Oleksandr Stepanets is an Associate Professor in the Department of Automation of Energy Processes and holds a PhD in automation of control processes. His work spans industrial automation, PLC and SCADA systems, manufacturing automation, and the digitalisation and intelligent control of technical systems.
Education and academic career
He has worked at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute since 2009, progressing from assistant to associate professor. In 2013, he defended his PhD thesis, Automatic Primary Steam Temperature Control System of the Once-Through Boiler with Variable Modes. As an engineer and researcher, he has advised engineering companies on system design, PLC and SCADA/HMI programming, and commissioning.
Teaching
- Hardware and Software Systems for Automation (third-year course)
- Automation of Building Engineering Systems (fourth-year course)
- Programming Automation Devices (fourth-year course)
- IIoT Technologies in Automation (fourth-year course)
- Industrial Production Automation (first-year master’s course)
- Advanced Process Control Methodology (doctoral course)
Department and professional roles
He coordinates the EduNet educational network at KPI and serves as the department’s ambassador to the Association of Industrial Automation Enterprises of Ukraine (APPAU). He is a technical expert at the Digital Innovation Hub Centre 4.0, responsible for the department’s research activities, and guarantor of its master’s educational programme in Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies of Cyber-Energy Systems.
Research and projects
His research interests include intelligent industrial automation, digital twins and modern control-system architectures.
- 2026: Responsible researcher for the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine state-funded topic “Sustainable Energy Supply Systems for Territorial Communities Based on the Smart Energy Systems Concept.”
- 2021–2023: Lead of the BOWI Widening Call for Developing Hubs subgrant under the Horizon 2020 project Boosting Widening Digital Innovation Hubs, grant agreement 873155 (CORDIS project record).
- 2022–2023: Research team member on the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine state-funded topic “Exergy-Based Justification of Transient Operating Modes and Combined Heating and Cooling for Energy-Efficient Buildings Using Heat-Pump Systems.”
- 2023: Lead of a contracted research project on tuning server-fan speed under dynamic server load.
- 2022: Lead of a contracted research project analysing operating modes of a cooling-system valve in a data-centre unit.
Applied engineering projects
His applied project work has included automation at a grain-processing factory in Skvyra; HVAC, security, remote monitoring and resource-use systems in an intelligent building; temperature and pressure control at a sunflower-oil extraction plant; combustion and heat-exchange automation in an industrial boiler house; steam and heat-process automation for a papermaking machine; HVAC, lighting, monitoring and energy management at an Orthodox cathedral; automation of industrial heat-use equipment for Artezia Engineering; and HVAC automation and energy management at Amstor supermarkets.
Selected publications
- Voloshchuk, V.; Bilous, I.; Novikov, P.; Stepanets, O.; Zakharchenko, A. “Digital Twin-Based Smart Heating System with a Condensing Boiler.” Smart Energy, 19 (2025), 100198. doi:10.1016/j.segy.2025.100198.
- Mariiash, Y.; Stepanets, O.; Safonyk, A. “Advanced Dynamic Predictive Model for Basic Oxygen Furnace Purging.” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Control Systems & Technologies (ICST 2025), Odesa, Ukraine, 24–26 September 2025. CEUR-WS.org, 2025, vol. 4048, pp. 266–275. Proceedings paper.
- Здольник, М.О.; Степанець, О.В. “Мультиагентний підхід до архітектури локальної системи автоматичного керування об’єктами теплопостачання промислового та житлового призначення.” Вчені записки ТНУ імені В.І. Вернадського. Серія: Технічні науки, 36 (75), no. 4 (2025), 133–141. doi:10.32782/2663-5941/2025.4.2/18 (in Ukrainian).
- Кучинська, К.А.; Новіков, П.В.; Волощук, В.А.; Степанець, О.В. “Експериментальна математична модель конденсаційного котла для побудови цифрового двійника.” Вчені записки ТНУ імені В.І. Вернадського. Серія: Технічні науки, 35 (74), no. 3 (2024), 117–129. doi:10.32782/2663-5941/2024.3.1/19 (in Ukrainian).
- Zakharchenko, Anastasiya; Stepanets, Oleksandr. “Digital Twin Value in Intelligent Building Development.” Advanced Information Systems, 7, no. 2 (2023), 75–86.