Anand Krishnan Prakash

Anand Krishnan Prakash

I completed my Master's in Energy Science, Technology and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and I hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BITS Goa, India. My research focuses on using network connected devices in buildings for monitoring and optimized controls to improve building operations. I am also involved in several projects that study grid-building interactions for demand response, resilience and load flexibility.
I'm currently involved in the ASHRAE S231p standard development and support the LBNL team in their ASHRAE S223p standard development efforts.

I'm also pursuing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University - I'm looking for topics to collaborate on, so if you have any ideas, please reach out!

Contact Information

Phone: 412-983-2256

Awards

Spot: Team Workforce Development -  August 18th 2021

Publications

2025

Extraction and Analysis of Time Series Data from Building Automation Systems Using Large Language Models

Authors: Mulayim, Ozan Baris; Anand Prakash; Lazlo Paul, and Marco Pritoni.
06/2025

A semantics-driven framework to enable demand flexibility control applications in real buildings

Authors: Pereira, Flavia deAndrade; Kyriakos Katsigarakis; Dimitrios Rovas; Marco Pritoni; Conor Shaw; Lazlo Paul; Anand Prakash; Susana Martin-Toral; Donal Finn, and James O’Donnell.
03/2025

Open building operating system: a grid-responsive semantics-driven control platform for buildings

Authors: Paul, Lazlo; Flavia De Andrade Pereira; Anand Prakash; Sang woo Ham; Jingjuan Feng; Rich Brown, and Marco Pritoni.
03/16/2025

2024

Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility

Authors: Casillas, Armando; Thomas Defauw; Sang woo Ham; Dre Helmns; Lazlo Paul; Anand Prakash; Weiping Huang; Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2024

Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings

Authors: Ham, Sang woo; Lazlo Paul; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; Donghun Kim; Richard E Brown; Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant.
08/2024

Transforming Demand Response using Open ADR 3.0

Authors: Nordman, Bruce; Lauren Parker; Anand Prakash, and Mary Ann Piette.
08/2024

Enabling portable demand flexibility control applications in virtual and real buildings

Authors: Pereira, Flavia De Andrade; Lazlo Paul; Marco Pritoni; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; Weiping Huang; Conor Shaw; Susana Martin-Toral; Donal Finn, and James O’ Donnell.
06/2024

Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards

Authors: Nordman, Bruce; Margarita Kloss; Bijit Kundu; Nate Dewart; Anand Prakash; Laura Wong; Alanna Torres; Rachel Levine; Marco Pritoni; Jordan Shackelford; Heidi Werner; Rahul Athalye; Aditya Khandekar; Callie Clark; Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles.

Large Language Models for the Creation and Use of Semantic Ontologies in Buildings: Requirements and Challenges

Authors: Mulayim, Ozan Baris; Lazlo Paul; Marco Pritoni; Anand Prakash; Malavikha Sudarshan, and Gabe Fierro.
10/29/2024

Ontologies at Work: Analyzing Information Requirements for Model Predictive Control in Buildings

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Flavia deAndrade Pereira; Mario Bergés; Marco Pritoni, and Burcu Akinci.
10/29/2024

OpenFacadeControl: enabling integration of automated facades with other building systems

Authors: Grant, Peter; Tzu-Ching Su; Luis L Fernandes; Jordan Shackelford; Anand Prakash; Stephen Czarnecki; Pei-Yu Yu, and Feng-Yi Lin.

2023

Field Demonstration of the Brick Ontology to Scale up the Deployment of ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences

Authors: Roa, Carlos Duarte; Paul Raftery; Anand Prakash, and Therese Peffer.
06/2023

Sub-hourly measurement datasets from 6 real buildings: Energy use and indoor climate

Authors: Sartori, Igor; Harald Taxt Walnum; Kristian S Skeie; Laurent Georges; Michael D Knudsen; Peder Bacher; José Candanedo; Anna-Maria Sigounis; Anand Prakash; Marco Pritoni; Jessica Granderson; Shiyu Yang, and Man Pun Wan.
06/2023

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Dataset of the Built Environment for 3D reconstruction (UAVID3D)

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samuel Fernandes, and Anand Prakash.
02/2023

Skewering the silos: using Brick to enable portable analytics, modeling and controls in buildings

Authors: Peffer, Therese; Gabe Fierro; Paul Raftery; Carlos Duarte Roa; Marco Pritoni; Michael Wetter; Anand Prakash; Lazlo Paul, and Erik Paulson.

