Prof. Dr. Ying Xu works as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, where he received a Ph.D. in 2009. He spent about four years at the University of Central Florida as a Visiting Scholar. His research areas include the smart grid, power system dispatching, energy Internet, power market, source grid load storage integration, and virtual power plant.