Dr. Can Wan received his B.Eng. degree in Automation from Zhejiang University in 2008, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tsinghua University. In 2017, he joined the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University as a tenure-track Professor under the university Hundred Talents Program.

He held research or visiting positions at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, Technical University of Denmark, and Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. His research work focuses on the energy forecasting technology, multi-energy systems, renewable energy, and active distribution networks. He has published over 60 papers in top-notch international  journals and conferences (over 30 IEEE PES Trans. papers), including over 30 first-author/corresponding-author SCI journal papers. His research works have been widely cited by renowned scholars (including more than 80 Fellows of US National Academy of  Engineering, IEEE Fellows,  etc.). His 3 first-author papers published on IEEE Trans. Power Systems have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. 

Dr. Wan won the first-class award in Natural Science of Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards from the Ministry of Education (MoE) in 2017. He was among the first batch of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship awardees. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal and CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems.