Biography

Dr. Xinwei Shen is an Associate Prof./Principle Investigator, who also serves as the Director of Office of Students’ Affairs, at Tsinghua SIGS. His research interests include power system / integrated energy system / offshore renewable energy optimization. He graduated from Dept. of Electrical Eng., Tsinghua Univ. with B. Eng. and Ph. D., and used to be a visiting scholar at IIT, U. C. Berkeley and Univ. of Macau. He led several NSFC/National Key R&D of China/industry-sponsored research projects. He is a senior member of IEEE and CES, the young editorial board member of CSEE JPES/Applied Energy, and technical program co-chair of IEEE PES Energy Internet Coordinating Committee. He is also the winner of IEEE PES Technical Council Young Professionals Award (in 2023, the first recipient in Asia-pacific region) and winner of “Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program” by CSEE, Best Paper Award at IEEE PES GM et al.

Education

• 2010.8-2016.1 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Power System, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. (Advised by Prof. Shouzhen Zhu(朱守真) and Prof. Yingduo Han(韩英铎))

• 2014.3-2014.8 Visiting Student in Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, advised by Prof. M. Shahidehpour at IIT.

• 2006.8-2010.7 B.E in Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University.

Working Experience

Associate Professor, SIGS, Tsinghua University, 2025.06 - present.

• advising graduates in Institute for Ocean Engineering (Electrical Engineering), Tsinghua SIGS.

Assistant Professor, SIGS, Tsinghua University, 2021.11 - present.

• PI, Ph. D. supervisor, co-advising graduates in both TBSI and Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua SIGS.

Visiting Scholar, State Key Lab of Internet of Things in Smart Cities, University of Macau, 2021.01 - 2021.07.

• Hosted by Prof. Yonghua Song(宋永华) and Dr. Hongcai Zhang(张洪财)

Research Scientist, Lab of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, TBSI, 2018.10 - 2021.10.

• Lead multiple research projects funded by Shenzhen government, SGCC and CSG.

• Co-advising 10+ graduate students with Prof. Hongbin Sun(孙宏斌).

Research Fellow, Post-Doc, Lab of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, TBSI, 2016.7 - 2018.9.

• Won Special/First-class Awards funding of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in 2018/2016. (Top 2%)

• Visiting U.C. Berkeley in 2017, hosted by Prof. Scott Moura leading ECAL.

Awards

• The Top 1% Highly-cited Scholar in CNKI of 2024/2025 (2024/2025中国知网高被引学者Top1%) in (Details in Chinese)

• Excellent Youth Basic Research Fund of Shenzhen in Math (深圳市优秀青年基础研究项目,数学口) in 2024

• The 7th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, Outstanding Contribution Award in 2023

• Key technologies, equipment and applications of the park integrated energy system planning and operation, 2023 China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Progress/Guangdong Electric Power Science and Technology First-class Prize 园区综合能源系统规划运行关键技术、装备及工程应用，2023年南方电网科技进步一等奖 (12/15),广东电力科学技术一等奖 (4/11)

• IEEE PES Tech Council Young Professionals Award (2023), which “recognizes the technical and PES leadership contributions of younger members of PES.”

• “Frontrunner 5000 (F5000)”, Top Articles in Outstanding Science &Technology Journals of China, 2020 (Top 1%, as 1st author)

• Best Paper Award of IEEE conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration in 2020 (Top 3%, as advisor)

• Best Paper Award of IEEE PES General Meeting in 2019, 2020 and 2024(Top 4%, as advisor)

• Best Paper Award of CSEE (Chinese Society of Electrical Eng.) journals, Second Prize, 2018 (as first author)

• Outstanding Reviewer of Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy in 2017

• Special/First-class Awards funding of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in 2018/2016 (Top 2%)

• Outstanding Author Award of Chinese Journal “Power System Technology(电网技术)” in 2016

• Best Reviewer of IEEE Trans. On Smart Grid in 2016

• Outstanding Graduate Award of Beijing in 2016 (Top 5%)