| 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] |