Ioan Petri
BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

Reader

: PetriI@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 29208 70016
: Queen's Buildings - West Building Extension, Room Room W/2.42, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

: Available for postgraduate supervision

I am a Reader in the School of Engineering and a member of the Urban Intelligence Research Group.

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I specialise in Artificial Intelligence for Energy Systems (Energy-AI) with subsequent applications for the built and natural environment. I focus on developing intelligent computer systems to devise and enact "smartness" in buildings and cities.

I study the application of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and integration with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Internet-of-Thinks (IoT) for the realisation of Generative Digital Twins. I also investigate the application of Quantum Computing for energy and construction case studies.

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I have advanced experience in designing, implementing and deploying energy optimisation systems using machine learning and genetic algorithms with digital twins to achieve net-zero targets in real pilot developments such as buildings, rail, maritime and ports, stadiums and sports facilities. I also conduct research in the field of local community energy systems by exploring the federation of energy networks and microgrids to support energy exchanges and monetisation of energy in sharing communities and economies. ‌‍In this field, I have recently published a book "BIM for Energy Efficiency" providing solutions for the decarbonisation of the built environment through informed decision-making using digital simulation and analysis. ‌

In these fields of study, I lead several strategic EU and UK research projects. I have authored 110 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. I also supervise postgraduate and doctoral research projects.

I am currently leading a strategic multi-energy systems project (LEOS), funded by Welsh Goverment, that explores the potential of power-to-gas systems to achieve net-zero carbon communities, leveraging a combination of renewable energy, storage and hydrogen technologies.

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Recently, I have published a patent in the field of autonomous and semantic optimization approach for real-time performance management in a built environment. ‌

I am also the ICT lead of the Digital Twin Computational Urban Sustainability Platform (CUSP), www.cuspplatform.com and the CAIO of Optimise-AI, www.optimise-ai.com , a university spinoff currently trading in the UK and internationally.

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2024

Barbero, I., Rezgui, Y., Beach, T. and Petri, I. 2024. Social life cycle assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 29, pp. 1827-1845. (10.1007/s11367-024-02341-7)
Almurshed, O. et al. 2024. A framework for performance optimization of internet of things applications. Presented at: Euro-Par 2023: Parallel Processing Workshops, Limassol, Cyprus, 28 August - 01 September 2023Euro-Par 2023: Parallel Processing Workshops. Euro-Par 2023, Vol. 14351. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham, Switzerland: Springer pp. 165-176., (10.1007/978-3-031-50684-0_13)
Celik, Y., Barbero, I., Hodorog, A., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2024. Blockchain for energy efficiency training in the construction industry. Education and Information Technologies 29(1), pp. 323-349. (10.1007/s10639-023-12261-y)

2023

Aldossary, M., Rezgui, Y. and Petri, I. 2023. A critical review of fire safety monitoring and control measures in buildings. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 19-22 June 20232023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/ICE/ITMC58018.2023.10332330)
Alqarni, Z., Rezgui, Y., Petri, I. and Ghoroghi, A. 2023. Factors and strategies affecting indoor air quality in educational buildings. Presented at: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 19-22 June 2023. IEEE, (10.1109/ICE/ITMC58018.2023.10332421)
Alajmi, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Fadli, F. 2023. Social media data analysis of IoT risks in smart cities. Presented at: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Edinburgh,UK, 19-22 June 20232023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). Vol. 1. IEEE pp. 1-7., (10.1109/ICE/ITMC58018.2023.10332268)
Ghoroghi, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Alzahrani, A. 2023. A deep learning approach to predict and optimise energy in fish processing industries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 186, article number: 113653. (10.1016/j.rser.2023.113653)
Barbero, I., Rezgui, Y. and Petri, I. 2023. A European-wide exploratory study to analyse the relationship between training and energy efficiency in the construction sector. Environment Systems and Decisions 43, pp. 337-357. (10.1007/s10669-022-09891-x)
Elnour, M., Fadli, F., Meskin, N., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2023. Analysis of unsupervised consumption anomaly detection in sports facilities using artificial intelligence-based data analytics: A case study. Presented at: 15th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing, Zhuhai, China, 17 - 20 February 2023ICMLC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 15th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing. New York, USA: ACM pp. 197-204., (10.1145/3587716.3587749)
Himeur, Y. et al. 2023. AI-big data analytics for building automation and management systems: a survey, actual challenges and future perspectives. Artificial Intelligence Review 56, pp. 4929-5021. (10.1007/s10462-022-10286-2)
Petri, I., Rezgui, Y., Ghoroghi, A. and Alzahrani, A. 2023. Digital twins for performance management in the built environment. Journal of Industrial Information Integration 33, article number: 100445. (10.1016/j.jii.2023.100445)
Celik, Y., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2023. Integrating BIM and Blockchain across construction lifecycle and supply chains. Computers in Industry 148, article number: 103886. (10.1016/j.compind.2023.103886)
Celik, Y., Aydin, M. M., Petri, I. and Potoglou, D. 2023. Intelligent transportation systems applications: Safety and transfer of big transport data. Presented at: TRANSBALTICA 2022: Transportation Science and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 15-16 September 2022 Presented at Prentkovskis, O. et al. eds.TRANSBALTICA XIII: Transportation Science and Technology. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference TRANSBALTICA, September 15-16, 2022, Vilnius, Lithuania. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure (LNITI) Springer pp. 59-73., (10.1007/978-3-031-25863-3_6)
Fnais, A., Ghoroghi, A., Rezgui, Y., Beach, T. and Petri, I. 2023. SemanticLCA: A new generation of life cycle assessment methods applied to buildings. Presented at: 2022 IEEE 28th International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) & 31st International Association For Management of Technology (IAMOT) Joint Conference, Nancy, France, 19-23 June 20222022 IEEE 28th International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) & 31st International Association For Management of Technology (IAMOT) Joint Conference. IEEE, (10.1109/ICE/ITMC-IAMOT55089.2022.10033206)
Celik, Y., Petri, I. and Barati, M. 2023. Blockchain supported BIM data provenance for construction projects. Computers in Industry 144, article number: 103768. (10.1016/j.compind.2022.103768)

