Biographical note

Hassan Haes Alhelou (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He was with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and with Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman. He is also a Professor and Faculty member at Tishreen University, SY.  He was included in the 2018 and 2019 WoS and Publons lists of the top 1% best reviewer and researchers in the field of engineering in the world. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from many journals, e.g., Energy Conversion and Management (ECM), ISA Transactions, and Applied Energy. He was the recipient of the best young researcher in the Arab Student Forum Creative among 61 researchers from 16 countries at Alexandria University, Egypt, in 2011. He has published more than 200 research papers in high-quality peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He has also performed more than 600 reviews and editing services for highly prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Systems Journal, CAEE-Elsevier, and IET journals. He has participated in more than 15 industrial projects and is the Chief Investigator of Global Power Systems Transpromation/Topic 6-Services. His major research interests are Power systems, Power System Dynamics and Control, Power System Cybersecurity, Smart grids, and Microgrids. Prof. Nikos Hatziargyriou (Life Fellow, IEEE) is since 1984 with the Electrical and Computer Engineering School, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Professor in Power Systems, since 1995, and Professor Emeritus, since 2022. He has authored the book “Microgrids: Architectures and Control” and more than 300 journal publications and 600 conference proceedings papers. He is included in the 2016, 2017, and 2019, Thomson Reuters lists of the top 1% most cited researchers. He is 2020 Globe Energy Prize laureate and recipient of the 2017 IEEE/PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and the 2023 IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Chair and the CEO of the Hellenic Distribution Network Operator. From 2007 to 2012, he was Executive Vice Chair and Deputy CEO of the Public Power Corporation, responsible for the Transmission and Distribution and the Islands Divisions. He was the Chair of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee of IEEE and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is currently EiC-at-Large for IEEE PES Transactions. He is an honorary member of CIGRE and was the Chair of CIGRE SC C6 “Distribution Systems and Distributed Generation.” He was the Chair and Vice-Chair of the EU Technology and Innovation Platform on Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET). He has participated in more than 60 R&D projects funded by the EU Commission, electric utilities, and manufacturers. 
Zhao Yang Dong (Fellow, IEEE) received Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. He is with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His previous roles include SHARP Professor of Energy Systems, Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, the University of NSW (UNSW), Sydney, Australia; Director of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions; Professor and the Head of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, and the Ausgrid Chair and the Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks providing R&D support for the Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration project of Australia. His research interests include power system planning, renewable energy systems, smart grid, smart cities, and the energy market. He has been serving as an editor/associate editor for a number of IEEE Transactions and IET journals.