Speaker

Keynote Speaker: Md. Abdur Razzak, Independent University, Bangladesh, IEEE Senior Member, IEB Fellow, JSPS Fellow

Md. Abdur Razzak (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering (EEE) from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), in 1995, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in energy engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Professor of EEE at Independent University, Bangladesh, where he has worked as the Head of the EEE Department, from 2016 to 2018. He has been invited more than 20 national and international conferences and universities as a keynote speaker. He also served as the expert member for graduate (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) examination committee in more than 25 universities at home and abroad. He has published more than 175 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy technologies, EV charging systems, and smart grid. He is a fellow of IEB. He received the Gold Medal from RUET for his B.Sc. degree. He was a recipient of the RUET Gold Medal, in 1995; the HKUST Fellowship, in 1999; the Japanese Government Scholarship, from 2000 to 2006; the IEEE Graduate Scholar Award, in 2005; the Hori Information Promotion Award, in 2005; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, in 2008; the Visiting Professorship at MJIIT, University Technology Malaysia, in 2015; the IUB Teaching Excellence Award, in 2020; and the IUB Publication Excellence Award, in 2020. He has served as the general chair, the technical program chair, the technical program co-chair, the session chair, an international program committee member, an advisory board member, and an editorial board member for more than 50 journals and international conferences.