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Narges Chinichian has been a researcher in the research unit Off-Grid Systems at RLI since April 2022. She has a PhD with a focus on dynamical analysis of complex networks from the TU Berlin Physics department.
At RLI, she has been involved in a range of projects. In the open_plan project, she has supported backend development and documentation work. In PeopleSuN project, which focuses on the energy access in rural and peri-urban Nigeria, she has been responsible for statistical analysis of survey data, implementation of preliminary Machine Learning Algorithms, supervision of a master student and co-authorship of a journal paper on collected data. She has also supported the demand estimation in the UNOPS Buka project and Off-Grid electrification Digitalization tool assessments in IEATask18 project. She is currently the co-lead of Lacuna funded AI4EA (Artificial Intelligence for Energy Access) project.
Narges is originally from Tehran. She speaks fluent Persian and English and learns German. In her free time, she enjoys reading and climbing.
Tasks at RLI
- Backend programming and support of the documentation framework [Sphinx] in the Open Plan project
- Analyzing requirements, implementing preliminary ML algorithms, writing journal articles for the project, and supervising a master's thesis in the PeopleSuN project
- Literature search and estimation of power requirements in the UNOPS project
- Assistence in the evaluation of tools for digitization of the off-grid sector through expert interviews (IEA task18)
- Co-leadership of the Lacuna Fund project AI4EA
