Dr. Xi Chen is the Operations Director of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China, and the Chief Information Officer at GEIRI North America, San Jose, California, USA. He received a BEng from Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China, an MSc from King’s College London, University of London, London, U.K., and a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He joined the State Grid Information and Telecommunication Branch, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), Beijing, China, in 2009, as a Research Fellow and Senior Manager. He was the Research Director at the State Grid U.S. Representative Office, SGCC, New York, NY, USA. He currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Power and Energy Circuits and Systems (2023–2025), the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Standards Committee (2025), an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal and the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. He served as the Co-Chair of Santa Clara Valley Chapter, IEEE CASS and a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, industrial large language models (LLMs), the Internet of Things, smart grids, electric vehicle charging networks, and nonlinear systems.