Dr. Changqing Xia received a Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2015. From December 2015 to March 2020, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has been working as an associate researcher at the Shenyang Institute of Automation since 2020. His research interests include wireless sensor networks and real-time systems, especially real-time scheduling algorithms and smart energy systems.