News

2023

10/2023

Dr. Docimo is awarded an NSF grant to study sustainability of computing systems using dynamic system optimization. The DOC Lab website, a brief TTU article, and the NSF award page provide more information.

09/2023

Andrew Smith and Jessica Holliday join the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researchers. Welcome Andrew and Jessica!

08/2023

Dr. Docimo presents a lab paper, "Online Temperature and Irradiation Estimation for Large-Scale Solar Farms with Consideration of Computational Tractability," at the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications.

05/2023

Mehmet Ozkan successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Mehmet!

05/2023

Ali Ahsan presents his work at the Texas Tech University Undergraduate Research Conference, receiving the third place presenter award in the Energy & Environment Impact category.

05/2023

Roshini Yuvarajan presents her work at the Texas Tech University Undergraduate Research Conference.

2022

12/2022

Muhammad Ali Ahsan joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Ali! 

10/2022

Preston Abadie presents a lab paper, "A Framework for Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Balancing Including Cell Parameter Heterogeneity," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference. Preston's paper is nominated as a finalist for the MECC 2022 Best Student Paper Award.

10/2022

Jihoon Moon presents a lab paper, "Reduction of Lithium-Ion Battery Models with Degradation Dynamics: A Comparison of Techniques," at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference.

08/2022

Mehmet Ozkan joins the DOC Lab as a Ph.D. student, with his primary advisor being Dr. Yao Ma. Welcome Mehmet!

06/2022

Dr. Docimo presents a lab paper, "A Design Framework with Embedded Hierarchical Control Architecture Optimization," at the American Control Conference.

06/2022

The lab's latest article, "Estimation and Balancing of Multi-State Differences Between Lithium-Ion Cells Within a Battery Pack," is published in the Journal of Energy Storage.

05/2022

Roshini Yuvarajan joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Roshini! 

05/2022

Gian Cardiello and Mosopeoluwa Alofe complete their B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Congrats Gian and Mosopeoluwa!

05/2022

Jihoon Moon successfully defends his M.S. thesis. Congrats Jihoon!

01/2022

Tania Rifat Jahan joins the DOC Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Tania!

2021

08/2021

Mosopeoluwa Alofe joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Mosopeoluwa!

04/2021

The lab's latest article, "Plant and Controller Optimization for Power and Energy Systems With Model Predictive Control," is published in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.

01/2021

Gian Cardiello joins the DOC Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Gian!

01/2021

Asmaou Sougri-Nooma Ouedraogo and Preston Abadie join the DOC Lab as Ph.D. students. Welcome Asmaou and Preston!

2020

08/2020

Jihoon Moon joins the DOC Lab as a M.S. student. Welcome Jihoon!

03/2020

The lab's latest article, "A Novel Framework for Simultaneous Topology and Sizing Optimization of Complex, Multi-Domain Systems-of-Systems," is published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

01/2020

Dr. Docimo starts the Design Optimization and Control Lab at Texas Tech University.