Conferences

Three PhD students presented at 2019 ASHRAE Annual Conference

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:53:38 +0000

Three PhD students presented at 2019 ASHRAE Annual Conference Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/28/2019 - 13:53

Jing Wang

The 2019 ASHRAE Annual Conference took place from June 22-26 in Kansas City. Three PhD students from our group presented their work. Their presentation titles are:

Yangyang Fu: Modeling the Transient Event of Data Center Cooling during the Power Outage;

Yunyang Ye: Methodology to Evaluate Sensitive Levels of Inputs for U.S. Commercial Building Models;

Xu Han: Optimization on Thermostat Location in an Office Room Using a Coupled Simulation of Indoor Airflow and HVAC System.

Good job!

Yangyang Fu presenting.

Yunyang Ye presenting.

Xu Han presenting.

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Prof. Zuo gave plenary talk at IBPSA-China National Conference

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 23:19:05 +0000

Prof. Zuo gave plenary talk at IBPSA-China National Conference Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/11/2019 - 17:19

Jing Wang

On May 16, the IBPSA-China National Conference took place in Chengdu, China. Prof. Zuo gave a plenary talk titled "Modelica-based System Modeling for Green Buildings and Smart Cities". He introduced the work of SBS Lab in the field of applying advanced modeling tools in building, community and urban scales.

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SBS Lab presented a panel talk and four posters in the 2019 Energy Transition Symposium

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:00:10 +0000

SBS Lab presented a panel talk and four posters in the 2019 Energy Transition Symposium Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/08/2019 - 12:00

Jing Wang

From April 1st to 2nd, the 8th annual 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium was held in Denver. The co-hosts of this event are Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory energy research partners — University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Energy related people from the government, industries, universities and national laboratories gathered together to exchange ideas and progresses in environmental, renewable energy, water and food areas.

Prof. Zuo gave a panel talk titled "Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities via Integrated Modeling of Energy, Transportation and Communication Systems". Our lab has 4 posters presented in the poster session. The presenters are Katy, Jing, Xu and Yunyang.

Video of Prof. Zuo's talk (from 20:25 to 25:40).

Prof. Zuo is giving panel talk.

Poster session. From left to right: Katy, Jing, Xu, Yunyang.

Students and instructor of the Grid Connected Systems. From left to right: Jing, Katy, Prof. Kyri Baker, Maggie, Kaitlyn.

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Dr. Zuo presented our work at the 13th International Modelica Conference in Regensburg, Germany

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:59:29 +0000

Dr. Zuo presented our work at the 13th International Modelica Conference in Regensburg, Germany Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/21/2019 - 16:59

Jing Wang

From March 4-6, 2019, the 13th International Modelica Conference was held in Regensburg, Germany. Dr. Zuo attended the conference and presented our research. He also visited three German institutes: Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP), Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and discussed opportunities for collaborations.

Photo shows Dr. Zuo visiting the supersonic flow test facility at Coburg University of Applied Sciences.

From left to right: Professor Philipp Epple, his Ph.D. student, Dr. Zuo

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Yunyang and Yangyang got scholarships to attend ASHRAE Winter Conference

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:44:09 +0000

Yunyang and Yangyang got scholarships to attend ASHRAE Winter Conference Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 02/03/2019 - 17:44

Jing Wang

From January 12th to 16th, 2019, the ASHRAE Winter Conference took place in Atlanta. Two PhD students from our group, Yunyang and Yangyang attended the conference. Yunyang was soponsered by the CU ASHRAE Student Branch. Yangyang was sponsered by both the CU ASHRAE Student Branch and the ASHRAE Rocky Mountain Chapter. Congratulations to them!

In the photo are three CU students with the ASHRAE president. From left to right: Yangyang Fu, Archan Shah, Sheila J. Hayter, and Zac Peterson.

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Dr. Zuo gave invited speech at “Panel of Current Research: Building Smart, Community-Based Decision-Making”

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 01:16:10 +0000

Dr. Zuo gave invited speech at “Panel of Current Research: Building Smart, Community-Based Decision-Making” Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/19/2018 - 19:16

Jing Wang

Dr. Zuo was invited to speak at the “Panel of Current Research: Building Smart, Community-Based Decision-Making” at the Community Building Colorado-Style Conference in Boulder, CO, on October 19. Dr. Zuo gave a presentation titled “Novel Computational Framework for Optimal Planning of Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities” and discussed with the participants on how to strengthen the existing collaborations and build new collaborations among the academia, companies, non-profit organizations and governments. For more information about this conference, please see their website.

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Dr. Zuo presented 4 papers at COBEE2018 conference

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:38:27 +0000

Dr. Zuo presented 4 papers at COBEE2018 conference Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 03/04/2018 - 20:38

Jing Wang

From Feb. 5th-9th, COBEE2018 was held in Melbourne, Australia. The goal of the COBEE2018 conference is to bring together experimental and numerical practitioners, and to foster discussions and exchange of knowledge.

Dr. Zuo attended the conference and presented four papers from our group:

W. Tian, Y. Fu, Q. Wang, T. A. Sevilla, W. Zuo 2018. “Optimization on Thermostat Location in an Office Room Using the Coupled Simulation Platform in Modelica Buildings Library: A Pilot Study.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2018), pp. 569-574, February 5-9, Melbourne, Australia.
Y. Ye, G. Wang, W. Zuo 2018. “Creation of a Prototype Building Model of College and University Building.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2018), pp. 373-378, February 5-9, Melbourne, Australia.
G. Zhou, Y. Ye, W. Zuo, X. Zhou 2018. “Modelling Air-To-Air Plate-Fin Heat Exchanger without Condensation.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2018), pp. 597-602, February 5-9, Melbourne, Australia.
T. A. Sevilla, W. Tian, Y. Fu, W. Zuo 2018. “Low-Cost Acoustic Sensor Array for Building Geometry Mapping Using Echolocation for Real-Time Building Model Creation.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2018), pp. 323-328, February 5-9, Melbourne, Australia.

He also chaired a keynote session. For more information, please refer to the official website of COBEE2018: http://www.cobee2018.net/index.html.

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Conference paper awarded the Best Paper at 2017 Chinese National Conference on HVAC Modeling

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 22:40:34 +0000

Conference paper awarded the Best Paper at 2017 Chinese National Conference on HVAC Modeling Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/08/2017 - 15:40

Jing Wang

Former visiting Ph.D. student Guang Zhou and current Ph.D. student Yunyang's paper titled "Modelling Water-Cooled Air Coolers under Wet-Cooling Conditions" was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Chinese National Conference on HVAC Modeling in Guangzhou, China. Three papers were awarded this year. Big congrats to Guang and Yunyang!

The paper was awarded at the conference.

Photo of Guang Zhou (left) and Qiujian Wang (right) at the conference.

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Dr. Zuo gave a talk at the Community Building Colorado-Style conference

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 22:01:18 +0000

Dr. Zuo gave a talk at the Community Building Colorado-Style conference Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 10/22/2017 - 16:01

Jing Wang

On Oct. 21, the Colorado Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and CU Boulder's Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center hosted the Community Building Colorado-Style conference. Speakers and panelists discussed innovations to encourage small businesses, smart city technologies, creative districts, mobile and manufactured housing communities, green infrastructure strategies, citizen and youth engagement in city design and more.

Dr. Zuo attended the conference and gave a talk about our Net Zero Energy Community project in the "Smart City and Community: Connecting the Dots" session.

Photo by Jen Shelby

For more information, visit the CEDaR Website.

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Dr. Zuo attended the Building Simulation 2017 conference in San Francisco

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 03:42:57 +0000

Dr. Zuo attended the Building Simulation 2017 conference in San Francisco Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/28/2017 - 21:42

Jing Wang

Dr. Zuo attended and presented at the Building Simulation 2017 conference in August 2017 in San Francisco, CA. During the conference, he also attended the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Board Meeting, IBPSA-USA Research Committee Meeting, and IBPSA Project 1 Kick-off Meeting. Dr. Zuo is currently serving as the IBPSA Treasurer and Affiliate Director (representing USA), as well as IBPSA-USA Research Committee Chair.

IBPSA-USA Research Committee meeting during the conference lunch break

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