dr.ir. E. Shirazi (Elham)

Elham Shirazi (Eli Shirazi) got her PhD in Electrical Engineering with a focus on smart grid control. Her thesis is entitled: "Self-Healing of Smart Distribution Networks with PV Penetration by Distributed Control". She joined the University of Twente in 2021 after completing her postdoctoral research at the Electrical Engineering Department of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. She also worked at the Energy Department of IMEC, Belgium. Her research is multidisciplinary in Energy System Control with a focus on embedding trustworthiness principles into AI models that help decision-making in power systems while supporting the transition to a more resilient, flexible, autonomous, and low-carbon infrastructure.

Her research interests are: 

• Trustworthy and physics-informed AI for power and energy systems operation and control
• Safe reinforcement learning for power and energy systems operation and control
• Multi-Agent Systems for distributed coordination and control
• Self-healing and self-organizing power systems
• AI-based and probabilistic forecasting of demand, renewable generation, flexibility, and electricity prices
• Data-driven and learning-based control of energy systems

She contributes to national and international research, education, and innovation initiatives, including activities within IEA PVPS, ETIP PV, and 4TU.Energy.

For assignments and internships please check here.

She is open to collaborating with internal and external researchers; just drop her an email at e.shirazi@utwente.nl to discuss any collaboration opportunity!

Expertise

• Computer Science

  • Storage System
  • Predictive Model
  • Long Short-Term Memory Network
  • Distribution Network

• Engineering

  • Solar Energy
  • Energy Management
  • Photovoltaic System
  • Lstm

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I teach the following courses at the University of Twente:

• Energy System Integration (ESI) - Q4/2B
• Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) & X-Integrated PV (XIPV) - Q2/1B

The courses are offered in Q2 and Q4 as stated above and are open to enrollment for students from the SET, ME, EE, EMSYS, and CS programs. 

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2026/2027

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2025/2026

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Meet our Energizer! Eli Shirazi, An interview with 4TU.Energy 

STAR INTERVIEW: MAKING THE ENERGY SYSTEMS SMART AND SUSTAINABLE 

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W251
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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