Students

Ph.D. Students:

• Panagiotis Papageorgiou, D-Ph.D. student, Aug 2024 – present (co-advised with Dr. Kevin Kircher at Purdue)
  • Dissertation topic: Smart and Connected Community Control
• Mingshi Yao, Ph.D. student, Aug 2023 – present
  • Dissertation topic: Carbon-Responsive Control of Buildings
• Chibuoke Eneh, Ph.D. student, Jan 2023 – present
  • Dissertation topic: Aging-Aware Control of Motorized Energy Storage
• Philani Hlanze, Ph.D. student, Jan 2021 – present
  • Dissertation topic: Modeling and Control of PCM-Based Energy Storage Integrated in Air Distribution Systems
• Aly Elhefny, Ph.D. student, Aug 2019 – present (co-advised with Dr. Hamidreza Shabgard at OU)
  • Dissertation topic: Modeling and Control of Freeze Desalination Systems

M.S. Students:

• None

Alumni:

• Jerson Sanchez, M.S., Aug 2021 – Dec 2023, currently research engineer at AAON.
  • Thesis topic: Development and assessment of constrained reinforcement learning-based controller for building demand response
• Zhimin Jiang, Ph.D., Aug 2018 – Jun 2022, currently senior research engineer at Trane Technologies
  • Dissertation topic: Building cluster control to enable grid reliability and efficiency support
• Haopeng Liu, Ph.D., Aug 2018 – Jun 2022, currently postdoc at University of Maryland
  • Dissertation topic: Gray box dynamic modeling of vapor compression systems for control optimization
• Philani Hlanze, M.S., Aug 2018 – Dec 2020, currently a Ph.D. student at OU
  • Thesis topic: Integration of phase change material-based thermal energy storage in air distribution systems to increase building power flexibility