“ 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 scientific work — having it withstand the test of time and also helping people.
— John Platt
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| No | Type | Publication | Year | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | [J37] | Journal Article | Reinforcement learning for demand response: A review of algorithms and modeling techniques In Press | 2018 | |
| [J36] | Journal Article | LightLearn: An Adaptive and Occupant Centered Controller for Lighting based on Reinforcement Learning In Press | 2018 | |
| [J35] | Journal Article | Fusing TensorFlow with Building Energy Simulation for Intelligent Energy Management in Smart Cities In Press | 2018 | |
| [J34] | Journal Article | Apples or Oranges? Identification of fundamental load shape profiles for benchmarking buildings using a large and diverse dataset Under Review | 2018 | |
| [J33] | Journal Article | Artificial Neural Network Based Framework for Developing Ground-Motion Models for Natural and Induced Earthquakes in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas In Press | 2018 | |
| [J32] | Journal Article | Reinforcement learning for intelligent environments: A Tutorial In Paolo Gardoni (Ed.), Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Routledge | 2018 | |
 | [J31] | Journal Article | Using Machine Learning Techniques for Demand-Driven Cooling Control in Office Buildings Applied Energy, Vol. 211, pp. 1343–1358 | 2018 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J30] | Journal Article | Optimal decarbonization pathways for urban residential building energy services Applied Energy, Vol. 230, pp. 1311-1325 | 2018 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
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| [C40] | Conference Proceeding | Reinforcement Learning for Occupant Centered Building Control System ACM Computer-Human-Interaction (CHI), Workshop on Living Labs, April | 2018 | |
| [C39] | Conference Proceeding | Deep Reinforcement Learning for Urban Energy Management Symposium on Machine Learning for Science and Engineering, Pittsburgh, June | 2018 | |
| [C38] | Conference Proceeding | Neural Network-Based Equations for Predicting PGA and PGV in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics V (ASCE GEESD), June | 2018 | |
| [C37] | Conference Proceeding | Using Bluetooth Based Occupancy Estimation for HVAC Set-back to Reduce Energy Consumption in Buildings in Proc. ASHRAE Annual Conference, June | 2018 | |
| [C36] | Conference Proceeding | Adaptive Multi-Agent Control of HVAC Systems for Residential Demand Response Using Batch Reinforcement Learning in Proc. ASHRAE BPACS/IBPSA-USA SimBuild, September | 2018 | |
| [C35] | Conference Proceeding | A Bluetooth Based Occupancy Detection for Buildings in Proc. ASHRAE BPACS/IBPSA-USA SimBuild, September | 2018 | |
| [C34] | Conference Proceeding | LightLearn: Occupant centered lighting controller using reinforcement learning to adapt systems to humans Int’l Building Physics Conference (IBPC), September | 2018 | |
 | [J26] | Journal Article | Occupancy Learning Based Demand-Driven Cooling Control for Office Spaces Building and Environment Best Paper Award, Vol 122, pp 145-160, September | 2017 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
 | [J25] | Journal Article | NEST HiLo: Investigating lightweight construction and adaptive energy systems Journal of Building Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 332-341 | 2017 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
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| [C33] | Conference Proceeding | Reinforcement Learning for smart buildings and cities Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA), Edinburgh, July | 2017 | |
| [C32] | Conference Proceeding | Reinforcement Learning for Building Systems Workshop on Big Data in Building Operations (invited), Carleton University, June | 2017 | |
 | [C31] | Conference Proceeding | Balancing comfort and operational costs of a heat pump using batch Q-learning in demand response scenarios Energy Procedia Best Paper Award, Vol. 122, pp. 415-420 | 2017 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C30] | Conference Proceeding | A Easy-Deployable Wireless Sensor Network for Building Energy Performance Assessment Energy Procedia, Vol. 122, pp. 523-528 | 2017 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
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| [C29] | Conference Proceeding | What should a building be controlled for? Ask the occupants! Sustainable Built Environment (SBE16), Zurich, Switzerland | 2016 | |
| [C28] | Conference Proceeding | Energy and the City: Investigating spatial and architectural consequences of a shift in energy systems on district level. Sustainable Built Environment (SBE16), Zurich, Switzerland | 2016 | |
| [C27] | Conference Proceeding | Thermal analysis of a multifunctional floor element Building Simulation & Optimization (BSO), IBPSA-England | 2016 | → Google Scholar |
| [C26] | Conference Proceeding | Case Study Review: Prediction Techniques in Intelligent HVAC Control Systems 9th Int. Conf. on Indoor Air Quality Ventilation & Energy Conservation In Buildings (IAQVEC), Seoul, Rep. Korea | 2016 | → Google Scholar |
| [C25] | Conference Proceeding | Electrical Design and Layout Optimization of Flexible Thin-Film Photovoltaic Modules EU PVSEC | 2016 | → DOI |
| [C24] | Conference Proceeding | SoRo-Track: A Two-Axis Soft Robotic Platform for Solar Tracking and Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Applications in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden | 2016 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C23] | Conference Proceeding | Structural and Architectural Integration of Adaptive Photovoltaic Modules in Proc. Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland, October | 2016 | |
| [J17] | Journal Article | Mechanical catalysis on the centimetre scale J. R. Soc. Interface, Vol. 12, No. 104, March | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J16] | Journal Article | Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control of Low Exergy Buildings Applied Energy, Vol. 156, pp.577-586, October | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J15] | Journal Article | Spatial variability of organic layer thickness and carbon stocks in mature boreal forests stands - Implications and suggestions for sampling designs Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 187, No 8, pp. 1-19 | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J14] | Journal Article | Automated Daily Pattern Filtering of Measured Building Performance Data Automation in Construction, Vol. 49, Part A. pp.1-17, January | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J13] | Journal Article | Occupant Centered Lighting Control for Comfort and Energy Efficient Building Operation Energy & Buildings, Vol. 94, pp. 100-108, May | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C22] | Conference Proceeding | Parametric analysis and systems design of dynamic photovoltaic shading modules EU PVSEC | 2015 | |
