Yifu Eve Ding

Energy Scholar at MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Sloan School of Management | Clean Energy and Transportation | Optimization under Uncertainty | Energy Data and AI for Social Good

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My research has been sponsored by several global leading utility and mining companies, and my works won many awards, including:

-Shell Energy Scholar Fellowship, 2025-2026

-MIT Prize for Open Data, 2024

-Great Britain-China Educational Trust Scholarship, 2022

-Santander Academic Travel Award, University of Oxford, 2021

-MSc in SEF Prize for Best Research Project, Imperial College London, 2017

-The First Prize of ABB 4th University Innovation Contest, ABB China headquarter, 2015

I have also met and presented my research to many academic and industrial leaders, including GSM Association (GSMA) chief startegies officer, Laxmi Akkaraju, and Tata Power CEO, Dr. Praveer Sinha.

Columbia
Met Prof. Donald Goldfarb at Columbia
Cornell
Met Prof. Robert Bixby at Cornell
turing
Presented ML forecasting for mobile demand research to GSM Association (GSMA) chief startegies officer, Laxmi Akkaraju