Professor Loi Lei Lai received his B.Sc. (First Class Hons.) and Ph.D. from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK, in 1980 and 1984 respectively. His D.Sc. is from City, University of London, London, UK, in 2005. All degrees are in electrical and electronic engineering. Professor Lai is currently Chairman of DRPT International Incorporated, Australia. He was a Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Professor & Chair of Electrical Engineering with City, University of London, London, UK and University Distinguished Professor with Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Professor Lai received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE/PES) UKRI Power Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000, a special award from City, University of London in 2005 and is its honorary graduate, the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper in 2006 and 2009 (Papers published in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion), the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014, the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2015 and 2024, IEEE Standards Association Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions in 2020 and 2024 for the development of IEEE Standard 2660.1TM – 2020 and IEEE Standard2725.1TM-2024, and his research team received a Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference in October 2020. Professor Lai is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter; a member of the IEEE Smart Cities Board of Governor; Member-at-large, IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Committee on Standards & Chair of the Seed Funding ad hoc, Chair of IEEE/SMCS Standards Committee, IEEE/SMCS Fellow Committee Evaluator, IEEE/SMCS Distinguished Lecturer and IEEE/PES Lifetime Achievement Award Committee Assessor. He was a member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee; the Director of Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, Beijing, China; a Vice President for Membership and Student Activities of IEEE/SMCS; and a Fellow Committee Evaluator and Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. His current research and development interests are in smart cities, smart grid, clean energy and computational intelligence. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and IET Fellow.

Jing Zhaoxia, female, holds a Ph.D. and is a professor serving as the Associate Dean of the School of Electric Power Engineering at South China University of Technology. She received her bachelor's degree in 1997 and her doctoral degree in 2003 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Since 2003, she has been teaching at the School of Electric Power Engineering at South China University of Technology. Her research and teaching focus on electricity markets, integrated energy system modeling and optimization, operation of electric vehicle charging and battery-swapping facilities, and power grid planning. She has published over 100 papers in prominent domestic and international journals, led two National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects, and participated as a core member in one NSFC key project. Additionally, she has directed more than 30 industry-academia collaborative research projects.

Professor Gao Jiachen，Doctoral Supervisor, National-level Young Talent, Huxiang Young Elite of Hunan Province, Xiaomi Young Scholar, Yuelu Scholar, key young researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Efficient and High-Quality Electric Energy Conversion, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Power Emergency Technology, and Joint Research Center for Aerospace Science and Applications of Hunan University. He serves as a committee member of the Live Working and Intelligent Operation & Maintenance Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society, and as a youth expert of the National Technical Committee on Live Working of Standardization Administration of China. He is a reviewer for multiple authoritative journals, including IEEE TDEI, TIE, TPWRD, TPAMI, and TIM, and is a member of the working groups for drafting/revising several international and national standards, such as IEEE P3194, GB/T 12167, and GB/T 13398. His research focuses on optimal design and intelligent operation & maintenance of power equipment, insulation failure mechanisms and defense technologies for power equipment, and applications of new electrical materials. He has presided over or participated in more than 10 projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program of China, and fund projects of national-level research platforms.