Publications

2020

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
Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, Na Luo, and Kaiyu Sun."Energy and Behaviour Developing quantitative insights on building occupant behaviour: Supporting modelling tools and datasets." (2020) 283 - 319. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 119 (2020) 109593. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Chien-Fei Chen, Zhe Wang, and Xiaojing Xu."Linking human-building interactions in shared offices with personality traits."Building and Environment 170 (2020) 106602. DOI
Li, Han, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, and Marina Sofos."System-level key performance indicators for building performance evaluation."Energy and Buildings 209 (2020) 109703. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Yixing Chen, Xuan Luo, Na Luo, and Sang Hoon Lee."Ten questions on urban building energy modeling."Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106508. DOI
Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C. Diamond, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A. Mathew, Iain S. Walker, Alan K. Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues (2020). DOI

2019

Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, and Xuan Luo."Visualizing Urban Microclimate and Quantifying its Impact on Building Energy Use in San Francisco."the 1st ACM International WorkshopProceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19 (2019). DOI
Karaguzel, Omer T., Mohammed Elshambakey, Yimin Zhu, and Tianzhen Hong."OPEN COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SHARING DATA ANALYTICS TO SUPPORT BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS." (2019).