Prof. Jia is a Professor at Department of Automation, and the Director of Institute of Systems Engineering, Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. He received the BSc. Degree in Automatic and Ph.D. Degrees in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2006, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2010, and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2013. His main research interests include optimization theory and methods for networked cyber-physical energy systems with particular contribution to ordinal optimization, event-driven optimization and the applications.