Mengqi Yao (Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Haas Energy Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Her research interests include control strategy, optimization model, and machine learning techniques applied to distributed energy resources.