Professor Qiteng Hong, WP 2 co-lead, is a Professor at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. He received his BEng (Hons) degree as the top graduate of the year in 2011 and PhD in 2015, both from Strathclyde. His main research area is on monitoring protection and control of future power systems dominated by converter-interfaced renewable energy sources. Professor Hong has led/been involved with 40+ research projects, and secured funding with a total value of £10M, among which he was the PI for 20+ projects (over £2M). He also has 80+ publications in international journals and conferences.

Professor Hong is a Member in the CIGRE Working Group (WG) B5.50, IEEE WG P2004, IEEE Task Force on Cloud-Based Control of Multi-Party Resources, and IET DPSP Conference Technical Committee; he was the Technical Lead at the CIGRE UK Next Generation Network between 2016-2020 and the Honorary Secretary for the IET Scotland South West Committee until 2018. He received the IET Prize in 2011, the J. Lessells scholarship from Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013 and the Best Paper Award in IEEE APAP Conference in 2019.