Publications

X Author: Samir Touzani

2022

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches." (2022).

2021

Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson."Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency."Applied Energy (2021). DOI
Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Samuel Fernandes, Avideh Zakhor, Rohullah Najibi, and Jessica Granderson."A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO ESTIMATE WINDOWS-TO-WALL RATIO USING DRONE IMAGER." (2021).
Granderson, Jessica, Mrinalini Sharma, Eliot Crowe, David A Jump, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson."Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings."Energy and Building 245 (2021). DOI
Touzani, Samir, and Jessica Granderson."Open Data and Deep Semantic Segmentation for Automated Extraction of Building Footprints."Remote Sensing Vol.13 No..2578 (2021). DOI

2020

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Chih-Cheng Lee, Eliot Crowe, and Margaret Sheridan."Spatio-temporal impacts of a utility’s efficiency portfolio on the distribution grid."Energy 212.118669 (2020). DOI
Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI
Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Avideh Zakhor, Marco Pritoni, Reshma Singh, Harry Bergmann, and Jessica Granderson."Machine Learning for Automated Extraction of Building Geometry."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2020).
Granderson, Jessica, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Samuel Fernandes."Meter-Based Assessment of the Time and Locational Benefits of a Large Utility’s DSM Portfolio."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).
WuDunn, Mark, Avideh Zakhor, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."​Aerial 3D Building Reconstruction from RGB Drone Imagery."SPIE Geospatial Informatics X (2020).
Prakash, Anand, Samir Touzani, Mariam Kiran, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Deep Reinforcement Learning in Buildings: Implicit Assumptions and their Impact."RLEM'20: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (2020). DOI

2019

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Eliot Crowe, Samuel Fernandes, Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun."Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings." (2019). DOI
Touzani, Samir, Jessica Granderson, David A Jump, and Derrick Rebello."Evaluation of Methods to Assess the Uncertainty in Estimated Energy Savings."Energy and Buildings 193 (2019). DOI
Touzani, Samir, Baptiste Ravache, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Statistical change detection of building energy consumption: Applications to savings estimation."Energy and Buildings 185 (2019) 123 - 136. DOI

2018

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Rupam Singla, Samuel Fernandes, and Samir Touzani."BuildingIQ Technology Field Validation." (2018). DOI
Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Rupam Singla, Samuel Fernandes, and Samir Touzani."Field evaluation of performance of HVAC optimization system in commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 173 (2018) 577 - 586. DOI
Fernandes, Samuel, Jessica Granderson, Rupam Singla, and Samir Touzani."Corporate Delivery of a Global Smart Buildings Program."Energy Engineering (2018). DOI
Touzani, Samir, Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes."Gradient boosting machine for modeling the energy consumption of commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings (2018). DOI

2017

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Samuel Fernandes, and Cody Taylor."Application of Automated Measurement and Verification to Utility Energy Efficiency Program Data."Energy and Buildings (2017) 191-199. DOI

2016

Lee, Eleanor S, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Samir Touzani, Spencer M Dutton, Jordan Shackelford, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Technology Assessments of High Performance Envelope with Optimized Lighting, Solar Control, and Daylighting." (2016).
Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Cody Taylor, and Samuel Fernandes."Will the Measurement Robots Take Our Jobs? An Update on the State of Automated M&V for Energy Efficiency Programs."Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA, August 2016." (2016).
Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, David A Jump, and Samuel Fernandes."Accuracy of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Techniques for Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings."Applied Energy 173 (2016) 296-308. DOI
Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Xiufeng Pang, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the 911 Federal Building, 911 Northeast 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon." (2016).

2015

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, and David A Jump."Assessment of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Methods." (2015).
Touzani, Samir, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, Jessica Granderson, David A Jump, and Cody Taylor."M & V Shootout: Setting the Stage For Testing the Performance of New Energy Baseline."2015 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).