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Chun Sing Lai
Associate Vice President of Systems
Science and Engineering
Dr. Chun Sing Lai,
a Senior Member
of IEEE, earned
his B.Eng. (First
Class Hons.) de -
gree in electrical
and elect ron ic
engineering from
Chun Sing Lai
Brunel University London, London,
U.K., in 2013, and his D.Phil.
degree in engineering science from
the University of Oxford, Oxford,
U.K., in 2019. He is currently an honorary
visiting fellow of the School
of Automation, Guangdong University
of Technology, China, and a
lecturer in circuits and devices
as well as the course director of
the M.Sc. degree in electric vehicle
systems with the Department of
Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
Brunel University London, U.K.
From 2018 to 2020, he was a U.K.
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council Research Fellow
with the School of Civil Engineering,
University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. His
current interests are
in power system op -
timization, energy
system modeling,
data analytics, electric
vehicle systems,
hybrid powertrain
optimization, and
energy economics
for renewable energy
and storage systems.
Dr. Lai was the
publications cochair
for both the 2020 and 2021 IEEE International
Smart Cities Conferences.
He is the vice chair of the IEEE
Smart Cities Publications Committee
and associate editor for the Institution
of Engineering and Technology
(IET) Energy Conversion
and Economics. He is the working
group chair for the IEEE P2814 and
P3166 standards, associate vice
president of systems science and engineering
of the SMCS, and chair of
the SMCS Intelligent Power and Energy
Systems TC. He received a Best
Paper Award from the IEEE International
Smart Cities Conference in October
2020. Dr. Lai has contributed to
four journal articles that appeared in
Web of Science as highly cited papers,
out of which he is the lead author for
three of them. He has coauthored two
books: Smart Grids and Big Data
Analytics for Smart Cities (Springer,
2021) and Smart Energy for Transportation
and Health in a Smart City
(Wiley, 2023). He is an IET member
and a Chartered Engineer.
Jiacun Wang
Associate Vice President
of Finance
Jiacun Wang
J i a cu n Wa ng
earned his Ph.D.
degree in computer
engineering
from Nanjing
University of Science
and Technology
(NJUST),
Dr. Lai was the
publications
cochair for both
the 2020 and 2021
IEEE International
Smart Cities
Conferences.
China, in 1991. He is currently a professor
of software engineering at
Monmouth University (MU), West
Long Branch, NJ, USA. He was the
MU Computer Science
and Soft -
ware Engineering
Department chair
from 2009 to 2015.
He has been the
graduate program
d i r ec t or of the
department since
2016 . F rom 2001
to 2004, he was a
member of the scientific
staff with
Nortel Networks in Richardson,
TX. Prior to joining Nortel, he was
a research associate with the School
of Computer Science, Florida International
University (FIU) at Miami.
Prior to joining FIU, he was an associate
professor at NJUST.
His research interests include
software eng ineer ing, machine
learning, formal methods, discrete
event systems, and real-time dist
r ibut ed sys t ems. He has pub -
lished four books, including Formal
Methods in Computer Science
(CRC Pres s , 2019), Real-Time
Embedded Systems (Wiley, 2017),
Finite State-Based Models and Applications
(CRC Press, 2012), and
Timed Petri Nets: Theory and
Application (Kluwer, 1998) and
published more than 130 research
papers in peer-reviewed international
journals and conferences.
He is an associate editor of the
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica
Sinica. He was an associate editor
of IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics, Part C and
has served as general chair, program
chair, program cochair, special
sessions chair, or program committee
member for many international
conferences. Dr. Wang has been a
Senior Member of IEEE since 2000.
György Eigner
Associate Vice President
of Membership and Student
Activities
György Eigner
György Eigner, a
Member of IEEE
since 2017 and a
Senior Member
since 2021, earned
his B.Sc. degree in
mechatronic engineering
at Óbuda
University, Bánki Donát Faculty of
Mechanical and Safety Engineering,
in 2011 and his M.Sc. degree in biomedical
engineering at Budapest University
of Technology and Economics
in 2013. He earned his Ph.D. degree
from Óbuda University in 2017. He is
the acting dean of the John von Neumann
Faculty of Informatics and the
head of the Biomatics and Applied
Artificial Intelligence Institution,
where he is currently an associate
professor. His main research focus is
the application of advanced control
methods in physiological relations,
biomedical engineering, humanin-the-loop
systems, and artificial
intelligence-based cybermedical systems.
Having published more than
120 scientific works on these topics,
his h-index is seven. He is a member
of the Board of Governors of the
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