Publications

Preprints

• Omid Hajihassani, Omid Ardakanian, Hamzeh Khazaei, "Privacy-preserving Data Analysis through Representation Learning and Transformation", preprint available on arXiv (last revised in November 2020)
• Leepakshi Bindra, Kalvin Eng, Omid Ardakanian, Eleni Stroulia, "Flexible, Decentralized Access Control for Smart Buildings with Smart Contracts", preprint available on arXiv (last revised in October 2020)
• Md Monir Hossain, Tianyu Zhang, Omid Ardakanian, "Identifying Grey-box Thermal Models with Bayesian Neural Networks", preprint available on arXiv (last revised in September 2020)
• Ye Yuan, Steven Low, Omid Ardakanian, Claire Tomlin, "On the Inverse Power Flow Problem", preprint available on arXiv (last revised in February 2020)

Refereed Papers

• Omid Hajihassani, Omid Ardakanian, Hamzeh Khazaei, "ObscureNet: Learning Attribute-invariant Latent Representation for Anonymizing Sensor Data", Accepted in the 6th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2021.
• Abdullah Al Zishan, Moosa Moghimi Haji, Omid Ardakanian, "Adaptive Congestion Control for Electric Vehicle Charging in the Smart Grid", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2021 (in press). [Impact Factor: 10.486]
• Xinlei Chen, Omid Ardakanian, "Solar Disaggregation: State of the Art and Open Challenges", In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, November 2020.
• Tianyu Zhang, Omid Ardakanian, "Poster Abstract: COBS: COmprehensive Building Simulator", In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2020. Best Poster Award Runner-up. [video][code]
• Omid Ardakanian, "Advances in Distribution System Monitoring", In: Shen X., Lin X., Zhang K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer. 2020.
• Abdullah Al Zishan, Moosa Moghimi Haji, Omid Ardakanian, "Adaptive Control of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging with Reinforcement Learning", Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), pp.116-120, 2020. [video]
• Evandro de Souza, Omid Ardakanian, Ioanis Nikolaidis, "A Co-simulation Platform for Evaluating Cyber Security and Control Applications in the Smart Grid", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-7, 2020. [video][code]
• Abdullah Al Zishan, Moosa Moghimi Haji, Omid Ardakanian, "Reputation-based Fair Power Allocation to Plug-in Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid", In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'20), pp.63-74, 2020. [video]
• Omid Hajihassani, Omid Ardakanian, Hamzeh Khazaei, "Latent Representation Learning and Manipulation for Privacy-Preserving Sensor Data Analytics", In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (Sensys-ML), pp.7-12, 2020.
• Mikkel B. Kjærgaard, Omid Ardakanian, Salvatore Carlucci, Bing Dong, Steven K. Firth, Nan Gao, Gesche Margarethe Huebner, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Flora D. Salim, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Jens Hjort Schwee, Dawid Wolosiuk, Yimin Zhu, "Current practices and infrastructure for open data based research on occupant-centric design and operation of buildings", Building and Environment, vol.177, pp.1-13, 2020.
• Alireza Goli, Omid Hajihassani, Hamzeh Khazaei, Omid Ardakanian, Moe Rashidi and Tyler Dauphinee, "Migrating from Monolithic to Serverless: A FinTech Case Study", In Companion of the 2020 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), pp.20-25, 2020.
• Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Mario Paolone, Vassilis Kekatos, Omid Ardakanian, Yan Xu, Di Shi, Reza Arghandeh, "Guest Editorial Theory and Application of PMUs in Power Distribution Systems", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.11, no.1, pp.723-725, January 2020. [Impact Factor: 10.486]
• Wei Zhou, Omid Ardakanian, Hai-Tao Zhang, Ye Yuan, "Bayesian Learning-based Harmonic State Estimation in Distribution Systems with Smart Meter and DPMU Data", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.11, no.1, pp.832-845, January 2020. [Impact Factor: 10.486]
• Md Monir Hossain, Tianyu Zhang, Omid Ardakanian, "Evaluating the Feasibility of Reusing Pre-trained Thermal Models in the Residential Sector", In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization (UrbSys), pp.23-32, November 2019.
• Leepakshi Bindra, Kalvin Eng, Yancheng Ou, Omid Ardakanian, Eleni Stroulia, "Poster Abstract: Indoor Path Planning and Decentralized Access Control in Commercial Buildings", In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys), pp.385–386, November 2019.
• Madi Zhanbyrtayev, Omid Ardakanian, Ioanis Nikolaidis, "Device Mobility Detection Based on Optical Flow and Multi-Receiver Consensus", IEEE Sensors, pp.1-4, October 2019.
• Moosa Moghimi Haji, Omid Ardakanian, "Practical Considerations in the Design of Distribution State Estimation Techniques", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), pp.1-6, October 2019.
• Omid Ardakanian, Ye Yuan, Vincent Wong, Roel Dobbe, Alexandra von Meier, Steven Low, Claire Tomlin, "On Identification of Distribution Grids", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol.6, no.3, pp.950-960, September 2019. [Impact Factor: 4.8]
• Baihong Qi, Mohammad Rashedi, Omid Ardakanian, "EnergyBoost: Learning-based Control of Home Batteries", In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), pp.239-250, June 2019. Best Paper Award Finalist. [Slides]
• Tianyu Zhang, Abdullah Al Zishan, Omid Ardakanian, "ODToolkit: Extensible Toolkit for Occupancy Detection in Smart Buildings", In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), pp.35-46, June 2019. [Slides]
