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Occupant-Centric Grid-Interactive Buildings
π As we are wrapping up course on occupant-centric grid-interactive buildings I am sharing some of its free resources for those interested in getting started blending Python with energyPlus - big thanks to Kingsley Nweye for putting these self contained jupyter notebooks together π
Last updated on Apr 27, 2024
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CityLearn Challenge 2023 Winners!
π’ Congratulations to the Winners of the CityLearn Challenge 2023 π₯π₯π₯ Really creative and interesting solutions to address energy forecasting and grid-interactive buildings! π Forecasting Track : π₯Team Pluto (Matt M.
Last updated on Dec 23, 2023
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New Paper: ChatGPT for Building Science
βHow good is the advice from ChatGPT for building science? We’re glad you asked. Our CISBAT 2023 paper, led by Adam Rysanek and in collaboration with Aysegul Demir Dilsiz and Clayton Miller has the answers, and is now online.
Last updated on Dec 23, 2023
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Talk at NeurIPS CCAI Workshop
Check out Ting-Yu Dai’s amazing work! In the workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, he presented βCityTFT: Temporal Fusion Transformer for Urban Building Energy Modelingβ and explore the use of Transformer models in urban energy modeling.
Last updated on Dec 23, 2023
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JumpIntoSTEM Winners!!
π’π’π’ We are super pumped that two of our student teams submitted winning projects to the DOE’s JumpIntoSTEM competition! - Gaen Ok, Vivien Zheng, and Aakruthi Karthic placed 3rd in the That’s a Wrap category (Building Environmental Systems class)
Last updated on Dec 23, 2023
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RLEM'23
π We had an amazing hashtag#RLEM23 Workshop at hashtag#BuildSys23. John Sipple and Bharathan Balaji gave two great keynotes on practical challenges and implementations of RL controllers in real buildings. The two paper sessions focused on real-world implementations as well as fast building emulators/simulators for training.
Last updated on Dec 23, 2023
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BuildSys'23 Impressions
π’ We had great hashtag#ACM hashtag#BuildSys23 conference last week in Istanbul, celebrating a decade of research on sustainable built environment at the intersection of the computer science and the building engineering community!
Last updated on Dec 23, 2023
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Allen and Kingsley receive Award!
πCongrats to Allen Wu and Kingsley Nweye for receiving the Best Virtual Poster Award at ACM BuildSys23!!!!
Last updated on Dec 22, 2023
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IEL @ BuildSys'23
π π’ The Intelligent Environments Laboratory has several contributions to ACM BuildSys'23, Nov 15-16, in Istanbul. Check it out πππ π SCALEX: SCALability EXploration of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Agents in Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
Last updated on Dec 22, 2023
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Urban heat island impacts vulnerable communities
PBS Austin intervied UT Austin experts, including Dr Nagy on the impact of the urban heat island on vulnerable communities. https://decibelatx.org/health/dove-springs-residents-stranded-on-heat-island/
Last updated on Sep 18, 2023
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