Claudio A. Cañizares (Fellow, IEEE) has been a University Professor, the Hydro One Endowed Chair, and the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, ECE Department, University of Waterloo since 1993. His highly cited research focuses on modeling, simulation, computation, stability, control, and optimization of power and energy systems in the context of decarbonization and grid-edge technologies. He has received the 2017 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the 2016 IEEE Canada Electric Power Medal, and multiple awards and recognitions from PES Technical Committees. He is a former EIC of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and the Division VII Director to the IEEE Board. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering.

Prof. Ilic is a Senior Research Scientist at LIDS, Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and Professor Emerita of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Ilic was formerly Director of the Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG) at Carnegie Mellon. She now leads MIT’s EESG. She has been appointed Visiting Professor of Intelligent Electricity Networks and Chair in Control of Future Electricity Network Operations at Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. Prof. Ilic was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was then a Senior Research Scientist in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT from 1987 to 2002. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching and research in the area of electrical power system modeling and control. Her main interest is in the systems aspects of operations, planning, and economics of the electric power industry.

Dr. Li is an University of Alberta Senior Engineering Research Chair, and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Bachelor degree from Tianjin University, China, in 2002, and PhD degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2006. In 2005, Dr. Li was a Visiting Scholar with Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Dr. Li also worked at Rockwell Automation Canada as a R&D Engineer, before he joined University of Alberta in 2007. Dr. Li currently serves as the Vice President for Products of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). He was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Letters 2019-2023. He also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. Dr. Li was the general chair of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress of Exposition (ECCE) in 2020. He is the AdCom Member at Large for IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) 2021-2023. Dr. Li received the Nagamori Foundation Award in 2022 and the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from IEEE PELS in 2013. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and recognized as the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.

Pedro Rodriguez (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1994 and 2004, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with CPES, Virginia Tech, USA, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, and MIT Energy Initiative, Boston, MA, USA. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Co-Supervisor with Vestas Power Program, Aarhus, Denmark. From 2011 to 2017, he was the Director of technology on modern power systems with Abengoa Research, Sevilla, Spain. He was a Full Professor with Loyola University Andalusia, Sevilla, Spain, where he was the Head with Loyola Tech, leading a Research Program on intelligent energy systems. Since 2021, he has been the ERIN Director's Office Member with Luxemburg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where he leads the Intelligent Clean Energy Systems (ICES) unit. He is also linked with UPC as a part time Professor. From 2015 to 2018, he was on the Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering. He has coauthored one Wiley–IEEE book, more than 100 papers in ISI technical journals, and around 300 papers in conference proceedings. He is the holder of 16 licensed patents. He has participated in more than 50 projects with industrial partners and several EU projects. His research interests include intelligent energy systems, distributed generation, and universal energy access.

Johanna Lakso is the head of Power Circle leading the way for new technologies in the energy sector. Her focus is to create a sustainable energy system and has previous experience from the Swedish Energy Agency and the Swedish Transmission System Operator.

Chongqing Kang earned Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Power Engineering and Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1993. He has been teaching at Tsinghua University since 1997, when he received a Doctoral degree in Electrical Power Engineering. He was appointed Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University in 2000 and Professor in 2005. He is now Professor and Dean of Department of Electrical Engineering in Tsinghua University, President of Tsinghua University Energy Internet Research Institute, and President of Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute. He is also IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Leading Talents in Scientific and Technological Innovation of the "Ten Thousands Talents Plan", New Century Excellent Investigator in Universities, and selected for the Program of the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation. He was a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge, UK from 2007 to 2008. His research interests include power system planning and operation, energy internet, renewable energy, low-carbon electricity, power system load forecasting and electric market.

Vladimir Terzija (Fellow IEEE) was born in Donji Baraci. He received the Dipl-Ing., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, 1993, and 1997, respectively.,He is a Professor of Energy Systems and Networks at Newcastle University, U.K. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shandong University, China, as well as a Guest Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In the period 2021-2023 he was a Full Professor at Skoltech, Russian Federation. In the period 2006-2020 he was the EPSRC Chair Professor at The University of Manchester, U.K. From 2000 to 2006, he was a Senior Specialist for switchgear and distribution automation with ABB, Ratingen, Germany. From 1997 to 1999, he was an Associate Professor with the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. His current research interests include smart grid applications, wide-area monitoring, protection and control, multi-energy systems, big data analytics, and complex science applications in power systems.,Dr. Terzija is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Humboldt Fellow, and the recipient of the National Friendship Award, China.

Hong Li (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China, in 2002, the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany, in 2009.,Prof. Li is a Qiushi Distinguished Professor with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. She has authored/co-authored two books, 94 journal papers, and 86 conference papers. She has also applied more than 52 patents. Her research interests include nonlinear modeling, analysis, and its applications, electromagnetic interference suppressing methods for power electronic systems, and wide-bandgap power devices and applications.,Prof. Li is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions of Power Electronics. She is the IEEE PELS Member-at-Large (2023–2025) and IEEE PELS Regional Distinguished Lecturer, she is also the Chairman of Electromagnetic Compatibility Technical Committee of China Power Supply Society (CPSS). She has served as the General Chair of 1st and 2nd Annual Conference of the EMC Technical Committee of CPSS (CPEMC 2023, 2024), Program Committee Chair of 2024 Power Electronics and Power System Conference (PEPSC 2024), Organizing Committee Co-Chair of 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2023).

Qianwen Xu is Associate Professor in Department of Electric Power and Energy Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She is the director of Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab @ KTH, and co-director of Dig-it Lab (Vinnova competence center). Previously, she received the B.Sc. degree from Tianjin University, China, in 2014, and PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2018, both in electrical engineering. Then she worked as a research assistant in Hong Kong Polytechnic University, postdoc research fellow in Aalborg University in Denmark, a visiting researcher with Imperial College London, and a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoc Fellow in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018-2020. She has been with KTH Royal Institute of Technology since 2020, where she is currently a tenured associate professor.