Prof. Jizhong Zhu

South China University of Technology, China

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Foreign Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Italy; Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; IEEE Fellow

Biography:

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.

Prof. Jia Cui

Shenyang University of Technology, China

Vice Chair of the Digital and Intelligent Subcommittee of the IEEE PES Transformer Committee

Biography:

Jia Cui is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Shenyang University of Technology, as well as the deputy director of the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering. His main research areas include interdisciplinary studies such as the energy internet, clean energy consumption in new power systems, electricity markets, and big data in power systems. He serves as the vice chair of the Digital and Intelligent Subcommittee of the IEEE PES Transformer Committee, a member of the Renewable Energy Generation Grid Connection Professional Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, a member of the Youth Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, a member of the Energy Storage Technology Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society in China, and a member of the Technical Committee of the Liaoning Province Smart Grid Cloud Computing Professional Technology Innovation Center. He has long served as an editorial board member and review expert for top-tier international and domestic academic journals, including *Applied Energy*, *IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid*, *Journal of Chinese Electrotechnics*, *Journal of Electric Power Technology*, *Automation of Electric Power Systems*, and *Power System Technology*. He has hosted and participated in more than 30 projects, including those from the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education, the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and science and technology projects from the State Grid Corporation of China. He has published over 30 research papers in top-tier journals listed in the SCI (Chinese Academy of Sciences). He has been granted over 30 authorized invention patents, as well as 2 software copyrights, and has authored 3 monographs.