Lucas Buccafusca

Lucas Buccafusca is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), part of the Whiting School of Engineering. His research focuses on distributed control, learning, distributed optimization, nonlinear systems, and their applications in wind farm arrays.

Education:

• PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017)
• Bachelor's in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder (2013)

He holds a National Science Foundation Grant and has contributed to publications in Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and IEEE conference series.

His work bridges theoretical control systems with practical renewable energy applications, emphasizing scalable optimization and distributed decision-making for sustainable energy systems.