Jinli Zhao is currently an associate professor with School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. She received the B.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University in 2001 and 2007. Her research interests include power system security and stability, operation and analysis of integrated energy system. She has contributed to a number of research projects granted from National Natural Science Foundation of China and industry corporations as principal investigator. She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed academic papers and hold many invention patents of China.