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About the Authors

and classification of control strategies," Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev., vol. 52,

Xia Shen (shenxia@hnu.edu.cn) received her B.S. degree
in electrical engineering from Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang,
China, in 2016. She is currently working toward her Ph.D.
degree in power electronics in the College of Electrical
Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China. Her
research interests include microgrids, fault characteristic
analysis, and fault ride-through technologies of converters.
Don Tan (dong.tan@ieee.org) received his Ph.D. degree
from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He is
currently a Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems distinguished engineer and a power products manager. He served
as the president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society from
2013 to 2014 and is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE
Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He is recognized as an authority in adiabatic power
conversion and energy systems and has pioneered breakthrough innovations. He has given more than 50 keynotes
addresses and invited talks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Zhikang Shuai (szk@hnu.edu.cn) received his B.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the College of Electrical and Information
Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2005 and
2011, respectively, where he is now a professor. His research
interests include power electronics, power quality control,
and microgrids. He received China National Scientific and
Technological Awards in 2010 and 2018. He is an associate
editor of IET Energy Systems Integration, an associate editor of Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, and a guest
editor-in-chief of Automation of Electric Power Systems.
An Luo (an_luo@hnu.edu.cn) received his B.S. and M.S.
degrees in industrial automation from Hunan University,
Changsha, in 1982 and 1986, respectively, and his Ph.D.
degree in fluid power transmission and control from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1993. Between 1996 and
2002, he was a professor at Central South University. Since
2003, he has been a professor in the College of Electrical
and Information Engineering, Hunan University, where he
also serves as the chief of the National Electric Power Conversion and Control Engineering Technology Research Center. His research interests include distributed generation,
microgrids, and power quality. He was elected to the Chinese National Academy of Engineering in 2015, the highest
honor for scientists and engineers in China. He won the
highly prestigious China National Science and Technology
Awards three times (2006, 2010, and 2014).

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