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    • Prof. Zoltan Nagy, PhD
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    “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. --- Henry Ford Undergraduate Research Assistants Wendy Zhang, CAEE, Read more 

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    “ It's always wonderful when you do a piece of work and it withstands the test of time. That's always the ultimate goal of writing a scientific paper or doing any Read more 

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    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela HVAC Design (ARE346P | CE389H) Fundamentals of design of Read more 

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    “Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. - Wernher von Braun Research in the Intelligent Environments Laboratory focuses on approaches that allow Read more 

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Hagen Fritz invited to PhD Symposium

May 2, 2022

IEL's awesome PhD student Hagen Fritz has been selected out of an international pool of applicants as 1 of 15 PhD Symposium Fellows at the Durham Read more 

EPRI AI Grand Challenge Kick-Off

April 29, 2022

Dr Nagy co-organizes the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)'s AI Grand Challenge on Grid Interactive Smart Communities. The activities include Read more 

Dr Nagy joins program committee for ACM AMLIES

April 27, 2022

Dr Nagy joins the program committe for the ACM workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems (AMLIES) 2022 co-located with ACM Read more 

Dr Nagy joins BuildSys’22 OC as Workshop co-chair

April 25, 2022

Together with Dr Miller (NUS), Dr Nagy will be the Workshop co-chair for ACM BuildSys'22 the premier conference for smart infrastructure systems. The Read more 

New Paper: MARTINI: Smart meter driven estimation of HVAC schedules and energy savings based on Wi-Fi sensing and clustering

April 25, 2022

We have a new paper in Applied Energy led by IEL's awesome PhD student Kingsley Nweye. Kingsley Nweye, Zoltan Nagy, MARTINI: Smart meter driven Read more 

New Paper: Occupancy detection from WiFi without ground-truth

April 15, 2022

We have a new paper out in Building & Environment, led by our former lab member Prof June Park (UT Arlington). June Young Park, Kingsley Nweye, Read more 

New Paper: Sleep Quality vs Air Quality

February 21, 2022

We have a new paper out in Building & Environment as part of the Whole Communites - Whole Health Grand Challeng at UT Austin. Hagen Fritz, Read more 

IEL @ Healthy Buildings – America 2021

January 21, 2022

Our awesome PhD student Hagen Fritz presented his research on ventilation rates at Healthy-Building 2021. Title: Estimated Ventilation Rates and Read more 

CityLearn Challenge 2021 Winners

November 21, 2021

As announced during ACM RLEM’21 last week, The winners of The CityLearn Challenge 2021 are: Place (1580pts) : ZoRL & ROLEVT (Ming Jin, Read more 

IEL @ ACM BuildSys’21

November 17, 2021

This year IEL had two poster submissions to BuildSys'21. Hagen presented his work on Predicting Sleep Quality from IAQ and Activity  Dr Nagy Read more 

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IEL co-organized the first ACM RLEM Workshop @ BuildSys'20
June presenting his research at i3CE at GeorgiaTech 2019
June presenting his poster at i3CE at GeorgiaTech 2019
Jose with the Rosenfeld Poster Presenters, April 2019
Dr Nagy speaks at CMU CEE, April 2019
Annex 79 meeting in San Antonio, TX, 2019
Megan and Sepehr at ExploreUT 2019
Thomas addressing the crowd at Explore UT 2018
Dr Nagy chairing panel discussion: The Future of Building Energy Efficiency: Smart Building or Building Smart? - Feb 2019
June hanging with the IEA Annex 79 crown in Ottawa [find him]
Jose rocking the stage at the 2019 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Atlanta
Megan, Roel and Emmanuel explain their winning design for a Sustainable doghouse to Dr Clayton (r) and Jim Walker (rr)
Megan defends her MS thesis with a presentation at the UT Facilities — Fall 2018
Jose during his award winning talk at CISBAT, Lausanne, 2017
Students are ready to #HookEm
Dean Addington (School of Architecture) at the critiques for our Integrated Design project, Fall 2017
Dr Felkner (School of Architecture) and Dr Gilbert (Chair Dept. CAEE) discuss a successful teaching collaboration.
Dr Nagy, speaking at ASHRAE 2018 in Houston
Thomas talking about Bluetooth for occupancy detection at IBPSA-USA, 2018
Jose and June at the Workshop for Smart Buildings in Ottawa, 2017
June, speaking at IBPC, 2018
Thomas takes 2nd price in the UT undergraduate research competition in 2017!
June, addressing the Annex 79 crowd in Ottawa, 2018
Intelligent Environments Laboratory, Fall 2018
Intelligent Environments Laboratory, Fall 2017
Intelligent Environments Laboratory, Fall 2016

Research Highlight

Occupancy detection using Bluetooth

  Gathering occupancy data is considered as one of the grand challenges in building information modeling. Direct occupancy detection methods, Read more 

About Us

The Intelligent Environments Laboratory (IEL), led by Prof. Zoltán Nagy, is an interdisciplinary research group within the Building Energy & Environments (BEE) and Sustainable Systems (SuS) Programs of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) in the Cockrell School of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin.

The aim of our research is to rethink the built environment and define Smart Buildings and Cities as spaces that adapt to their occupants and reduce their energy consumption.

We combine data science with building science and apply machine learning to the building and urban scale

Take a look at our projects !

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Fault detection and diagnostics of air handling units using machine learning and expert rule-sets

Reinforcement Learning in the Built Environment

Reinforcement learning for urban energy systems & demand response

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for demand response & building coordination

IEA-EBC Annex 79: Occupant Centric Design and Operation of Buildings

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  • Prof. Zoltan Nagy, PhD
  • June Young Park
  • José Ramón Vázquez-Canteli
  • Megan K. McHugh, MSE

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