I co-chaired an invited session on “Novel Approaches to Support Energy Systems: Analysis & Learning” for the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) which took place at JHU this year. Special thanks to our invited speakers: Deepak Ramasubramanian, Eilyan Bitar, Emiliano Dall’Anese, Killian Wood, Vassilis Kekatos, Hao Zhu, and Baosen Zhang.