Prof. Dr. Hao Lu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Xinjiang University, a recipient of the Xinjiang Outstanding Youth Science Fund, academic vice dean of the School of Intelligent Science and Technology (School of Future Technology) of Xinjiang University, deputy director of the Northwest Energy Carbon Neutrality Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, and head of the “Energy Carbon Neutrality” innovation team of Xinjiang University’s Double First-Class Construction. He received a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in energy and power engineering from Wuhan University and Tsinghua University in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as a research fellow at the Renewable Energy Research Center of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Rolls-Royce Research Center of the University of Nottingham in the UK. From 2019 to 2020, he served as a tenured associate professor at the South China University of Technology and was selected for the “Xinghua Scholar” talent program. In 2021, he joined Xinjiang University full-time. He has published more than 200 academic papers, including more than 110 SCI papers, applied for/authorized more than 30 national invention patents, and written two monographs in the field of carbon neutrality.