SHEN Xinwei

Dr. Xinwei Shen is an Assoc. Prof. at Tsinghua SIGS. 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. His research interests include power system / integrated energy system / offshore renewable energy optimization. He is the PI for several NSFC/ Provincial/ industry-sponsored research projects. He is a senior member of IEEE and CES, the editorial board member of CSEE JPES/Applied Energy, and secretary of IEEE PES Energy Internet Coordinating Committee. He is also the recipient of IEEE PES Technical Council Young Professionals Award (in 2023, the first recipient in Asia-pacific region) and “Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program” by CSEE, Best Paper Award at IEEE PES GM, CSG Technical Progress Award 1^st Prize, Guangdong Power Tech. Progress Award 1^st Prize et al, and wins the Excellent Youth Basic Research Fund of Shenzhen (in Math).

Sep. 2010 - Jan. 2016, PhD in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China (with Outstanding Graduate Award of Beijing)

Mar. 2014 - Aug. 2016, Visiting Student, ECS, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Sep. 2006 - Jul. 2010, B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

July 2025 - present, Associate Professor, Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), Tsinghua Univ., China

Nov. 2021 - Jun. 2025, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua SIGS, Tsinghua Univ., China

Nov. 2018 - Oct. 2021, Research Scientist, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI)/SIGS, Tsinghua Univ., China

Jan. 2021 - Jul. 2021, Visiting Scholar, University of Macau

Jul. 2016 - Oct. 2018, Post-Doc Fellow, TBSI, China

Aug. 2017 - Oct. 2017, Visiting Scholar, U. C. Berkeley, USA

Feb. 2016 - Jul. 2016, Research Assistant, Dept of Electrical. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., China

2013 - present , IEEE PES/Ocean Engineering Society Member (Senior Member since 2021)

2020.09 - present, Co-chair of IEEE PES Working Group on Integrated Energy System/Multi-Energy Network Modeling and Planning

2022.03 - present, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems (JCR Q1) Associate Editor

2022.10 - present, Young Editorial Board Member for Applied Energy (JCR Q1)

2023.07 - present, publication chair of the 7th/8th/9th IEEE conf. on Energy Internet and Energy system Integration (EI^2)

Graduate Courses (Shenzhen)——Spring: Offshore Wind Power Optimization; Fall: Advanced Power Network Analysis, Modern Power System Optimization, Introduction to New Power System 

Master students:

3^rd year: Ang Xuan (co-advised with Prof. Hongbin Sun), Xuelin Zheng (co-advised with Prof. H. Sun), Haizhou Liu (co-advised with Dr. Xuan Zhang)

2^nd year: Zuxun Xiong (co-advised with Prof. H. Sun), Yujie Shi (co-advised with Prof. H. Sun),

1^st year: Zhimeng Wang (co-advised with Prof. H. Sun), Zhaoyuan Chai (co-advised with Prof. H. Sun), Zhen Wang (co-advised with Prof. H. Sun), Tian Xia(co-advised with Prof. Libao Shi), Yongheng Wang(co-advised with Prof. L. Shi), Fumin Chen (co-advised with Prof. L. Shi)

Optimization for Power and Energy Systems, Energy Internet, Ocean Renewable Energy. PI for several NSFC/ Provincial/ industry-sponsored research projects. 

2024.08 - present, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Fund, “Optimal Planning for Layout and Electrical Collector System in Deep-sea and Far-offshore Wind Farms”, PI

2024.07 - present, Excellent Youth Basic Research Fund of Shenzhen, “Complex Combinatorial Optimization Theory and Applications for Planning and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farm”, PI

2024.01 - present, Guangdong Basic and Applied Joint Funding for Offshore Wind Power, “Optimal Planning for Offshore Wind Farm’s High-Reliability Electric Collection Systems considering the Microenvironment of Seabed”, PI

2023.01 - present, Guangdong Basic and Applied Joint Funding for Offshore Wind Power, “Research on High-Reliability Planning for Electric Collection Systems in Offshore Wind Farm with Multiple Substations”, PI

2021.01 - 2023.12, NSFC, Youth Fund, “Research on Data-driven planning method for Integrated Energy System considering multiple energy storage”, PI

2020.10 - 2023.09, National Key R&D Plan of China, “Key Technology of Digital Grid”, co-PI

2021.09 - 2023.08, China Southern Power Grid Corp. (CSG), “Energy Efficiency Data Mining Tech. for Multi-energy Park Planning”, PI

2019.07 - 2022.07, State Grid Corp. of China,“Research and Applications on Optimal Dispatch for Power Grid with Large-scale Energy Storage and Renewables”, co-PI

2017.07 - 2021.06, Basic Scientific Research Funding from Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, “Planning & Design Platform for Integrated Energy System in Energy Internet”, co-PI

2018.09 - 2021.06, CSG, “Long-term Stochastic Planning Method and Algorithm for Reserve in Integrated Energy System”, PI

1. Y. Du, X. Shen*, DM. Kammen, X. Ding, “Cost-competitive offshore wind-powered green methanol production for maritime transport decarbonization”, in Nature Communications, 2025.

