Gregory S. Pavlak

Assistant Professor

Currently

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Specialized in

Laws of motion, gravitation, minting coins, disliking Robert Hooke

Research interests

Cooling, power series, optics, alchemy, planetary motions, apples.

Education

1654-1660 The King’s School, Grantham.

June 1661 - now Trinity College, Cambridge

1667 - death Trinity College, Cambridge

Awards

2012 President, Royal Society, London, UK

Associate, French Academy of Science, Paris, France

Publications

2021

  1. Impact of control loop performance on energy use, air quality, and thermal comfort in building systems with advanced sequences of operation Abdel Haleem, Shadi M., Pavlak, Gregory S., and Bahnfleth, William P. Automation in Construction 2021

  2. Assessing the value of uncertainty-aware transactive control framework for commercial and residential buildings Yu, Min Gyung, and Pavlak, Gregory S. In International High Performance Buildings Conference 2021

  3. Pattern analysis of dynamic grid incentives and the implications on optimal control of building thermal energy storage Li, Lily X., and Pavlak, Gregory S. In International High Performance Buildings Conference 2021

  4. Evaluation of Topology Optimization to Achieve Energy Savings at the Urban District Level Allen, Amy, Henze, Gregor, Baker, Kyri, Pavlak, Gregory S., and Murphy, Michael In ASHRAE Virtual Winter Conference 2021

  5. Assessing the performance of uncertainty-aware transactive controls for building thermal energy storage systems Yu, Min Gyung, and Pavlak, Gregory S. Applied Energy 2021

2020

  1. Development and evaluation of occupancy-aware model predictive control for residential building energy efficiency and occupant comfort Turley, Christina, Jacoby, Margarite, Gregor, Henze, and Pavlak, Gregory S. In BEYOND 2020 – World Sustainable Built Environment Conference, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2020

  2. A topology optimization framework to facilitate adoption of advanced district thermal energy systems Allen, Amy, Henze, Gregor, Baker, Kyri, Pavlak, Gregory, Long, Nicholas, and Fu, Yangyang In BEYOND 2020 – World Sustainable Built Environment Conference, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2020

  3. Evaluation of low-exergy heating and cooling systems and topology optimization for deep energy savings at the urban district level Allen, Amy, Henze, Gregor, Baker, Kyri, and Pavlak, Gregory Energy Conversion and Management 2020

  4. Sizing and dispatch of an islanded microgrid with energy flexible buildings Swaminathan, Siddharth, Pavlak, Gregory S., and Freihaut, James Applied Energy 2020

  5. Performance of advanced control sequences in handling uncertainty in energy use and indoor environmental quality using uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for control components Abdel Haleem, Shadi M., Pavlak, Gregory S., and Bahnfleth, William P. Energy and Buildings 2020

  6. Two-stage stochastic planning for control of building thermal energy storage portfolios with transactive controls Yu, Min Gyung, and Pavlak, Gregory S. In 2020 American Control Conference (ACC) 2020

  7. A review on current passive house performance and potentials in different climate zones Li, Xinyi, Pavlak, Gregory, and Rim, Donghyun In 16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate 2020

  8. Development and evaluation of occupancy-aware HVAC control for residential building energy efficiency and occupant comfort Turley, Christina, Jacoby, Margarite, Pavlak, Gregory, and Henze, Gregor Energies 2020

2019

  1. Uncertainty analysis of energy and economic performances of hybrid solar photovoltaic and combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP+PV) systems using a Monte-Carlo method Ahn, Hyeunguk, Rim, Donghyun, Pavlak, Gregory S., and Freihaut, James D. Applied Energy 2019

  2. A novel application of modular multi-level converters for partially shaded PV systems Khazaei, Javad, Pavlak, Gregory S., Lee, Brandon, and Elsenbaty, Mohamed In 2019 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) 2019

2016

  1. Experimental verification of an energy consumption signal tool for operational decision support in an office building Pavlak, Gregory S., Henze, Gregor P., Hirsch, Adam I., Florita, Anthony R., and Dodier, Robert H. Automation in Construction 2016

2015

  1. Evaluating synergistic effect of optimally controlling commercial building thermal mass portfolios Pavlak, Gregory S., Henze, Gregor P., and Cushing, Vincent J. Energy 2015

  2. An energy signal tool for decision support in building energy systems Henze, Gregor P., Pavlak, Gregory S., Florita, Anthony R., Dodier, Robert H., and Hirsch, Adam I. Applied Energy 2015

2014

  1. Optimizing commercial building participation in energy and ancillary service markets Pavlak, Gregory S., Henze, Gregor P., and Cushing, Vincent J. Energy and Buildings 2014

  2. Comparison of traditional and bayesian calibration techniques for gray-box modeling Pavlak, Gregory S., Florita, Anthony R., Henze, Gregor P., and Rajagopalan, Balaji Journal of Architectural Engineering 2014

2013

  1. Probabilistic identification of inverse building model parameters Pavlak, Gregory S., Florita, Anthony R., Henze, Gregor P., and Rajagopalan, Balaji In AEI Conference 2013

Journals

1669 Newton Sir I, De analysi per æquationes numero terminorum infinitas.

1669 Lectiones opticæ.

etc. etc. etc.

Patents

2012 Infinitesimal calculus for solutions to physics problems, SMBC patent 001

Occupation

1600 Royal Mint, London

1600 Lucasian professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University