“ 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 | |
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| [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 | → Google Scholar |
| [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 | |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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