Lasantha Meegahapola received the PhD degree from the Queen's University of Belfast, UK in 2010. He received the BSc. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering (First Class, Honours) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2006. Dr Meegahapola is currently employed as an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia. Dr. Meegahapola was a Visiting Researcher/ Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Electricity Research Centre (ERC), University College Dublin, Ireland (2009-2010). From 2011 to 2014 he was employed as a Lecturer at the University of Wollongong (UOW) and continues as an Honorary Senior Fellow. Dr Meegahapola has more than 15 years’ research experience in power system dynamics & stability with renewable power generation, and microgrid dynamics, stability & control. Dr Meegahapola has been involved with seminal research and industry projects, such as technical feasibility analysis of super-capacitors for providing frequency regulation services in wind-farms, and characterisation of combined-cycle gas-turbine lean blowout phenomenon. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and has supervised 14 PhD students to completion to-date. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE), a Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) and a Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). Dr. Meegahapola is an active member of the IEEE power and energy society (PES), power system dynamic performance (PSDP) committee task forces on microgrid stability analysis and microgrid dynamic modelling. Dr. Meegahapola is also serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IET Renewable Power Generation journals.
Siqi Bu received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, U.K., where he continued his postdoctoralresearch work before entering industry. Then he was with National Grid UK as an experienced UK National Transmission System Planner and Operator. He is an Associate Professor with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and also a Chartered Engineer with UK Royal Engineering Council, London, U.K.. His research interests include power system stability analysis and operation control, considering renewable energy integration and smart grid application. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, IEEE Access, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, Power Generation Technology and PEERJ Computer Science, and a Guest Editor of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IEEE Access, Energies, Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, Frontiers in Energy Research,Shock and Vibration, Power Generation Technology and Smart Cities. He has been awarded various prizes from National Grid UK due to outstanding contributions in national operational and commissioning projects. He has also received multiple Best Paper Awards from IEEE and IET conferences, Outstanding Editor Awards from IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, and Outstanding Reviewer Awards from IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Applied Energy, Renewable Energy, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems and Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and has edited a book with Springer Nature on power system stability analysis considering wind integration.
Mingchen Gu, born in May 1992 in China. She received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and she received the Ph.D. degree from RMIT university, Australia, in 2021. She is currently employed as a research assistant of School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include hybrid AC/DC power grids, power network stability control, weak grid analysis, battery energy storage systems and power electronics converters. Dr. Gu is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE power and energy society. She was the chair of IEEE RMIT student branch (2018-2019). She won the Best Paper Award First Prize in 2020 12th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC).
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