Dr. Bochao Zhao received his B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electronic and electricity engineering and his Ph.D. degree in electronic and electricity engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. His current research interests include demand response, energy trading in virtual power plants, energy disaggregation, and graph signal processing applications.