Traditional research studies take “snapshots” of people’s lives at different points in time. Those snapshots give us information, but it’s incomplete. That means we might make incorrect assumptions or develop policies and interventions that are not helpful. But through a combination of biological Read more 

This week the IEA-EBC Annex 79 (Occupant Behaviour-Centric Building Design and Operation) kicks off with its first expert meeting in Ottawa, Ca. Experts from all over the world meet to discuss how to better include occupants and their behavior into the design and operation of buildings. Our Phd Read more 

Our PhD student June is presenting his research on intelligent environments at the IBPC conference in Syracuse. His talk is entitled LightLearn: Occupant centered lighting controller using reinforcement learning to adapt systems to humans.  Abstract: Humans spend up to 90% of their time Read more 

Our PhD student Jose and undergraduate researcher Thomas are presenting our research at the 2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild – Co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA in Chicago, IL. Jose is presenting his work on smart cities in a paper entitled Adaptive Multi-Agent Read more