News
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Jan 5-14, 2026: I am teaching a J-term class at Harvard GSD on the topic of Data and AI in Building Operation and Management.
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Oct 26-29, 2025: I am invited to speak at 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting at Atlanta, Georgia on the topic of Optimizing Building Operations Using Data and AI.
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Sept 26, 2025: I am co-organizing the 2025 Harvard GSD DDes Conference. I will also be organizing the panel: Building intelligence: Control and Optimize Human-Centered Built Environment with speakers Professor Giorgia Chinazzo from Northwestern, Professor Nan Ma from WPI, and Judah Goldfeder from Columbia and Google.
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Sept 5, 2025: I am invited as a guest speak for podcast It’s a Controls Problem on the topic of Data, AI, and the Next Chapter in Building Automation.
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Aug 14, 2025: My paper titled Real-Time Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Informed Demand-Side Load Regulation for Power Grid Decarbonization publsihed on Cell Reports Sustainability is featured as a news story at UT Dallas News Center.
Publications
Academic Community
Invited Presenter, Presentation topic: Optimizing Building Operations Using Data and AI. Link to the presentation
Organizer and panel host for the Harvard GSD DDes Conference 2025. Full event replay
Session Chair for DAC-05-Design and Optimization of Energy Systems
Presenter, Poster presentation for the paper titled Co-Optimizing Distributed Energy Resources under Demand Charges and Bi-Directional Power Flow. Link to the poster
Presenter, Presentation topic: Optimizing Building Operations Using Data and AI. Link to the presentation
My work at NANTUM AI contributed the LBNL paper that outlines the state of energy management information systems’ capabilities on decarbonization and energy efficiency. Link to the paper
Industry guest and panelist
Presenter, Presentation topic: Using AI for Anomaly Detection, Carbon Tracing, Energy Savings & More.
Acknowledged contribution and technical support for this project. Link to the paper
Acknowledged contribution and technical support for this project. Link to the paper
Journals:
- Solar Energy
Conferences:
- NeurIPS UrbanAI 2025
- ICML CO-BUILD 2025
- IEEE PESGM 2025
- ACEEE Summer Study 2024
- ASME IDETC 2021 - 2025
Instructor:
- Havard, Data and AI in Building Operation and Management, Winter 2026
Teaching Fellow:
- Harvard, SCI 6125: Building Simulation, Spring 2026
- Harvard, SCI 6126: Materials, Spring 2026
- Harvard, SCI 6121: Environmetal Systems, Fall 2025
- Harvard, SCI 6492: Quantitative Aesthetics : Introduction to Machine Learning and Perceptual Machines for Design, Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant:
- UIUC, TAM 251: Solid Mechanics, 2017-2018
- UIUC, TAM 211: Statics, 2016-2017
In the Press
My paper titled Real-Time Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Informed Demand-Side Load Regulation for Power Grid Decarbonization publsihed on Cell Reports Sustainability is featured as a news story at UT Dallas News Center.
Invited podcast speaker on the topic of Data, AI, and the Next Chapter in Building Automation. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on YouTube
Author of NANTUM AI case study on the solar eclipse insights on the grid and buildings Link to the case study
My work at NANTUM AI was featured in the Rudin 2024 ESG Report for empowering Rudin buildings with actionable insights and automation that drive sustainable operations. Link to the report
My work at NANTUM AI was featured in the JPMorgan Chase ESG Report 2023 that helped reduce energy use while maximizing thermal comfort and indoor air quality for occupants for JPMC corporate facilities. Link to the report
My work at NANTUM AI was featured in the Jamestown Sustainability & Social Responsibility Report 2023 that saved $71,000 (260% ROI) at Waterfront Plaza (San Francisco, CA) in 2023. Link to the report
Experiences
- Researching and developing learning-based intelligent systems to building systems.
- Researching and developing interactive occupant-centric smart controls algorithms.
- Facilitating operation and performing analysis on Harvard HouseZero.
- Researching and developing ML, AI applications for building and portfolio (JPMC, GSA, Blackrock, Rudin, etc.) carbon measurement, decarbonization, carbon procurement, and carbon accounting.
- Developing and managing real-time occupancy-driven optimal Building Control and Energy Conservation Application prototypes and products, for building controls using Data Science and Analytics, ML and AI.
- Developing physics-informed ML modeling for building potential savings and Measurement & Verification. National Research Laboratory verified $28.7M In Potential Annual Energy Savings for GSA portfolio.
- Performing and managing research on various smart-building related applications including Fault Detection Diagnostic, space utilization, occupancy sensing, etc.
- Participating in industry challenges, conferences, and paper publications and reviews.
- Developed and Implemented IoT-sensor based hardware and software for smart building communities.
- Led research projects on optimization related to smart building applications with water and other energy.
- Led research projects on Grid-interactive buildings optimal scheduling and control applications.
Awards and Honors
- 2024-2026 Harvard GSD Merit Grant Recipient
- 2024-2026 Harvard GSD DDes Grant Recipient
- 2025 Harvard GSD Student Conference Attendance Fund Recipient
- 2024 The Daniel L. Schodek Fellowship Recipient
- 2024 Blueprint Generative AI in Buildings Challenge Finalist
- 2022 NYSERDA RTEM Challenge Finalist 9 out of 400+ groups
- 2022 PropTech Challenge 1 of 5 Finalists
- 2021 PropTech Challenge – NYSERDA Tenant Energy Data 2nd Place
- 2014-2018 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dean’s List
- 2014-2018 Unviersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, James Scholar
- 2014 Euclid Mathematics Contest, top 25% worldwide
- 2014 Meicun High School Zouwenhai Scholarship Award, 10 out of the class of 2014