Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Dr. Songmin Yu

Researcher

Songmin Yu joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in May 2020. He works as a senior researcher in the Competence Center of Energy Policy and Energy Markets. Before that, he was visiting Fraunhofer ISI since November 2018 as a postdoc researcher, supported by the Sino-German (CSC-DAAD) Postdoc Scholarship Program.

Songmin Yu studied management science and engineering in Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD in June 2018. Title of his PhD dissertation is "A Study on the Carbon Emission Trading Scheme: An Agent-based Approach".

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Work focus
Climate policy: carbon tax, emission trading scheme, policy design and evaluation

Agent-based modeling: complex system modeling, calibration and validation

Energy system modeling: energy efficiency, technology diffusion
Projects
ECEMF - European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum

NewTRENDs - New trends in energy demand modeling
Publications (selection)
Yu, S.; Hou, Z. (2023): Melodie: Agent-based Modeling in Python. In: Journal of Open Source Software, 8 (83), p. 5100. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05100

Yu, S. (2022): An Agent-Based Framework for Policy Simulation: Modeling Heterogeneous Behaviors With Modified Sigmoid Function and Evolutionary Training. In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, pp. 1–13. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3196737

Yu, S., Mandel, T., Thomas, S., Brugger, H. (2022): Applying the Energy Efficiency First principle based on a decision-tree framework. Energy Efficiency, 15(6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-022-10049-6

Zhao, F.; Fan, Y.; Zhang, S.; Eichhammer, W.; Haendel, M.; Yu, S. (2022). Exploring pathways to deep de-carbonization and the associated environmental impact in China’s ammonia industry. Environmental Research Letters

Mascherbauer, P., Kranzl, L., Yu, S., & Haupt, T. (2022). Investigating the impact of smart energy management system on the residential electricity consumption in Austria. Energy, 249, Article 123665. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123665

Kochanski, M.; Korczak, K.; Kobylka, K.; Chrzanowski, P., Mueller, A.; Yu, S.; Jakob, M.; Herbst, A.; Lotz, M.T. (2022): Assessment of energy demand-side models from the perspective of policy makers’ needs at European level. (newTRENDs - Deliverable No. D4.3). Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe.

Song, B.; Xiong, G.; Yu, S.; Ye, P.; Dong, X.; Lv, Y. (2021): Calibration of Agent-Based Model Using Reinforcement Learning. In 2021 IEEE 1st International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI) (pp. 278-281). IEEE.

Yu, S.; Herbst, A.; Siskos, P.; Chatzivasileiadis, T.; Reiter, U.; Asimakopoulou, G.; Kranzl, L.; Paroussos, L. (2021). Pathways for New Societal Trends and Gap Analysis for Demand Models. (newTRENDs - Deliverable No. D3.1). Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe.

Zondag, M. J.; Del Bufalo, N.; Van Benthem, M.; Maleki-Dizaji, P.; Heidecke, L.; Brugger, H.; Mandel, T.; Yu, S.; Thomas, S. (2021). Analysis to Support the Implementation of the Energy Efficiency First Principle in Decision-making. (EEF-Asistance - Final Report). European Commission, DG ENER, Brussels.

Yu, S.; Fan, Y.; Zhu, L.; Eichhammer, W. (2020): Modeling the emission trading scheme from an agent-based perspective: System dynamics emerging from firms’ coordination among abatement options. In: European Journal of Operational Research, 286 (3), 1113–1128. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.03.080

Mandel, T.; Pato, Z.; Yu, S.; Kockat, J. (2020). Review and Guidance for Quantitative Assessments of Demand and Supply Side Resources in the Context of the Efficiency First principle. (ENEFIRST - Deliverable No. D3.1). Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe.

Yu, S.; Zhu, L. (2017): Impact of Firms’ Observation Network on the Carbon Market. In: Energies, 10 (8), 1164. doi: 10.3390/en10081164

Xu, J.-H.; Fan, Y.; Yu, S. (2014): Energy conservation and CO₂ emission reduction in China's 11th Five-Year Plan: A performance evaluation. In: Energy Economics, 46, 348–359. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.10.013
Publications (comprehensive list)