Dr. Jinyang Zhao is now an engineer at the Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Business Chains Optimization of PetroChina, CNPC. He received his Ph.D. degree from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) and has nearly a decade of research experience in low-carbon transition for petrochemical industry. Before joining PetroChina, he worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Aalto University. He has led and participated in multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and PetroChina, with works published in journals like Energy and the Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.