Professor Qinghua Wu was born in Wuhan, China. He was among the first cohort of graduate students in Chinese universities after the Culture Revolution, and obtained an MEng degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), majoring in Power System and Its Automation, in 1981. After teaching in HUST for three years, he went to the UK in 1984 to pursue his further studies and obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The Queen’s University Belfast in 1987. Professor Wu is the first scholar from mainland China who has been appointed Chair Professor in the UK since the Reform and Opening of China. He has been a Chair Professor in The University of Liverpool and Director of National Instruments e-Automation Laboratory since 1995. He is now Director of Energy Research Institute of South China University of Technology, China.
Professor Wu has been long engaged in research on Power Systems and Intelligence Engineering. He worked as a Lecturer and later on a Senior Lecturer in a first-class Department of Mathematical Science in Loughborough University, UK from 1991 to 1995. He is theoretical and practical and has solid foundation of a wide range of knowledge and experience of engineering. He has been doing research in the areas of power grids and energy systems with his multidisciplinary expertise. He has undertaken creative work in artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, machine learning, multi-agent system, mathematical morphology, nonlinear adaptive control, system on chip, power electronics, simulation and optimization of complex systems, and applications of the subjects mentioned above in power engineering and energy systems. Many research activities undertaken in these areas are rooted from Professor Wu’s early original work.
Professor Wu weaves computational intelligence, systems engineering and power grids together, and is a pioneer in the Smart Grid research. He has authored/co-authored more than 400 papers in international journals including 320 SCI papers and over 400 papers of international conferences. He has also contributed over 20 book chapters and published 5 research monographs issued by Springer, and he holds 50 registered international and Chinese patents. Professor Wu has supervised 30 post-doctoral researchers, 100 PhD students, a great number of MSc, MEng and MPhil students and 40 visiting academic scholars.
Professor Wu has managed and undertaken many research projects of the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, National Natural and Science Foundation of China, National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), Guangdong Innovative Research Team Program, British Telecom, Alstom Ltd, Siemens Ltd, National Grid, National Instruments, China Southern Power Grid, and he has been supported by a large amount of research funds. He has been awarded the prize for Advanced Technology of National Semiconductor, Outstanding Scientist Award of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the prize for the Best Paper of Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the Best Paper of Institute of Measurement and Control.
Professor Wu is Life Fellow of IEEE, Royal Chartered Engineer, Fellow of IET, and Fellow of CSEE. He is a Visiting Professor and Overseas Academic Expert Reviewer of Chinese Academy of Science, Expert Reviewer of China Science and Technology Award, Guangbiao Professor of Zhejiang University, Adviser of National Smart Grid Research Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University. In addition, Professor Wu has also been appointed as Guest Professor of a number of universities and Senior Technical Adviser in several power companies, and has served as the committee member of a number of international academic conferences.

Prof Z.Y. Dong is a Chair Professor and Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. His previous roles include Singapore Power Group Endowed Professor and Co-Director of SPG-NTU Joint Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; SHARP Professor of Energy System and Inaugrial Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, the University of NSW, Australia; Director of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Systems; Head of School of Electrical & Information Engineering, The University of Sydney; and Ausgrid Chair Professor and Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks provided R&D support for the Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration project of Australia. He also worked with industry as manager for power system planning with the transmission network service provider of TAS in Australia. Prof Dong's research interests include power system planning and stability, smart grid/micro grid, smart cities, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, and energy market. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has held editorial roles for several IEEE Transactions and IET Journals.

Professor Kashem Muttaqi is the Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids in Australia. He is also the Director of the Australian Power and Energy Research Institute (APERI) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Distinguished Professor and Discipline Leader – Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong.
Professor Muttaqi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1993, the M.Eng.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University, Malaysia in 2001. Professor Muttaqi has 30 years of academic experience and authored or co-authored more than 600 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised around 35 higher-degree research students to completion. He has attracted more than $20 million research fundings.
Professor Muttaqi is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is an Executive Board Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia.

Prof. Haoran Ji is currently a professor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, China. His major research interests include intelligent control and optimal operation of distribution networks. He serves as the Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, as well as iScience.

