I'll join the University of Hong Kong as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering in Fall 2026. I am recruiting multiple fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions in sustainable building energy systems, decision-oriented digital twins, and low-carbon AI infrastructure. More details here >>
I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Building Technology, working on sustainable and intelligent building energy systems using data-efficient computational methods. With over a decade of multi-continental research experience, I develop scalable, decision-oriented digital twins to address scientific and practical challenges in the transition to zero-carbon cities. More about me »
Research
My research sits at the intersection of building energy systems and computational technologies, aiming both to unlock the potential of smart buildings to accelerate urban energy transition and to develop sustainable AI infrastructure as an integral component of future cities. More about research »
News
- ✈️ 03/2026 - Visited the Cambridge Sustainable Design Group and gave a seminar on data-centric building digital twins
- 🎙️ 02/2026 - Our paper on non-invasive occupent-centric control for legacy office buildings is accepted at IAQVEC 2026
- 🎙️ 02/2026 - Gave a guest lecture on revisiting MPC for HVAC control at IBPSA BOPTEST Webinar
- ✈️ 02/2026 - Co-hosted Trane Technology VP and Senior Director in Innovation at MIT and discussed research in waste heat reuse and campus decarbonization
- 🎙️ 01/2026 - Gave a guest lecture on the two-way interaction between AI and the built environment at MIT IAP Sustainable AI Module
- 🧑💼 01/2026 - Served as workshop cochair and TPC Member for BuildSys 2026
- 📃 12/2025 - Our paper on performance evaluation of physics-informed machine learning for building controls accepted at Energy and Buildings
- 🎙️ 11/2025 - Presented our paper on robust and expert-agnostic digital twin calibration at ACM BuildSys 2025 in Golden, CO
- ✈️ 11/2025 - Visited Prof. Liping Wang at University of Wyoming and discussed research in sustainable controlled environment agriculture
- 🎙️ 11/2025 - Invited to join the panel of AI-assisted building performance simulation at Buiding and Simulation 2025 in Changsha, Hunan.
- 🧑💼 09/2025 - Appointed as Youth Editorial Board Member of Building Simulation
- 💰 09/2025 - Project on scalable occupant-centric control funded by MIT UROP direct funding
- 🎙️ 08/2025 - Invited to join the penal of AI in the Built Environment at the UNSW-Tsinghua University Workshop in Sydney
- 🎙️ 08/2025 - Presented our papers on corner cases in occupant-centric control and novel personal cooling system at IBPSA BS2025 in Brisbane, Australia
- 📃 08/2025 - Our paper on deep generative networks for synthesizing realistic occupant scenarios accepted at Building Simulation