Scholar in residence 4 June 2025 – 5 July 2025
Alessandra Parisio is Professor of Control of Sustainable Energy Networks in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on model predictive control, distributed optimisation and control, and energy management under uncertainty, with applications in smart buildings, integrated energy systems, and grid flexibility. She has led or contributed to major projects funded by EPSRC, Innovate UK, EC H2020, and industry partners, securing nearly £7 million for the University of Manchester.
She is a Senior Member of IEEE, Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Smart Buildings, Vice-Chair for Education of IFAC TC 9.3 on Control for Smart Cities, and Chair of the UK Automatic Control Network’s Grand Challenge Committee on Clean Growth. She also serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, European Journal of Control, and Applied Energy. Her awards include the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award (2021) and the Energy and Buildings Best Paper Award (2019).
The main aim of the visit is to design and validate advanced energy management strategies at the KTH Live-In Lab. It focuses on developing a novel data-driven control framework, using model predictive control and its hybrid variants, to optimize building energy use, integrate with the grid, and maintain occupant comfort. The project emphasizes the role of data in improving control strategies and will use the Live-In Lab as a full-scale testbed. During the residency, the control design, experimental setup, and experiment design will be initialized and prepared for future implementation.