Lantao Xing received his Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2018. Then, he worked respectively as a Research Fellow and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, he is a full professor with the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. His research interests include nonlinear system control, and distributed control with applications in smart grid. He is now serving as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

Dr. Qin Wang received his BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2006, MEng (Distinction) in Electrical Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2009, and PhD (Distinction) in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, USA in 2013.

Following the completion of his PhD, Dr. Wang has accumulated over a decade of professional experience, working with renowned companies and research laboratories in the United States. From 2012 to 2015, he worked as an engineer at the dispatch center of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which operates one of the world's largest real-time energy markets. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Department of Energy. During the period spanning from 2017 to 2022, he held a position as a technical leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). In this capacity, he actively engaged in collaborative efforts with researchers, engineers, government officials, and experts from both academia and industry to pushed the boundaries of innovation. From February to June 2023, he started to lead part of the V2X platform and virtual power plant development work at General Motors. In June 2023, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr Wang serves as Secretary of the IEEE PES Reliability, Risk, and Probability Applications (RRPA) Subcommittee. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY MARKETS, POLICY AND REGULATION, Journal of Energy Engineering and IET Energy Conversion and Economics.

Tao Liu received his B.E. degree from Northeastern University, China, in 2003, and his Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University (ANU), Australia, in 2011. From 2012 to 2013, he conducted postdoctoral research at ANU and the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2013, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research interests include power system stability analysis and control, data-driven control, distributed control/optimization, event-triggered control, and complex dynamical networks.

Hongcai Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. In 2018-2019, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. In 2019, he joined the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City of the University of Macau, Macao, China, where he is currently an Associate Professor in Smart Energy.

Hongcai Zhang's research focuses on urban integrated energy systems, transportation electrification, and demand-side resources. He has published over 100 SCI-indexed JCR Q1 journal papers in journals such as Nature Energy, Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, and IEEE Transactions, including 5 ESI highly cited papers. Dr. Zhang is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, and Associate Editor of iEnergy. He is also the Secretary-General of IEEE PES China Energy and Transportation Nexus Subcommittee.

Dr. Dong is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology. His research focuses on the resilience of cyber-physical power systems and the application of AI algorithms. He has authored over 40 SCI/EI-indexed academic papers and holds more than 10 patents. Dr. Dong has led 10 research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Special Foundation, and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province. He has received 5 research awards, including the Second Prize of the Guangxi Science and Technology Progress Award and the best paper finalist of IEEE ICPS 2023. Dr. Dong has been recognized as one of the top 5% highly cited scholars in CNKI and has been selected for the Xuchang City Talent Program. He has also actively contributed to the academic community by serving as a guest editor, young editorial board member, special session organizer, technical committee member, and chair for several journals and conferences. Additionally, he serves as an active reviewer for over 30 peer-reviewed journals.

Yue Chen is currently a Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to joining CUHK, she earned her B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2015 and 2020, respectively, and her B.S. degree in Economics from Peking University in 2017. She was a visiting student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2018 to 2019. Additionally, Dr. Chen obtained the National Legal Professional Qualification Certificate issued by the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China in 2019. She is a recipient of multiple awards, including the Vice-Chancellor Early Career Professorship, the Dean’s Exemplary Teaching Award, the Stanford Bits & Watts Postdoc Fellowship, the Outstanding Graduate Award of Tsinghua and Beijing Area, the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards from leading international journals.
Her research focuses on trustworthy AI and optimization and their applications in smart grids. In this field, Dr. Chen has published 1 book and 72 top-tier journal papers (38 IEEE Transactions papers and 2 ESI highly cited papers). Dr. Chen now serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. She is also the Hong Kong Chapter Representative of IEEE PES Women in Power. Dr. Chen serves as the PI/Co-PI of 9 research projects, funded by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology (GDST), etc. In recognition of her excellent research performance, Dr. Chen was recognized as the 2020 Rising Stars in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (selected by UC Berkeley) and the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023 by Stanford University/Elsevier.