Latest
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Oct 26-29, 2025: I will be speaking at 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting at Atlanta, Georgia.
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Aug 17-20, 2025: I will be chairing the session Design and Optimization of Energy Systems at ASME IDETC 2025.
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Jun, 2025: My latest paper titled Joint Scheduling of DER under Demand Charges: Structure and Approximation is now available on arXiv as a preprint. The full paper is under review by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
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May 3, 2025: My latested paper Co-Optimizing Distributed Energy Resources under Demand Charges and Bi-Directional Power Flow was presented as a poseter at Northeast Systems and Control Workshop (NECSW) at Columbia University.
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May, 2025: My latest paper titled Co-Optimize Condenser Water Temperature and Cooling Tower Fan Using High-Fidelity Synthetic Data is accepted by ASME IDETC 2025 and now available as a preprint.
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Apr, 2025: My latest paper titled Real-Time Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Informed Demand-Side Load Regulation for Power Grid Decarbonization is now available on Cell Reports Sustainability.
Publications
Academic Community
Invited Presenter, Presentation topic: Optimizing Building Operations Using Data and AI.
Organizer for the Harvard GSD annual DDes Conference 2025
Session Chair for DAC-05-Design and Optimization of Energy Systems
Presenter, Poster presentation for 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
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:
- ICML CO-BUILD 2025
- IEEE PESGM 2025
- ACEEE Summer Study 2024
- ASME IDETC 2021 - 2025
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
- 2025 Harvard GSD Student Conference Attendance Fund Recipient
- 2024-2025 Harvard GSD DDes Grant Recipient
- 2024-2025 Harvard GSD Merit Grant 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