Nov 14, 2024 Our paper led by Wenhao Zhang, titled “Recommender systems and reinforcement learning for building control andoccupant interaction: A text-mining driven review of scientific literature” is available as preprint here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nov 15, 2023 Two posters and one workshop paper presented at BuildSys’23 in Istanbul in collaboration with NUS.
Sep 18, 2023 Started a 2-month research stay at ETH Zürich in the chair of Computational Social Science under Prof. Dirk Helbing.
Sep 15, 2023 Two posters and one short presentations at CISBAT’23 in collaboration with NUS and Hon Kong Polytechnic University.
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.
Jul 19, 2023 Joined the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Program Committee. Please consider submitting your work.
Jul 15, 2023 Joined the Fourth ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (RLEM) as Program Committee.
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.
Jan 26, 2023 Joined the journal of Scientific Reports as peer reviewer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sep 7, 2022 Selected as a participant in the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2023 taking place on 17 – 20 January in Singapore
Aug 30, 2022 Joined the journal of Building Engineering as a peer reviewer.
Aug 28, 2022 Joined the NeurIPS 2022 Workshop - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Program Committee. Please consider submitting your work. [Call for Papers].
Aug 26, 2022 Selected as part of the College of Design and Engineering - NUS Science Outreach presenters for 2022.
Aug 24, 2022 Started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Design and Engineering - NUS.
Aug 8, 2022 Our paper Cohort comfort models – Using occupants’ similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data is available as preprint here.
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].
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.
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.
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
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.
Apr 12, 2022 Joined the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022) as Sponsorship Co-chair.
Mar 15, 2022 Our paper ALDI++: Automatic and parameter-less discord and outlier detection for building energy load profiles is available as preprint.
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]
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.
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.
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
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.
Sep 13, 2021 Joined the journal of Ambient Ingelligence and Humanized Computing as peer reviewer.
Aug 27, 2021 Joined Serendipity: Mentorship in Science as senior mentor for Peruvian students in STEM.
Aug 16, 2021 Joined the journal of Building and Environment as peer reviewer.
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.
Jun 18, 2021 Gave a presentation at the webinar Scholarships opportunities in ASIA-PACIFIC organised by SAPPIENS
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.
Apr 4, 2021 Joined the Asia-Peru-Pacific Society of Researchers in STEM (SAPPIENS) as Academic Coordinator.
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.
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]
Nov 20, 2020 Our paper Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we? was presented in BuildSys’20 and is now available online.
Nov 16, 2020 Joined SenSys and BuildSys 2020 as a Student Volunteer.
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
Oct 2, 2020 Our paper Humans-as-a-Sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models is published in MDPI Buildiungs journal
Sep 30, 2020 Our online class on edX Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering is live on its third iteration
Sep 29, 2020 Our paper Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we? is available as preprint
Sep 8, 2020 We officially launch Cozie, a Fitbit smartwach open-source application for subjective data collection
Aug 7, 2020 Attended the AI Singapore Summer School
Jul 8, 2020 Our online class on edX Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering is live on its second iteration
Jul 4, 2020 Our paper Humans-as-a-Sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models is now available as preprint
Apr 15, 2020 Our online class on edX called Data Science for Construction, Architecture and Engineering started
Apr 4, 2020 Our paper Islands of misfit buildings: Detecting uncharacteristic electricity use behavior using load shape clustering is published in Building Simulation Journal
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]