Lucas Buccafusca

My name is Lucas Buccafusca. I am currently a teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins University in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

I received my Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned my Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017 and my Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2013 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 

My pedagogical research interests are on improving the quality of collegiate classroom environments through the use of nontraditional techniques and active participation by instructors. These include the use of failure as a teaching tool, humor and empathy as a means of connecting with students, and gamification.

My technical research interests are Distributed Control, Learning, Distributed Optimization and Nonlinear Systems. Applications of my research are primarily used for Wind Farm arrays. 

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me at lbuccafusca(at) jhu(dot) edu.