Junbo Zhao is the Todd M. Cook and Elizabeth Donohoe Cook Associate Professor and Director of DOE Northeast University Cybersecurity Center for Advanced and Resilient Energy Delivery (CyberCARED). He is also the Director of Engineering of Plexigrid, a tech company that provides a grid-centric flexibility management system to enable distribution system operators to deliver more energy to customers with less investment in new infrastructure, connect more renewable generation, improve power quality and improve security of supply. He was the Castleman Term Professor in Engineering Innovation and an Associate Director of the Eversource Energy Center at the University of Connecticut. He is also a Research Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2018. He is currently the officer of multiple IEEE PES Committees and Subcommittees, such as the Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee, Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee, etc. His research interests are cyber-physical power system modeling, estimation, security, dynamics and stability, uncertainty quantification, renewable energy integration and control, and machine learning. He has published one book, four book chapters, and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences. He is the receipt of multiple recognitions, such as Best Paper Awards from 2020-2024 IEEE PES General Meeting (9 papers), the 2020 Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy and 2022-2023 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, the 2020 and 2022 IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award, the 2021 and 2022 Best Papers of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (3 papers), the 2022 and 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report (4 awards), 2022 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award (Society Level for one per year worldwide), 2023-2025 IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award (3 awards), 2023 IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report (Society Level), 2024 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2024 Early-Career Research Fellowship of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Distinguished Individual Service Award and 2025 NSF CAREER Award. He is a Fellow of the IET and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.