2022

Incorvaja, D., Celik, Y., Petri, I. and Rana, O. 2022. Circular economy and construction supply chains. Presented at: 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Vancouver, WA, USA, 6-9 December 2022Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies. IEEE pp. 92-99., (10.1109/BDCAT56447.2022.00019)
Cere, G., Rezgui, Y., Zhao, W. and Petri, I. 2022. A machine learning approach to appraise and enhance the structural resilience of buildings to seismic hazards. Structures 45, pp. 1516-1529. (10.1016/j.istruc.2022.09.113)
Hodorog, A., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2022. Machine learning and Natural Language Processing of social media data for event detection in smart cities. Sustainable Cities and Society 85, article number: 104026. (10.1016/j.scs.2022.104026)
Himeur, Y. et al. 2022. Next-generation energy systems for sustainable smart cities: Roles of transfer learning. Sustainable Cities and Society 85, article number: 104059. (10.1016/j.scs.2022.104059)
Petri, I., Chirila, I., Gomes, H., Bifet, A. and Rana, O. 2022. Resource-aware edge-based stream analytics. IEEE Internet Computing 26(4), pp. 79-88. (10.1109/MIC.2022.3152478)
Cerè, G., Rezgui, Y., Zhao, W. and Petri, I. 2022. Shear walls optimization in a reinforced concrete framed building for seismic risk reduction. Journal of Building Engineering 54, article number: 104620. (10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104620)
Elnour, M., Fadli, F., Yassine, H., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y., Meskin, N. and Ahmad, A. M. 2022. Performance and energy optimization of building automation and management systems: Towards smart sustainable carbon-neutral sports facilities. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 162, article number: 112401. (10.1016/j.rser.2022.112401)
Ahmed, U., Petri, I. and Rana, O. 2022. Edge-cloud resource federation for sustainable cities. Sustainable Cities and Society 82, article number: 103887. (10.1016/j.scs.2022.103887)
Elnour, M. et al. 2022. Neural network-based model predictive control system for optimizing building automation and management systems of sports facilities. Applied Energy 318, pp. 119-153. (10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119153)
Alzahrani, A., Petri, I., Ghoroghi, A. and Rezgui, Y. 2022. A proposed roadmap for delivering zero carbon fishery ports. Presented at: 8th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2021), Rome, Italy, 13-17 September 2021 Presented at Caetano Nidia, S. et al. eds.Energy Reports: The 8th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research – “Developing the World in 2021 with Clean and Safe Energy”, Vol. 8 (3). Vol. 3. Elsevier pp. 82-88., (10.1016/j.egyr.2022.01.083)
Fnais, A., Rezgui, Y., Petri, I., Beach, T., Yeung, J., Ghoroghi, A. and Kubicki, S. 2022. The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 27, pp. 627-654. (10.1007/s11367-022-02058-5)
Ghoroghi, A., Rezgui, Y., Petri, I. and Beach, T. 2022. Advances in application of machine learning to life cycle assessment: a literature review. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 27, pp. 433-456. (10.1007/s11367-022-02030-3)
Ahmed, U., Al-Saidi, A., Petri, I. and Rana, O. F. 2022. QoS-aware trust establishment for cloud federation. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 34(3), article number: e6598. (10.1002/cpe.6598)

