Committee Members

General Chair

Kiyoshi Tsutsui (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

General Co-Chair

Tadahito Aoki (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Organizing Committee

Chair

Fujio Kurokawa (Graduate School of Engineering Nagasaki University, Japan)

Co-Chairs

Ilhami Colak (Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey)

John Hawkins (Telepower Australia Pty Ltd., Australia)

Members

Yoshiharu Akiyama (NTT Network Technology Laboratories, Japan)

Frede Blaabjerg (Aalborg university, Denmark)

Hirofumi Hayama (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Takashi Hikihara (Kyoto University, Japan)

Yoichi Hori (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Toshifumi Ise (Osaka University, Japan)

Praveen Jain (Queen's University, Canada)

Atsuo Kawamura (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Hisao Kimura (KOYO DENKI, Japan)

Toshiro Matsumura (Nagoya University, Japan)

Hideo Miyazawa (FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED, Japan)

Masaki Nakao (Osaka City University, Japan)

Masanori Ogasawara (SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO.LTD, Japan)

Hiroyuki Oka (FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Japan)

Koji Okuda (Daihen Corporation, Japan)

Toshihisa Shimizu (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

Koichi Shimura (SANKEN ELECTRIC CO.,LTD., Japan)

Takaharu Takeshita (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

Shoichi Tozuka (Origin Electric co., LTD., Japan)

Tsuneo Uekusa (NTT FACILITIES,INC., Japan)

Toshiaki Yachi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi (INVERTER SALES DEPT, Japan)

Technical Program Committee

Chair

Masahito Shoyama (Kyushu University, Japan)

Co-Chairs

Keiichi Hirose (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Alexis Kwasinski (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Members

Hirohisa Aki (AIST, Japan)

Eduard Alarcon (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain)

Tadatoshi Babasaki (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Ramazan Bayindir (Gazi University, Turkey)

Herman Chang (Delta Electronics, Inc., Taiwan)

Poki Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

Po-tai Cheng (National Tsing Hua university)

Huang-Jen Chiu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)

Jaeho Choi (Chonbuk National University, Korea)

Dariusz Czarkowski (NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, USA)

Brayima Dakyo (Université du Havre, France)

Donovan Davidson (Gleneagles Technologies Ltd., Canada)

Liang Downey (Power Supply Manufacturers Association, USA)

Haruhi Eto (KB SOFTWARE CO.,LTD., Japan)

Constantin Filote (University of Suceava, Romania)

Hideaki Fujita (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Hirohito Funato (UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY, Japan)

Rajit Gadh (Director of UCLA - Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC), USA)

Dave Geary (STARLINE DC SOLUTIONS Division, USA)

Zhongwei Guo (SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO.LTD, Japan)

Wu Guohong (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)

Ryoichi Hara (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Hirofumi Hayama (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Hitoshi Hayashiya (East Japan Railway Company, Japan)

Tsuyoshi Higuchi (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Eiji Hiraki (Okayama University, Japan)

Kouji Hisanaga (NEC Corporation, Japan)

NAEBBOON HOONCHAREON (CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, Thailand)

Nobukazu Hoshi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

Tatsuya Hosotani (Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan)

Osamu Ichinokura (Tohoku University, Japan)

Daisuke Iioka (Meijo University, Japan)

Satoshi Ikeda (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)

Adrian Ioinovici (Sun Yat-University, China)

Toshifumi Ise (OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Japan)

Masayoshi Ishida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Toshihiko Ishiyama (Hachinohe Institute of Technology, Japan)

Youichi Ishizuka (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Junichi Itou (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)

Vladimir Katic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)

Akihiko Katsuki (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Noriko Kawakami (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC), Japan)

Marian Kazimierczuk (Wright State University, USA)

Yen Kheng Tan (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)

Hyosung Kim (Kongju National University, Korea)

TSENG, King Jet (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Hiroyuki Kita (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Hiroshi Kobayashi (Toenec Corporation, Japan)

Sanjib Kumar Panda (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Elias Kyriakides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Yen-Shin Lai (National Taipei university of Tech., Taiwan)

Byoung-Kuk Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

Liang Tsorng-Juu(National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)

Kari Mäki (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)

Hidenori Maruta (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Nobumasa Matsui (MHPS CONTROL SYSTEMS Co.,Ltd, Japan)

Satoshi Matsumoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

Paolo Mattavelli (University of Padova, Italy)

Alex McEachern (Power Standard Laboratory, USA)

Saad Mekhilef (University of Malaya, Malaysia)

Tomokazu Mishima (Kobe University, Japan)

Nobuyuki Morii (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Masayuki Morimoto (Tokai University, Japan)

Shigeo Morimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Toshimitsu Morizane (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)

Takashi Nabeshima (Oita University, Japan)

Yoshiyasu Nakashima (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)

Masatoshi Nakahara (Sojo University, Japan)

Hiroshi Nakao (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)

Adel Nasiri (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)

Yasuyuki Nishida (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Kimihiro Nishijima (Oita University, Japan)

Kazunori Nishimura (Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan)

