Dr Li is currently the director and associate professor of the Institute of New Energy Power Generation and Integrated Energy Systems at Lanzhou University of Technology, China. He serves as a council member of the Intelligent Distributed Energy Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation. He has published over 70 papers in journals such as the Proceedings of the CSEE, and has been granted four patents Dr Zhou is a lecturer and master's supervisor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a part-time master's supervisor at Lanzhou University of Technology. He has led one project under the National Natural Science Foundation and four provincial and ministerial-level vertical projects Dr Feng is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has led four projects under the National Natural Science Foundation and has published over 100 academic papers in leading journals in the power and energy fields, with more than 1,000 citations. His research achievements have earned him the Shanghai Technology Invention First Prize in 2018 and the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress First Prize in 2022 Dr Fang received his PhD from Tsinghua University; he is currently the Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Development Department at the Electric Power Research Institute of the State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company and an enterprise supervisor for engineering doctoral students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is engaged in research and development, engineering applications, and the formulation of standards in the field of smart grids Dr Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lanzhou University of Technology, has participated in one National Natural Science Foundation project and two provincial and ministerial-level Natural Science Foundation projects. Her research interests are the optimization and control of integrated energy systems