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Current and Former SBS Lab Members Win Awards at SimBuild 2024

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The Lab received a total of 6 prestigious awards at the SimBuild 2024 conference in Denver:

  • Prof. Zuo received IBPSA-USA Outstanding Researcher Award
  • Former Ph.D. student Yunyang Ye received IBPSA-USA Emerging Contributor Award
  • Current Postdoctoral Scholar Katy Hinkelman received SimBuild 2024 Best Reviewer Award
  • Current Ph.D. student Rosina Adhikari and former M.S. student David Milner received SimBuild Travel Scholarship
  • Best Poster Award was given to a paper led by former Ph.D. student Xu Han and his Ph.D. student Zhuorui Li together with former Ph.D. student Jing Wang and Prof. Zuo

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.

SBS Lab Member Zhanwei He to Present Research at SimBuild 2024

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We are excited to have Zhanwei He present “Computationally Efficient and Accurate Modeling of Combined Heating and Power Systems for District Energy Applications” at SimBuild 2024 in Technical session 8: Grid Interactions and Distributed Energy Resources. The presentation introduces Modelica-based simplified combined heat and power (CHP) models that achieve computational efficiency and high accuracy. This is the outcome of our DOE project “Optimal Co-Design of Integrated Thermal-Electrical Networks and Control Systems for Grid-Interactive Efficient District (GED) Energy Systems.” Zhanwei is working with current lab members Saranya Anbarasu, Katy Hinkelman, lab alumni Ardi Moftakhari, and Lawrence Berkley National Lab’s Jianjun Hu to release these models in the Modelica Buildings Library.

We are so excited to see our lab members presenting their work. To see a summary of the presentation and details for where it will be held follow this link.

SBS Lab Member Rosina Adhikari Receives Scholarship from IBPSA-USA to Attend SimBuild 2024 Conference

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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.

SBS Lab Member Saranya Anbarasu Receives Marlene & Joseph Borda Architectural Engineering Graduates Travel Fellowship.

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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.

Lab Members Attend SimBuild 2022 Conference

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Five SBS Lab researchers attended the SimBuild 2022 conference held in Chicago, IL on September 14-16, along with Professor Wangda Zuo. Three of those lab members, Yingli Lou, Kathryn Hinkelman, and Cary Faulkner, presented research while attending. The focus of this year’s conference was “Better Buildings, Less Carbon: Supporting the Transition to A Clean and Just Climate.” We are proud to say that the lab members in attendance have contributed significantly to this aim through their research, and we are excited to see more of their accomplishments in the future.

Yizhi Yang, Yingli Luo, and Cary Faulkner were funded by the SimBuild conference scholarship, receiving three of the 11 offered awards. Kathryn Hinkelman was funded by the US Department of Energy’s iBuild Fellowship. John Castellini was supported by CU Boulder’s departmental travel grant.

Congratulations, all!

Photos from left to right: team photo at the SimBuild conference; Kathryn Hinkelman presenting; team celebration dinner.