Bin Li received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 1999, 2002, and 2005, respectively. He was an Academic Visitor at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2006, and from 2008 to 2009, he worked on the design and application of protection relays with AREVA, UK.

Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, China. His research interests include the protection and control of AC power systems and DC grids. He has published more than 100 journal papers. In addition, he has published 9 monographs and holds 32 invention patents. Currently he is an investigator of some on-going research projects in this area supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and the industry. Jiawei He received his B.Sc. and M.

Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the same university. His research interests include the protection and control of flexible DC grids and DC fault current limiting. He has published 29 papers, including 16 SCI-indexed papers and 13 EI papers, on these topics.