My research focus on Energy Management of Smart-Buildings, toward their integration into the Smart-Grid. Together with researchers at the ELAB, we have developed open-source software solutions for Smart-Building behavior emulation and Smart-Building energy management. I also investigate local and cooperative optimization of energy resources at the level of communities, in a decentralized way enabled by Blockchain.

Throughout my PhD studies, I had to manage semester projects (10 ECTS) for master students in Energy Management and Sustainability. Starting from the conception of short research projects, I then had to drive the students through the journey of literature review, project development, and results analysis. On average, I had to micro-manage 2 students per semester, imposing weekly meetings and also providing technical support. All the projects were related to my broad topic of research: Smart-Building energy modelling, Machine Learning methods to infer building occupancy, Model Predictive Controlled applied to thermostatically-controlled multi-room building, Deferrable Load optimization algorithms, Smart-Building user interface connected to the ELAB BMS, Smart-Building integration in the Smart-Grid via a decentralized algorithm implemented via blockchain, etc.

- EE-203 Electronics II - exercises: explaining how to solve opamps-based circuits to bachelor students.- EE-203 Electronics II - laboratories: hands-on laboratory exercises supervision, involving opamps-based circuits.

Trokus is an undergoing project that aims to connect local producers of food to their surrounding consumers, enabled by an App-based platform. In this project, I am in charge of the back-end logic in order to ensure the functionalities of the app. Throughout this exciting collaborative work, I learned how to use the framework Ionic, the JavaScript-based framework AngularJS, and the Google service Firebase.

In the frame of my PhD studies, I worked for 6 month on various projects in the team of Rich Brown and Marco Prittoni, in the Energy Technology Area division. The main project called Solar+ Optimizer consisted in developing a comprehensive software for managing the energy of retail stores in California; my contribution was to deeply analyse the Demand Response programs - available or future - in California and implement the building-grid link through the protocol OpenADR. Side projects consisted in analyzing a specific emerging Demand Response program at the CAISO level and other TOU and RTP tariffs. This visiting opportunity helped me to deeply understand the current stakes of existing Demand Response programs, with a focus of a state that pledged to become 100% carbon-free by 2045.

Development of a video scaler using Vivado High Level Synthesis (HLS) for Virtex 6. The main goal of this intership was to investigate the new feature HLS of Vivado and to which extend it could be used in the company to replace VHDL code by C++.

- Electromagnetic energy conversion: Driving and supervising laboratories for third-year students in Engineering- Introduction to computer science: Teaching basics of C programming to first-year students in Engineering

Helping students preparing engineering admission exams and then bachelor level teaching (C programming, physics and mathematics)