2022

Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems

Authors: Zhang, Kun; Anand Prakash; Lazlo Paul; David Blum; Peter Alstone; James Zoellick; Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni.
09/2022

Cloud-Control of Legacy Building Automation System: A case study

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Marco Pritoni; Margarita Kloss; Mary Ann Piette; Michel Kamel, and Dotty Hage.
08/2022

Communication Requirements for Price-Based Grid Coordination

Authors: Nordman, Bruce; Marco Pritoni; Mary Ann Piette, and Anand Prakash.
08/2022

Heat Pumps with Phase Change Thermal Storage: Flexible, Efficient, and Electrification Friendly

Authors: Helmns, Dre; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; David Blum; Marco Pritoni; Spencer M Dutton; Jonathan Woolley, and Subhrajit Chakraborty.
08/2022

Scaling Building Energy Audits through Machine Learning Methods on Novel Drone Image Data

Authors: Singh, Reshma; Samuel Fernandes; Anand Prakash; Paul A Mathew; Jessica Granderson; Colman Snaith; Rahul Pusapati; Prakash Jadhav; Avideh Zakhor; Rishi Upadhyay; Ozgur Gonen, and Harry Bergmann.
08/2022

SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings

Authors: Paul, Lazlo; Anand Prakash; Kun Zhang; Marco Pritoni, and Richard E Brown.
08/2022

Towards a Stronger Foundation: Digitizing Commercial Buildings with Brick to Enable Portable Advanced Applications

Authors: Roa, Carlos Duarte; Paul Raftery; Ruiji Sun; Lazlo Paul; Anand Prakash; Marco Pritoni; Gabe Fierro, and Therese Peffer.
08/2022

OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification

Authors: Wetter, Michael; Paul Ehrlich; Antoine Gautier; Milica Grahovac; Philip Haves; Jianjun Hu; Anand Prakash; Dave Robin, and Kun Zhang.
01/2022

2021

Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency

Authors: Touzani, Samir; Anand Prakash; Zhe Wang; Shreya Agarwal; Marco Pritoni; Mariam Kiran; Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson.
12/2021

Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications

Authors: Bennani, Imane Lahmam; Anand Prakash; Marina Zafiris; Lazlo Paul; Carlos Duarte Roa; Paul Raftery; Marco Pritoni, and Gabe Fierro.
11/2021

Modelica-json: Transforming energy models to digitize the control delivery process

Authors: Wetter, Michael; Jianjun Hu; Anand Prakash; Paul Ehrlich; Gabe Fierro; Milica Grahovac; Marco Pritoni; Lisa Rivalin, and Dave Robin.
09/2021

Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems

Authors: Helmns, Dre; David Blum; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; Jonathan Woolley; David Vernon; Caton Mande; Michael Woodcox, and Spencer M Dutton.
05/2021

Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards

Authors: Nordman, Bruce; Margarita Kloss; Bijit Kundu; Nate Dewart; Callie Clark; Rebecca Aviles; Anand Prakash; Laura Wong; Alana Torres; Chris Uraine; Rachel Levine; Marco Pritoni; Jordan Shackelford; Heidi Werner; Rahul Athalye, and Aditya Khandekar.

2020

Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics

Authors: Fierro, Gabe; Marco Pritoni; Moustafa Abdelbaky; Daniel Lengyel; John Leyden; Anand Prakash; Pranav Gupta; Paul Raftery; Therese Peffer; Greg Thomson, and David Culler.
02/2021

Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick

Authors: Fierro, Gabe; Anand Prakash; Cory Mosiman; Marco Pritoni; Paul Raftery; Michael Wetter, and David Culler.
11/2020

Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle

Authors: Fierro, Gabe; Anand Prakash; Cory Mosiman; Marco Pritoni; Paul Raftery; Michael Wetter, and David Culler.
11/2020

A Community Energy Operations and Planning System: Concept, Use cases, Metrics, and Benefits

Authors: Singh, Reshma; Anand Prakash; Mary Ann Piette, and Shreya Agarwal.
08/2020

Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Anand Prakash; David Blum; Kun Zhang; Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

Harvesting the low-hanging fruit of high energy savings -- Virtual Occupancy using Wi-Fi Data

Authors: Clark, Callie; Anand Prakash; Marco Pritoni; Margarita Kloss; Pranav Gupta; Bruce Nordman, and Mary Ann Piette.
08/2020

Resilient buildings for fire-adapted landscapes: EE and flexible loads integrated with solar and storage microgrids

Authors: Alstone, Peter; Richard E Brown; Marco Pritoni; David Blum; Kun Zhang, and Anand Prakash.
08/2020

Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Kun Zhang; Pranav Gupta; David Blum; Marc Marshall; Gabe Fierro; Peter Alstone; James Zoellic; Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni.
06/2020

Developing Flexible, Networked Lighting Control Systems That Reliably Save Energy in California Buildings

Authors: Brown, Richard E; Peter Schwartz; Bruce Nordman; Jordan Shackelford; Aditya Khandekar; Neal Jackson; Anand Prakash; Srijit Ghosh, and Erik Page.
01/2020

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Buildings: Implicit Assumptions and their Impact

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Samir Touzani; Mariam Kiran; Shreya Agarwal; Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson.
11/17/2020

2019

Evaluation of the Need for and Design of a City Energy Operations System

Authors: Piette, Mary Ann; Reshma Singh, and Anand Prakash.
11/2019