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D-Index
50
Citations
11753
World Ranking
2767
National Ranking
55

Colin N. Jones publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin N. Jones sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 270 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Colin N. Jones D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin N. Jones sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to deep ocean exploration, search and recovery and salvage

Overview

Colin N. Jones is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans across engineering with a primary focus on control and systems engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, building and construction, and computational theory and mathematics.

Their work covers a broad range of topics including advanced control systems optimization, control systems and identification, building energy and comfort optimization, fault detection and control systems, smart grid energy management, model reduction and neural networks, and microgrid control and optimization.

Frequent coauthors include Yuning Jiang, Yingzhao Lian, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Loris Di Natale, and Philipp Heer, with collaborations ranging from 17 to 48 joint works.

Jones has published extensively in various venues. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Applied Energy

Notable recent papers are:

  • Physically Consistent Neural Networks for building thermal modeling: Theory and analysis, 2022, Applied Energy
  • Distributionally Robust Joint Chance-Constrained Dispatch for Integrated Transmission-Distribution Systems via Distributed Optimization, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • A Neural Network Architecture to Learn Explicit MPC Controllers from Data, 2020, IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Distributed model predictive control of buildings and energy hubs, 2022, Energy and Buildings
  • Communication-Efficient Stochastic Zeroth-Order Optimization for Federated Learning, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Jones has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2007 for contributions to deep ocean exploration, search and recovery, and salvage.

Best Publications

  • Use of model predictive control and weather forecasts for energy efficient building climate control

    Frauke Oldewurtel;Alessandra Parisio;Colin N. Jones;Dimitrios Gyalistras

  • Multi-Parametric Toolbox 3.0

    Martin Herceg;Michal Kvasnica;Colin N. Jones;Manfred Morari

  • Energy efficient building climate control using Stochastic Model Predictive Control and weather predictions

    Frauke Oldewurtel;Alessandra Parisio;Colin N. Jones;Manfred Morari

  • Efficient interior point methods for multistage problems arising in receding horizon control

    Alexander Domahidi;Aldo U. Zgraggen;Melanie N. Zeilinger;Manfred Morari

  • Computational Complexity Certification for Real-Time MPC With Input Constraints Based on the Fast Gradient Method

    S. Richter;C. N. Jones;M. Morari

  • Real-time suboptimal model predictive control using a combination of explicit MPC and online optimization

    M. N. Zeilinger;C. N. Jones;M. Morari

  • MPC fault-tolerant flight control case study: flight 1862

    Jan M. Maciejowski;Colin N. Jones

  • A tractable approximation of chance constrained stochastic MPC based on affine disturbance feedback

    F. Oldewurtel;C.N. Jones;M. Morari

  • Real-time input-constrained MPC using fast gradient methods

    Stefan Richter;Colin N. Jones;Manfred Morari

  • Distributed synthesis and stability of cooperative distributed model predictive control for linear systems

    Christian Conte;Colin N. Jones;Manfred Morari;Melanie N. Zeilinger

  • Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Building Climate Control

    Frauke Oldewurtel;Colin Neil Jones;Alessandra Parisio;Manfred Morari

  • Convex computation of the maximum controlled invariant set for polynomial control systems

    Milan Korda;Didier Henrion;Colin Neil Jones

  • On real-time robust model predictive control

    Melanie N. Zeilinger;Davide M. Raimondo;Alexander Domahidi;Manfred Morari

  • Soft Constrained Model Predictive Control With Robust Stability Guarantees

    Melanie N. Zeilinger;Manfred Morari;Colin N. Jones

  • Polytopic Approximation of Explicit Model Predictive Controllers

    Colin N Jones;Manfred Morari

  • Data-driven methods for building control — A review and promising future directions

    Emilio T. Maddalena;Yingzhao Lian;Colin N. Jones

  • On turnpike and dissipativity properties of continuous-time optimal control problems

    Timm Faulwasser;Milan Korda;Colin N. Jones;Dominique Bonvin

  • Distributionally Robust Joint Chance-Constrained Dispatch for Integrated Transmission-Distribution Systems via Distributed Optimization

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  • Technical communique: On the facet-to-facet property of solutions to convex parametric quadratic programs

    JøRgen SpjøTvold;Eric C. Kerrigan;Colin N. Jones;Petter TøNdel

  • A Multiresolution Approximation Method for Fast Explicit Model Predictive Control

    S. Summers;C. N. Jones;J. Lygeros;M. Morari

  • Equality Set Projection: A new algorithm for the projection of polytopes in halfspace representation

    Colin Jones;E. C. Kerrigan;Jan Maciejowski

  • Towards computational complexity certification for constrained MPC based on Lagrange Relaxation and the fast gradient method

    Stefan Richter;Manfred Morari;Colin N. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Morari
Manfred Morari University of Pennsylvania
Didier Henrion
Didier Henrion Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Eric C. Kerrigan
Eric C. Kerrigan Imperial College London
Jan Maciejowski
Jan Maciejowski University of Cambridge
Antonio M. Pascoal
Antonio M. Pascoal Instituto Superior Técnico
Timm Faulwasser
Timm Faulwasser Hamburg University of Technology
Stefan Richter
Stefan Richter University of Tennessee at Knoxville
John Lygeros
John Lygeros ETH Zurich
Mario Paolone
Mario Paolone École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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