QING-CHANG ZHONG, PhD, FELLOW of IEEE and IET, is the Max McGraw Endowed Chair Professor in Energy and Power Engineering and Management at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, and the Founder and CEO of Syndem LLC, Chicago, USA. He served(s) as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Power and Energy Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society, an Associate Editor of several leading journals in control and power engineering including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, a Senior Research Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., the U.K. Representative to European Control Association, a Steering Committee Member of IEEE Smart Grid, and a Vice-Chair of IFAC Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems. He delivered over 200 plenary/invited talks in over 20 countries.