Prof Chun Sing Lai received a B.Eng. (First Class Hons.) in electronic and electrical engineering from Brunel University of London, London, UK, in 2013 and a D.Phil. degree in engineering science from the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, in 2019. He is currently a Full (Yingcai) Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Tianjin University. He is also an Affiliated Member of BIPS Research Centre at Brunel University of London. His current research interests are in energy systems for smart cities. Prof.  Lai was a Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Publications Committee. He is an AE for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems; Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and AE for IET Energy Conversion and Economics. He is the Working Group Chair for IEEE P2814 and P3166 Standards, an Associate Vice President of Systems Science and Engineering of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS), and Co-Chair of the IEEE SMC Intelligent Power and Energy Systems Technical Committee. He is a recipient of the 2022 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE SMC Society for "meritorious and significant service to IEEE SMC Society technical activities and standards development." He is an IET Member, IEEE Senior Member, Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.