2021

Alzahrani, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Ghoroghi, A. 2021. Decarbonisation of seaports: A review and directions for future research. Energy Strategy Reviews 38, article number: 100727. (10.1016/j.esr.2021.100727)
Celik, Y., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2021. Leveraging BIM and blockchain for digital twins. Presented at: 27th ICE/IEEE International Technology Management and Innovation Conference, Cardiff, UK, 21-23 June 20212021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). Cardiff, United Kingdom: IEEE pp. 1-10., (10.1109/ICE/ITMC52061.2021.9570246)
Alhamami, A., Rezgui, Y. and Petri, I. 2021. BIM for energy efficiency training requirements in the context of a developing country: the case of Saudi Arabia. Presented at: 27th ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference, Cardiff, UK, 21-23 Jun 20212021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). Cardiff, UK: IEEE pp. 1-10., (10.1109/ICE/ITMC52061.2021.9570225)
Alzahrani, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Ghoroghi, A. 2021. Optimal control-based price strategies for smart fishery ports micro-grids. Presented at: 27th International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Cardiff, UK, 21-23 June 20212021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). Cardiff, United Kingdom: IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/ICE/ITMC52061.2021.9570267)
Shad, M. H., Rezgui, Y., Hodorog, A. and Petri, I. 2021. Digitalising risk of fire resilience for UK buildings. Presented at: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Cardiff, Wales, 21-23 June 20212021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). IEEE, (10.1109/ICE/ITMC52061.2021.9570247)
Petri, I., Rana, O., Rezgui, Y. and Fadli, F. 2021. Edge HVAC analytics. Energies 14(17), article number: 5464. (10.3390/en14175464)
Petri, I., Rana, O., Bittencourt, L. F., Balouek-Thomert, D. and Parashar, M. 2021. Autonomics at the edge: resource orchestration for edge native applications. IEEE Internet Computing 25(4), pp. 21-29. (10.1109/MIC.2020.3039551)
Alduailij, M. A., Petri, I., Rana, O., Alduailij, M. A. and Aldawood, A. S. 2021. Forecasting peak energy demand for smart buildings. Journal of Supercomputing 77, pp. 6356-6380. (10.1007/s11227-020-03540-3)
Fadli, F. et al. 2021. Building energy management systems for sports facilities in the Gulf region: a focus on impacts and considerations. Presented at: 38th CIB W78 conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Luxembourg, 11-15 October 2021Proceedings of the Conference CIB W78 2021. Luxembourg: CIB pp. 723-733.
Elnour, M. et al. 2021. Neural network-based predictive control system for energy optimization in sports facilities: a case study. Presented at: 38th CIB W78 conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Luxembourg, 11-15 October 2021Proc. of the Joint Conference CIB W78 - LDAC 2021. Luxembourg: CIB pp. 734-743.

2020

Petri, I., Alzahrani, A., Reynolds, J. and Rezgui, Y. 2020. Federating smart cluster energy grids for peer-to-peer energy sharing and trading. IEEE Access 8(1), pp. 102419-102435. (10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2998747)
Petri, I., Barati, M., Rezgui, Y. and Rana, O. 2020. Blockchain for energy sharing and trading in distributed prosumer communities. Computers in Industry 123, article number: 103282. (10.1016/j.compind.2020.103282)
Alzahrani, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Ghoroghi, A. 2020. Developing smart energy communities around fishery ports: toward zero-carbon fishery ports. Energies 13(11), article number: 2779. (10.3390/en13112779)
Hodorog, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Hippolyte, J. 2020. Building information modelling knowledge harvesting for energy efficiency in the Construction industry. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 23, pp. 1215-1231. (10.1007/s10098-020-02000-z)
Ahmed, U., Petri, I., Rana, O., Raza, I. and Hussain, S. A. 2020. Federating cloud systems for collaborative construction and engineering. IEEE Access 8, pp. 799908-29919. (10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2990233)
Alhamami, A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Kubicki, S. 2020. Promoting energy efficiency in the built environment through adapted BIM training and education. Energies 13(9), article number: 2308. (10.3390/en13092308)
Alzahrani, A., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2020. Analysis and simulation of smart energy clusters and energy value chain for fish processing industries. Presented at: 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, ICEER 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, 22-25 July 2019 Presented at Sa Caetano, N. et al. eds.The 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research - Energy and environment: challenges towards circular economy, Vol. 6 (1). Vol. 6 (1). Elsevier pp. 534-540., (10.1016/j.egyr.2019.09.022)
Zamani, A. R., Zou, M., Diaz-Montes, J., Petri, I., Rana, O., Anjum, A. and Parashar, M. 2020. Deadline constrained video analysis via in-transit computational environments. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 13(1), pp. 59-72. (10.1109/TSC.2017.2653116)
Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2020. BIM for energy efficiency - Decarbonising the built environment through informed decision-making using digital simulation and analysis. St Albans: IHS Press.
Barati, M., Rana, O., Petri, I. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. GDPR compliance verification in Internet of Things. IEEE Access 8, pp. 119697-119709. (10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3005509)

