Chao Ren received the B.E. degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in July 2017, and the Ph.D. degree from Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in March 2022, holding Winner of Graduate College Research Excellence Award. Previously, he was a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, he is a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Researcher at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research interests include machine learning, quantum computing, big data-analytics and their applications to smart grid. His work has been published more than 50 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including TPWRS, JSAC, TKDE, COMST, TDSC, TSG, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.