Dr. Jiehong Kong received her B.Eng. (2005) and M.Sc. (2007) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Business and Management Science at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway, in 2012. She has been working at SINTEF Energy Research since 2013, focusing on developing new functionalities and improving solution methodologies for hydropower scheduling problems. She is the primary developer for implementing the functionalities of variable speed pumps, reserve allocation, and simulation in the Short-term Hybrid Optimization Program (SHOP), an operational scheduling tool many Scandinavian power producers use for daily operations. She is also the project manager for industry and research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway. Currently, she is working on the Knowledge-Building Project for the Industry “Hybrid Hydro-FPV Power Plants (HydroSun)” and the Business Project “Hybrid Solar and Hydropower Plants,” which are under the Green Platform Initiative.