Luke Rickard

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of East London
Imperial College London
Email: l.rickard@uel.ac.uk

CDC 2026 Invited Session

Together with Prof. Alessandra Parisio, Prof. Eric Kerrigan, and Dr. Paola Falugi, we are organising an invited session at IEEE CDC 2026 on control for energy networks.
The session will focus on control for energy networks, with particular interest in areas such as demand-side and flexibility control in future energy networks, as well as learning-based optimisation and control for multi-scale energy networks.
Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing!

About

I graduated from the University of Oxford in 2021, obtaining an MEng in Engineering Science with a focus on information and control. In my final year project I investigated distributed charging of electric vehicles with considerations for uncertainty in supply.
I recently completed a DPhil in Engineering Science as part of the Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems CDT at the University of Oxford under the joint supervision of Prof. Kostas Margellos and Prof. Alessandro Abate.
Currently, I am working with Prof. Eric Kerrigan and Dr. Paola Falugi on the EPSRC-funded project "Behavioural Data-Driven Coalitional Control for Buildings".

DPhil project

Data-driven Robust Verification and Control

Ensuring safe operation of dynamical systems is an important challenge for the modern world. A key part of this challenge involves designing methods for the control of systems, so that they meet safety specifications without being overly conservative.
We consider tackling this challenge through data-driven techniques. These techniques allow us to design controllers which are robust to uncertainty based only on samples of that uncertainty, without assuming to know anything further about this uncertainty.