Xinwei Shen (沈欣炜)
 |
Ph.D., Associate Prof. & Principle Investigator |
Students, Research Assistant & Postdoc (招生与博士后)
I am always looking for outstanding young talents to join my research group.
Currently I've been actively advising graduate students at Tsinghua SIGS. Please check out the graduates’ program for Electrical Engineering master and Ph.D (2026 fall, Application GUIDELINES for International Student) now, living expenses are covered by SIGS scholarship.
Several Post-Doc Positions are available. The salary package is Negotiable, but definitely >= ￥420k per year (pre-tax) including subsids from Shenzhen Goverment.
Some Research Assistant(RA) positions are also available. We'll provide living expenses for qualified candidates.
Visiting Scholars from other universities are also welcome.
Please send your CV to me if interested.
Research Interests
My research group and I mainly focus on optimization for power and energy systems, including following research topics:
Offshore Renewable Energy, e.g. offshore wind
Power Systems, with renewables and energy storage
Energy Internet, especially Integrated Energy System
Recent News
2025-08-26, Congrats to Yunfei Du(杜云飞)! Our paper titled “Optimal Sizing for Large-Scale In-Situ Direct Seawater Electrolysis System to Minimize Levelized Cost of Hydrogen” has been accepted by IEEE Trans on Smart Grid!
2025-08-17, Congrats to Biao Zhao(赵彪)! Our paper titled “Optimal Configuration of HVAC Transmission with Mid-Cable Reactance Compensation for Far-Offshore Wind Farms” has been accepted by IEEE Trans on Sustainable Energy!
2025-08-03, Congrats to Dr. Mahdi Azimian! Our paper titled “Robust Scenario-Based Stochastic Expansion Planning of Multi-Carrier Microgrids considering Incentive-Based Loans” is accepted by Applied Energy！
2025-08-01, I gave a talk at Stanford University, which titled “Offshore Wind-powered Green Methanol Production for Maritime Transport Decarbonization and Some Related Optimization Methods” (pdf). Thanks for the invitation from Dr. Jacqueline A. Dowling and Dr. Cong Chen!
2024-07-27, We (Yunfei Du (杜云飞), Boan Lu (陆柏安), Wenhao Gao (高闻浩) and I) attend the IEEE PES GM 2025 held at Austin, USA. Congrats Yunfei, Boan and Wenhao on presenting the paper in oral/poster sessions (Details in Chinese 中文报道).
2024-07-23, Congrats to Wenhao Gao (高闻浩)! Our paper titled “基于大规模混合整数规划的海上风电场集电系统优化规划” is accepted by the prestigious Chinese Journal 电力系统自动化！
2025-07-16, Congrats to Dr. Naghmash Ali! Our paper titled “A hybrid approach involving data driven forecasting and super twisting control action for low-carbon microgrids” is accepted and available in Applied Energy！
2025-06-30, Warmly welcome Dr. Balakumar P from Vellore Institute of Technology in India to join my group as a Post-doc!
2025-06-20, I'm promoted to be an Associate Professor at Tsinghua SIGS! Thanks for all the efforts by my research group and the recognition from the Academic Advisory Committee!
2025-05-26, Congrats to Dr. Naghmash Ali! Our paper titled “Multi-level control for shared hydrogen storage system based offshore DC microgrid cluster involving adaptive barrier function” is accepted and available in Energy！
2025-05-18, Huge congrats to Xiaochi Ding(丁骁驰), Ziang Liu(刘子昂)， Haoran Wang(王浩然)， Wei Chen(陈威)， Shangding Tang(唐上丁)， Xinzhe Ji(纪鑫哲) and Yue Yu(于悦) on passing the graduates thesis defense!
2025-05-11, I'm invited to give a talk at the Interdisciplinary Forum at Nanjing, China, the content of which is similar to that of at HKU, but in Chinese，details at 面向大规模海上风电规划的复杂组合优化技术.
2025-04-29, Congrats to Yunfei Du(杜云飞)! Our paper titled “Cost-competitive offshore wind-powered green methanol production for maritime transport decarbonization” has been accepted by Nature Communications (details at 中文简介)!
2025-04-07, I gave a talk at HKU, which summarizes latest research from my research group on combinatorial optimization for Offshore Wind Farm (pdf). Thanks for the invitation from Dr. Yi Wang and Mr. Xueyuan Cui!
2025-01-31, Congrats to Ang Xuan(轩昂)! Our paper titled “Bi-level Integrated Electricity and Natural Gas System Retrofit Planning Model Considering Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage” is accepted by Applied Energy!
2025-01-25, Congrats to Yunfei Du(杜云飞)! Our paper titled “Joint Optimization of Layout and Electrolyzer Capacity for Decentralized Offshore Wind-Powered Hydrogen Production” (中文简介) is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics!
2025-01-03, I'm trilled to know that I've been evaluated to be “the Top 1% Highly-cited Scholar in CNKI of 2024”(2024中国知网高被引学者Top1%)! Thanks for the recognitions from my peers!
2024-12-28, Congrats to Zuxun Xiong(熊祖逊)! Our paper titled “Two-Stage Robust Planning for Park-Level Integrated Energy System Considering Uncertain Equipment Contingency” (中文简介) is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid! Zuxun was my master student and now a Ph. D. student in Oxford University. I'm so proud that he can continue his research and finish it with a high-quality paper.
2024-12-03, Congrats to Boan Lu(陆柏安)! Our paper titled “Offshore Wind Farm Micro-siting based on Two-Phase Hybrid Optimization” (中文简介) is accepted by Applied Energy！
2024-12-01, We (more than 10 members in my group) attend the 8th IEEE conference on Energy Internet and Energy system Integration (EI^2) held at Shenyang, it's my great honor to serve as the publication co-chair for this big conf. gathering 1000+ attendees! Also, congrats on Biao Zhao(赵彪) on winning the best paper award!
2024-11-22, Thanks to the efforts of Ziang Liu(刘子昂), Wenyuan Zheng(郑文塬), Yangfan Luo(罗旸凡) et al, the research project funded by CSG “Research on Strategies and Technology for Dispatch, Operation and Control in Power Grids with High Proportion of Renewable Energy（高比例新能源接入电网的协同消纳控制）" has been completed and evaluated to be Excellent by some experts!
2024-11-14, Thanks to the efforts of Jiale Liu(刘佳乐), Wei Chen(陈威), Yongheng Wang(王永恒), et al, the research project funded by CSG “Key Technology and Demonstration for Large-scale Electric Vehicle (EV) Interactions with Power Grid（规模化电动汽车与电网互动关键技术研究与示范应用）" has been completed and evaluated to be Excellent by some experts!
2024-09-21, I'm trilled to know that my NSFC Youth project “Data-driven planning method for Integrated Energy Distribution System considering multiple energy storage (数据驱动的含多种储能综合能源配电系统规划)” has been evaluated to be “Excellent” in the Final Project reporting meeting. Thanks for the recognitions from my peers!
2024-09-14, Congrats to Xiaochi Ding (丁骁驰)! Our paper titled “Reliability-Based Planning of Cable Layout for Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Collector System Considering Post-Fault Network Reconfiguration” (中文简介) is accepted by IEEE Trans on Sustainable Energy!
Contact
Email: xwshen AT tsinghua.edu.cn, sxw.tbsi AT sz.tsinghua.edu.cn
Office Address: Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China