Xinyi Le is currently an associate professor with the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University, she received the Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University, and the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Now she has published more than 60 research papers. She was a recipient of the Shanghai Rising-Star Talent Plan and Forbes 30 under 30.

Chunhui Zhao received Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, China, in 2009. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of California, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, CA, USA. From 2012 to 2014, she was a distinguished researcher with Zhejiang University and since Dec. 2014, she has been a Professor with the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Her research interests include statistical machine learning and data mining for industrial application. She has authored or coauthored more than 170 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. She has published 3 monographs and authorized more than 50 invention patents. She is Principal Investigator of a Distinguished Young Scholar Program supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China. She has hosted more than 20 scientific research projects, including the NSFC funds, National key R&D project, provincial projects and corporate cooperation projects. She has received the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award and other provincial and ministerial awards. She also received more than ten academic awards, including the First Prize of Natural Science of Chinese Association of Automation, the First Young Women Scientists Award of Chinese Association of Automation, etc. She has served senior editor of Journal of Process Control, and AE of some International Journals, including, Control Engineering Practice and Neurocomputing.

Wangli He received the B.Sc. degree in information and computing science and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2017, she held several visiting positions with Central Queensland University, The University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research Institute, and Tokyo Metropolitan University. She is currently a Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology. Her current research interests include distributed coordination control and optimization, networked multi-agent systems, autonomous intelligent unmanned systems and industrial cyber-physical systems.

Dr. He was a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation in 2019 and The Sixth Young Scientist Award of Chinese Association of Automation in 2020. She was also a recipient of the first prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2019. She was the Chair of the Technical Committee on Networked-based Control Systems and Applications of IES from 2018 to 2019. She is an Associate Editor of several international journals including the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics.

Juan Jiang，Master of Engineering, senior engineer, Chief engineer of New Energy Institute of Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co., LTD, and She is also the general manager of Sino-Portuguese Center for New Energy Technologies (Shanghai) Co., LTD, she has been engaged in new energy engineering design and research for years, and has presided over the design of several offshore wind power projects as project manager, and has participated in more than ten national, provincial and Enterprise-level scientific research projects, She has written many books, national and industrial technical standards and specifications as the main author, all this bring her rich engineering and technical experience in new energy design.

Anne Migan Dubois received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in High frequency and optical telecommunications from Limoges University, France, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. She is currently a Full Professor at Paris-Saclay University. She also develops her research activities within the Group of Electrical Engineering Paris (GeePs). She is at the head of the activities “Advanced photovoltaics characterizations in real outdoor conditions”. Her field of interest includes soft integration of photovoltaics in smart-grid and smart-buildings and PV fault detection and diagnosis. She has supervised 15 Ph.D. thesis and several Master's thesis. She is an author/co-author of more than 120 papers and international communications, co-owner of 3 patents in PV and one book chapter. She is an expert for the French ANR evaluations and ERC, regular reviewer for EPJ-PV journal, Energies, (occasional for some other journals in the field of PV), Editorial Board Member of the MDPI journal “Sustainability” and guest editor of the special issue “Modeling and Forecasting for Energy Production of Photovoltaic (PV) Systems” in the “International Journal of Photoenergy”.

Ya-Jun Pan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University, Canada. Her main research interests are robust nonlinear control, cyber physical systems, intelligent robotics, haptics and collaborative multiple robotic systems. She has served as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. She has served as Vice President-Atlantic Region of CSME, Canada, IEEE IES AdCom, and Program Co-Chairs for international conferences. She has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany and Research Excellence Award at Dalhousie University. She is a Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of ASME, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of CSME and a registered Professional Engineer in Nova Scotia, Canada.