Qi Li (aka Steven) was born in Hunan, China, in September 1984. He completed the B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at both the University of Birmingham and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007, M.Sc. with distinction in Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Manchester in 2009, and Ph.D. in the same institution in 2013. Since then he has been working for the University of Manchester and National Grid UK for 6 years in total before joining Chongqing University (China) as a ‘100 Talents Plan Associate Professor’ of Chongqing City. Within academia and industry, he has led around 20 research projects with wide range of topics for power industry, his main research interests are advanced UHV/EHV electricity transmission technologies, electromagnetic environmental emissions from UHV/EHV transmission lines, the application of artificial intelligent into power systems etc. Acting as main contributor, he has won twice the IET innovation awards (2012 and 2015). He is an active member in CIGRE working group B2.69, a committee member in IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Satellite Committee and a youth committee member in China Electrotechnical Society.