2019

Barati, M., Petri, I. and Rana, O. F. 2019. Developing GDPR compliant user data policies for internet of things. Presented at: 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 Dec 2019Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. New York, USA: ACM pp. 133-141., (10.1145/3344341.3368812)
Alzahrani, A., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2019. Modelling and implementing smart micro-grids for fish-processing industry. Presented at: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Valbonne Sophia-Antipolis, France, 17-19 June 2019Proceedings 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). IEEE pp. -., (10.1109/ICE.2019.8792575)
Petri, I., Rana, O., Zamani, A. R. and Rezgui, Y. 2019. Edge-cloud orchestration: Strategies for service placement and enactment. Presented at: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Prague, Czech Republic, 24-27 June 2019Cloud Engineering (IC2E), IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 67-75., (10.1109/IC2E.2019.00020)
Hodorog, A., Alhamami, A. H. S., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y., Kubicki, S. and Guerriro, A. 2019. Social media mining for BIM skills and roles for energy efficiency. Presented at: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Valbonne Sophia-Antipolis, France, 17-19 June 2019Conference Proceedings ICE/IEEE ITMC 2019: Co-creating our Future: Scaling-up Innovation Capacities through the Design and Engineering of Immersive, Collaborative, Empathic and Cognitive Systems. IEEE pp. 1-10., (10.1109/ICE.2019.8792571)
Petri, I., Yama, A. and Rezgui, Y. 2019. Agent-based appliance scheduling for energy management in industry 4.0. Presented at: GECON 2019: International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, Leeds, UK, 17-19 Sep 2019 Presented at Djemame, K. et al. eds.Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, Vol. 11819. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag pp. 199-207., (10.1007/978-3-030-36027-6_17)

2018

Petri, I., Zamani, A. R., Balouek-Thomert, D., Rana, O., Rezgui, Y. and Parashar, M. 2018. Ensemble-based network edge processing. Presented at: IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Zurich, Switzerland, 17-20 Dec 20182018 IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC). IEEE pp. 133-142., (10.1109/UCC.2018.00022)
Ahmed, U., Petri, I., Rana, O., Raza, I. and Hussain, S. A. 2018. Risk-based service selection in federated clouds. Presented at: IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Zurich, Switzerland, 17-20 Dec 20182018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion (UCC Companion). IEEE pp. 77-82., (10.1109/UCC-Companion.2018.00038)
Altmann, J., Banares, J. A. and Petri, I. 2018. Economics of computing services: A literature survey about technologies for an economy of fungible cloud services. Future Generation Computer Systems 87, pp. 828-830. (10.1016/j.future.2018.05.075)
Petri, I., Yuce, B., Kwan, A. and Rezgui, Y. 2018. An intelligent analytics system for real-time catchment regulation and water management. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14(9), pp. 3970-3981. (10.1109/TII.2017.2782338)
Alhamami, A. H. S., Petri, I. and Rezgui, Y. 2018. Use-case analysis for assessing the role of Building Information Modeling in energy efficiency. Presented at: 12th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (ECPPM), 12-14 September 2018.
Petri, I., Yuce, B., Kwan, A. and Rezgui, Y. 2018. Cognitive based decision support for water management and catchment regulation. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 534, pp. 467-477. (10.1007/978-3-319-99127-6_40)
Petri, I., Alhamami, A., Rezgui, Y. and Kubicki, S. 2018. A virtual collaborative platform to support building information modeling implementation for energy efficiency. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 534, pp. 539-550. (10.1007/978-3-319-99127-6_46)
Zamani, A. R., Zou, M., Diaz-Montes, J., Petri, I., Rana, O. and Parashar, M. 2018. A computational model to support in-network data analysis in federated ecosystems. Future Generation Computer Systems 80, pp. 342-354. (10.1016/j.future.2017.05.032)
Suwal, S. et al. 2018. Building energy-efficiency delivered with the help of improved building information modelling skills. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Tempere, 22-24 June 2018.

