In January 2020, IEEE PES (IEEE Power and Energy Society) held a PES Governing Board Meeting in Jacksonville, USA and elected a new batch of internationally renowned experts and scholars into the IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer Program. 10 people from all over the world, including Professor He Jinliang and Professor Kang Chongqing from EEA of Tsinghua University were elected into the program. At present, the IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer Program includes 109 experts and scholars from all over the world.

It is reported that, the Distinguished Lecturer Program, an overall selection and support plan of IEEE, is organized and implemented by each IEEE society. The IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer Program aims to organize academic exchanges at IEEE Chapter and other levels through lectures and seminars, etc. The candidates of the IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer Program are all experts and scholars who are deeply experienced in a certain field. More information about IEEE PES

Distinguished Lecturer Program can be found on the website:

https://www.ieee-pes.org/pes-communities/chapters/distinguished-lecturer-program.

He Jinliang, Professor of EEA, Tsinghua University, Director of the Institute of High Voltage and Insulation Technology, mainly engaged in the fields of advanced power transmission technology, lightning protection technology, intelligent information perception, intelligent nano-dielectric materials and systems, etc., IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow and HPEM Fellow of the US Summa Foundation, won the Technical Achievement Award of IEEE EMC Society, the 6th Hoshino Award of the Institute of Electrical Installation Engineers of Japan, the Distinguished Contribution Award of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning, Rudolf Heinrich Golde Award of the International Lightning Protection Symposium, and IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award. His achievement won 2 second prizes for State Scientific and Technological Progress and 1 second prize for State Invention, he published 7 works in Chinese and English and more than 300 SCI papers, and is the convener of two CIGRE working groups, the chief scientist of the National 973 Project and won the Innovation Group Project of the Foundation Committee as an academic leader in 2019.

Kang Chongqing, Professor and Dean of EEA of Tsinghua University, Director of Energy Internet Innovation Research Institute, and Director of Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute; mainly engaged in the research on power system planning, power system dispatching and operation, renewable energy, low-carbon power technology, and energy Internet. Winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and leader of scientific and technological innovation in the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow. Served as Deputy Secretary-General of Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, Chairman of the Education and Youth Committee, Vice Chairman of the International Cooperation Committee, and Vice Director of Beijing Society of Electrical Engineering, the editor-in-chief of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems of the international journal SCI and a member of the editorial board for many domestic and foreign journals, a member of the SC C1 Strategic Advisory Committee of CIGRE (Conference International des Grands Reseaux Electriques), the convener of the C1.39 working Group, and the chairman of the Special Committee on Power system Development and Economics (C1) of the CIGRE China National Committee, a member of the IEEE PES long-term Strategy Committee, and a member of IEEE PES Fellow Nomination Resource Committee, and published 5 Chinese and English monographs and more than 300 papers, including more than 100 on IEEE Transactions.