Recent News
Presentation on Smart Cities at INFORMS 2018
IEL's awesome PhD student Jose is in Phoenix, AZ, this week to present his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning for demand response in building Read more
Whole Communities, Whole Health — IEL participates in UT Grand Challenge
Traditional research studies take “snapshots” of people’s lives at different points in time. Those snapshots give us information, but it’s incomplete. Read more
IEA-EBC Annex 79 Kicks Off with First Experts Meeting
This week the IEA-EBC Annex 79 (Occupant Behaviour-Centric Building Design and Operation) kicks off with its first expert meeting in Ottawa, Ca. Read more
Presentation of LightLearn at The International Building Physics Conference (IBPC)
Our PhD student June is presenting his research on intelligent environments at the IBPC conference in Syracuse. His talk is entitled LightLearn: Read more
Recent Publications
LightLearn published in Building & Environment
We have investigated experimentally the use of Reinforcement Learning for lighting control in our own offices. The results are awesome and now Read more
Optimal decarbonization pathways for urban residential building energy services
Our paper in collaboration with Prof. Leibowicz has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy. It address decarbonization pathways of Read more
Chapter in Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
We have published a Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning (RL) in the forthcoming Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure published by Read more
