Professor Lina Stankovic

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Personal statement

My research expertise is in Signal and Information Processing (inc. AI technologies and machine learning), with focus on representation, processing, temporal and spatial information mining, and data management for a range of signal types acquired from sensors.  My key strength is in extracting meaningful information from real data, including electrical, seismic, health/biological and other environmental sensor data, developing algorithms to handle dynamic and complex data that is often sparse, noisy, heterogeneous and multimodal, gathered from distributed sources. My research is multi-disciplinary by nature and has a strong focus on tackling emerging challenges pertaining to climate change and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, working closely with international collaborators and non-academic stakeholders to lead innovation in the field. 

My work is particularly aligned with the following university strategic research themes (Measurement Science & Enabling Technologies, Energy, Health & Well-Being)

I am currently Deputy Head of Department Learning & Teaching. 

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Area of Expertise

Signal information processing with application to the following problems:

  • Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), load profiling and disaggregation, activity recognition and anomaly detection from smart meter data (Energy)
  • Downstream benefits of NILM for the built environment, agriculture and transport inc. EV (Innovation and Industry)
  • Landslide mitigation and informing geothermal extraction through micro-seismic event analysis (Geosciences)
  • Motion capture and person-centric kinematrics analysis using portable depth and infrared camera systems (Health & Wellbeing)

Prize And Awards

Finalist of the World first 10K Best paper Award (Top 3%)
Recipient
12/7/2017
Paper awarded top 5% by reviewers in Eusipco-2010 conference and invited for journal publication.
Recipient
8/2010

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Qualifications

PhD and BEng (Hons) in Electronic Communication Systems from Lancaster University

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Publications

XNILMBoost : explainability-informed load disaggregation training enhancement using attribution priors
Batic Djordje, Stankovic Vladimir, Stankovic Lina
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Vol 141 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109766
Characterisation of precursory seismic activity towards early warning of landslides via semi-supervised learning
Murray David, Stankovic Lina, Stankovic Vladimir, Pytharouli Stella, White Adrian, Dashwood Ben, Chambers Jonathan
Scientific Reports Vol 15 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84067-y
A human-on-the-loop approach for labelling seismic recordings from landslide site via a multi-class deep-learning based classification model
Jiang Jiaxin, Murray David, Stankovic Vladimir, Stankovic Lina, Hibert Clement, Pytharouli Stella, Malet Jean-Philippe
Science of Remote Sensing Vol 11 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2024.100189
A temporal-spatial graph network with a learnable adjacency matrix for appliance-level electricity consumption prediction
Li Dandan, Xia Jiaxing, Li Jiangfeng, Xiao Changjiang, Stankovic Vladimir, Stankovic Lina, Shi Quingjiang
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Semi-supervised graph-based non-intrusive load monitoring method combining transformer and graph Laplacian smoothing
Dong Jun, Zheng Jinming, Stankovic Lina, Stankovic Vladimir
2024 IEEE 8th Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2) 8th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2) (2024)
Descriptor : A Norwegian Positive Energy Neighbourhood Dataset of Electrical Measurements and Interviews on Energy Practices (NorPEN)
Vavouris Apostolos, Guasselli Fernanda, Stankovic Lina, Stankovic Vladimir, Gram-Hanssen Kirsten, Didierjean Sébastien
IEEE Data Descriptions Vol 1, pp. 113-121 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEDATA.2024.3483154

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Teaching

Current classes:

1st year Engineering Design for Software Development inc. Python programming

4th/5th year Information Transmission and Security, inc. Digital communications principles, channel coding

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Research Interests

  • Smart meter energy analytics, including load disaggregation, prediction and profiling
  • AI for the Decarbonisation of the Built Environment, Agriculture and Transport 
  • Environmental impact assessment of consumption cycle of Food Systems and Appliances inc. Electric Vehicles
  • Detecting, classifying, understanding and characterising subsurface processes arising from natural slopes for landslide mitigation and human activities, such as geothermal extraction
  • Model-fitting/system characterisation
  • Sensor deployment and data acquisition

Professional Activities

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2025
Organiser
30/6/2025
Inter-disciplinary co-creation in JED-AI project
Speaker
14/11/2024
IEEE UK and Ireland Women in ComSoc Event
Participant
4/11/2024
JED-AI Collaboration with Energy Systems Catapult
Participant
9/2024
2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI)
Organiser
30/6/2024
User-centric insights from low-frequency smart meter data analysis towards flexibility potential
Presenter
8/5/2024

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Projects

REMINDA: Revolutionising Energy Monitoring in Non-Domestic Buildings with A.I
Stankovic, Vladimir (Principal Investigator) Stankovic, Lina (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
JED-AIs: Justice, Energy, Demand flexibility and AI for Sustainability (UKRI Cross Research Council Resp Mode)
Stankovic, Vladimir (Principal Investigator) Stankovic, Lina (Co-investigator)
26-Jan-2024 - 25-Jan-2026
Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Project Drum - How End Farm, community led RES surplus energy export potential and methane/gas production for self-consumption/export
Stankovic, Lina (Principal Investigator) Stankovic, Vladimir (Co-investigator) Vavouris, Apostolos (Principal Investigator)
The goal of this project is to perform an analysis on the renewable energy exporting potential (wind/solar/anaerobic digester) in order to inform business case models that will explore community energy sharing schemes, battery storage and export, EV charging etc.
27-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Project Drum - Beckside farm energy balancing and surplus exporting potential under a community led scheme
Stankovic, Vladimir (Principal Investigator) Stankovic, Lina (Co-investigator) Vavouris, Apostolos (Researcher)
In this project the optimal exploitation of the renewable energy surplus (solar/hydro) in dairy farms will be explored together with possibilities for load shifting in order to optimise the energy self-consumption. The exploitation of the available land and roof space for the installation of additional renewables to further increase the passive cash flows of the farm will also be explored, as well as investments in energy storage and diversifying clean energy production to inform further studies on community energy sharing and business models development for energy sharing.
27-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Project Drum - Orton Grange farm energy management in a dairy farm with a highly diversified portfolio and RES surplus exporting potential under a community led scheme
Stankovic, Lina (Principal Investigator) Stankovic, Vladimir (Co-investigator) Vavouris, Apostolos (Researcher)
The goal of this project is to perform an analysis on the renewable energy exporting potential from renewable energy sources including solar PV and wind, against the demands of a housed energy intensive pedigree dairy farm milking using a traditional herringbone parlour with a number of diversified businesses including a café, food hall, swimming pool and other retail activities. Through this analysis, energy availability and feasibility of exploiting the energy surplus will be explored in order to inform business models of community energy sharing, battery storage and export, EV charging etc.
27-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Littleton Farm - Exploring diverse renewables portfolio to accelerate net-zero transition
Stankovic, Vladimir (Principal Investigator) Stankovic, Lina (Co-investigator) Vavouris, Apostolos (Researcher) Sobot, Tamara (Researcher)
The goal of this project is to significantly improve energy efficiency of dairy farms with local energy generation by understanding energy demand on the farm and demand flexibilities and provide a set of recommendations such as load shifting, change of practices or processes, upgrade/retrofit or new investments. The methodology will be built leveraging knowledge gained from two dairy farms in the Luce Bay area that are of different scale (small scale ~300 cows to medium-large scale ~1100 cows) with different milking equipment (parallel/rotary parlours), different renewable on-site generation sources including solar and wind power, and hence very different energy demand.
18-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025

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Contact

Professor Lina Stankovic
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: lina.stankovic@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2704