Cuo Zhang is a research fellow with the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also a chief investigator of ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions. His research interests include power system planning and operation, voltage stability and control, microgrids, multi-energy systems, and applications of optimisation theory in these areas. He has published 10 IEEE Transactions journal papers including 2 'web-of-science highly cited papers' and awarded 3 IEEE/IET conference best papers.