2017

Petri, I., Beach, T., Rana, O. F. and Rezgui, Y. 2017. Coordinating multi-site construction projects using federated clouds. Automation in Construction 83, pp. 273-284. (10.1016/j.autcon.2017.08.011)
Zamani, A. R., Petri, I., Diaz-Montes, J., Rana, O. F. and Parashar, M. 2017. Edge-supported approximate analysis for long running computations. Presented at: IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 August 2017Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), 2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on. IEEE pp. 321-328., (10.1109/FiCloud.2017.24)
Hamad, A. A. A., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Kwan, A. 2017. Towards the innovation of an integrated 'one-stop-shop' online services utility management: exploring customer' technology acceptance. Sustainable Cities and Society 34, pp. 126-143. (10.1016/j.scs.2017.06.019)
Petri, I., Rana, O., Bignell, J., Nepal, S. and Auluck, N. 2017. Incentivising resource sharing in edge computing applications. Presented at: GECON 2017, Biarritz, France, 19-21 Sep 2017 Presented at Pham, C., Altmann, J. and Bañares, J. ?. eds.Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, Vol. 10537. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham, Switzerland: Springer pp. 204-215., (10.1007/978-3-319-68066-8_16)
Petri, I., Kubicki, S., Rezgui, Y., Guerriero, A. and Li, H. 2017. Optimizing energy efficiency in operating built environment assets through building Information modeling: a case study. Energies 10(8), article number: 1167. (10.3390/en10081167)
Petri, I., Diaz-Montes, J., Rana, O., Punceva, M., Rodero, I. and Parashar, M. 2017. Modelling and implementing social community clouds. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 10(3), pp. 410-422. (10.1109/TSC.2015.2470258)
Petri, I., Rana, O. F., Beach, T. and Rezgui, Y. 2017. Performance analysis of multi-institutional data sharing in the Clouds4Coordination system. Computers & Electrical Engineering 58, pp. 227-240. (10.1016/j.compeleceng.2017.02.015)
Beach, T., Petri, I., Rezgui, Y. and Rana, O. 2017. Management of collaborative BIM data by the Federatinon of Distributed Models. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 31(4), article number: 4017009. (10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000657)

2016

Petri, I., Diaz-Montes, J., Rana, O. F., Rezgui, Y., Parashar, M. and Bittencourt, L. F. 2016. Coordinating data analysis and management in multi-layered clouds. Presented at: EAI International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems, Rome, Italy, 26-27 October 2015Proceedings of EAI International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems. Springer
Diaz-Montes, J., Petri, I., Rana, O. and Parashar, M. 2016. Special issue on autonomic clouds. IEEE Cloud Computing 3(3), pp. 26-29. (10.1109/MCC.2016.67)
Bittencourt, L. F., Rana, O. F. and Petri, I. 2016. Cloud computing at the edges. In: Helfert, M., Muñoz, V. M. and Ferguson, D. eds. Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2015)., Vol. 581. Communications in Computer and Information Science Cham: Springer Verlag (Germany): Computer Proceedings, pp. 3-12., (10.1007/978-3-319-29582-4_1)
Petri, I., Li, H., Rezgui, Y., Yang, C., Yuce, B. and Jayan, B. 2016. A HPC based cloud model for real-time energy optimisation. Enterprise Information Systems 10(1), pp. 108-128. (10.1080/17517575.2014.919053)
Petri, I. et al. 2016. Distributed multi-cloud based building data analytics. In: Developing Interoperable and Federated Cloud Architecture. , pp. 143-170., (10.4018/978-1-5225-0153-4.ch006)
Zou, M., Zamani, A. R., Diaz-Montes, J., Petri, I., Rana, O. F. and Parashar, M. 2016. Leveraging in-transit computational capabilities in federated ecosystems. Presented at: 2016 IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), Oxford, UK, March 29 -April 2 20162016 IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE). IEEE pp. 99-108., (10.1109/SOSE.2016.15)

