LADR Team

Tomasz Gorecki

Tomasz Gorecki received his master degree in mechanical engineering in 2012 from the University Mines ParisTech. In 2012 he joined the ONERA (the French National Aerospace research center) under the supervision of Helene Piet-Lahanier, where he completed his master project. Subsequently, he joined the group of Colin Jones at the Automatic Control laboratory at the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne in 2012 where he obtained his PhD in 2017. His research has mostly focused on the design of control methods for building systems providing Demand Response and grid services. His research interests include robust and stochastic optimization, economic MPC, invariant set theory and computation, and the economics of the smart grid.

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Luca Fabietti

Luca Fabietti received his bachelor degree in Information Engineering and his master degree in Automation Engineering and Control in 2014 from the University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy. In 2013 he joined the EES Smart Building group of Prof. Karl H. Johansson at KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he completed his master project. Since 2014 he is a Ph.D. student at the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research interests include optimal provision of high-frequency demand response control of virtual storage in Low Voltage and Medium Voltage grids with high penetration of uncertain renewable generation.

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Faran A. Qureshi

Faran A. Qureshi received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from the GIK Institute, Pakistan in 2009, and the Master’s degree in Systems and Control from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands in 2012. In 2011 he joined Prodrive Technologies, Netherlands and worked on the Control of Power Electronics for his master project. In November 2012 he joined the group of Prof. Colin Jones in the Automatic Control Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is working in the areas of model predictive control applied to smart buildings, electrical batteries, ancillary services provision, demand response, and grid integration. His research interests include predictive control, optimization, and management and economics of green energy.

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Altug Bitlislioglu

Altug Bitlislioglu received his diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He then received his MSc. degree in Robotics, Systems and Control in 2013 from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ). In October 2013, he joined the group of Prof. Colin Jones in Laboratoire d‘Automatique at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), as a PhD student. His research interests include assessment of tracking capabilities of distributed systems and optimal control methods for smart grid applications.

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Colin N. Jones

Colin N. Jones received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and the Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 2005. He is an Assistant Professor in the Automatic Control Laboratory at the \'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a Senior Researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich until 2010. His current research interests are in the areas of high-speed predictive control and optimisation, as well as green energy generation, distribution and management.