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X Author: Lazlo Paul
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
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
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
Paul, Lazlo, Marco Pritoni, Cynthia Regnier, Jason S MacDonald, Richard E Brown, and Cecilia Johnson."Architecting the Future: Exploring Coordinated Control Frameworks for Connected Communities."ACEEE Summer Study
(2024).
Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects."
(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).
Pritoni, Marco, Michael Wetter, Lazlo Paul, Weiping Huang, Steven Bushby, Parastoo Delgoshaei, Michael Poplawski, Avijit Saha, Gabe Fierro, Matt Steen, Joel Bender, and Paul Ehrlich."Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What's in it for me?."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).
Jain, Anubhav, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Michael D Sohn, Will Gorman, Alexandre Moreira, Lazlo Paul, Haitam Laarabi, and Maher Alghalayini."Frontiers in Energy Storage: Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI)."
(2024).
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
Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Donghun Kim, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Decarbonization of heat pump dual fuel systems using a practical model predictive control: Field demonstration in a small commercial building."Applied Energy
361 (2024) 122935. DOI
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
2023
Paul, Lazlo, Flavia deAndrade Pereira, Sang woo Ham, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Open Building Operating System: an Open-Source Grid Responsive Control Platform for Buildings."ASHRAE Annual Conference 2023
(2023).
Paul, Lazlo, Sang woo Ham, Marco Pritoni, Donghan Kim, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Field Implementation of MPC for Heat Pump-Based Duel Fuel Systems in Small Commercial Buildings for Decarbonization."ASHRAE
(2023).
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
Paul, Lazlo, Anand Prakash, Kun Zhang, Marco Pritoni, and Richard E Brown."SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2022).
Roa, Carlos Duarte, Paul Raftery, Ruiji Sun, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, and Therese Peffer."Towards a Stronger Foundation: Digitizing Commercial Buildings with Brick to Enable Portable Advanced Applications."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2022). DOI
2021
Bennani, Imane Lahmam, Anand Prakash, Marina Zafiris, Lazlo Paul, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Marco Pritoni, and Gabe Fierro."Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications."BuildSys '21: The 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2021). DOI