Postdoctoral researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, in Saverio Bolognani's group.ishilov@control.ee.ethz.ch
Since 2025 I lead a pilot in Walenstadt with Swiss grid operators on how to turn down rooftop solar by rules the households find fair. Fair solar curtailment in WalenstadtSince 2026 I work with the City of Zürich on the terms on which automated vehicles may use its streets. Automated vehicles in Zürich's mixed trafficMy PhD at ENS, Inria Paris and VITO, 2019 to 2023, studied peer-to-peer electricity markets under grid constraints and uncertainty. Peer-to-peer electricity marketsSince 2024 I lead welfarist control at ETH Zürich: choosing the welfare function a controller optimises from what can be compared between the people it serves. Welfarist control
The City of Zürich has to decide on what terms automated vehicles may enter streets shared with trams, buses, bicycles and pedestrians, where a rule that is safe and fast for one group of road users can be slow or unsafe for another.
A controller that shares a scarce resource among people, such as road space or grid capacity, optimises a social welfare function, usually a plain sum chosen without argument.
Invariant Price of Anarchy and Multiplicative SmoothnessI. Shilov, H. H. Nax, S. BolognaniIEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2026Price-of-anarchy bounds that do not change when one agent's costs are rescaled, from a product-form smoothness condition matched to Nash welfare.
Invariant Price of Anarchy: a Metric for Welfarist Traffic ControlI. Shilov, M. He, H. H. Nax, E. Frazzoli, G. Zardini, S. BolognaniIFAC World Congress, 2026On the Zürich road network, the same toll can look efficient or wasteful depending on what one assumes about comparing travellers' costs.
A Welfarist Perspective on Fair Generation CurtailmentJ. G. Matt, I. Shilov, S. BolognaniIEEE PowerUp, 2026Existing curtailment schemes are the Kalai–Smorodinsky rule with different reference points; the testbed is a six-bus feeder in Walenstadt.