Publications
Journal Papers:
Increasing Energy Resiliency to Hurricanes with Battery and Rooftop Solar Through Intelligent Control
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Naren Raman Srivaths, Prabir Barooah
Journal: Feb 2021, arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04406
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Conference Papers:
Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey
Conference: Nov 2024, Sept 2025, Oral Presentation at IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada”
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Comparing Building Thermal Dynamics Models and Estimation Methods for Grid-Edge Applications
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Kunal Shankar, Anamika Dubey, Alan Love, Olvar Bergland
Conference: July 2025, Oral Presentation at IEEE PESGM 2025, Austin, TX, USA”
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An Open-Source Simulation and Data Management Tool for EnergyPlus Building Models
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Kasey Dettlaff, Athul Jose P, Anamika Dubey
Conference: July 2025, Oral Presentation at IEEE PESGM 2025, Austin, TX, USA”
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Duck Curve Mitigation Through Optimal Orientation of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics
Authors: Liadi Akande, Ninad Gaikwad, Shishir Lamichhane, Noel Schulz
Conference: Apr 2025, Oral Presentation at IEEE KPEC 2025, Manhattan, KS, USA”
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Model Predictive Control based Energy Management System for Home Energy Resiliency
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Shishir Lamichhane, Anamika Dubey
Conference: Nov 2024, Oral Presentation at North American Power Symposium-2024, El Paso, USA”
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Home Energy Management System for Resiliency
Authors: Naren Raman Srivaths, Ninad Gaikwad, Prabir Barooah, Sean Meyn
Conference: May 2021, Oral Presentation at ACC-2021, IEEE Conference, New Orleans, USA”
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Smart Home Energy Management System for Power System Resiliency
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Naren Raman Srivaths, Prabir Barooah
Conference: Aug 2020, Oral Presentation at CCTA-2020, IEEE Conference, Vancouver, Canada
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On The Development of Solar & Wind Energy Forecasting
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Sagarkumar Agravat
Conference: Mar 2017, Oral Presentation at INDIACom-2017, IEEE Conference, Delhi, India
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Photovoltaic Grid Connected Plant Energy Estimation Application in MATLAB
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Sagarkumar Agravat
Conference: Oct 2016, Oral Presentation at PVSEC-26, Singapore
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Conference Posters:
From Basic ANN to Scientific ML-Based Building Thermal Models For Grid-Edge Applications
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud, Malak Parmar, Anamika Dubey
Conference: Aug 2024, Poster Presentation at Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024 (WSU and PNNL), Tri-Cities, USA
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Enhancing Building Thermal Models - From Basic Greybox to SciML-Driven Digital Twins
Authors: Kunal Shankar, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey
Conference: Aug 2024, Poster Presentation at Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024 (WSU and PNNL), Tri-Cities, USA
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Building Energy Models using Generative Learning for Grid-Edge Applications
Authors: Kasey Dettlaff, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey
Conference: Aug 2024, Poster Presentation at Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024 (WSU and PNNL), Tri-Cities, USA
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ANN Based Thermal Modeling of Buildings
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud, Anamika Dubey
Conference: July 2024, Poster Presentation at IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 2024, Seattle, USA
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Comparison of Bayesian Filters and Smoothers for Joint State-Parameter Estimation of Building Thermal Dynamics Model
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud, Anamika Dubey
Conference: July 2024, Poster Presentation at IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 2024, Seattle, USA
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An Opensource GUI-Based Application for EnergyPlus Data Analysis
Authors: Athul P Jose, Kasey Dettlaff, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey
Conference: July 2024, Poster Presentation at IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 2024, Seattle, USA
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Smart Residential Community Simulator
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Shishir Lamichhane, Anamika Dubey
Conference: Apr 2024, Poster Presentation at Power and Energy Conference at Illinois 2024, Urbana-Champagne, USA
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Development of Solar & Wind Energy Forecasting Application
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Sagarkumar Agravat
Conference: Feb 2017, Poster Presentation at XXXI Gujarat Science Congress 2017, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Photovoltaic Module PV-IV Curve Generator with Shading Analysis in MATLAB
Authors: Ninad Gaikwad, Shantanu Vasihnav, Sagarkumar Agravat
Conference: Oct 2016, Poster Presentation at PVSEC-26, Singapore
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