Arun Narayanan

I am interested in managing distributed cyber-physical systems, focusing on resource allocations across networks in constrained settings (typically energy, time, and cost). Nowadays, I am exploring the possibilities to combine optimization techniques, heuristics, and AI to develop energy-efficient, independent, secure, and private large-scale networks.

My research has applications to green electricity grids and markets, networked energy systems, peer-to-peer exchanges in microgrids (e.g., here and here), drone swarms, industrial energy networks, manufacturing job shop scheduling (flexible job shop scheduling problems), and delivery logistics (e.g., capacitated vehicle routing problems (here and here)).

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Sep 02, 2026

My paper 'Renewable Energy-centric Flexible Job Shop Scheduling' submitted to RTSI 2026 Conference at Aalto University, Espoo, won the Best Paper Award. The idea behind the paper, is to align flexible job shop schedules with renewable energy (see here). The same paper had been rejected earlier by Nordic Energy Informatics Academy Conference 2026; reviewers work in mysterious and random ways!

Aug 16, 2026

I, along with the CPSG group at LUT, organized a Special Session at RTSI 2026 Conference, Aalto University, Espoo. The Special Session titled 'Energy Infrastructure Management for Sustainable and Resilient Multi-energy System' had 13 interesting peer-reviewed papers. I presented two papers at the Special Session, and they were well received. This was a relatively small conference, and so there were many opportunities for nice discussions and for exploring potential collaborations.

Jun 25, 2026

My paper 'Renewable Energy-centric Flexible Job Shop Scheduling' was rejected by Nordic Energy Informatics Academy Conference 2026. While two reviewers were relatively positive, another reviewer was negative, and that was that. The reviewer who gave the negative remarks did not seem to understand or appreciate the paper. Interestingly, two months later, the same paper won the Best Paper Award at RTSI 2026 Conference.

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selected publications

Large-scale Package Deliveries with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Collective Learning

Arun Narayanan, Evangelos Pournaras, and Pedro HJ Nardelli

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2024
Feasibility of 100% renewable energy-based electricity production for cities with storage and flexibility

Arun Narayanan, Kevin Mets, Matthias Strobbe, and 1 more author

Renewable energy, 2019
What is Energy Internet? Concepts, Technologies, and Future Directions

Hafiz Majid Hussain, Arun Narayanan, Pedro HJ Nardelli, and 1 more author

IEEE Access, 2020
Collective intelligence using 5G: Concepts, applications, and challenges in sociotechnical environments

Arun Narayanan, Mohamed Selim Korium, Dick Carrillo Melgarejo, and 8 more authors

IEEE Access, 2022
Intrusion detection system for cyberattacks in the Internet of Vehicles environment

Mohamed Selim Korium, Mohamed Saber, Alexander Beattie, and 3 more authors

Ad Hoc Networks, 2024