2. A. Xuan, X. Shen*, Y. Luo, “Bi-level Integrated Electricity and Natural Gas System Retrofit Planning Model Considering Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage”, in Applied Energy, 2025.

3. Z. Xiong, X. Shen* and H. Sun, “Two-Stage Robust Planning for Park-Level Integrated Energy System Considering Uncertain Equipment Contingency”, in IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, 2025.

4. X. Ding, X. Shen*, et al. “Reliability-Based Planning of Cable Layout for Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Collector System Considering Post-Fault Network Reconfiguration”, in IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, 16(1), Jan, 2025.

5. B. Lu, X. Shen*, Y. Du. “Offshore Wind Farm Micro-siting based on Two-Phase Hybrid Optimization”, in Applied Energy, 2025.

6. Y. Du, X. Shen*, X. Ding. “Joint Optimization of Layout and Electrolyzer Capacity for Decentralized Offshore Wind-Powered Hydrogen Production”, in IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2025.

7. X. Shen, Q. Wu, H. Zhang and L. Wang, Optimal Planning for Electrical Collector System of Offshore Wind Farm With Double-Sided Ring Topology, in IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1624-1633, July 2023.

8. A. Xuan, X. Shen*, Q. Guo and H. Sun, Two-Stage Planning for Electricity-Gas Coupled Integrated Energy System With Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Considering Carbon Tax and Price Uncertainties, in IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 2553-2565, May 2023.

9. X. Shen, M. Shahidehpour, Y. Han, et al. Expansion Planning of Active Distribution Networks With Centralized and Distributed Energy Storage Systems, in IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 126-134, Jan. 2017.

10. X. Shen, M. Shahidehpour, S. Zhu, Y. Han and J. Zheng, Multi-Stage Planning of Active Distribution Networks Considering the Co-Optimization of Operation Strategies, in IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1425-1433, March 2018.

11. H. Liu, L. Yang, X. Shen*, Q. Guo, et al. A Data-Driven Warm Start Approach for Convex Relaxation in Optimal Gas Flow. IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 6 (2021): 5948-5951.

12. X. Zhao, X. Shen*, Q. Guo, H. Sun*, S. Oren. “A stochastic distribution system planning method considering regulation services and energy storage degradation” in Applied Energy, 2020, 277: 115520.

13. A. Xuan, X. Shen*, Q. Guo, H. Sun*. A Conditional Value-at-Risk Based Planning Model for Integrated Energy System with Energy Storage and Renewables in Applied Energy, 2021, 294: 116971.

14. H. Liu, X. Shen*, Q. Guo, H. Sun*. A Data-Driven Approach towards Fast Economic Dispatch in Electricity-Gas Coupled Systems Based on Artificial Neural Network in Applied Energy, 2021, 286: 116480.

15. C. Chen, H. Sun, X. Shen*, Y. Guo et al. Two-stage robust planning-operation co-optimization of energy hub considering precise energy storage economic model in Applied energy, 2019, 252: 113372.

16. X. Qin, H. Sun, X. Shen* et al. A generalized quasi-dynamic model for electric-heat coupling integrated energy system with distributed energy resources in Applied energy, 2019, 251: 113270.

17. 高闻浩，沈欣炜，丁骁驰，纪鑫哲 等, 基于大规模混合整数规划的海风集电系统优化规划. 电力系统自动化, 2025

18. 轩昂, 刘骏, 彭维珂, 沈欣炜, 陈衡. 面向煤制氢电厂CCUS改造的规划方法及碳足迹评估[J].中国电机工程学报,2024.

19. 沈欣炜, 郭庆来, 许银亮 & 孙宏斌 (2019), 考虑多能负荷不确定性的区域综合能源系统鲁棒规划, 电力系统自动化, Vol. 43 No. 07, pp. 34-41.

20. 沈欣炜, 朱守真, 郑竞宏, 韩英铎, et al(2015), 考虑分布式电源及储能配合的主动配电网规划–运行联合优化, 电网技术, Vol. 39 No. 7, pp. 1913-1920. (2020 年获“领跑者5000”（F5000）中国精品科技期刊顶尖学术论文奖)

2023 IEEE PES Tech Council Young Professionals Award

2023 China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Progress/Guangdong Electric Power S&Tech First-class Prize

2020 “Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program” by CSEE (Chinese Society of Electrical Eng.)

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

2020/24 Best Paper Award of IEEE conf. on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration(as advisor)

2019/20/24 Best Paper Award of IEEE PES General Meeting (as advisor)

2020 Best Paper Award of CSEE journals, Second Prize, 2018 (as first author)