Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems

1. Prof. Yang Xu is currently Associate Professor and Ph.D. Advisor at Department Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degree from Engineering Physics Department from Tsinghua University in 1998, 2000 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Xu worked for Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University from year 2003 to 2014. After that, he returned to Engineering Physics Department. Since Dec. 2010, he served as Associate Professor, and National Registered Consulting Engineer.
Dr. Xu’s research focuses on the nuclear fuel cycle and instrument control direction. He has directed, participated and finished several projects on this area, such as "Study on Common Cause Failure of Digital Instrument", "Standards and Literature's Research of Digital Control Room Modernization Program", "Seismic stability Design, Identification and Verification for Large LCD screen for NuclearPower Plant", " Expert System for Numerical Operation of Nuclear Power Plant", and so on. His research work has won the third-grade prize of national defense science and technology. 
2. Feng Gao is the Executive Director of China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd (Shenzhen), and he has been with the company for the past 13 years. Mr. Gao received the M.E. degree in industrial engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Feng Gao’s research areas include the electrical technology, software testing and digital instrument and control system of nuclear power plants. He has taken part in the design, qualification, installation and checkout of TXP and TXS platforms. He has won the First Prize in Science and Technology of China Instrument and Control Society and the First Prize of Excellence Engineering Design award of Nuclear Industry, as well as the Outstanding Engineering Consulting Award in Power Industry and the Ministry of Nuclear Industry.
3. Weihua Chen is Director of the Instrument and Control Department at China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd (Shenzhen). He received the B.E. degrees in automation instrument from Beijing University of Science and Technology, China in 1995 and became senior engineer in 2005.
Weihua Chen’s areas of research interest include the techniques for analyzing the safety and reliability, as well as the overall design technique of digital instrument and control system for nuclear power plant. Currently, he is engaged in the design of safety instrument and control system for HPR. He has received the First Prize of Excellence Engineering Design Award of Nuclear Industry, the Science and Technology Award of China Nuclear Energy Industry Association, and the First Prize in Science and Technology of China Instrument and Control Society.
4. Mr. Liu Zheming studied Enterprise Financial Accounting in Jilin College of Finance & Taxation and Computer software and Applications in Jilin University in 1996 and 2013, respectively. Working as Special Assistant to secretariat of China Instrument and Control Society and Secretary General of Product Information Committee of China Instrument and Control Society from 2013, Mr. Liu organized forums, conferences, training, salons, and exhibitions more than 200 times in instrumentation and nuclear engineering field, pushing forward China Instrument and Control Society which now ranked first of the most professional organizations in this field. Collaborating with professions and experts, Mr. Liu conducted professional publications such as Manual of Petrochemical Engineering Measurement and Control, Processing Industries Automatic Measurement and Application, Manual of Petrochemical Machinery, New Techniques and Applications of Petrochemical Engineering. 

5. Dr. Pengfei Gu received the Ph.D. degreein Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Currently, he worked at China Nuclear Power Design Co., Ltd (Shenzhen). In recently years, he worked on software verification and validation of safety instrument and control system for nuclear power plants.
Dr. Gu's research mainly focuses on the research of software verification and validation. His recent research interests include: software aging management, software reliability analysis and the safety and security of software, etc. He received China Excellent Patent Award, and the First Prize in Science and Technology of China Instrument and Control Society.