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Dr. Junhua Zhao is currently a professor at the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is also the Executive Director of CUHKSZ - CSIJRI Joint Centre of Smart Energy Storage, the Director of the Energy Market and Energy Finance Laboratory at Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI) and a researcher at Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS). Before returning to China, he acted as the Principal Research Scientist of the Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks, the University of Newcastle, Australia, with 11 years of working experience in the power industry in Australia. He has been engaged in research on smart grid, electricity market, low-carbon transition, and artificial intelligence for a long time. Dr. Junhua Zhao has published 300+ research papers in famous domestic and international journals and international conferences, including one in Joule (Cell Press), one in Patterns (Cell Press), two in Scientific Data (Nature Publishing Group), and one in Engineering (Published by the Chinese Academy of Engineering). More than 60 papers have been published in IEEE Transactions. The published papers have been cited 15000+ times, and the H-index is 61 (according to Google Scholar statistics). Dr. Junhua Zhao also co-authored two books in English.

Dr. Junhua Zhao was elected to IET Fellow (Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK) in 2023. He was named as the Intelligent Computing Innovator of China in 2023. From 2021 to 2023, he was consecutively selected as “Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar of China”. He received International Financial Forum (IFF) “Global Green Finance Award” in 2023, the Outstanding Contribution Award of Electric Science and Technology of Guangdong Province in 2022, the second prize of the Zhejiang Natural Science Award in 2020, the most influential paper of the year in Energy Conversion and Economics 2020, "Young Scientist of the Future" award by ADC Forum in 2017, "One Hundred Most Influential Chinese Scientific and Technological Journals in China" by the Ministry of Science and Technology (China) in 2017, the best reviewer award by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid in 2016, the Best Paper Award of IEEE PES General Meeting in 2014. He won the second prize in the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hunan Province twice. In 2020, he won the second prize in the selection of key topics of the Financial Association, Shenzhen. The research results have had an important impact on the industry. He served as an expert group member of China's first provincial electricity spot market and the first regional electricity spot market and participated in the design of China's first cross-border carbon trading product. In addition, several software products he participated in were successively applied to Consolidated Edison Company of New York, The Hongkong Electric Company, Guangdong Energy Group, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Datang International Power Generation company, etc.

Dr. Junhua Zhao is the specially invited energy industry expert of China Merchants Bank headquarters, the specially invited external expert for the Australian National Outlook, and the co-chair of IEEE Special Interest Group (SiG) on Active Distribution Grids and Microgrids. He is also the Secretary of the Asia Pacific Working Group, IEEE PES SBLC (Smart Building, Load and Customer). He served as the Member of the Expert Group of "Interfaces of Grid Users/ Focus on EV and Local Storage", GSGF. He is the editorial board member of several international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Energy Conversion and Economics, etc.