• Leepakshi Bindra, Changyuan Lin, Eleni Stroulia, Omid Ardakanian, "Decentralized Access Control for Smart Buildings Using Metadata and Smart Contracts", In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SEsCPS), pp.32-38, May 2019.
• Tianyu Zhang, Omid Ardakanian, "A Domain Adaptation Technique for Occupancy Estimation in Smart Buildings", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), pp.148-159, April 2019. [Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, "Leveraging Sparsity in Distribution Grids: System Identification and Harmonic State Estimation", Extended Abstract, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol.46, no.3, pp.84-85, December 2018.
• Dmitriy Volinskiy, Lana Cuthbertson, Omid Ardakanian, "In (Stochastic) Search of a Fairer Alife", NIPS Workshop on AI in Financial Services: Fairness, Explainability, Accuracy and Privacy, December 2018.
• Yaqing Chen, Xinming Li, Regina Ferreira, Mustafa Gul, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Omid Ardakanian, "Evaluating and Improving the Energy Performance of School Buildings with a Proposed Real-Time Monitoring System", In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability, pp.1-8, November 2018.
• Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Bing Dong, Salvatore Carlucci, Flora Salim, Junjing Yang, Clinton Andrews, Omid Ardakanian, "Data-Driven Occupant Modeling Strategies and Digital Tools Enabled by IEA EBC Annex 79: Poster Abstract", In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys), pp.188-189, November 2018.
• Omid Ardakanian, Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, "Non-Intrusive Occupancy Monitoring for Energy Conservation in Commercial Buildings", Energy and Buildings, vol.179, pp.311-323, November 2018. [Bibtex][Impact Factor: 4.495]
• Ye Yuan, Wei Zhou, Hai-Tao Zhang, Zuowei Ping, Omid Ardakanian, "Sparse Bayesian Harmonic State Estimation", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), pp. 1-6, October 2018. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Shadan Golestan, Sepehr Kazemian, Omid Ardakanian, "Data-Driven Models for Building Occupancy Estimation", In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), pp.277-281, June 2018. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, Ye Yuan, Roel Dobbe, Alexandra von Meier, Steven Low, Claire Tomlin, "Event Detection and Localization in Distribution Grids with Phasor Measurement Units", IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2017. Winner of Best Paper Award. [Bibtex]
• Daniel Arnold, Ciaran Roberts, Omid Ardakanian, Emma Stewart, "Synchrophasor Data Analytics in Distribution Grids", In Proceedings of IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), April 2017. [Bibtex]
• Omid Ardakanian, Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, "Non-Intrusive Techniques for Establishing Occupancy Related Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings", In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), pp.21-30, 2016. Winner of Best Paper Award. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg, “Integration of Renewable Generation and Elastic Loads into Distribution Grids“, Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016. [Bibtex]
• Omid Ardakanian, Catherine Rosenberg, S. Keshav, "Quantifying the Benefits of Extending Electric Vehicle Charging Deadlines with Solar Generation", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), pp.620-625, 2014. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg, "Real-Time Distributed Control for Smart Electric Vehicle Chargers: From a Static to a Dynamic Study", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.5, no.5, pp.2295-2305, September 2014. [Bibtex][Impact Factor: 10.486]
• Omid Ardakanian, Negar Koochakzadeh, Rayman Preet Singh, Lukasz Golab, S. Keshav, "Computing Electricity Consumption Profiles from Household Smart Meter Data", In Proceedings of the Workshops of the EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference (EnDM), pp.140-147, 2014. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, Catherine Rosenberg, S. Keshav, "Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Charging", In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), pp.101-112, 2013. Winner of Best Paper Award. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, Catherine Rosenberg, S. Keshav, "Real-time distributed congestion control for electrical vehicle charging", invited paper, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol.40, no.3, pp.38-42, December 2012. [Bibtex]
• Omid Ardakanian, Catherine Rosenberg, S. Keshav, "On the impact of storage in residential power distribution systems, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol.40, no.3, pp.43-47, December 2012. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg, "On the use of teletraffic theory in power distribution systems", In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), pp.21:1-21:10, 2012. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg, "Markovian models for home electricity consumption", In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on green networking (GreenNets), pp.31-36, 2011. [Bibtex][Slides]
• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, "Using Decision Making to Improve Energy Efficiency of Buildings", In ICAPS-10 POMDP Practitioners Workshop, May 2010.
• MH. Khaledi, S. M. Mousavi, H. R. Rabiee, A. Movaghar, MJ. Khaledi, O. Ardakanian, "Mobility Aware Distributed Topology Control in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Using Mobility Pattern Matching", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communication, pp. 453-458, 2009. [Bibtex]

