Bio: Dr. Jizhong Zhu is a Nationally high-level talent, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Foreign Corresponding Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Italy, a Corresponding Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a Foreign Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, an IEEE Fellow, a Foreign Fellow of the China Electrotechnical Society (CSEE Fellow), an IET Fellow, and a Fellow of multiple AI associations. He is a Professor and PhD supervisor at South China University of Technology and a part-time Professor at Chongqing University. He serves as Chair of the IEEE PES Smart Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems Technical Committee (China) and holds editorial and leadership roles in several international standards and journals. Dr. Zhu worked for over 20 years in the UK, Singapore, and the USA before returning to China in 2016 as a distinguished expert at China Southern Power Grid Research Institute. Since 2019, he leads the Integrated Smart Energy Systems Optimization team at South China University of Technology. He has published over 400 papers, holds more than 30 patents, authored several international books, and received numerous national and international awards, including IEEE International Standards Contribution Awards and the China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Progress Special Prize.

Bio: Prof Z.Y. Dong is a Chair Professor and Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, Director of JC STRM Lab of Future Energy Systems. His previous roles include Singapore Power Group(SPG)Endowed Professor and Co-Director of SPG-NTU Joint Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; SHARP Professor of Energy System and Inaugural Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, the University of NSW, Australia; Director of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions; 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, Fellow of HKIE, and has held editorial roles for several IEEE Transactions and IET Journals.

Bio: Qinran Hu is a Professor, and Associate Dean at the School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, China. His research interests span distributed energy aggregation and control, energy systems design under extreme environments, and economic operation of power systems. He has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)—including Young Investigator, General, and Key-Joint grants—as well as a Jiangsu Distinguished Young Scholars grant and a sub-project of the National Key R&D Program. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals such as Nature Cities, Nature Communications, IEEE PES Transactions, and Applied Energy, and holds over 30 Chinese invention patents (including 2 technology transfers) and 1 U.S. patent. His work has been recognized with IEEE PES Best Paper Awards twice, the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Best Paper of the Year Award, the IEEE IAS Energy System Committee Best Paper Award, and a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. He has also received seven provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards, including the First Prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Award (as first contributor). Prof. Hu serves as an Editorial Board Member for several flagship SCI journals, including IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and as Chair of the IEEE PES Subcommittee on Low-Carbon Technologies. He is also Deputy Secretary-General of the Jiangsu Society for Electrical Engineering. His accolades include being named an IEEE PCCC Outstanding Young Engineer.

Bio: Jianfei Chen, male, born in 1987, is from Qichun, Huanggang, Hubei Province. He is a professor, doctoral supervisor, a national oversea high-level young talents, and a member of the Hubei Province Hundred Talents Program. He received his PhD from Chongqing University in 2016. From 2015 to 2016, he studied as an exchange student at Aalborg University in Denmark. From 2016 to 2021, he conducted postdoctoral research successively at Wayne State University and the University of Maryland in the United States. He serves as a member of the Expert Committee of the China Energy Society, a member of the Magnetics Technical Committee of the China Power Supply Society, a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee on Electrical Engineering Theory, and vice chairman of the Wuhan Electrical Engineering Theory Society. He also serves as a young editorial board member for *Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering*, *Journal of Electrical Engineering*, and *Southern Power System Technology*.