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Congratulations to Professor Zuo on receiving the prestigious Exceptional Service Award at the 2024 Annual Conference. We appreciate the ASHRAE community and all the opportunities our lab members have had. Prof. Zuo served as the Chair of Technical Committee 4.10 and 7.4 and participated in several others. Congratulations to Prof. Zuo on receiving this amazing award and thank you ASHRAE for the recognition and amazing support.
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SBS Lab Member Kathryn Hinkelman Receives the 2024 Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award at Pennsylvania State University. Prof. Zuo had the honor of accepting the award on her behalf. Dr. Hinkelman’s interdisciplinary research develops sustainable, resilient, and equitable energy systems through advanced modeling and simulation and bio-inspired design. Her research innovation and productivity, funding achievements, and dedication to mentoring students led to her selection as the 2024 Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar. She will join the Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Vermont as an Assistant Professor in Fall of 2024.
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SBS Lab Member and Ph.D. candidate Yizhi Yang won the Borda Graduate Scholarship in Honor of Gifford H. Albright – Scholarly Excellence in Architectural Engineering. The award notice says “the Architectural Engineering Department recognizes your exceptional ability and promise for significant future achievement in architectural engineering research. Your hard work and dedication is an inspiration to other Graduate Students.” We are so excited to see our lab members winning awards that recognize their hard work and effort in the world of architectural engineering and building energy modeling.
Yizhi’s Ph.D. research attempts to unravel the nexus of energy consumption, carbon emission, and energy equity in buildings. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Yizhi has also published several journal and conference papers. To learn more about Yizhi and her research, visit here.
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The Lab received a total of 6 prestigious awards at the SimBuild 2024 conference in Denver:
We greatly appreciate all of the support from mentors and advisors as well as the support of colleagues and collaborators throughout the industry. This conference was a great experience for our current and former lab members to network and learn with others in the industry.
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Congratulations to Rosina Adhikari for receiving the generous scholarship from IBPSA-USA which supports her in traveling to the SimBuild 2024 conference. Rosina is performing her Ph.D. research in building energy modeling and applications. This year we are sedining 6 students to the SimBuild conference this year and are excited to see how much they learn from experts at this conference.
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Congratulations to SBS lab member Saranya Anbarasu on receiving the Marlene & Joseph Borda Architectural Engineering Graduates Travel Fellowship. This fellowship is supporting her to present her paper “Optimizing Operational Costs in Combined Heat and Power Integrated District Heating Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Approach” at IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024 Conference in Denver, Colorado. We appreciate all the generous donors for supporting the lab members to have these experiences.
Saranya’s paper is joint research of Tanmay Ambadkar, Rosina Adhikari, Kathryn Hinkleman, Zhanwei He, and Ardeshir Moftakhari from our DOE project.
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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Viswanathan Ganesh received two prestigious scholarships. He received the College of Engineering scholarship and Marlene and Joseph Borda scholarship. This is a great start to Viswanathan’s time with the lab. With a M.S. in Sustainable Electric Power Engineering and Electromobility at Chalmers University of Technology. Viswanathan is bringing his expertise in electrical engineering to study building to grid integration. Congratulations to Viswanathan on this amazing accomplishment.
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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Jiyuan Sui received three prestigious scholarships. He received the University Graduate Fellowship, College of Engineering Scholarship, and the Marlene and Joseph Borda Scholarship. This is a great start to Jiyuan’s time with the lab. With a M.S. in Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University, Jiyuan’s research will be focused on large scale building energy modeling and carbon emission reduction. Congratulations to Jiyuan on this amazing accomplishment.
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Congratulations to SBS Lab Ph.D. student Julia Ho on attending the SmartComp 2023 conference with the support of NSF Student Travel Grant. The conference was hosted at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It focused on cutting-edge computer science topics with presentations ranging from federated learning methods for handling complex computations on devices with limited computing power to optimizing HVAC equipment using machine learning methods. Julia was able to attend panel discussions, workshops, and keynotes, as well as speak with professionals about their motivations and research. This conference was a great opportunity to learn and experience research in a variety of fields and see new and different ways that engineering and scientific problems are approached. Many thanks to the conference organizers and the generous financial support to students.
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Congratulations to Saranya Anbarasu on being selected to present at UNL Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction Ph.D. Symposium. She presented her research on “System Synergy: Modeling the Interdependencies of Smart Community Infrastructure”. We are thankful to Professor Lily Wang and others at UNL Durham for providing Saranya and other Ph.D. students with this unique and amazing opportunity to share their research.