Roel De Coninck
Director Of AI at dnergy®
Boutersem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolRoel De Coninck is a Director of AI with 15 years of experience advancing model-predictive control for building energy systems, currently leading AI at dnergy® to cut emissions across building stock. He translated a KU Leuven PhD on grey-box optimal control into commercial products at 3E, progressing from research engineer to head of technology and productizing SynaptiQ Building. Combining deep technical expertise in HVAC control, energy flexibility and optimization with hands-on product leadership, he bridges academic rigor and real-world deployment. Based in Boutersem, Belgium, he applies a systems-thinking mindset informed by sustainable mobility, low-tech approaches and a penchant for mnemonic-driven learning—traits that help him tackle large climate challenges while balancing family life.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master engineering, Electro-mechanics/energy, Master engineering, Electro-mechanics/energy at KU LeuvenErasmus 1 yr, Engineering, Erasmus 1 yr, Engineering at Technische Universität Graz
Github Skills (82)
prediction10
modelica10
regression-models10
hypothesis-testing10
python-modules10
simulation10
monitoring9
econometrics9
statistics9
generalized-linear-models9
statsmodels9
python9
forecast9
forecasting9
statistical-models9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
open-ideas/FastBuildings
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Modelica library allowing low-order grey-box modelling of buildings for model predictive controllers (MPC) or aggregators.
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 10 months
modelica
opengridcc/opengrid-dev
Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
Open source building monitoring, analysis and control
Contributions:442 commits, 42 PRs, 194 pushes in 4 years 1 month
monitoring
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