Qinran Hu received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Chien-Shiung Wu College, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2015 to 2018. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University. His research interests include power system optimization, demand aggregation, and virtual power plant.