Keynote Speaker 3

Prof. Hoay Beng Gooi received his PhD degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He was Assistant Professor with Lafayette College, Easton, USA and Senior Engineer with EMPROS/Siemens, USA. In 1991, he joined School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore as Senior Lecturer. He was Associate Professor of EEE and Deputy Head of EEE Power Engineering, NTU; Founding Co-Director, Singapore Power Group-NTU Joint Lab; Director of Renewable Energy, Science and Technology Master Program, a concurrent degree offered by NTU and Ecole Polytechnique (I’X), France; Programme Lead, NTU-Wuhan University Joint Education Program; and Chairman of Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FEE) Sub-Committee for Professional Engineers Board (PEB) Singapore. He served as Committee Member of Singapore Standards Council; Founding Chair of IEEE Singapore Life Member Affinity Group; Guest Editor for Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy; and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (T-PWRS). He won 2021 Outstanding IEEE T-PWRS Editor Award.

At NTU, he led and co-led several high-impact projects with a total grant of more than US$10M. They include developing a hardware-in-loop platform for hybrid microgrids funded by the US Navy, and an online monitoring system for switchgear for the national grid operator, Singapore Power. He spearheaded projects on solar intermittency mitigation with energy storage and blockchain-based energy trading.

He is an Emeritus Associate Professor at EEE, NTU; a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, USA and Singapore; and an independent microgrid consultant in Singapore; a Life Fellow of IEEE; an IEEE IES Distinguished Lecturer; and a member of IEEE Access Editorial Board; Energy Technical Committee, Institution of Engineers Singapore; and FEE (Electrical) Sub-Committee Member for PEB Singapore.