Publications
Publications By Research Area
2020
An, Jingjing, Da Yan, Siyue Guo, Yan Gao, Jinqing Peng, and Tianzhen Hong."An improved method for direct incident solar radiation calculation from hourly solar insolation data in building energy simulation."Energy and Buildings
227 (2020) 110425. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Martina Ferrando, Xuan Luo, and Francesco Causone."Modeling and analysis of heat emissions from buildings to ambient air."Applied Energy
277 (2020) 115566. DOI
Chen, Bingqing, Ming Jin, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mario Bergés."Towards Off-policy Evaluation as a Prerequisite for Real-world Reinforcement Learning in Building Control."BuildSys '20: The 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and TransportationProceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities
(2020). DOI
Ferrando, Martina, Francesco Causone, Tianzhen Hong, and Yixing Chen."Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches."Sustainable Cities and Society
62 (2020) 102408. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating realistic building electrical load profiles through the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110299. DOI
Salim, Flora D., Bing Dong, Mohamed Ouf, Qi Wang, Ilaria Pigliautile, Xuyuan Kang, Tianzhen Hong, Wenbo Wu, Yapan Liu, Shakila Khan Rumi, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jingjing An, Hengfang Deng, Wei Shao, Jakub Dziedzic, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Meng Kong, Claudia Fabiani, Anna Laura Pisello, and Da Yan."Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey."Building and Environment
183 (2020) 106964. DOI
Picard, Theo, Tianzhen Hong, Na Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, and Kaiyu Sun."Robustness of energy performance of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) homes."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110251. DOI
Azar, Elie, William O'Brien, Salvatore Carlucci, Tianzhen Hong, Andrew Sonta, Joyce Jihyun Kim, Maedot S. Andargie, Tareq Abuimara, Mounir El Asmar, Rishee Jain, Mohamed Ouf, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Jin Zhou."Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110292. DOI
Shan, , Xiaofang, Na Luo, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yi-Kuen LEE, and Wei-Zhen Lu."Coupling CFD and building energy modelling to optimize the operation of a large open office space for occupant comfort."Sustainable Cities and Society
60 (2020) 102257. DOI
Luo, Xuan, Yu-Hang Tang, and Tianzhen Hong."Efficient Computation Of Surface Sunlit Fractions In Urban-Scale Building Modeling Using Ray-Tracing Techniques."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA
(2020). DOI
Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA
(2020). DOI
Li, Xiangfeng, Yuan Ying, Xiaodong Xu, Yiwei Wang, Syed Asad Hussain, Tianzhen Hong, and Wei Wang."Identifying key determinants for building energy analysis from urban building datasets."Building and Environment
181 (2020) 107114. DOI
O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Elie Azar, Marilena De Simone, Zsofia Belafi, Christiane Berger, Dong Chen, Simona D'Oca, Tianzhen Hong, Quan Jin, Dolaana Khovalyg, Roberto Lamberts, Vojislav Novakovic, June Young Park, Manfred Plagmann, Vinu Subashini Rajus, Marika Vellei, Silke Verbruggen, Andreas Wagner, Eric Willems, Da Yan, and Jin Zhou."An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards."Building and Environment
179 (2020) 106906. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges."Applied Energy
269 (2020) 115036. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Hui Zhang, Yingdong Hi, Maohui Luo, Ziwei Li, Tianzhen Hong, and Borong Lin."Revisiting individual and group differences in thermal comfort based on ASHRAE database."Energy and Buildings
219 (2020) 110017. DOI
Malik, Jeetika, Ronita Bardhan, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Contextualising adaptive comfort behaviour within low-income housing of Mumbai, India."Building and Environment
177 (2020) 106877. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Michael Specian, and Tianzhen Hong."Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home."Building and Environment
177 (2020) 106842. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Jingyi Wang, Yueer He, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, and Tianzhen Hong."Dimension analysis of subjective thermal comfort metrics based on ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database using machine learning."Journal of Building Engineering
29 (2020) 101120. DOI
O’Brien, William, Andreas Wagner, Marcel Schweiker, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Julia Day, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Salvatore Carlucci, Bing Dong, Farhang Tahmasebi, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, H. Burak Gunay, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller, and Christiane Berger."Introducing IEA EBC Annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation."Building and Environment
(2020) 106738. DOI
Luo, , Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, and Yu-Hang Tang."Modeling Thermal Interactions between Buildings in an Urban Context."Energies
13.9 (2020) 2382. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning."Applied Energy
263 (2020) 114683. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Zhe Wang, Xuan Luo, and Wanni Zhang."State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle."Energy and Buildings
212 (2020) 109831. DOI
Perera, A. T. D., Vahid M. Nik, Deliang Chen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, and Tianzhen Hong."Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems."Nature Energy
5.2 (2020) 150 - 159. DOI
Chen, , Chien-fei, Tianzhen Hong, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Selin Yilmaz, Karol Bandurski, Zsófia Deme Bélafi, Marilena De Simone, Mateus Vinícius Bavaresco, Yu Wang, Pei-ling Liu, Verena M. Barthelmes, Jacqueline Adams, Simona D'Oca, and Łukasz Przybylski."Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings."Energy Research & Social Science
61 (2020) 101344. DOI