Lexuan Zhong
Associate Professor, The University of Alberta, Canada
lexuan1@ualberta.ca
Indoor air quality
- – Cutting-edge techniques for indoor air quality evaluation and assessment
- – Innovative HVAC solutions to enhance indoor air quality
- – Optimal strategies for controlling and mitigating indoor air pollutants
- – Climate change adaptation and impact on indoor air quality
Dr. Zhong is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta and the director and founder of the Built Environment Technology Lab. She possesses extensive research and industrial experience in the field of healthy indoor environments, with a comprehensive understanding of heat and mass transfer in buildings, physicochemical purification technologies, catalysis, UV germicidal technology, and renewable energy. A dynamic researcher, Dr. Zhong is highly proficient in applying experimental, computational, and field approaches to her research. With over 100 published articles and conference papers, her work has significantly impacted public health and environmental sustainability.
Adrian Chong
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
adrian.chong@nus.edu.sg
Building technology and performance
- – Advances in building envelope design and construction
- – Innovative heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for enhanced energy efficiency
- – Integration of renewable energy sources in building systems
- – Advances in building automation and control technologies
- – Integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning in building automation and control systems
- – Best practices for building automation and control system maintenance and management
Dr. Adrian Chong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Built Environment at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). His research interest is is rooted in addressing the multi-faceted challenges of optimizing building energy efficiency and performance.At the core of this endeavor are his interest in model calibration, uncertainty quantification, and occupant-centric building controls. At NUS, he leads the Integrated Data, Energy Analysis + Simulation (IDEAS) lab, a multidisciplinary group researching the interaction between building performance simulation, measured data, and machine learning. Adrian also serves as a subject editor for the journal Building Simulation and holds the role of Early Career Board Member for the journal Building and Environment.
Sasan Sadrizadeh
Docent, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
ssad@kth.se
Thermal comfort
- – Advances in thermal comfort modeling and simulation
- – Innovative building design strategies for enhanced thermal comfort
- – Human factors in thermal comfort assessment and management
Dr. Adrian Chong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Built Environment at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). His research interest is is rooted in addressing the multi-faceted challenges of optimizing building energy efficiency and performance.At the core of this endeavor are his interest in model calibration, uncertainty quantification, and occupant-centric building controls. At NUS, he leads the Integrated Data, Energy Analysis + Simulation (IDEAS) lab, a multidisciplinary group researching the interaction between building performance simulation, measured data, and machine learning. Adrian also serves as a subject editor for the journal Building Simulation and holds the role of Early Career Board Member for the journal Building and Environment.
Dong Chen
Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Energy, Australia
Dong.Chen@csiro.au
Energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy
- – Building energy modeling and simulation for optimization of energy use
- – Passive building design strategies for energy conservation
- – Innovative financing models for energy efficiency retrofits
- – Advances in solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy technologies for building applications
- – Integration of energy storage systems with renewable energy sources
- – Best practices for large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies in the built environment
Urlike Passe
Professor, Iowa State University, USA
upasse@iastate.edu
Health, wellbeing, and human behaviors in the built environment
- – Evidence-based design strategies for promoting health and wellbeing in buildings
- – Innovative building design strategies for enhancing occupants’ mental and physical health
- – Human factors in the assessment and management of health and wellbeing in the built environment
- – Advances in occupant behavior modeling and simulation for building design
Ulrike Passe Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University, an architect by training with a professional German architecture degree and license. She is an internationally recognized scholar of building science with specific emphasis on natural ventilation and on integrative sustainable design strategies. Her book Designing Spaces for Natural Ventilation (2015), co-authored with Francine Battaglia is used across the world. Her projects include the Interlock House built for the 2009 US DOE Solar Decathlon, and the Sustainable Cities Research Group, founded 2015 at ISU to expand her research towards urban environmental modeling is currently funded by the US National Science Foundation.
Mathew Schwartz
Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
mathew.schwartz@njit.edu
Applied advanced computational algorithms (i.e., Artificial Intelligence) in the building context
- – Advances in machine learning and data analytics for building design and management
- – Innovative use of artificial intelligence in building performance optimization
- – Best practices for managing and maintaining artificial intelligence systems in the built environment
Mohammad Baghban
Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
mohammad.baghban@ntnu.no
Sustainable building materials
- – Emerging sustainable materials for building construction
- – Life cycle assessment of building materials
- – Innovative use of recycled and repurposed materials in building design
Julian Wang
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
jqw5965@psu.edu
Visual (lighting and daylighting) quality/Acoustic quality
- – Lighting design strategies for energy efficiency and enhanced visual comfort
- – Integration of natural daylighting techniques to maximize visual quality and minimize energy use
- – Advances in lighting and daylighting control technologies for smart buildings
- – Best practices for managing and mitigating visual discomfort in the built environment
- – Advances in acoustic modeling and simulation for building design
- – Innovative building design strategies for enhanced acoustic quality
- – Best practices for managing and mitigating noise pollution in the built environment
Dr. Julian Wang’s research focuses on sustainable envelope materials, lighting and daylighting, and human thermal and visual interactions. From the fundamental research perspective, supported by U.S. NSF and NIH, his group delves into the intersection of photometry and radiometry, developing methods and pathways to integrate innovative functional materials at the nanoscale to the macroscale. From an application standpoint, Dr. Wang’s team is focusing on new building envelope systems, with a particular emphasis on glazing systems designed for energy efficiency, solar energy integration, and the enhancement of both indoor and outdoor human health and well-being, which are supported by the USDA, the EPA, and the DOE. Dr. Wang’s contributions to the field have been acknowledged with a few national/international recognitions, including the NSF CAREER, the IES Richard Kelly Award, and NAE’s selection of Grainger Frontiers of Engineering. Furthermore, he plays a significant role in the professional community/society as a Board Director of the US National Fenestration Research Council, Chairperson of the Solar Buildings Division at the American Solar Energy Society, and as a member of a few journals’ editorial boards in his field.
JuneYoung Park
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
june.park@uta.edu
Smart cities and green infrastructures
- – Advances in data analytics and machine learning for smart city management
- – Internet of things (IoT) technologies for smart cities
- – Best practices for managing and maintaining smart cities
- – Innovative use of green infrastructure for enhancing building and urban ecosystem services
- – Life cycle assessment of green infrastructure systems
- – Best practices for managing and maintaining green infrastructure in the built environment
Dr. Park is interested in smart buildings and cities: occupant centric building controls, big-data analytics for smart meter data, and human interactions in the built environments. He was a research assistant at (UT-Austin) and (CMU). During his graduate school years, he worked at National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Consortium for Building Energy Innovation. He also served his military service at United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon as a construction engineer.
Zahra Jandaghian
Research Officer, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Zahra.Jandaghian@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Climate change adaptation and resilience / Environmental policy and governance
- – Best practices for building design and management in a changing climate
- – Innovative building design strategies for enhancing resilience to climate change impacts
- – Integration of green infrastructure and ecosystem services in climate change adaptation and resilience planning
- – Best practices for building energy codes and standards development and implementation
- – Innovative financing models for green building design and construction
- – Integration of environmental policy and governance in building and urban planning
Zahra Jandaghian is a Research Officer at the Construction Research Center, National Research Council Canada, leading Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) projects. She holds a doctorate in Building Engineering from Concordia University and is an adjunct professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Zahra co-chairs an international Task Group on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilient Buildings and Communities. Her research focuses on mitigating urban heat islands and urban flooding impacts through NBS. She collaborates with various Canadian government bodies, Health Canada, INFC, SCC, CSA, stakeholders, academia, manufacturers, and associations to maximize the impact of her research.
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