Smart
Low-carbon
Energy-efficient
Demand-flexible
Climate-resilient
Equitable
Building, District, and Urban Energy Systems.
Our BIOR lab aims at developing sustainable and scalable technologies and computational tools to make building, district, and urban energy systems smart, low-carbon, energy-efficient, energy-flexible, climate-resilient, and equitable using optimization, learning, and control.
Our interdisciplinary research is at the interface of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (i.e., Architectural Engineering), Computer Science, and Control Engineering.
We employ a multifaceted approach that encompasses data analytics & machine learning, physics-based modeling & simulation, optimization & model-based optimal controls, as well as experiments. These approaches have been deployed across a spectrum of scales, spanning from equipment- through building- and community- to city-scale.
Data Cleaning | Data Visualization | Data Clustering | EDA
Grey-/Black-box | Machine Learning | Deep Learning
Building Thermal Dynamics | Refrigeration/HVAC systems | ODEs and State Space Representations
Mathematical and Metaheuristic (GA/PSO) Algorithms
Moving from predictive to prescriptive analytics | MPC = Data-driven Modeling + Receding-horizon Numerical Optimization + Online Feedback Control
Monte Carlo technique |Stochastic Occupancy and Occupant Behavior (Markov Chain)