Professor Weixiang Shen received his BEng., MEng., and PhD degrees all from Electrical Engineering. He worked in several universities as a Lecturer, Associate Professor and Research Fellow in China, German, Singapore and Malaysia. Currently, he is a Professor at School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Shen’s research interests are (1) battery applied research and control strategy for electric vehicles (EVs), including battery capacity estimation, battery charging, battery sorting and balancing, end of life battery repurposing, battery fault diagnosis, battery safety under impact, battery energy and thermal management as well as EV control, (2) integration of EVs and renewable energy systems (e.g. solar photovoltaic systems and wind systems) into power grids, including the smart use of EV batteries as an energy storage system in power systems (e.g. smart grid) and the analysis and improvement of system stability for power systems integrated with renewable energy systems. In these areas, he has published more than 170 journal papers, one monograph "Advanced battery management technologies for electric vehicles" and a few book chapters.

Professor Shen is an Associate Editor of IET Power Electronics, an Associate Editor for Journal of Energy Storage and founding Board Member of journal Vehicles. He guest-edited several special issues for Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production and Energy. He has also served as a conference organising committee member, session chair and track chair for a few international conferences, such as The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA). Professor Shen was a general chair of the International Conference on Energy, Ecology and Environment (ICEEE2018) held in Melbourne, Australia, 2018 and a technical program chair for the international joint conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering (CoEEPE2023) held in Melbourne, Australia, 2023.