People

Seppo Sierla

Yliopistonlehtori

T410 Dept. Electrical Engineering and Automation

Full researcher profile

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Contact information

[email protected]

Phone number

+358504090312

Areas of expertise

113 Computer and information sciences, 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics, Software engineering, operating systems, man-computer interaction, Automation and systems technology

Honors and awards

Recognition award for "Automation 1" course

Responsible teacher of ”Automation 1”, a compulsory bachelor course, which received the Recognition award from the vice-dean of teaching. The award was given to one course in each bachelor major. Automation 1 received the award for the major “Automation and Systems Technology” for the academic year 2015-2016.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jan 2016

Recognition award for the School of Electrical Engineering Bachelor Program for the academic year 2017-2018

Responsible teacher of “ELEC-C1210 Automation 1”, which received the Recognition award for the School of Electrical Engineering Bachelor Program for the academic year 2017-2018. The award was given to the top 3 courses in the category of bachelor courses in the School of Electrical Engineering (total 64 courses).

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Oct 2018

Recognition award for the School of Electrical Engineering Bachelor Program for the academic year 2018-2019

Responsible teacher of “ELEC-C8204 Automation Software Projects”, which received the Recognition award for the School of Electrical Engineering Bachelor Program for the academic year 2018-2019. The award was given to the top 3 courses in the category of bachelor courses in the School of Electrical Engineering.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jan 2019

Recognition award for the School of Electrical Engineering Bachelor Program for the academic year 2019-2020

Responsible teacher of “ELEC-C8224 Automation Systems 1”, which received the Recognition award for the School of Electrical Engineering Bachelor Program for the academic year 2019-2020. The award was given to the top 3 courses in the category of bachelor courses in the School of Electrical Engineering.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jan 2020

Research groups

Information Technologies in Industrial Automation, University Lecturer

Publications

Application of reinforcement learning for energy consumption optimization of district heating system

Jifei Deng, Miro Eklund, Seppo Sierla, Jouni Savolainen, Hannu Niemistö, Tommi Karhela, Valeriy Vyatkin 2023 2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)

Deep reinforcement learning for fuel cost optimization in district heating

Jifei Deng, Miro Eklund, Seppo Sierla, Jouni Savolainen, Hannu Niemistö, Tommi Karhela, Valeriy Vyatkin 2023 Sustainable Cities and Society

Mass customization with reinforcement learning: Automatic reconfiguration of a production line

Jifei Deng, Seppo Sierla, Jie Sun, Valeriy Vyatkin 2023 Applied Soft Computing

Offline reinforcement learning for industrial process control: a case study from steel industry

Jifei Deng, Seppo Sierla, Jie Sun, Valeriy Vyatkin 2023 Information Sciences (Elsevier)

Using a digital twin as the objective function for evolutionary algorithm applications in large scale industrial processes

Miro Eklund, Seppo Sierla, Hannu Niemisto, Timo Korvola, Jouni Savolainen, Tommi Karhela 2023 IEEE Access