Publications

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI
Malik, Jeetika, Ronita Bardhan, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Developing occupant archetypes within urban low-income housing: A case study in Mumbai, India."Building Simulation 15.9 (2022) 1661 - 1683. DOI
Kim, Donghun, Zhe Wang, James Brugger, David Blum, Michael Wetter, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Site demonstration and performance evaluation of MPC for a large chiller plant with TES for renewable energy integration and grid decarbonization."Applied Energy 321 (2022) 119343. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, Janghyun Kim, and Barry Hooper."Application and evaluation of a pattern-based building energy model calibration method using public building datasets."Building Simulation 15.8 (2022) 1385 - 1400. DOI
Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 52 (2022) 102041. DOI
Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 52 (2022) 102041. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Patricia Kusumah, Wanni Zhang, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Exploring Decarbonization and Clean Energy Pathways for Disadvantaged Communities in California."5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (2022).
Luo, Na, Gabe Fierro, Yapan Liu, Bing Dong, and Tianzhen Hong."Extending the Brick schema to represent metadata of occupants."Automation in Construction 139 (2022) 104307. DOI
Blum, David, Zhe Wang, Chris Weyandt, Donghun Kim, Michael Wetter, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Field demonstration and implementation analysis of model predictive control in an office HVAC system."Applied Energy 318 (2022) 119104. DOI
Malik, Jeetika, Elie Azar, Ardeshir Mahdavi, and Tianzhen Hong."A level-of-details framework for representing occupant behavior in agent-based models."Automation in Construction 139 (2022) 104290. DOI
Li, Haoran, Juan Hou, Tianzhen Hong, and Natasa Nord."Distinguish between the economic optimal and lowest distribution temperatures for heat-prosumer-based district heating systems with short-term thermal energy storage."Energy 248 (2022) 123601. DOI
Malik, Jeetika, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Elie Azar, Handi Chandra Putra, Christiane Berger, Clinton Andrews, and Tianzhen Hong."Ten questions concerning agent-based modeling of occupant behavior for energy and environmental performance of buildings."Building and Environment 217 (2022) 109016. DOI
Debnath, Ramit, Ronita Bardhan, Ashwin Misra, Tianzhen Hong, Vida Rozite, and Michael H. Ramage."Lockdown impacts on residential electricity demand in India: A data-driven and non-intrusive load monitoring study using Gaussian mixture models."Energy Policy 164 (2022) 112886. DOI
Vahmani, Pouya, Xuan Luo, Andrew Jones, and Tianzhen Hong."Anthropogenic heating of the urban environment: An investigation of feedback dynamics between urban micro-climate and decomposed anthropogenic heating from buildings."Building and Environment 213 (2022) 108841. DOI
Luo, Na, Zhe Wang, David Blum, Christopher Weyandt, Norman Bourassa, Mary Ann Piette, and Tianzhen Hong."A three-year dataset supporting research on building energy management and occupancy analytics."Nature Scientific Data (2022). DOI
Chen, , Chien-fei, Thomas Dietz, Nina H. Fefferman, Jamie Greig, Kristen Cetin, Caitlin Robinson, Laura Arpan, Marcel Schweiker, Bing Dong, Wenbo Wu, Yue Li, Hongyu Zhou, Jianzhong Wu, Jin Wen, Joshua S. Fu, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, Hannah Nelson, Yimin Zhu, Xueping Li, Le Xie, and Rachel Fu."Extreme events, energy security and equality through micro- and macro-levels: Concepts, challenges and methods."Energy Research & Social Science 85 (2022) 102401. DOI
Zeng, Zhaoyun, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Investigation of pre-cooling as a recommended measure to improve residential buildings’ thermal resilience during heat waves."Building and Environment 210 (2022) 108694. DOI
Pinto, Giuseppe, Zhe Wang, Abhishek Roy, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."Transfer learning for smart buildings: A critical review of algorithms, applications, and future perspectives."Advances in Applied Energy 5 (2022) 100084. DOI
Li, Haoran, Juan Hou, Zhiyong Tian, Tianzhen Hong, Natasa Nord, and Daniel Rohde."Optimize heat prosumers' economic performance under current heating price models by using water tank thermal energy storage."Energy 239 (2022) 122103. DOI

2021

Saeidi, Sanaz, Girish Rentala, Tracey Rizzuto, Tianzhen Hong, Neil Johannsen, and Yimin Zhu."Exploring thermal state in mixed immersive virtual environments."Journal of Building Engineering 44 (2021) 102918. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M. Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings 252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Li, , Han, Zhe Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."A synthetic building operation dataset."Scientific Data 8.1 (2021). DOI
Wang, Zhe, Bingqing Chen, Han Li, and Tianzhen Hong."AlphaBuilding ResCommunity: A multi-agent virtual testbed for community-level load coordination."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021) 100061. DOI
Putra, Handi Chandra, Clinton Andrews, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 14.6 (2021) 712 - 729. DOI
Chen, , Chien-fei, Marilena De Simone, Selin Yilmaz, Xiaojing Xu, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Yiqun Pan."Intersecting heuristic adaptive strategies, building design and energy saving intentions when facing discomfort environment: A cross-country analysis."Building and Environment 204 (2021) 108129. DOI