Jiyuan Fan, PhD. got his BS degree from Taiyuan Univ. of Tech., Taiyuan, China in 1979, MS degree from Chinese EPRI, Beijing, China, 1982 and PhD’s degree from Clarkson University, New York, USA, 1989. He worked as a Post Doctorial Research Associate at Texas A&M University, 1989-1990. Since then, he has worked in the Power System Automation area, including SCADA/EMS/DMS/OMS with the companies of Advanced Control Systems, Inc. in Atlanta, Televent Automation in Houston, Beijing Sifang Automation in China. He is currently with GE T&D as the Strategic Planning Leader responsible for technology and product planning.