Jieqi Rong received the B.S. degree from Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China, and the M.S. degree from North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China. His research interests include microgrid energy security, energy scheduling, privacy protection, and energy forecasting.

Weirong Liu (M’14) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University. His special fields of interests include cooperative control, nonlinear control, and wireless sensor networks.

Nvzhi Tang received the B.S. degree from Nan Hua University, Hengyang, China, and the M.S. degree from Central South University, Changsha, China. Her research interests include energy forecasting, energy optimization scheduling, optimization algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, and microgrid energy management.

Fu Jiang received the bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2006 and 2012, respectively.,He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University. His research interests include energy storage, multiagent system, and cooperative communication.

Rui Zhang received the B.S. degree from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, China, in 2014. She continued her education at the same institution and obtained the Ph.D. degree from the School of Automation, Central South University. Dr. Zhang has completed her doctoral studies and is now a faculty member at Changsha University, where she contributes to the academic community with her expertise. Her research interests encompass optimization algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, microgrid energy forecasting, and energy optimization and scheduling.

Heng Li received the bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2011 and 2017, respectively.,He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University. From November 2015 to November 2017, he was a Research Assistant with the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. His research interests include cooperative control and cyber-physical systems.