Publications

X Author: Tianzhen Hong

2024

Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, Kai Gao, Muzahim Altheeb, Abdulrahman Al Mogirah, Abdullatif BinMoammar, Tianzhen Hong, Ansar Khan, C. Cartalis, A. Polydorose, and Mattheos Santamouris."Quantifying the Energy Impact of Heat Mitigation in Cities: A Catalyst for Building Energy Saving."Nature Cities (2024).

2023

Hong, Tianzhen, Jeetika Malik, Amanda Krelling, William O'Brien, Kaiyu Sun, Roberto Lamberts, and Max Wei."Ten questions concerning thermal resilience of buildings and occupants for climate adaptation."Building and Environment 244 (2023) 110806. DOI
Li, Han, Hicham Johra, Flavia deAndrade Pereira, Tianzhen Hong, Jérôme Le Dréau, Anthony Maturo, Mingjun Wei, Yapan Liu, Ali Saberi-Derakhtenjani, Zoltan Nagy, Anna Marszal-Pomianowska, Donal Finn, Shohei Miyata, Kathryn Kaspar, Kingsley Nweye, Zheng O'Neill, Fabiano Pallonetto, and Bing Dong."Data-driven key performance indicators and datasets for building energy flexibility: A review and perspectives."Applied Energy 343 (2023) 121217. DOI
Hu, shan, Xin Zhou, Da Yan, Fei Guo, Tianzhen Hong, and Yi Jiang."A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 181 (2023) 113316. DOI
Malik, Jeetika, Handi Chandra Putra, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."On the applicability of various levels of detail for occupant behavior representation and modeling in building performance simulation."Building Simulation (2023). DOI
Hu, shan, Xin Zhou, Da Yan, Fei Guo, Tianzhen Hong, and Yi Jiang."A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 181 (2023) 113316. DOI
Nagy, Zoltan, Gregor P. Henze, Sourav Dey, Javier Arroyo, Lieve Helsen, Xiangyu Zhang, Bingqing Chen, Kadir Amasyali, Kuldeep Kurte, Ahmed Zamzam, Helia Zandi, Ján Drgoňa, Matias Quintana, Steven McCullogh, June Young Park, Han Li, Tianzhen Hong, Silvio Brandi, Giuseppe Pinto, Alfonso Capozzoli, Draguna Vrabie, Mario Bergés, Kingsley Nweye, Thibault Marzullo, and Andrey Bernstein."Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management."Building and Environment (2023) 110435. DOI
Perera, A.T.D., Kavan Javanroodi, Dasaraden Mauree, Vahid M. Nik, Pietro Florio, Tianzhen Hong, and Deliang Chen."Challenges resulting from urban density and climate change for the EU energy transition."Nature Energy 8.4 (2023) 397 - 412. DOI
Perera, A.T.D., Kenichi Soga, Yujie Xu, Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong."Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems."Applied Energy 340 (2023) 120957. DOI
Perera, A.T.D., Kenichi Soga, Yujie Xu, Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong."Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems."Applied Energy 340 (2023) 120957. DOI
Lin, Ziqi, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, and Wei Wang."Evaluating energy retrofits of historic buildings in a university campus using an urban building energy model that considers uncertainties."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104602. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Barry Hooper, and Janghyun Kim."Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104608. DOI
O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Tianzhen Hong."International review of occupant aspects of building energy codes and standards."ASHRAE 65 (2023).
Sheng, Maggie, Michael Reiner, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Assessing thermal resilience of an assisted living facility during heat waves and cold snaps with power outages."Building and Environment 230 (2023) 110001. DOI
Perera, A.T.D., Bingyu Zhao, Zhe Wang, Kenichi Soga, and Tianzhen Hong."Optimal design of microgrids to improve wildfire resilience for vulnerable communities at the wildland-urban interface."Applied Energy 335 (2023) 120744. DOI
Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."Online transfer learning strategy for enhancing the scalability and deployment of deep reinforcement learning control in smart buildings."Applied Energy 333 (2023) 120598. DOI
Perera, A.T.D., and Tianzhen Hong."Vulnerability and resilience of urban energy ecosystems to extreme climate events: A systematic review and perspectives."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 173 (2023) 113038. DOI

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
Li, Han, and Tianzhen Hong."A semantic ontology for representing and quantifying energy flexibility of buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100113. DOI
Luo, Na, Xuan Luo, Mohammad Mortezazadeh, Maher Albettar, Wanni Zhang, Dongxue Zhan, Liangzhu Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."A data schema for exchanging information between urban building energy models and urban microclimate models in coupled simulations."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2022) 1 - 18. DOI
Pinto, Giuseppe, Riccardo Messina, Han Li, Tianzhen Hong, Marco Savino Piscitelli, and Alfonso Capozzoli."Sharing is caring: An extensive analysis of parameter-based transfer learning for the prediction of building thermal dynamics."Energy and Buildings 276 (2022) 112530. 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