Chao Ning received the B.Eng. degree in Automation from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2012, and M.S. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2015. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, USA. His research interests include data-driven optimization under uncertainty, learning for dynamics and control, big data analytics and machine learning, power systems operations, and renewable energy systems.