Prof. Qian Ai

Dr. Qian Ai is currently a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, and subsequently carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Bath, UK, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include power system component modeling, power quality, distributed generation, microgrids, and artificial intelligence and their applications in power systems. Dr. Zuo Juan, born in 1983, is a senior engineer of State Grid Shanghai Energy Internet Research Institute Co., Ltd.and a doctoral student of Shanghai Jiaotong University. She focuses on the research fields of virtual power plant and transaction technology, power market retail technology, demand response technology and so on, and has rich academic achievements and practical experience. As the convener and secretary of the virtual power plant working group of the Energy Internet Standardization Committee of China Electric Power Union, Ms. Zuo Juan participated in the formulation of a number of national standards and company standards, applied for a number of invention patents, and published many academic papers. She presided over and participated in the national key R & D project. She is the main designer and completer of the virtual power plant demonstration project in Zhejiang Province and the virtual power plant demonstration project in Shanghai.