Biography: Fushuan Wen has been a full professor and the director of the Institute of Power Economics and Information in Zhejiang University since 1997, and a full professor in Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University since 2022. He is also the director of Sanya Global Energy Institute, and a visiting principal research scientist in Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society.
He has been undertaking various teaching, research and visiting appointments in National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong, South China University of Technology, University of New South Wales, Queensland University of Technology, Brunei University of Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Nanyang Technological University, Murdoch University, Tallinn University of Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia.
He has published 200+ SCI-indexed papers, 750+ EI-indexed papers, and 850+ Scopus-indexed papers. His publications have been cited for 22000+ times. He has completed and is undertaking more than 200 grants and projects from governmental organizations and industry.
He received several awards both at the national level and provincial level, including the most prestigious National Natural Science Award of China. He has been listed in "Most Cited Chinese Researchers" in 9 consecutive years since 2015 by Elsevier.
He is the editor-in-chief of Energy Conversion and Economics (SPERI, IET, Wiley), the deputy editor-in-chief of Automation of Electric Power Systems, the deputy editor-in-chief of Smart Power & Energy Security, a subject editor in power system economics of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution. He is also on the editorial boards of more than 10 journals.
He was elected to IEEE Fellow for contributions to fault diagnosis in power grids.

Biography: João P. S. Catalão is an IEEE Fellow. He received the M.Sc. degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree and Habilitation for Full Professor ("Agregação") from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilha, Portugal, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal. He was the Primary Coordinator of the EU-funded FP7 project SiNGULAR, a 5.2-million-euro project involving 11 industry partners. He has authored or coauthored more than 500 journal publications and 400 conference proceedings papers, with an h-index of 90 and more than 30,000 citations (according to Google Scholar), having supervised more than 120 post-docs, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, and other students with project grants. He was the General Chair and General Co-Chair of SEST 2019 and SEST 2020, respectively, after being the inaugural Technical Chair and co-founder of SEST 2018. He is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Furthermore, he is an Associate Editor of nine other IEEE Transactions/Journals. He was an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Fellows Committee Member in 2022 and 2023. He was recognized as one of the Outstanding Associate Editors 2020 of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and one of the Outstanding Associate Editors 2021 of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He has multiple Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards at IEEE Conferences. Furthermore, he was the recipient of the 2017-2022 (for the sixth consecutive year) FEUP Scientific Recognition Diplomas. His research interests include power system operations and planning, power system economics and electricity markets, distributed renewable generation, demand response, smart grid, and multi-energy carriers.