Jose is the next awesome IEL student to successfully defend his PhD entitled Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Demand Response and Load Shaping of Grid-Interactive Connected Buildings. We congratulate him for this great piece of work and wish him good luck for his future Read more 

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