Ján Drgoňa
Associate Professor
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJán Drgoňa is an Associate Professor and scientific machine learning leader with a decade of experience developing differentiable programming, constrained optimization, and model predictive control for sustainable energy systems. Currently building a research group at Johns Hopkins after leading SciML efforts at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, he is the lead developer of influential open-source tools like NeuroMANCER and SLiM that bridge physics-informed modeling and deep learning. His work has driven large multi-million-dollar projects and real-world deployments, including an MPC implementation that halved building energy use while improving thermal comfort by over 30%. Known for mentoring early-career researchers and assembling multi-institution teams, he combines rigorous control-theory foundations with practical software engineering to push data-driven control toward deployment.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Process Control, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Process Control at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveErasmus scholarship Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) - Automatic Control, Erasmus scholarship Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) - Automatic Control at Linköping University
English, Slovak, German, Czech
Github Skills (39)
constrained-optimization10
pytorch10
toolbox10
user-friendly10
energy10
dynamical-systems10
matlab10
model-predictive-control10
octave10
deep-learning10
physics10
predictive10
nonlinear-dynamics10
control-systems10
nonlinear-optimization10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pnnl/deps_arXiv2020
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
drgona/BeSim
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Building Energy Simulation (BeSim) toolbox for user-friendly and fast development and simulation of advanced building climate controllers in Matlab.
Contributions:2 releases, 79 commits, 128 pushes in 1 year 10 months
climateclimate-modelcontrollersmatlabenergy-simulation
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