| [C21] | Conference Proceeding | Numerical simulation of energy performance, and construction of the adaptive solar facade. in Proc. Advanced Building Skins, Graz, Austria | 2015 | → Google Scholar |
 | [C20] | Conference Proceeding | Balancing operational and embodied emissions for the energy concept of an experimental research and living unit CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland, September | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C19] | Conference Proceeding | Towards Data-Driven Building Retrofit CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland, September | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C18] | Conference Proceeding | DC building networks and local storage for BIPV integration CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland, September | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C17] | Conference Proceeding | Service-Oriented Architecture For Data Exchange Between A Building Information Model And A Building Energy Model CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland, September | 2015 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J12] | Journal Article | Soft Robotics for Architects Soft Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 147-153 | 2014 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J11] | Journal Article | Balancing Envelope and Heating System Parameters for Zero Emissions Retrofit using Building Sensor Data Applied Energy, Vol. 131, October | 2014 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C16] | Conference Proceeding | BIM-Extracted EnergyPlus Model Calibration for Retrofit Analysis of a Historically Listed Building Building Simulation Conference, ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA, Atlanta, GA, USA | 2014 | → Google Scholar |
| [C15] | Conference Proceeding | Illuminating Adaptive Comfort: Dynamic Lighting for the Active Occupant in Proc. 8th Windsor Conference: Counting the Cost of Comfort in a Changing World, April, London, UK | 2014 | → Google Scholar |
| [C14] | Conference Proceeding | Experimental Characterization of a 2-DOF Soft Robotic Platform for Architectural Applications Robotics: Science and Systems, Workshop on Advances on Soft Robotics, Berkley, CA, USA | 2014 | |
| [C13] | Conference Proceeding | A seed dataset for a public, temporal data repository for energy informatics research on commercial building performance 3rd Conf. on Future Energy Business & Energy Informatics, Rotterdam, NED | 2014 | → Google Scholar |
| [J10] | Journal Article | Self-organized Translational Wheeling Motion in Stochastic Self-assembling Modules Artificial Life Early Access, pp. 1-17 | 2013 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C12] | Conference Proceeding | Soft Pneumatics for Sustainable Architecture Int'l. Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, Ascona, Switzerland | 2013 | |
| [C11] | Conference Proceeding | Simulation Framework for Design of Adaptive Solar Facade Systems CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland | 2013 | |
| [J9] | Journal Article | Adaptive Distributed Robotics for Environmental Performance, Occupant Comfort and Architectural Expression Int'l. Journal of Architectural Computing, Vol. 10, No.3, pp. 341-360, September | 2012 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J8] | Journal Article | Lagrangian Modeling of the Magnetization and the Magnetic Torque on Assembled Soft-Magnetic MEMS Devices for Fast Computation and Analysis IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp.787-797, August | 2012 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J7] | Journal Article | Modeling the Motion of Microrobots on Surfaces Using Non-Smooth Multibody Dynamics IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp.1058-1068, October | 2012 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C10] | Conference Proceeding | Sustainable architecture and human comfort through adaptive distributed systems IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshop (PERCOM), March, Lugano, Switzerland | 2012 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C9] | Conference Proceeding | Adaptive Distributed Architectural Systems ACADIA - Synthetic Digital Ecologies, San Francisco, Ca, USA, October | 2012 | → Google Scholar |
| [C8] | Conference Proceeding | Modeling and analysis of wireless resonant magnetic microactuators in Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA | 2010 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C7] | Conference Proceeding | On the Feasibility of Magnetic Self-Assembly for Swallowable Modular Robots Workshop on MesoScale Robotics for Medical Interventions at the IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA | 2010 | |
| [J6] | Journal Article | The Influence of Shape on Parallel Self-Assembly Entropy, 11(4), pp. 643-666 | 2009 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J5] | Journal Article | Assembling Reconfigurable Endoluminal Surgical Systems: Opportunities and Challenges International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 3-16 | 2009 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J4] | Journal Article | A Microfabricated and Microassembled Wireless Resonator Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 154, No.1, pp.109-116 | 2009 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J3] | Journal Article | Manufacturing of a Hybrid Acoustic Transmitter Using an Advanced Microassembly System IEEE. Trans. Indust. Electronics, Vol. 56, Issue 7, pp. 2657-2666 | 2009 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C6] | Conference Proceeding | A Wireless Acoustic Emitter for Passive Localization in Liquids in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan | 2009 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C5] | Conference Proceeding | Morphology Detection for Magnetically Self-Assembled Modular Robots in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA | 2009 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [J2] | Journal Article | Design and calibration of a MEMS sensor for measuring the force and torque acting on a magnetic microrobot J. Micromech. Microeng., (18) 025004 (7pp) | 2008 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
| [C4] | Conference Proceeding | Modeling Assembled-MEMS Microrobots for Wireless Magnetic Control in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, CA, USA | 2008 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
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| [C1] | Conference Proceeding | A Multi-Axis MEMS Force-Torque Sensor for Measuring the Load on a Microrobot Actuated by Magnetic Fields in Proc. IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Diego, CA, USA | 2007 | → DOI → Google Scholar |
