José A. Candanedo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke. His research interests include model-based predictive control for buildings, development of optimal energy control and power demand management strategies, control-oriented modeling of thermal dynamics of buildings and HVAC systems, data analysis in buildings, modeling of thermal energy storage devices, energy flexibility and building-grid interaction. José is part of the Canadian delegation participating in the IEA EBC Annex 81 “Data-Driven Smart Buildings” (2019-2023), where he co-leads Subtask B (Model-Based Predictive Control).