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X Author: Anand Prakash
2026
Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jessica Granderson, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Conor Shaw, Dimitrios Rovas, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’Donnell."Bridging semantics, control specifications and assessment: A library for scalable demand flexibility controls."Control Engineering Practice
172 (2026) 106899. DOI
Ham, Sang woo, Donghun Kim, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Machine learning-enhanced MPC for demand flexibility in small commercial buildings: An experimental study."Energy and Buildings
360 (2026) 117324. DOI
Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, Weiping Huang, Roman Kukharchuk, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Matthias Sulzer, and Michael Wetter."Digitalizing Building Control Deployment for Retrofits: A Case Study on Demand-Flexible Control Sequences."IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference
12 (2026). DOI
Mulayim, Ozan Baris, Anand Prakash, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Bergés, Marco Pritoni, Derek Supple, Steve Schaefer, and Mitali Shah."Semantic Technologies in Practical Demand Response: An Information Requirement-based Roadmap."Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems
(2026) 670-694. DOI
2025
Mulayim, Ozan Baris, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, and Marco Pritoni."Extraction and Analysis of Time Series Data from Building Automation Systems Using Large Language Models."
(2025). DOI
Leong, Michael, Medha Mahanta, Clara Yin, Timothy Jairus Garcia, Zach Tan, Anand Prakash, Doug Black, and Rongxin Yin."DFAT: A web-based toolkit for estimating demand flexibility in building-to-grid integration."SoftwareX
30 (2025) 102131. DOI
Pereira, Flavia deAndrade, Kyriakos Katsigarakis, Dimitrios Rovas, Marco Pritoni, Conor Shaw, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’Donnell."A semantics-driven framework to enable demand flexibility control applications in real buildings."Advanced Engineering Informatics
64 (2025) 103049. DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Ettore Zanetti, Jingjing Liu, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Robert Nirenberg, and Marco Pritoni."BOPTEST as a Platform for Building Controls and Grid-Interactive Buildings Workforce Training."
(2025). DOI
Mulayim, Ozan Baris, Avia Anwar, Umut Mete Saka, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Gabe Fierro, Marco Pritoni, and Mario Bergés."BuildingQA: A Benchmark for Natural Language Question Answering over Building Knowledge Graphs."Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2025) 65-75. DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Sang woo Ham, Anand Prakash, Armando Casillas, Tao Yang, and Marco Pritoni."HP-FLEX: Field demonstration of the semantics-driven configuration of a Model Predictive Control system to make heat pumps flexible."
(2025). DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Flavia De Andrade Pereira, Anand Prakash, Sang woo Ham, Jingjuan Feng, Rich Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Open building operating system: a grid-responsive semantics-driven control platform for buildings."Science and Technology for the Built Environment
31.3 (2025) 294-311. DOI
2024
Huang, Weiping, Armando Casillas, Marco Pritoni, Shreya Agarwal, Rongxin Yin, and Anand Prakash."Analyzing The Impact Of Energy Efficient ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences On Demand Flexibility Potential Of Commercial Buildings: A Multi-Region Analysis."ACEEE Summer Study
(2024).
Casillas, Armando, Thomas Defauw, Sang woo Ham, Dre Helmns, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni."Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility."ACEEE Summer Study
(2024).
Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Donghun Kim, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant."Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings."ACEEE Summer Study
(2024).
Nordman, Bruce, Lauren Parker, Anand Prakash, and Mary Ann Piette."Transforming Demand Response using Open ADR 3.0."
(2024). DOI
Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Conor Shaw, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’ Donnell."Enabling portable demand flexibility control applications in virtual and real buildings."Journal of Building Engineering
86 (2024) 108645. DOI
Nordman, Bruce, Margarita Kloss, Bijit Kundu, Nate Dewart, Anand Prakash, Laura Wong, Alanna Torres, Rachel Levine, Marco Pritoni, Jordan Shackelford, Heidi Werner, Rahul Athalye, Aditya Khandekar, Callie Clark, Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles."Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards."
(2024).
Mulayim, Ozan Baris, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Anand Prakash, Malavikha Sudarshan, and Gabe Fierro."Large Language Models for the Creation and Use of Semantic Ontologies in Buildings: Requirements and Challenges."Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2024) 312-317. DOI
Prakash, Anand, Flavia deAndrade Pereira, Mario Bergés, Marco Pritoni, and Burcu Akinci."Ontologies at Work: Analyzing Information Requirements for Model Predictive Control in Buildings."Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2024) 214-218. DOI
Grant, Peter, Tzu-Ching Su, Luis L Fernandes, Jordan Shackelford, Anand Prakash, Stephen Czarnecki, Pei-Yu Yu, and Feng-Yi Lin."OpenFacadeControl: enabling integration of automated facades with other building systems."
(2024). DOI
2023
Roa, Carlos Duarte, Paul Raftery, Anand Prakash, and Therese Peffer."Field Demonstration of the Brick Ontology to Scale up the Deployment of ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences."ASHRAE Annual Conference 2023
(2023). DOI
Sartori, Igor, Harald Taxt Walnum, Kristian S Skeie, Laurent Georges, Michael D Knudsen, Peder Bacher, José Candanedo, Anna-Maria Sigounis, Anand Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Jessica Granderson, Shiyu Yang, and Man Pun Wan."Sub-hourly measurement datasets from 6 real buildings: Energy use and indoor climate."Data in Brief
48 (2023) 109149. DOI
Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, and Anand Prakash."Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Dataset of the Built Environment for 3D reconstruction (UAVID3D)."
(2023). DOI
Peffer, Therese, Gabe Fierro, Paul Raftery, Carlos Duarte Roa, Marco Pritoni, Michael Wetter, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, and Erik Paulson."Skewering the silos: using Brick to enable portable analytics, modeling and controls in buildings."Center for the Built Environment
(2023).
2022
Zhang, Kun, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, David Blum, Peter Alstone, James Zoellick, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems."Advances in Applied Energy
7 (2022) 100099. DOI