Research Themes

  • Demand flexibility and grid-interactive efficient buildings
  • Low-temperature district heating and cooling systems
  • Building-to-grid integration
  • Model predictive control and reinforcement learning control of building energy systems and building thermal mass
  • Model-based benchmarking of building operational performance
  • Fault detection and diagnosis
  • Building occupancy detection using distributed sensor networks and sensor fusion
  • Design and control strategies for mixed-mode buildings that incorporate both natural and mechanical ventilation
  • Low-exergy building energy systems for continental climates
  • Zero energy buildings
  • Time series prediction and forecasting
  • Distributed generation systems