Prof Z.Y. Dong is a Professor in School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. His previous roles include Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, Ausgrid Chair Professor and Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks led R&D support for the Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration project in Australia. His research expertise includes power system planning and stability, smart grid/micro-grid, load modeling, renewable energy grid connection, electricity market, smart city planning, and computational methods for energy systems. He has been editor/associate editor for several IEEE transactions and IET journals. He has won many research and industry grants nationally and internationally. Prof Dong is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions in computational methods in power system planning and stability.

Professor Kashem Muttaqi is the Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ARC Future Grids ITTC), sponsored by Australian Government, and several industries and Universities in Australia. He is also the Director of the Australian Power and Energy Research Institute (APERI) at the University of Wollongong (UOW), New South Wales, Australia. He is a Senior Professor and the Discipline Leader-Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong.

Currently, Professor Muttaqi is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is also the Chair of Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC) for IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). He has served as an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Trans on Industry Applications, IEEE Trans on Sustainable Energy, and IET Generation, Transmission & distribution. He is the General Chair for IEEE International Conference in energy Technologies for Future Grids (IEEE ETFG 2023) to be held on 3-6 December 2023 at Wollongong, Australia. He is a Member of EEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society. Professor Muttaqi is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK (FIET). Professor Muttaqi is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (FAAIA). Recently, he has become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for contribution to modeling and control of renewable and distributed energy resources.

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.

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.

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.

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.