Yuan Zhiyong is a professor-level senior engineer, doctorate degree holder, and director of DC Transmission and Power Electronic Technology Institute of CSG Electric Power Research Institute. He has been engaged in DC transmission and smart grid technology research and engineering practice for a long time and once worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the University of Tennessee. He has participated in tackling key problems in a number of HVDC/UHVDC transmission projects and contributed to the research of multiple national key projects related to multi-terminal VSC-HVDC transmission technology, key technology of distribution network wide-area measurement, key technology of integrated energy system in industrial parks, and key technology of cascade utilization of power batteries. He has obtained international certifications such as FIDIC Consulting Engineer and IET Chartered Engineer (CEng) and serves as a member of several standardization organizations including the Power Distribution System Standardization Committee of the Energy Industry and the Energy Internet Standardization Technical Committee of the China Electricity Council. He was awarded the title of "Elite Talent of Huangpu District, Guangzhou" in 2018, and won the first-class prize of the China Electric Power Innovation Award, the first-class prize of the China Energy Technology Innovation Award, and the first-class prize of Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award. He published more than 30 SCI/EI papers and owns more than 10 licensed invention patents. At present, he is leading his team to engage in scientific research and production services on renewable energy DC transmission system, MVDC/LVDC distribution system, distributed renewable energy and energy storage.

Sun Potao is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor from the School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University and holds a doctor's (post-doctor's) degree. He was once selected into the "Young Talent Support Project" of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and the "Chongqing Talents · Youth Tip-top Talent Program". He successively served as the Chair of the Organizing Committee, the Chair of the Publication Committee and Session Chair of IEEE ICHVE, IEEE ICEMPE, ISH and other international conferences for seven times. Besides, he also served as the Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of WSEAS Trans. Power Syst. journal. He is currently a youth member of the Chinese National Committee of CIGRE.

In the past five years, he has undertaken two (2) projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one (1) sub-project of the National Key R&D Program, one (1) project supported by the Equipment Pre-research Fund under the Equipment Development Department of China's Central Military Commission, one (1) project supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and one (1) project specially funded by the Chongqing Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has participated in one (1) key project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and two (2) projects of the 973 Program as a main researcher. He has published more than 40 papers, including more than 30 papers published in SCI journals such as Chem. Eng. J., ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., Appl. Phys. Lett. and IEEE Trans. in the capacity of first author/corresponding author. More than ten invention patents have been applied for/licensed. He has guided students to win three (3) provincial and ministerial gold awards and one (1) silver award in the College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and won one (1) winning prize in the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.