Dr.ir. E. Shirazi | People Pages: Find employees & contact details | University of Twente

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 on 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, and low-carbon infrastructure.

Her research interests are:

Modelling and control of energy systems
Power system planning and operation
Model-driven/model-free optimization of buildings, districts, and industrial energy systems
AI-based forecast in energy systems (load profiles, RES generation profiles, and price)
Grid integration of renewable energies with a focus on PV
Energy System Integration

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
- Models
- Distribution System
Engineering
- Energy Management
- Electricity Cost
- Long Short-Term Memory
- Lstm
- Nodes
- Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Organisations

Publications

2025

Multi-temporal PV power prediction using long short-term memory and wavelet packet decomposition (2025)Energy and AI, 21. Article 100540. Sardarabadi, A., Heydarian Ardakani, A., Matrone, S., Ogliari, E. & Shirazi, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100540Embedding Temporal Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Models for Energy System Control (2025)In E-ENERGY 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (pp. 1002-1004). Association for Computing Machinery. Ardakani, A. H., Hurink, J., Gibson, I. & Shirazi, E.https://doi.org/10.1145/3679240.3734686Bi-level Optimization of Mobile Energy Storage System Allocation and Scheduling for Grid Stability and Peak Load Reduction (2025)In 2024 IEEE 8th Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, EI2 2024 (pp. 1077-1082). IEEE. Verhoef, P. B. C., Ahmadi, B. & Shirazi, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/EI264398.2024.10991884Scalable Charging Optimization of Battery Energy Storage Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2025)In IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, ISGT EUROPE 2024. IEEE. Ardakani, A. H., Aqabakee, K., Abdollahi, F. & Shirazi, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEUROPE62998.2024.10863295PV on façades: A financial, technical and environmental assessment (2025)Energy and buildings, 328. Article 115010. Schram, W. L. & Shirazi, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.115010

2024

Sky Images for Short-Term Solar Irradiance Forecast: A Comparative Study of Linear Machine Learning Models (2024)IEEE journal of photovoltaics, 14(4), 691-698. Shirazi, E., Gordon, I., Reinders, A. & Catthoor, F.https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2024.3398365Model Tuning and Performance Evaluation in Machine Learning Models for PV Power Forecasting: Case Study of a BIPV System in Switzerland (2024)In 2024 IEEE 52nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (pp. 438-442). Article 10748823. IEEE. Shirazi, E. & Quest, H.https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10748823Multi-objective Optimization for Phase Balancing in an Energy Community with High PV Penetration and a Shared Energy Storage System (2024)In IEEE 52nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2024 (pp. 430-434). Article 10749142. IEEE. Ahmadi, B. & Shirazi, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC57443.2024.10749142Deployment of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Distribution Grids in Combination with Batteries (2024)In Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications, Volume 2 (pp. 435-454). Wiley-Hindawi. Shirazi, E., van Sark, W. & Reinders, A.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119578826.ch27

2023

Design with Luminescent Solar Concentrator Photovoltaics in the Built Environment (2023)In 2023 IEEE 50th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (pp. 1-5). Article 10359769. IEEE. Shirazi, E., Eggink, W. & Reinders, A. H. M. E.https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC48320.2023.10359769

Research profiles

Eli teaches the following courses at the University of Twente and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam:

Energy System Integration (ESI)
Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
Sources of Innovation (SoI)
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2025/2026

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 2024/2025

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

STAR INTERVIEW: MAKING THE ENERGY SYSTEMS SMART AND SUSTAINABLE

Address

University of Twente

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

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