Organizer: Assoc. Prof. Xingyu Yan, Southeast University, China
Dr. Xingyu Yan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from École Centrale de Lille (L2EP), France, in 2018. He subsequently worked at the Private Higher Institute of YNCREA in Hauts-de-France from 2017 to 2018. From 2018 to 2020, he served at the Economic and Technological Research Institute of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) in Beijing. Since 2020, Dr. Yan has focused on research related to power demand-side management in electricity market environments, as well as the application of artificial intelligence in virtual power plant (VPP) aggregation, trading, and optimal scheduling. He has led more than ten scientific research and consulting projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the State Grid Corporation of China. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers indexed in SCI and EI.
Co-organizer: Assoc. Prof. Jie Yu, Southeast University, China
Dr. Jie Yu is an Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, and the Director of the Virtual Power Plant Simulation Laboratory at the Institute of Power Economic & Technological Research. She was a visiting scholar at the FREEDM Systems Center, North Carolina State University. She is a Standing Council Member of the IEEE PES Energy Internet Smart Energy Utilization Subcommittee, and a high-level talent (Deputy Chief Expert) of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on electricity markets, virtual power plants, demand response, and power information theory. She has led or participated in more than ten NSFC projects, and has contributed to over fifty provincial/ministerial and State Grid R&D projects. She has authored over 80 SCI/EI-indexed papers in leading journals. She also served as the chief editor of “Fundamentals of Electrical Information Technology” and co-authored multiple books such as “Regional Energy Internet” and “Power Demand Side Management.”
Invited Speaker: Dr. Hongxun Hui, University of Macau, China
Dr. Hongxun Hui is an Assistant Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau. Previously, he received a B. Eng. degree in 2015 and Ph.D. degree in 2020 both from the College of Electrical Engineering in Zhejiang University. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the Advanced Research Institute in Virginia Tech and CURENT Center in University of Tennessee. His research focuses on smart grid optimization and control, demand response, power economics, carbon markets, and interdisciplinary energy-environment systems. He has published 1 international book and more than 40 SCI journal papers as the first/corresponding author. Four of the papers were selected as the ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%). He has led 7 competitive projects as Principal Investigator (PI), including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the National Key R&D Program of China (sub-project), the Macao Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT), and Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Yulin Chen, Hainan Institute of Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Yulin Chen is an Associate Research Fellow with Hainan Institute of Zhejiang University, Sanya, China. His research interests include distributed control of renewable energy, cyber-physical security with application in smart grid and survivability of power system under extreme conditions. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 journal papers, and 20 issued patents. He is the Young Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of high-level journals, including Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, Energy Conversion and Economics, Power System Protection and Control, Distribution & Utilization, Power Generation Technology, Integrated Intelligent Energy, etc. Besides, he was served as the Representative of CIGRE WG D2.56. He got the Best Paper Award of IEEE EI2 2023 and SPIES 2022. He won the Best Reviewer Award, Super Special Session Chair, Outstanding Contribution Award of IEEE EI2 2023, and the Young Scientist Award of ICPIES 2025. He was also awarded as an Outstanding Young Editorial Board Member of the "Power System Protection and Control" journal in 2024.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Chao Guo, Hangzhou City University, China
Guo Chao, lecturer and master's supervisor at Hangzhou City University, obtained his doctoral degree from the School of Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University. Mainly engaged in research on power system reliability, power market, virtual power plants, etc., leading/participating in 5 national and provincial projects. Published over 20 high-level academic papers, including 1 highly cited and hot topic paper, and authored 1 book. Received 3 industry association level technological progress awards and IEEE iSPEC excellent paper award. Served as a member of the Inner Mongolia Electricity Multilateral Trading Market Management Committee.
Invited Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Hongyu Zhu, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China
Dr. Hongyu Zhu is a recipient of the Young Talents Support Program (Doctoral Special Project) by the China Association for Science and Technology. She has long been engaged in research on the collaborative response and optimal operation of distributed flexible resources in source-grid-load-storage systems. Dr. Zhu has served as the principal investigator and participated in numerous national and provincial-level projects, including the China Association for Science and Technology's Young Talents Support Program (Ph.D. Special Project) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published over 30 SCI-indexed papers, and has received the Second Prize in the National University Electrical Engineering Course Experimental Teaching Case Design Competition and the Baosteel Education Award.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Xingyu Yan, Xi'an University of Technology, China
Dr. Yan received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2014, 2017, and 2025, respectively. From 2017 to 2018, he was employed at Huawei Xi'an Co., Ltd. His main research areas include image recognition, object detection, 3D point cloud recognition and segmentation, and other deep learning algorithms for computer vision, as well as lightweight deep learning algorithms. His research is primarily applied in the power industry for defect detection and safety management. He has authored or co-authored over 10 scientific and technical papers.
Invited Speaker: Dr. Yunting Yao, Nanjing Normal University, China
Yunting Yao was born in Hubei Province, China in 1995. She obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University, China in 2022, and conducted postdoctoral research at Cardiff University, the United Kingdom in 2023. She is currently employed at Nanjing Normal University as a lecturer. Her current research field includes electricity market and renewable energy power generation.