2020 (8th) International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies

Prof. Ir Dr. Lim Yun Seng received his early education in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah before he pursued his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom, in 1998. Subsequently, Lim pursued his Ph.D. at UMIST in the area of power system from September 1998 to September 2001. In 2002, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at UMIST in the area of renewable energy. In 2003, he joined Econnect Ltd, United Kingdom as an R&D Engineer specialising in research on the integration of renewable energy sources with the power system networks. Dr. Lim started his academic career at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in 2005. Over the past 9 years, Dr. Lim has secured 11 external research grants from The Ministry of Green Technology, Water and Communication, The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation as well as The Ministry of Higher Education for the research projects on smart grid and renewable energy. The total amount of research grants received so far is RM 4.33 million or USD 1.23 million. Dr. Lim has published 24 international journals with the total citations of 264 at h-index of 7. He has filed 4 patents on his inventions. One of the patents is filed with the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office. Of all his 12 postgraduate students, Dr. Lim has successfully graduated 7 postgraduate students so far. He has carried out 12 consultancy projects for various industries, universities and engineering societies with the total fees of RM 33,000.00. Dr. Lim won 16 international and national awards such as Gold Medal in 2013 International Invention & Innovation Exhibition, KASS Best Invention of the year 2012 and UTAR Best Invention of the year 2013. Dr. Lim has consistently received good teaching scores from his students for teaching energy-related subjects in the undergraduate and Master courses.

Dr. Lim is a professional engineer with Practising Certificate and CEng registered with Board of Engineer Malaysia and UK Engineering Council respectively. He is the full member of IET, IEM and also the senior member of IEEE. He is also the Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET).