| Apr 17, 2025 |
Our paper led by Youlong Gu, titled “Designing effective image-based surveys for urban visual perception” is available in the Landscape and Urban Planning journal.
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| Mar 20, 2025 |
Our paper led by Koichi Ito, titled “ZenSVI: An open-source software for the integrated acquisition, processing and analysis of street view imagery towards scalable urban science” is available in the Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS) journal. GitHub repo.
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| Mar 5, 2025 |
Our paper led by Mahmoud Abdelrahman, titled “What is a Digital Twin anyway? Deriving the definition for the built environment from over 15,000 scientific publications” is available in the Building and Environment journal.
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| Dec 31, 2024 |
Our paper led by Wenhao Zhang, titled “Recommender systems and reinforcement learning for human-building interaction and context aware support: A text mining-driven review of scientific literature” is available in the Energy and Buildings journal. LinkedIn post.
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| Nov 14, 2024 |
Our paper led by Wenhao Zhang, titled “Recommender systems and reinforcement learning for human-building interaction and context-aware support: A text mining-driven review of scientific literature” is available as preprint here.
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| Nov 11, 2024 |
I presented our poster titled “My street is better than your street: Towards data-driven urban planning with visual perception” at BuildSys’24 in Hangzhou, China, and won the Best Poster/Demo Runner-Up award! Linkedin article.
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| Aug 28, 2024 |
Our paper led by Koichi Ito, titled “Translating street view imagery to correct perspectives to enhance bikeability and walkability studies” is available in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). LinkedIn post.
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| Jul 16, 2024 |
Our paper led by Yujun Hou, titled “Global Streetscapes – A comprehensive dataset of 10 million street-level images across 688 cities for urban science and analytics” is available in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Project website and LinkedIn post.
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| May 5, 2024 |
A paper led by Chun Fu, titled “Creating synthetic energy meter data using conditional diffusion and building metadata” is avaialble in the Energy and Buildings Journal. LinkedIn post.
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| Apr 16, 2024 |
A paper led by Martin Mosteiro-Romero, titled “A data-driven agent-based model of occupants’ thermal comfort behaviors for the planning of district-scale flexible work arrangements” is avaialble in the Building and Environment Journal. LinkedIn post.
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| Mar 19, 2024 |
A paper led by Antonio Liguori, titled “Opening the Black Box: Towards inherently interpretable energy data imputation models using building physics insight” is avaialble in the Energy and Buildings Journal. LinkedIn post.
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| Nov 15, 2023 |
Two posters and one workshop paper presented at BuildSys’23 in Istanbul in collaboration with NUS.
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| Sep 18, 2023 |
Started a 2-month research stay at ETH Zürich in the chair of Computational Social Science under Prof. Dirk Helbing.
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| Sep 15, 2023 |
Two posters and one short presentations at CISBAT’23 in collaboration with NUS and Hon Kong Polytechnic University.
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| Sep 14, 2023 |
A paper led by Chun Fu, titled “Filling time-series gaps using image techniques: Multidimensional context autoencoder approach for building energy data imputation” is avaialble in the Applied Thermal Engineering Journal. LinkedIn post.
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| Jul 19, 2023 |
Joined the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Program Committee. Please consider submitting your work.
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| Jul 15, 2023 |
Joined the Fourth ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (RLEM) as Program Committee.
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| Mar 23, 2023 |
An article by the National University of Singapore was released about a science communication effort alongside a short video about my PhD research. LinkedIn Article.
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| Jan 26, 2023 |
Joined the journal of Scientific Reports as peer reviewer.
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| Jan 17, 2023 |
Joined the Climate Change AI’s workshop on “Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning” at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) as Program Committee.
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| Nov 30, 2022 |
Our paper Humans-as-a-Sensor for Buildings—Intensive Longitudinal Indoor Comfort Models won the Buildings 2020 Best Paper Award. LinkedIn post.
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| Nov 30, 2022 |
Gave a two-day workshop at the 1er Taller Regional sobre Aplicaciones e Investigación en Ciencia de Datos with the goal of promoting and contributing to the research community in South America.
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| Nov 25, 2022 |
Our paper Personal comfort models based on a 6-month experiment using environmental parameters and data from wearables is available in the Indoor Air Journal.
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| Nov 11, 2022 |
Our paper ComfortLearn: Enabling agent-based occupant-centric building controls was presented in BuildSys’22 at the RLEM workshop and is now available online.
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| Nov 11, 2022 |
Our paper Towards smartwatch-driven just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) for building occupants was presented in BuildSys’22 at the FoWSB workshop and is now available online.
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| Nov 10, 2022 |
Our paper From Model-Centric to Data-Centric: A Practical MPC Implementation Framework for Buildings was presented in BuildSys’22 and is now available online.
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| Nov 6, 2022 |
Our paper Dataset: Green Mark certified buildings metadata from Singapore was presented in SenSys’22 at the DATA workshop and is now available online.
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| Oct 13, 2022 |
Our paper Cohort comfort models - Using occupant’s similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data is available in the Building and Environment Journal.
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| Sep 7, 2022 |
Selected as a participant in the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2023 taking place on 17 – 20 January in Singapore
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| Aug 30, 2022 |
Joined the journal of Building Engineering as a peer reviewer.
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| Aug 28, 2022 |
Joined the NeurIPS 2022 Workshop - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Program Committee. Please consider submitting your work. [Call for Papers].
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| Aug 26, 2022 |
Selected as part of the College of Design and Engineering - NUS Science Outreach presenters for 2022.
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| Aug 24, 2022 |
Started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Design and Engineering - NUS.
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| Aug 8, 2022 |
Our paper Cohort comfort models – Using occupants’ similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data is available as preprint here.
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| Jun 24, 2022 |
Joined the Third ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (RLEM 2022) as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair. Please consider submitting your work! [Call for Papers].
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| Jun 16, 2022 |
Our paper Smartwatch-based ecological momentary assessments for occupant wellness and privacy in buildings won the Best Poster Award at the Indoor Air 2022 conference. You can find the preprint here.
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| May 18, 2022 |
Interviewed by Andina News Agency, Peruvian state-owned online news agency, where I talked about my scientific and professional career, highlighting my PhD work and the interdisciplinary nature of it.
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| Apr 22, 2022 |
Awarded a PhD Fellowship at this year’s University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction PhD Symposium. This all-expenses-paid opportunity includes a presentation within the Future of the Building Industry (FOBI) Workshop
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| Apr 21, 2022 |
Our paper ALDI++: Automatic and parameter-less discord and outlier detection for building energy load profiles is available in the Energy and Buildings Journal.
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| Apr 12, 2022 |
Joined the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022) as Sponsorship Co-chair.
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| Mar 15, 2022 |
Our paper ALDI++: Automatic and parameter-less discord and outlier detection for building energy load profiles is available as preprint.
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| Jan 20, 2022 |
Joined the 4th International Workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems (AMLIES) Technical Committee, co-located with ACM e-Energy Conference 2022 Virtual Event. Please consider submitting your work. [Call for Papers]
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| Nov 17, 2021 |
Our paper Dataset: Longitudinal personal thermal comfort preference data in the wild was presented in SenSys’21 at the DATA workshop and is now available online.
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| Nov 14, 2021 |
My paper PhD Forum Abstract: Cohort-based Personal Comfort Models for HVAC Occupant-Centric Control was presented in BuildSys’21 at the PhD Forum.
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| Oct 5, 2021 |
Our online class on edX Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering was nominated for the 2021 edX Exceptional Contributions to Online Teaching Prize
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| Sep 17, 2021 |
Joined the Climate Change AI’s workshop on “Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning” at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) as Program Committee.
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| Sep 13, 2021 |
Joined the journal of Ambient Ingelligence and Humanized Computing as peer reviewer.
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| Aug 27, 2021 |
Joined Serendipity: Mentorship in Science as senior mentor for Peruvian students in STEM.
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| Aug 16, 2021 |
Joined the journal of Building and Environment as peer reviewer.
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| Jun 24, 2021 |
Joined the Second ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (RLEM 2021) as Web Chair and Technical Program Committee.
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| Jun 18, 2021 |
Gave a presentation at the webinar Scholarships opportunities in ASIA-PACIFIC organised by SAPPIENS
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| May 30, 2021 |
Joined the Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2021 as Program Committee.
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| Apr 4, 2021 |
Joined the Asia-Peru-Pacific Society of Researchers in STEM (SAPPIENS) as Academic Coordinator.
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| Feb 20, 2021 |
Launched @VacunaBotPeru, a twitter bot that processes public information from the Peruvian Ministry of Health and the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics in order to generate daily tweets with COVID19 vaccination-related numbers and information.
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| Feb 2, 2021 |
Joined the 3rd International Workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems (AMLIES) Technical Committee, co-located with ACM e-Energy Conference 2021 at Torino, Italy. Please consider submitting your work. [Call for Papers]
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| Nov 20, 2020 |
Our paper Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we? was presented in BuildSys’20 and is now available online.
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| Nov 16, 2020 |
Joined SenSys and BuildSys 2020 as a Student Volunteer.
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| Nov 1, 2020 |
Our paper Differences In Thermal Comfort State Transitional Time Among Comfort Preference Groups is published in the 16th conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate (IndoorAir2020) proceedings
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| Oct 2, 2020 |
Our paper Humans-as-a-Sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models is published in MDPI Buildiungs journal
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| Sep 30, 2020 |
Our online class on edX Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering is live on its third iteration
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| Sep 29, 2020 |
Our paper Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we? is available as preprint
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| Sep 8, 2020 |
We officially launch Cozie, a Fitbit smartwach open-source application for subjective data collection
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| Aug 7, 2020 |
Attended the AI Singapore Summer School
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| Jul 8, 2020 |
Our online class on edX Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering is live on its second iteration
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| Jul 4, 2020 |
Our paper Humans-as-a-Sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models is now available as preprint
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| Apr 15, 2020 |
Our online class on edX called Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering started
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| Apr 4, 2020 |
Our paper Islands of misfit buildings: Detecting uncharacteristic electricity use behavior using load shape clustering is published in Building Simulation Journal
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| Jan 24, 2020 |
Joined the 2nd International Workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems (AMLIES) Technical Committee, co-located with ACM e-Energy Conference 2020 at Melbourne, Australia. Please consider submitting your work. [Call for Papers]
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