PUBLICATIONS

Research publications, conference papers, and technical presentations spanning power and energy systems, intelligent control, building-grid interaction, scientific machine learning, estimation, and renewable-energy forecasting.

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2026

Oct 2026

Building Thermal Models using Real-World Data: Seasonal Transferability and Setpoint Sensitivity

Kunal Shankar, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

Accepted paper, IEEE IAS 2026, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Accepted Conference Paper

Jul 2026

Learning to Optimize: Gaussian Process Surrogates for Battery Energy Storage Coordination

D Glover, A Parajuli, N Gaikwad, A Jha, A Dubey

Oral presentation, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2026, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Conference Paper

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2025

Oct 2025

House Thermal Model Estimation: Robustness Across Seasons and Setpoints

Kunal Shankar, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

Oral presentation, 57th North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2025), Hartford, CT, USA.

Conference Paper

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Sep 2025

Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems

Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

Oral presentation, IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

Jul 2025

Comparing Building Thermal Dynamics Models and Estimation Methods for Grid-Edge Applications

Ninad Gaikwad, Kunal Shankar, Anamika Dubey, Alan Love, Olvar Bergland

Oral presentation, IEEE PES General Meeting 2025, Austin, TX, USA.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

Jul 2025

An Open-Source Simulation and Data Management Tool for EnergyPlus Building Models

Ninad Gaikwad, Kasey Dettlaff, Athul Jose P, Anamika Dubey

Oral presentation, IEEE PES General Meeting 2025, Austin, TX, USA.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

Apr 2025

Duck Curve Mitigation Through Optimal Orientation of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics

Liadi Akande, Ninad Gaikwad, Shishir Lamichhane, Noel Schulz

Oral presentation, IEEE KPEC 2025, Manhattan, KS, USA.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

2024

Nov 2024

Model Predictive Control based Energy Management System for Home Energy Resiliency

Ninad Gaikwad, Shishir Lamichhane, Anamika Dubey

Oral presentation, 56th North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2024), El Paso, USA.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

Aug 2024

From Basic ANN to Scientific ML-Based Building Thermal Models For Grid-Edge Applications

Ninad Gaikwad, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud, Malak Parmar, Anamika Dubey

Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024, Tri-Cities, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

Aug 2024

Enhancing Building Thermal Models: From Basic Greybox to SciML-Driven Digital Twins

Kunal Shankar, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024, Tri-Cities, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

Aug 2024

Building Energy Models using Generative Learning for Grid-Edge Applications

Kasey Dettlaff, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024, Tri-Cities, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

Jul 2024

ANN Based Thermal Modeling of Buildings

Ninad Gaikwad, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud, Anamika Dubey

IEEE PES General Meeting 2024, Seattle, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

Jul 2024

Comparison of Bayesian Filters-Smoothers for Joint State-Parameter Estimation of Building Thermal Model

Kunal Shankar, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

IEEE PES General Meeting 2024, Seattle, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

Jul 2024

An Opensource GUI-Based Application for EnergyPlus Data Analysis

Athul P Jose, Kasey Dettlaff, Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

IEEE PES General Meeting 2024, Seattle, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

Apr 2024

Smart Residential Community Simulator

Ninad Gaikwad, Shishir Lamichhane, Anamika Dubey

Power and Energy Conference at Illinois 2024, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Conference Poster

DOI ↗

2021

May 2021

Reinforcement Learning-Based Home Energy Management System for Resiliency

Naren Raman Srivaths, Ninad Gaikwad, Prabir Barooah, Sean Meyn

Oral presentation, American Control Conference (ACC 2021), New Orleans, USA.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

Feb 2021

Increasing Energy Resiliency to Hurricanes with Battery and Rooftop Solar Through Intelligent Control

Ninad Gaikwad, Naren Raman Srivaths, Prabir Barooah

arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04406.

Preprint

arXiv ↗

2020

Aug 2020

Smart Home Energy Management System for Power System Resiliency

Ninad Gaikwad, Naren Raman Srivaths, Prabir Barooah

Oral presentation, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2020), Vancouver, Canada.

Conference Paper

IEEE Xplore ↗

2017

Mar 2017

On The Development of Solar & Wind Energy Forecasting Application Using ARIMA, ANN And WRF in MATLAB

Ninad Gaikwad, Sagarkumar Agravat

Oral presentation, INDIACom 2017 IEEE Conference, Delhi, India.

Conference Paper

Google Scholar ↗

Feb 2017

Development of Solar & Wind Energy Forecasting Application

Ninad Gaikwad, Sagarkumar Agravat

XXXI Gujarat Science Congress 2017, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.

Conference Poster

ResearchGate ↗

2016

Oct 2016

Photovoltaic Grid Connected Plant Energy Estimation Application in MATLAB

Ninad Gaikwad, Sagarkumar Agravat

Oral presentation, PVSEC-26, Singapore.

Conference Paper

Google Scholar ↗

Oct 2016

Photovoltaic Module PV-IV Curve Generator with Shading Analysis in MATLAB

Ninad Gaikwad, Shantanu Vasishnav, Sagarkumar Agravat

PVSEC-26, Singapore.

Conference Poster

ResearchGate ↗

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Building Thermal Models using Real-World Data: Seasonal Transferability and Setpoint Sensitivity

Learning to Optimize: Gaussian Process Surrogates for Battery Energy Storage Coordination

House Thermal Model Estimation: Robustness Across Seasons and Setpoints

Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems

Comparing Building Thermal Dynamics Models and Estimation Methods for Grid-Edge Applications

An Open-Source Simulation and Data Management Tool for EnergyPlus Building Models

Duck Curve Mitigation Through Optimal Orientation of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics

Model Predictive Control based Energy Management System for Home Energy Resiliency

From Basic ANN to Scientific ML-Based Building Thermal Models For Grid-Edge Applications

Enhancing Building Thermal Models: From Basic Greybox to SciML-Driven Digital Twins

Building Energy Models using Generative Learning for Grid-Edge Applications

ANN Based Thermal Modeling of Buildings

Comparison of Bayesian Filters-Smoothers for Joint State-Parameter Estimation of Building Thermal Model

An Opensource GUI-Based Application for EnergyPlus Data Analysis

Smart Residential Community Simulator

Reinforcement Learning-Based Home Energy Management System for Resiliency

Increasing Energy Resiliency to Hurricanes with Battery and Rooftop Solar Through Intelligent Control

Smart Home Energy Management System for Power System Resiliency

On The Development of Solar & Wind Energy Forecasting Application Using ARIMA, ANN And WRF in MATLAB

Development of Solar & Wind Energy Forecasting Application

Photovoltaic Grid Connected Plant Energy Estimation Application in MATLAB

Photovoltaic Module PV-IV Curve Generator with Shading Analysis in MATLAB

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