Posters

• Decentralized Access Control for Smart Buildings Using Building Metadata and Smart Contracts, Reverse Expo, February 2019 (pdf)
• Data-driven Occupant Modeling Strategies and Digital Tools, ACM BuildSys, November 2018 (pdf)
• Energy Management Strategies for Distributed Energy Resources, Future Energy Systems Open House, October 2018 (pdf)
• Event Detection and Localization in Distribution Grids with Phasor Measurement Units, IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2017 (pdf)
• Absorbing Excess PV Generation by Controlling EV Chargers, Canadian Utilities Information & Communications Technology Conference (open house at Cisco), September 2016 (pdf)
• Efficient Analytics with BTrDB: From Grids to Buildings, SDB Retreat, February 2016 (pdf)
• Real-Time Distributed Control for Electric Vehicle Chargers, WISE Energy Day/Cheriton Research Symposium, October 2013/September 2014 (pdf)
• Using Decision Making to Improve Energy Efficiency of Buildings, POMDP Practitioners Workshop, 2010 (pdf)

Theses

• Omid Ardakanian, "On the Control of Active End-nodes in the Smart Grid", PhD Dissertation, University of Waterloo, August 2015. [Bibtex]
• Omid Ardakanian, "Resource Provisioning in the Electrical Grid", MMath Dissertation, University of Waterloo, April 2011. [Bibtex]

Technical Reports

• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, and Catherine Rosenberg, "Real-Time Distributed Control for Smart Electric Vehicle Chargers: From a Static to a Dynamic Study", University of Waterloo Technical Report, CS-2013-20, December 2013.
• Omid Ardakanian, Catherine Rosenberg, and S. Keshav, "On the Impact of Storage in Residential Power Distribution Systems", University of Waterloo Technical Report, CS-2012-08, May 2012.
• Omid Ardakanian, S. Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg, "Sizing the Electrical Grid", University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2011-18, July 2011.
• Omid Ardakanian, "Autonomous Thermal Control System", University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2010-16, September 2010.

Selected Talks

• Leveraging Sparsity in Distribution Grids, IFIP Performance ePerf Workshop, December 2018 (pdf)
• State Estimation using Distribution-level Phasor Measurement Unit Data, IEEE SmartGridComm Workshop on Data, Analytics, and Synchrophasors for Transparent Distribution Networks, October 2018 (pdf)
• Domain Adaptation Techniques for Fine-Grained Occupancy Estimation, 4th International Symposium on Occupant Behaviour and 1st IEA EBC Annex 79 Experts' Meeting, October 2018 (pdf)
• Smart Buildings: 
from sensor networks to analytics, Networks Group Seminar, January 2018 (pdf)
• Building Smarter Energy Systems: the Path towards a Sustainable Future, Seminar at the University of Toronto, March 2017 (pdf)
• Smarter Schedules for Commercial Buildings, ISS4E Seminar, September 2016 (pdf)
• Toward a Sustainable Future: Theory, Models, and Data, SDB Meeting, August 2016 (pdf)
• Enabling Micro-Synchrophasor Data Analytics, International Synchrophasor Symposium, March 2016 (pdf)
• Experience with MPC: Triumphs and Failings, SDB Retreat, January 2016 (pdf)
• Efficient Analytics with BTrDB: From Grids to Buildings, SDB Retreat, January 2016 (pdf)
• On the Control of Active End-nodes in the Smart Grid, PhD Defence Seminar, August 2015 (pdf)
• Cost-Effective Integration of Distributed Solar Generation: A Utility-Centric View, ISS4E Seminar, February 2015 (pdf)
• Resource Provisioning in the Electrical Grid, NDS Seminar, April 2011 (pdf).
• Utility Scale Applications of Energy Storage, ISS4E Seminar, September 2010 (pdf).