Short biography: Xiaodong Liang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2013. She is currently a full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology Solutions for Energy Security in Remote, Northern, and Indigenous Communities at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. She was previously a lecturer at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China from 1995 to 1999, a Power Systems Engineer with Schlumberger (SLB) in Edmonton, Canada from 2001 to 2013 (promoted to Principal Power Systems Engineer in 2009), an Assistant Professor and later an Associate Professor with Washington State University in Vancouver, United States and Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada from 2013 to 2019. Her research interests include power systems, renewable energy, and electric machines. In these research areas, she has authored/co-authored more than 230 refereed journal and conference papers, four book chapters, and numerous research reports. She is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, the Chair of the Power System Engineering Committee of IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), and a Fellow of IET.

Short biography: Michael Negnevitsky is Chair in Power Engineering and Computational Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems, University of Tasmania, Australia. The primary focus of his research is smart grids, power system security, demand response, and isolated and remote area power systems with high renewable energy penetration. Professor Negnevitsky authorised more than 500 research publications and received 4 patents for inventions. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Engineers Australia. Professor Negnevitsky is Chair of the IEEE PES Working Group on High Renewable Energy Penetration in Remote and Isolated Power Systems, Chair of the IEEE PES Working Group on Asian and Australasian Infrastructure – Smart Grids with Large Penetration of Renewable Energy, Member of CIGRE AP C4 (System Technical Performance) and CIGRE AP C6 (Distribution Systems and Dispersed Generation), Australian Technical Committee.

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