2015

Petri, I., Diaz-Montes, J., Zou, M., Beach, T., Rana, O. and Parashar, M. 2015. Market models for federated clouds. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 3(3), pp. 398-410. (10.1109/TCC.2015.2415792)
Punceva, M., Rodero, I., Parashar, M., Rana, O. F. and Petri, I. 2015. Incentivising resource sharing in social clouds. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 27(6), pp. 1483-1497. (10.1002/cpe.3009)
Petri, I., Rezgui, Y., Beach, T., Li, H., Arnesano, M. and Revel, G. M. 2015. A semantic service-oriented platform for energy efficient buildings. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 17(3), pp. 721-734. (10.1007/s10098-014-0828-2)
Petri, I., Zou, M., Zamani, A. R., Diaz-Montes, J., Rana, O. F. and Parashar, M. 2015. Integrating software defined networks within a cloud federation. Presented at: 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), Shenzhen, China, 4-7 May 2015Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2015 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on. IEEE pp. 179-188., (10.1109/CCGrid.2015.11)
Bittencourt, L. F., Lopes, M. M., Petri, I. and Rana, O. F. 2015. Towards virtual machine migration in fog computing. Presented at: 10th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), Krakow, Poland, 4-6 Nov 20152015 10th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC). IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/3PGCIC.2015.85)
Petri, I., Rana, O. F., Beach, T., Rezgui, Y. and Sutton, A. 2015. Clouds4Coordination: managing project collaboration in federated clouds. Presented at: IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, Cyprus, 7 - 10 December 2015UCC 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Conference Publishing Services pp. 494-499., (10.1109/UCC.2015.88)

2014

Petri, I., Rana, O. F., Silaghi, G. C. and Rezgui, Y. 2014. Risk assessment in service provider communities. Future Generation Computer Systems 41, pp. 32-43. (10.1016/j.future.2014.08.013)
Petri, I., Li, H., Rezgui, Y., Chunfeng, Y., Yuce, B. and Jayan, B. 2014. A modular optimisation model for reducing energy consumption in large scale building facilities. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 38, pp. 990-1002. (10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.044)
Yuce, B., Li, H., Rezgui, Y., Petri, I., Jayan, B. and Yang, C. 2014. Utilizing artificial neural network to predict energy consumption and thermal comfort level: an indoor swimming pool case study. Energy and Buildings 80, pp. 45-56. (10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.04.052)
Yang, C., Li, H., Rezgui, Y., Petri, I., Yuce, B., Chen, B. and Jayan, B. 2014. High throughput computing based distributed genetic algorithm for building energy consumption optimization. Energy and Buildings 76, pp. 92-101. (10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.02.053)
Haas, C., Petri, I. and Rana, O. F. 2014. Improving resource matchmaking through feedback integration. Presented at: 2014 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), Chicago, IL, USA, 26-29 May 2014Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on. IEEE pp. 906-914., (10.1109/CCGrid.2014.28)
Petri, I., Beach, T., Rezgui, Y., Wilson, I. E. and Li, H. 2014. Engaging construction stakeholders with sustainability through a knowledge harvesting platform. Computers in Industry 65(3), pp. 449-469. (10.1016/j.compind.2014.01.008)
Petri, I., Beach, T., Zou, M., Montes, J. D., Rana, O. F. and Parashar, M. 2014. Exploring models and mechanisms for exchanging resources in a federated cloud. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Boston, MA, USA, 11-14 March 2014Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 215-224., (10.1109/IC2E.2014.9)
Zou, M. et al. 2014. Collaborative marketplaces for eScience: A medical imaging use case. Presented at: 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 19-23 May 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USACollaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on. pp. 500-506., (10.1109/CTS.2014.6867615)
Petri, I., Punceva, M., Rana, O. F., Theodorakopoulos, G. and Rezgui, Y. 2014. A broker based consumption mechanism for social clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing 2(1), pp. 45-57.
Petri, I. et al. 2014. Cloud supported building data analytics. Presented at: 2014 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), Chicago, IL, USA, 26-29 May 2014Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on. IEEE pp. 641-650.

2013

Petri, I., Beach, T., Zou, M., Diaz-Montes, J., Rana, O. F. and Parashar, M. 2013. A federated CometCloud infrastructure to support resource sharing. Presented at: 2013 IEEE/ACM 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013), Dresden, Germany, 9-12 December 2013 Presented at Buyya, R., Schill, A. and Spillner, J. eds.Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 313-314., (10.1109/UCC.2013.68)

2012

Petri, I., Rana, O. F. and Silaghi, G. C. 2012. Service level agreement as a complementary currency in peer-to-peer markets. Future Generation Computer Systems 28(8), pp. 1316-1327. (10.1016/j.future.2011.09.007)
Petri, I., Rana, O. F., Rezgui, Y. and Silaghi, G. C. 2012. Trust modelling and analysis in peer-to-peer clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing 1(2/3), pp. 221-239. (10.1504/IJCC.2012.046714)

2011

Petri, I., Silaghi, G. C. and Rana, O. F. 2011. Trading Service Level Agreements within a Peer-to-Peer market. Presented at: 2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Brussels, Belgium, 25-28 October 20102010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing. pp. 242., (10.1109/GRID.2010.5697974)

2010

Petri, I., Rana, O. F. and Cosmin Silaghi, G. 2010. SLA as a complementary currency in Peer-2-Peer markets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6296, pp. 141-152. (10.1007/978-3-642-15681-6_11)
Petri, I., Silaghi, G. C. and Rana, O. F. 2010. Trading Service Level Agreements within a Peer-to-Peer market. Presented at: 2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID), Brussels, Belgium, 25-28 October 2010 Presented at Lefevre, L. ed.Proceedings of the 2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 242-251., (10.1109/GRID.2010.5697974)

Contracts


ARCADE: Adversarial Resilience in Compressed AI for Defensive Edge	Perera C, Petri I, Pham N	Defence & Security Grand Challenge: AI Security Cal	£100,000	01/10/2024-01/04/2025
A time and cost effective Generative AI based solution to optimize energy in non-domestic Assets without a Building Management System	Petri I, Tune N, Rezgui I	Department of Energy and Net-Zero (Optimise-AI)	£149,000	06/02/2024-30/05/2025
Decarbonising seaports using digital twins	Petri I, Rezgui Y	EPSRC IAA	£49,053	15/11/2023-14/11/2024
LEOS - Local Energy Operating System	Petri I, Rana O, Cipcigan L	Smart Partnership, Welsh Government	£56,022	15/09/2023-14/09/2024
SPORTE.3Q; Smart integrated urban systems to manage Energy - Water nexus for users’ comfort, health and safety in stadiums and sports facilities	Petri I, Rezgui Y, Beach T,	Qatar National Research Foundation	£100,000	05/04/2020 - 30/01/2023
Attenuating the Environmental Impact of our Buildings through Semantic-based Dynamic Life cycle Assessment (SemanticLCA)	Rezgui Y, Beach T, Petri I	EPSRC	£640,000	01/04/2020 - 31/03/2023
Evidence-based market and policy instruments implementation across the EU to increase the demand for energy skills across construction sector value chain	Rezgui Y, Beach T, Petri I	European Commission - H2020	£105,000	01/06/2020 - 30/05/2022
The EU Smart Building Innovation Platform (SMARTBUILT4EU)	Rezgui Y, Beach T, Petri I	European Commission - H2020	£25,000	01/10/2020 - 30/09/2022
Towards a European Digital Platform for Construction	Rezgui Y, Beach T, Petri I	European Commission - H2020	£15,000	01/09/2019 - 28/02/2021
piSCES: Smart Cluster Energy System for the fish processing industry	Rezgui Y, Moursed M, Petri I	European Commission - INTERREG	£471,288	01/01/2017 - 28/02/2020
BIM-based EU -wide Standardized Qualification Framework for achieving Energy Efficiency Training	Rezgui Y, Li H, Petri I	European Commission - H2020	£110,000	01/09/2017 - 30/08/2019

Currently, I am a module leader for the following modules:

EN4380/ENT680 - AI/Big Data in Civil Engineering (Spring) -- digital technologies for Civil Engineering applications including energy simulation, data mining, BIM and ontologies, multi-agent systems, neural network, genetic algorithms, optimization and Blockchain;

ENT725 - Research Methods (Fall/Spring) -- enabling the students to undertake and demonstrate a variety of research study skills and exercises relevant to an engineering research investigation;

I completed my PhD in Cybernetics and Statistics in 2012. As part of my PhD research, I have developed a distributed collaborative system for the construction industry to facilitate stakeholders access to sustainability knowledge and resources. After the completion of the PhD, I have worked as a research associate and research fellow on several instrumental research projects in the field of artificial intelligence for the natural and built environment including smart buildings and infrastructures, building information modelling, energy optimization, digital twinning.

BIMEET / INSTRUCT: https://www.energy-education.com, an energy efficiency trainign and education platform.

