Together with Prof. Mario Bergés (CMU), we are organizing the first Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings and Cities (RLEM’20) co-located with ACM BuildSys’20, and held virtually. We invite original submissions that explore the use of reinforcement learning Read more 

Dr Nagy gave a keynote address at the 2020 ACM Workshop for Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems, co-located with ACM e-Energy, showcasing our latest achievements in reinforcement learning control for microgrid building coordination and the CityLearn challenge. It can be viewed Read more 

IEL's first PhD student has graduated today!!! We congratulate Dr Park for successfully defending his thesis Occupant-Centric Building Control: Balancing Occupant Comfort and Energy Efficiency. We are excited and wish him good luck for his new position as faculty at UT Arlington. Abstract: For Read more 

We're guest editing a Special issue in the IBPSA Journal of Building Performance Simulation together with Dr Henze of CU Boulder. Periods of high demand for electricity raise electricity prices and the overall cost of electric power provision. Flattening, smoothing, and reducing electrical demand Read more 

From 4/20–4/23 over 100 scientist from around the world met virtually for the Annex79 expert meeting. This meeting was supposed to be in Beijing, and was relocated to Southamption, UK. However, given the current pandemic and travel restrictions, the meeting had to be held virtually. The organizers Read more