His main research interests include modelling and simulation methodologies for multidisciplinary systems, in particular Bond Graph-based as well as object oriented modelling; modelling, analysis, control and fault diagnosis of mechatronic systems and hybrid failure prognostic methods; modelling languages; scientific computing, numerical algorithms for continuous system simulation.
Dr Borutzky has published in the proceedings of many peer-reviewed international conferences on Modelling and Simulation and in refereed scientific journals. In 2019 he received the best paper award of the 12th International Conference on Integrated Modelling and Analysis in Applied Control and Automation (IMAACA 2019) in Lisbon, Portugal, which is part of the anual International Multidisciplinary Modelling & Simulation Multiconference (I3M).
He is the author of a 2010 Springer monograph on Bond Graph Methodology and of a 2015 Springer book on Bond Graph model-based fault diagnosis in hybrid systems. He is also the editor and a co-author of a 2011 Springer compilation text on Bond Graph Modelling of Engineering Systems and of a 2016 compilation text entitled Bond Graphs for Modelling, Control and Fault Diagnosis with contributions from experts in various fields from all over the world. His latest book published with Springer is titled Bond Graph Modelling for Control, Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis. Furthermore, he was the guest editor of two special journal issues on bond graph modelling. Since 1990 he has served in many international scientific conferences on Modelling and Simulation in various capacities. In 2005 he was Assistant General Chair of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (EMCS) in Riga, Latvia, in 2006 he was the General Chair of the ECMS 2006 in Sankt Augustin, Germany, and in 2013 he was the Conference Chair of the international IASTED conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control (MIC 2013) in Innsbruck, Austria. From 2005 to 2007 he served on the Board of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation. In 2009, he was an invited tutorial speaker of the IASTED Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Identification (MSI 2009) in Beijing, China and in 2010 he was one of the invited keynote speakers to the Conference on Power Control and Optimisation (PCO 2010) in Kuching, Malaysia. In 2012 he was one of the invited keynote speakers of a workshop on bond graph modelling in Pune, India, and one of the invited keynote speakers of the SCS Summer Simulation Multi-Conference in Genoa, Italy. In 2013 he was an invited tutorial speaker of the IASTED Conference on Control and Applications (CA 2103) in Honolulu, USA and one of the invited keynote speakers of the International Conference on Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India. In 2018 he was one of the invited keynote speakers of the 1st International Conference on New Frontiers in Engineering, Science & Technology (NFEST 2018), New Delhi, India and of the 1st International Conference on Electronics, Control, Optimization and Computer Science (ICECOCS'18), Kenitra, Morocco. He has also served as an invited external examiner and as a member of PhD defense committees in France, in India, in the UK, and in Norway. Moreover, he has given invited lectures and short courses in industry on bond graph modelling.
During the 2004 - 2006 biennium he served on the SCS Board of Directors. He was also active as a member of the Editorial Board of some major modelling and simulation related journals. Since 2009, he is again an Associate Editor of the journal Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.