Publications

Conference presentations

• Smoothing a Signal (Data Science Lightning Talk, Vancouver, 2022) – slides, video recording

• An Observer to Detect Infrequently-Occurring Disturbances in Grinding Operations (IFAC MMM Conference, Montreal, 2022)

• Control Of SAG Mills And Its Challenges, (UVic Control Students Meeting, Victoria, 2019)

• Data-Driven Models For Industrial Process Control (BC AI Student Showcase, Vancouver, 2019)

• Data-Driven Approaches To Dynamic Optimization, (SAG 2019 Conference, Vancouver, 2019)

• Data-Driven Production Optimization, (CIM Conference, Montreal, 2019)

• Web Traffic Time Series Forecasting (Data Science Meetup Talk, Vancouver, 2018) – slides, YouTube video

• Energy Management In Large Industrial Operations (Saskpower IEOP Workshop, Saskatoon, 2016)

Academic papers

• Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Adaptive Real Time Exploration and Optimization (accepted to INDIN 2023)

• An Observer to Detect Infrequently-Occurring Disturbances in Grinding Operations (IFAC MMM Conference, Montreal, 2022)

• Eco-Industrial Networking: What is realistic in practice? (REM, SFU, 2006)

Academic theses

• Multiple-Model Observers for Detecting Ore Feed Disturbances in Grinding Operations (masters thesis, 2023)

• A Simulation Model for Canada-US Climate Policy Analysis (masters thesis, 2008)

Articles and blog posts

• Short interval control for management (2023)

• Loss accounting – making fact-based improvement decisions (2023)

• The choke model – start with the facts on losses (2023)

• Short interval control – the discipline of performance review (2023)

• Is The Age of The Spreadsheet Over? (2020)