Advisory Chair Zhe Chen, Aalborg University, Danmark (IEEE Fellow) Conference Chairs Zhirong Zhang, Hexi University, China Haiying Dong, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China (Member, IEEE) Ting Yang, Tianjin University, China (Member, IEEE) Philip W. T. Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (Senior Member, IEEE) Hartmut Hinz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Conference Co-chair Xin Li, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Licheng Wang, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Kui Chen, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Technical Program Chair Guangya Zhu, Sichuan University, China (Member, IEEE) Xiping Ma, State Grid Gansu Electric Power Corp., China Zhanhong Wei, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Yue Zhou, Cardiff University, UK (Member, IEEE) Zhonglei Li, Tianjin University, China (Member, IEEE) Yu Wang, Chongqing University, China (Senior Member, IEEE PES) Technical Program Co-chair Yi Cui, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangyang Zhao, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Liang Du, Temple University, USA (Senior Member, IEEE) Nídia Caetano,LEPABE/FEUP & CIETI/ISEP, Portugal Local Organizing Chair Guangxing Dong, Hexi University, China Local Organizing Committee Baohong Ma, Hexi University, China Wenjing Cao, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Zhanhong Wei, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China WIE Chairs Wang Yan, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China (Member, IEEE) Feifei Bai, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Chairs Hongliang Zhang, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Guohua Wang, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Le Shan, Hexi University, China Publication Chair Lichen KANG, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Treasurer Nuo YAN, Southwest University, China Technical Committee Hong Wang, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Xiaonan Li, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Yongqiang Kang, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Lixia Yang, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Zhongwu Ma, Hexi University, China Xueyan Wang, Hexi University, China Suyuan Li, Hexi University, China Yagong Nan, Hexi University, China Yucheng He, Hexi University, China Muslum Arici, Kocaeli University, Turkey Jiebei Zhu, Tianjin University, China (Senior Member, IEEE) Zeashan Hameed Khan,King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Pakistan (Senior Member, IEEE) Pierluigi Siano, University of Salerno, Italy (Senior Member, IEEE) Farhad Shahnia, Murdoch University, Australia Wei Deng, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Member, IEEE) Wenliang Yin, Shandong University of Technology, China (Member, IEEE) Gheorghe Grigoras, Technical University of Iasi, Romania Kaikai Pan, Zhejiang University, China (Member, IEEE) Qiang (Shawn) Cheng, University of Kentucky, USA Mihaela Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Matsankov Misho, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Qingguang Yu, Tsinghua University, China Yiming Zhang, Fuzhou University, China (Member, IEEE) Burra Venkata Durga Kumar, Xiamen University Malaysia Chengxi Liu, Wuhan University, China (Senior Member, IEEE)