Xiaoyu Jia is a visiting scholar at WPI’s HERB-Lab, working with Prof. Nancy Ma. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in HVAC at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University. Prior to joining WPI, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Building Performance & Diagnostics (BPD) at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on building energy flexibility and…
Stavros Pongas is a senior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is pursuing a BS in Architectural Engineering. His research interests include BIM, HVAC, data-driven building operation, energy efficiency, and sustainable building and building envelope design. Stavros is also interested in the overlap between AI and the built environment and how AI can be improved and used more extensively in the…
Wang Zhou is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). His research focuses on bridging Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Performance Modeling (BPM) to better connect architectural design and civil engineering performance analysis through data-driven methods. His current research focuses on applying artificial intelligence and computer vision to…
Yude (Olaf) Fu is a Research Assistant at the HERB Lab at WPI, where he works with Prof. Nancy Ma on occupant behavior, residential BEM, and data-driven approaches to improving building performance and energy efficiency. He is currently pursuing an MS degree in Building Performance and Diagnostics at CMU. His research interests include BEM, HVAC, occupant behavior, AI for the…
Ming Yan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Southeast University and a Master of Science in Design, specializing in Environmental Building Design, from the University of Pennsylvania with distinction. His professional path was recognized in 2022 with the Muscoe Martin Fellowship, enabling him to work alongside Green Building United and the City of Philadelphia on BEPP and benchmarking data analysis.…
Shundong Li is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at WPI. He is trained as a data scientist and is passionate about applying data analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to the field of architectural engineering and building applications. His current research focuses on AI for buildings and cities, building data…
Yalin Lu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Architectural Engineering at HERB-Lab. She obtained her Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong and her M.E. and B.E. degrees from Southeast University in China. Her research interests include advanced room air distribution, indoor air quality, aerosol transmission control, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency.
Qi Zhang is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Environment Building & Design (CEBD), University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on advancing thermodynamic and ecological architecture, in low-energy and high-performance buildings. She is involved in the project“Study on IntegratedDesign of Low-Energy…
