Prof. Dr. Mingyu Yan is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and has been selected into the National High-Level Young Talent Program. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University, a master’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and a doctorate from Illinois Institute of Technology. He was an assistant researcher at Imperial College London. His main research directions are power market, power system operation and planning, virtual power plant, microgrid, peer-to-peer trading, electric vehicles, multi-energy system, etc. He presided over one National Natural Science Foundation (youth) project and one National Key R&D Program project, and has co-hosted and participated in more than ten scientific and technological projects such as the British Natural Science and Engineering Foundation and the US Department of Energy project. He has published more than 60 papers in top journals at home and abroad. He serves as an associate editor/young editor of international top journals such as Applied Energy and Advances in Applied Energy. He serves as a standing director of the IEEE PES Carbon Neutrality and Pollutant Emission Reduction Subcommittee, a member of the C1 Special Committee of the CIGRE China National Committee, and a member of the Urban Power Supply and Reliability Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering.