Ilia Shilov

CV

Positions

ETH Zürich

Postdoctoral researcher

ETH Zürich, Automatic Control Laboratory, and NCCR Automation, Zürich

Welfarist control
Leads the research direction in Saverio Bolognani's group: social choice theory for multi-agent control, with collaborators at ETH, MIT and UZH.
City of Zürich
Initiated and leads a study of automated-vehicle policy with the Road Safety Department, built on the city's digital twin and traffic simulations.
Walenstadt
Leads the pilot on fair solar curtailment, with a team from Grid2050 and the University of Basel running surveys and stakeholder interviews.
École Normale Supérieure, PSL

Doctoral researcher

École Normale Supérieure (PSL), Inria Paris and VITO, Paris and Genk

Peer-to-peer markets
Game-theoretic models of decentralised electricity markets: grid constraints, risk and hedging, privacy, forecast markets.
EUniversal
Consultancy at VITO for the EU Horizon 2020 project: a peer-to-peer trading model with coupling constraints, part of a project deliverable.
EDF

Research intern, R&D

EDF and Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris

A platform matching renewable producers and consumers through a truthful auction, tested on EDF data.

Saint Petersburg State University

Research intern

Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Probability and Statistics, Saint Petersburg

Statistical normality tests.

Education

École Normale Supérieure, PSL

PhD in computer science

École Normale Supérieure (PSL), Paris

Supervisors
Ana Bušić, Hélène Le Cadre and Anibal Sanjab.
Université Paris-Saclay

MSc in optimisation

Université Paris-Saclay, Paris

Thesis
Designing Contracts and Matching Platforms for Green Energy.
Saint Petersburg State University

MSc in probability and statistics

Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg State University

BSc in mechanics and mathematical modelling

Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg

Talks and panels

Panel “Ethics of Digitalisation and AI”, IEA Wind Task 43 / WeDoWind International Symposium, Rapperswil

Panel “Perspectives on Autonomous Driving”, UZH Digital Society Initiative

Debate “Should Autonomous Vehicles Be Widely Adopted?”, ETH Debate Club and NCCR Automation

“Welfarist Control”, IfA seminar, ETH Zürich

NETGCOOP 2024

IEEE SmartGridComm 2023, Glasgow

“Privacy Impact on Generalized Nash Equilibrium in Peer-to-Peer Electricity Markets”, MIT LIDS, Energy Analytics Group

“Risk-Hedging Strategies in Decentralized Electricity Markets”, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

PGMO Days, EDF Saclay; ROADEF 2022, Lyon; ENS Computer Science Department Convention

INFORMS Annual Meeting, invited sessions

“A Generalized Nash Equilibrium Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer Financial Market and the Distribution Grid”, INOCS seminar, Inria Lille

IEEE SmartGridComm 2021, Aachen

Teaching and service

Teaching
Teaching assistant at ETH Zürich since 2024 for Linear System Theory, Game Theory and Advanced Topics in Control.
Supervision
Two master projects and one bachelor thesis at ETH Zürich on energy markets, multi-agent control and social choice.
Service
Co-organiser of CLOCK 2025; organiser of the NCCR Automation Theme 2.1 workshop; member of the ETH Postdoc Sounding Board since 2024.
Reviewing
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, European Journal of Operational Research.
Awards
Best Poster Award, NCCR Automation retreat, 2026; Excellence Scholarship, Fondation Mathématiques Jacques Hadamard, 2018–2019; scholarship for academic achievement, Saint Petersburg State University, 2012–2013.
Languages
Russian (native), English (fluent), French (advanced), German (basic).
Papers
13 papers, by project or by year