Hanane Dagdougui

Hannane Dagdougui has been an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal since 2017. She is particularly interested in the theory of distributed optimization algorithms and their applications relating to microgrids, smart buildings and electric vehicle charging infrastructures. Her fields of research also include the development of machine learning techniques for energy management in buildings and for smart charging of electric vehicles. She is also interested in techno-economic modeling and operational planning for renewable energy systems, demand response of power and electric transport.

She holds a PhD in systems engineering from Mines ParisTech, France, and the Faculty of Engineering in Genoa, Italy. Her thesis deals with the optimization of a green hydrogen supply chain and the development of decision support systems for the selection of potential sites for hydrogen production from renewable sources. One of her main contributions was the design of comprehensive optimization models for the strategic planning and optimal operation of hydrogen refueling stations. After her PhD, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering in Genoa. There she developed distributed control theory approaches for networked systems. Then in 2013, she joined the Département de génie électrique at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), in Montréal, as an institutional researcher where her research activities mainly concerned the development of optimization models for electrical systems and systems based on renewable energies.