SPORTE.3Q: https://www.sporte3q.com

CUSP (Computational Urban Sustainability Platform): https://www.cuspplatform.com

Honours and awards

Best paper award, CCGrid 2015, Washington, USA
Best paper finalist, UCC 2018, Zurich Switzerland.
IEEE Transactions on Computers; Service Award, 2016
EPSRC recognition for outstanding performance in panel review (ranking in the top 4% of College members), 2022

Professional memberships

Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member of IEEE
Member of ACM
Member of British Standards Society (BSI)

Academic positions

My career as an academic includes:

August 2024 -> Present - Reader - Cardiff University

August 2021-> August 2024 - Senior Lecturer - Cardiff University

January 2019->July 2021 - Lecturer - Cardiff University

Committees and reviewing

I have been involved in the organisation committee of four international conferences in the field of distributed computing and digital technologies GECON 2014 and GECON 2015, PRO-VE 2018, ICE 2020. I am currently involved in the organisation of the IEEE ICE 2021 conference.

Guest editor

IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine, "Autonomics Clouds", editors: Manish Parashar, Javier Diaz-Montez, Omer Rana, Ioan Petri, IEEE Computer Society, 2016.
Future Generation Computer Systems, Ioan Petri, Jorn Altmann and Jose Angel Bannares, GECON Special Issue, Elsevier, 2016

Co-Chair and Organising Committee

The 27th ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference, Cardiff, UK, August 2021.
The 26th ICE/IEEE ITMC International Technology Management Conference, Cardiff, UK, June 2020.
11th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds and Services, GECON14, Cardiff, UK, 2014.
12th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds and Services, GECON15, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2015.
19th IFIP / SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2018, 17-19 September 2018 – Cardiff, UK

Program Committee

ICE/IEEE ITMC International Technology Management Conference, Cardiff, UK, June 2020.
34th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, May 18-22, 2020 Hilton New Orleans Riverside New Orleans, Louisiana USA
International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS), Washington, USA, Apr 2020.
International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2018, December 17-20, Technopark Zurich, Switzerland, December 17-20, 2018
International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High-Performance Computing Systems (InterCloud-HPC 2018), Orleans, France.
15th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, September 2018, Pisa, Italy.
Fog and Edge Computing" at the 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2018), 6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain
4th Workshop on Formal Semantics for the Future Enterprise, Poznan, Poland, 2017.
1st IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing, May 2017, Madrid, Spain.
5th International Workshop on Cloud and (E-Science) Application Management, Shanghai, China, 2016.
The 15th International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2016), Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, September 2016, Athens, Greece.
The IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2016, 22-24 August 2016, Vienna, Austria.
1st Workshop on Bioinformatics Applications for Clusters and Cloud Computing in conjunction with the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 16-19, 2016, Cartagena, Colombia
The 4th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2015, In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Limassol, Cyprus. December 7-10, 2015
The 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015, Roma, Italy, November 2015.
12th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds and Services, GECON15, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 2015.
5th International Workshop on Cloud Services and Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaboration (CSWC 2015) workshop along with CTS 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The 14th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, 2014.
21st International Workshop: Intelligent Computing in Engineering, in Cardiff, United Kingdom, July 16-18, 2014
7th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Noida, India, August 7-9, 2014
1st International Workshop on Social Clouds: Cloud Computing through Social Networks alongside the IEEE CloudCom Conference, Bristol, UK, 2013
1st International Workshop on Formal Semantics for Future Enterprises, International Conference on Business Information Systems, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012
2st International Workshop on Formal Semantics for Future Enterprises, International Conference on Business Information Systems, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2013

Journal Reviewer

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
IEEE Transactions of Services Computing
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Knowledge-Based Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Automation in Construction
IEEE Access
Computers in Industry
Cluster Computing - The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:

Digital twin and smart infrastructures
Artificial Intelligence in buildings and cities
Internet-of-Things and Edge-Cloud computing
Energy optimisation in buildings
Big Data analysis in smart cities
Blockchain and BIM for construction sustainability
Resilience and construction supply chains

Impact link https://www.impactio.com/researcher/ioan-petri

Current supervision

Yasin Celik

Research student

Nasser Alkhatani

Research student

Mohamed Mustafa

Graduate Demonstrator

Zahi Alqarni

Research Student

Abdullah Alajmi Alajmi

Research student

Research themes

Specialisms

Artificial intelligence
Data science
Energy
Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
Automation and technology in building and construction

Ioan Petri
BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

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