Professor Lei Guo was born in Shandong in 1961. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Shandong University in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1987. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University (1987-1989). He is currently President of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, and Director of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, CAS.

Professor Lei Guo's main research interests include fundamental problems in control theory, multi-agent systems, complex adaptive systems and quantum control systems, etc. Dr. Guo was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in 2002, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2007, and Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2007 "for fundamental contributions to the theory of adaptive control and estimation of stochastic systems, and to the understanding of the maximum capability of feedback". He is currently a Member of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, Member of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Member of Advisory Board, National Basic Research Program of China, President of the China Society for Industry and Applied Mathematics, Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Automation, etc. He was a Council Member of IFAC, a Member of IEEE Control Systems Award Committee and Vice-President of the Chinese Mathematical Society, etc.

　　Professor Shouyang Wang is currently Professor of Management Science and Vice President of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of Centre for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Science. He received the B.S. degree in Sun Yat-sen University in 1982, the M.S. degree in Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986.

Professor Wang's research at present concentrates on forecasting methods and economic analysis, financial risk management, logistics and supply chain management, game theory and conflict analysis. He has published over 25 monographs (including 10 published by Springer-Verlag) and over 200 papers in leading journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Mathematical Finance, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Econometrics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Group Decision and Negotiations, and Decision Support Systems.

Professor Wang is the editor-in-chief, managing editor, area editor or co-editor of 16 international journals including top journals "Information and Management" and "Energy Economics", and 8 domestic journals including the best journals in China "Journal of Management Sciences". He also served as a guest editor of an issue/volume of over 10 leading journals including Annals of Operations Research, and European Journal of Operational Research.

Professor Wang serves as the president of International Society of Knowledge and Systems Sciences, a vice president of International Society of Global Optimization, a vice president of International Association of Financial Risk Management, an executive council member of International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making, a council member of Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Society, the president of Chinese Society of Decision Sciences, the president of China Society of Systems Engineering, a vice president of China Society of Operational Research, a vice president of Chinese Academy of Management.

　　Professor Jian-Bo Yang is currently Professor of Decision and System Sciences and Director of the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre at the Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester, U.K. He is also a Specially Invited Changjiang Chair Professor by China Ministry of Education at the School of Management of Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China. Jian-Bo Yang received his B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in aircraft control engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University in 1981 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1987. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK (1990, 1998-2004), the University of Birmingham, U.K. (1995-1997), the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. (1991-1995), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (1987-1989).

In the past three decades, he has been conducting research in multiple criteria decision analysis under uncertainty, multiple objective optimization, reasoning with uncertain knowledge, intelligent decision support systems, hybrid quantitative and qualitative decision modeling using techniques from operational research, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering, and dynamic system modeling, simulation, and control for engineering and management systems. His current applied research is in design decision-making, risk and security modelling and analysis, quality modeling and evaluation, supply chain modeling and supplier assessment, and the integrated evaluation of products, systems, projects, policies, etc. His current research has been supported by EPSRC, EC, DEFRA, SERC, HKRGC, NSFC and industry. He has published 4 books, over 170 journal papers and book contributions, and a similar number of conference papers, and developed several software packages in these areas including the Windows-based intelligent decision system (IDS) via evidential reasoning.

Plenary Panel Discussion 2： Dispatch and Control Problems for Smart Grids
chaired by Professor Minyue Fu, Zhejiang University (China), University of Newcastle (Australia)  

　　Professor Chengshan Wang received the B.S. degree, M.S. Degree, Ph. D degree from Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University in 1983, 1985, and 1991 respectively. He has been Lecturer, Associate Professor in Tianjin University since 1987, and now is the full professor of Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University.

Professor Chengshan Wang's main research interests include power system security and stability, power distribution system analysis and planning, and distributed generation system simulation and control. He received two Chinese National Awards of Science and Technology respectively in 2004 and in 2010. He was awarded seven times for his excellent research works by the education ministry and some province governments in China. He is also the gainer of Fok Ying Tung Fund, Excellent Young Teacher Fund of Education Ministry and a winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is the Principal Investigator of a Chinese National Basic Research Program (973) "Research on the Key Issues of Distributed Generation Systems" from 2009 to 2013.

Professor Wang is a member of IEEE, and a senior member of CSEE, and a member of the national committee of CIRED and a member of national committee of CIGRE. He is the chair of technical committee of 2010 China International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CICED), sponsored by CIRED Chinese National Committee, co-organized by CIRED and technically co-sponsored by IEEE/PES and IET.

　　Professor Yuanzhang Sun received the B. S. degree from Wuhan Hydraulic & Electric Power University in 1978, M.S. degree from Electrical Power Research Institute in 1982, and Ph. D degree from Tstinghua University in 1988. He has been lecturer, associate professor in Tsinghua University since 1988, and is currently the professor of Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University, Vice-Director of the State Key Laboratory for Power System Control and Simulation, and Dean of School of Electrical Engineering of Wuhan University.

Professor Sun's research at present concentrates on operation and control of electric power system and distributed power system. He received Natural Science Award conferred by Ministry of State Education in 2004 and State Teaching Award Conferred by State Department in 2005.

Professor Sun, Encouragement Plan of the Changjiang River Scholar, is the vice-president of Technical Committee on Mathematics and Electrics, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, and senior member of IEEE and CSEE. He is an associate editor for Science China, Journal of Chinese Electrical Engineering Science, European Transactions on Electrical Power, and vice-Chief-in-Editor for Control Engineering and Practice.

　　Professor Xinghuo Yu received BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1982 and 1984, and PhD degree from South-East University, Nanjing, China in 1988, respectively. He is now with RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia, where he is the Director of RMIT Platform Technologies Research Institute. Professor Yu's research interests include variable structure and nonlinear control, complex and intelligent systems and industrial applications. He has published over 400 refereed papers in technical journals, books and conference proceedings.

Professor Yu is serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and several other scholarly journals. He received an award under the Thousand Talents Program of the Chinese Government in 2010, a Chang Jiang Scholar (Chair Professor) Award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2009, the 1995 Central Queensland University Vice Chancellor's Award for Research, and was made Emeritus Professor of Central Queensland University in 2002 for his long term contributions. 

Professor Yu is a Fellow of the IEEE, Vice-President (Planning and Development (2010/2011), Publications (2012) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and an IEEE-IES Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and the Australian Computer Society. Professor Yu is currently chairing Technical Committee on Smart Grids of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

　　Professor Zhaoyang Dong received Ph.D degree from the University of Sydney in 1999, and GCert from the University of Queensland in 2002. He has been a Consultant in several companies, such as Hongkong Electric Company, Western Power Corporation, UniQuest Pty Ltd, and a contractor for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI, USA) since 2002. He is currently the Ausgrid Chair Professor of Intelligent Electricity Networks at the University of Newcastle.

Professor Dong's research interests include 1)power system planning, stability and control; 2)electricity market simulation, operations and management; 3)data mining, computational intelligent & their applications in power/energy systems engineering; 4) optimization techniques and numerical techniques & its application in power/energy systems engineering, and 5) smart grid.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He also served as Chair of IEEE PES Queensland Chapter (2004-2006), Vice Chair of IEEE QLD Section (2007-2009), Vice Chair of IEEE PES Queensland Section (2006-2008), and Chair of IEEE PES Queensland Section of PES Chapter (2004-2006).

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