Ching-Ming Lai (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2010.,From 2009 to 2012, he worked as a Senior Research and Development Engineer with Lite-On Technology Corporation, Taiwan, where he worked on the high efficiency and high-power-density power supply. In 2012, he founded UPE-Power Technology Company Ltd., Taichung, Taiwan, the company mainly developed switching power supplies. From 2014 to 2019, he was a Faculty Member with the Department Vehicle Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech). Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan. He is currently the Director of the Intelligent Electric Vehicle and Green Energy Center (i-Center). Since 2021, he has been appointed as the Director of the Intelligent Transportation Development Center, NCHU. His research interests include electric vehicles (EVs), power electronics, green energy technologies, and intelligent transportation.,Dr. Lai is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Australian Institute of Energy (AIE). He is a Life Member of the Taiwan Power Electronics Association (TaiPEA), the Society of Automotive Engineers Taipei (SAE-Taipei), the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE), the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE), the Taiwan Association of Systems Science and Engineering (TASSE), and the Taiwan Power and Energy Engineer Association. Besides, he joins the IEEE PELS, IEEE IAS, IEEE IES, IEEE CAS, and IEEE VTS. He is the Founder and the Secretary General of Taiwan EV and Green Energy Association. This association aims to integrate Taiwan’s research and development resources in electric vehicles, smart grid, and renewable energy resources to formulate overall development strategies and supporting EV and Green Energy industries development. He received several paper awards, including the Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems. He received the Best Paper Award of three papers from TaiPEA, in 2007–2010, the one Excellent Paper Award at the National Symposium on Taiwan Electrical Power Engineering, in 2009, and the two Excellent Paper Awards at the Annual Conference of SAE-Taipei, in 2016 and 2017. Besides, the 2008 Young Author’s Award for Practical Application from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan. He was a recipient of several distinguished awards, including the Outstanding Researcher by the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Taipei Tech, in 2017–2018, the Dr. Shechtman Youth Researcher Award from Taipei Tech, in 2018, the Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, in 2018, the Special Outstanding Talent Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology, in 2018, the Outstanding Education Achievement Award from SAE-Taipei, in 2019, the Outstanding Youth Control Engineer Award from the Chinese Automatic Control Society, in 2019, the Outstanding Youth Engineer Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers-Taichung Chapter, in 2020, and the NCHU Outstanding Industry-Academia Collaboration Award, in 2021. He was the Co-Chair and the Tutorial Chair of the Fifth IEEE International Future Energy Electronics Conference (IEEE IFEEC 2021), the Exhibition Chair of 2020 International Automatic Control Conference (CACS 2020), the Conference Chair and the Organizer of the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Asia–Pacific Society for Computing and Information Technology (APSCIT 2019), the Tutorial Chair of 2019 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Asia (IEEE WiPDA 2019), and the Tutorial Chair of 2015 IEEE International Future Energy Electronics Conference (IEEE IFEEC 2015). He serviced as an Associate Editor for high-impact journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, from May 2018 to June 2020, IEICE Electronics Express, from June 2018 to May 2021, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs, from October 2018 to December 2019. He has been serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, since 2017, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, since 2021.

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