, 1991 and 2000 respectively. He also received the S.M. degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in1997. He joined the Central Japan Railway Company in 1991 and has been engaged in the development, design and maintenance of traction systems of the Shinkansen trains. His research interests include power conversion systems and motor drives for highspeed trains. He received the IEEJ Technical Development Award in 2019. Dr. Sato is a senior member of the IEEE.