N. Norbert (GSO Hochschule, Germany, Germany)

Chika Nwankpa (Drexel University, USA)

Masahito Ohnishi (Panasonic Corporation Eco Solutions company, Japan)

Hiroyuki Ohsaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Satoshi Ohtsu (NTT Facilities Research Institute Inc., Japan)

Mohamed Orabi (Aswan Power Electronics Applications Research Center (APEARC), Egypt)

Brian T. Patterson (EMerge Alliance, USA)

Vitor Pires (ESTSetubal/IPS, Portugal)

Seref Sagiroglu (Gazi University, Turkey)

Eiji Sakai (Sojo University, Japan)

Hisato Sakuma (NEC Corporation, Japan)

Yoji Sakurai (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)

Toshiro Sato (Shinshu University, Japan)

Atsushi Satou (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Ganesh Sauba (DNVGL, USA)

Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba University, Japan)

Tomonobu Senjyu (University of the Ryukyus, Japan)

Rajendra Singh (Clemson University, USA)

Youcef Soufi (University of Larbi Tébessi, Algeria)

Takashi Takeda (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Arihiko Takemasa (Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co.,Ltd., Japan)

Kazuhiko Takeno (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan)

Takaharu Takeshita (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

Akira Takeuchi (NTT Network Technology Laboratories, Japan)

Masanori Tamoto (Isahaya Electronics Corporation, Japan)

Tetsuro Tanaka (Kagoshima University, Japan)

Yoshito Tanaka (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan)

Shin-ichi Tobishima (Gunma University, Japan)

Satoshi Tomioka (TDK-Lambda Corporation, Japan)

Makoto Tsuda (Tohoku University, Japan)

Tomonobu Tsuzikawa (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Montri Wiboonrat (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)

Jin Woo Ahn (Kyungsung Univ., Korea)

Tsai-Fu Wu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Bernd Wunder (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (FhG-IISB), Germany)

Masaki Yagami (Hokkaido University of Science, Japan)

Hiroshi Yamaguchi (AIST, Japan)

Masayoshi Yamamoto (Shimane University, Japan)

Nobuhiko Yamashita (NTT Network Technology Laboratories, Japan)

Takashi Yamashita (NTT Facilities Research Institute Inc., Japan)

Wenchang Yeh (Shimane University, Japan)

Yuichi Yokoi (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Yasunobu Yokomizu (Nagoya University, Japan)

Yu Yonezawa (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)

Kazuto Yukita (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

Jinbin Zhao (Shanghai University of Electric Power, China)

Exhibition Committee

Chair

Koichi Shimura (SANKEN ELECTRIC CO.,LTD., Japan)

Co-Chairs

Shoichi Tozuka (Origin Electric co., LTD., Japan)

Masahiro Sasaki (SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO.LTD, Japan)

Members

Tadatoshi Babasaki (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Takashi Ibana (TOSHIBA CORPORATION, Japan)

Katsuhiro Maeda (FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED, Japan)

Hiroyuki Oka (FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Japan)

Arihiko Takemasa (Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co.,Ltd., Japan)

Finance Committee

Chair

Toshiro Matsumura (Nagoya University, Japan)

Co-Chairs

Takashi Yamashita (NTT Facilities Research Institute Inc., Japan)

Kazuto Yukita (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

Members

Masaaki Furukawa (Origin Electric co., LTD., Japan)

Teruhiko Kohama (Fukuoka University, Japan)

Takashi Takeda (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Publicity Committee

Chair

Hiroyuki Morikawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Co-Chair

Yasuyuki Koizumi (SANYO DENKI CO.,LTD., Japan)

Members

Jaeho Choi (Chonbuk National University, Korea)

Praveen Jain (Queen's University, Canada)

Toshiji Kato (Doshisha University, Japan)

Hisao Kimura (KOYO DENKI, Japan)

Shigeo Morimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Yoshihiro Ohtani (SHARP CORPORATION, Japan)

Satoshi Ohtsu (NTT Facilities Research Institute Inc., Japan)

Local Steering Committee

Chair

Noriyuki Kimura (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)

Co-Chair

Takuji Serada (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Members

Tatsuya Hosotani (Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan)

Satoshi Ikeda (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)

Hiroshi Mochi (NTT Facilities., Inc., Japan)

Shigeo Morimoto (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Toshimitsu Morizane (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)

Masahito Ohnishi (Panasonic Corporation Eco Solutions company, Japan)

Secretary

Chair

Tadashi Suetsugu (Fukuoka University, Japan)

Co-Chair

Nobuhiko Yamashita (NTT Network Technology Laboratories, Japan)

Members

Koki Asakimori (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Kenji Goto (SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO.LTD, Japan)

Taku Ishibashi (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Hidenori Maruta (Nagasaki University, Japan)

Masatoshi Noritake (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Toyonari Shimakage (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Yasuyuki Sugiyama (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Takashi Takeda (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Toru Tanaka (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Tetsushi Tsumura (NTT FACILITIES, INC., Japan)

Xiuqin Wei (Nagasaki University)