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Veronica Adetola is a chief research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She has more than 12 years' experience in research, development, and demonstration of advanced control solutions for high-performing buildings, grid-interactive distributed energy resources, transport refrigeration, and aerospace systems. Veronica is currently the principal investigator for multiple Department of Energy-funded projects developing model-based and data-driven control solutions to improve energy systems' efficiency, reliability, and resiliency.

Before joining PNNL in 2019, Adetola worked at the United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies) Research Center, where she contributed to and successfully led activities in support of multiple businesses and government-funded research programs.

Adetola has authored a book, three book chapters, and more than 40 peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers. She has received multiple awards, including the prestigious American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Science and Technology Best Paper Award for her work on fault-tolerant optimal control of a building HVAC system and the International Federation of Automatic Control prize for the Best Methodology/Theory Paper, published in the Journal of Process Control, for her work on the integration of real-time optimization and model predictive control.

Adetola was a board of governors member of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2019 and currently serves as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. She has a PhD in engineering (control systems).