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2026

It Is Not Always Greener on the Other Side: Greenery Perception across Demographics and Personalities in Multiple Cities
Matias Quintana, Fangqi Liu, Jussi Torkko, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang, Yujun Hou, Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Tuuli Toivonen, Yi Lu, Filip Biljecki
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2026

2025

What Is a Digital Twin Anyway? Deriving the Definition for the Built Environment from over 15,000 Scientific Publications
Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Edgardo Macatulad, Binyu Lei, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller, Filip Biljecki
Building and Environment, 2025
How Realistic Are Synthetic Energy Data? Feature-based Evaluation of Generated Smart Meter Load Profiles
Nazar Demir, Talia Qaiser, Ada Canaydin, Chun Fu, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller, Hussain Kazmi
Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2025
Designing Effective Image-Based Surveys for Urban Visual Perception
Youlong Gu, Matias Quintana, Xiucheng Liang, Koichi Ito, Winston Yap, Filip Biljecki
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025
Make Yourself Comfortable: Nudging Urban Heat and Noise Mitigation with Smartwatch-Based Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI)
Clayton Miller, Yun Xuan Chua, Matias Quintana, Binyu Lei, Filip Biljecki, Mario Frei
arXiv, 2025
ZenSVI: An Open-Source Software for the Integrated Acquisition, Processing and Analysis of Street View Imagery towards Scalable Urban Science
Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Xiucheng Liang, Zicheng Fan, Yujun Hou, Tianhong Zhao, Rui Ma, Kunihiko Fujiwara, Jiani Ouyang, Matias Quintana, Filip Biljecki
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2025
Make Yourself Comfortable: Nudging Urban Heat and Noise Mitigation with Smartwatch-Based Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI)
Clayton Miller, Yun Xuan Chua, Matias Quintana, Binyu Lei, Filip Biljecki, Mario Frei
Building and Environment, 2025
The Cool, Quiet City Machine Learning Competition: Overview and Results
C Miller, M Ibrahim, I S Akbar, B Picchetti, Y X Chua, M Frei, F Biljecki, A Chong, M Quintana, C Fu
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2025
Global Urban Visual Perception Varies across Demographics and Personalities
Matias Quintana, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang, Yujun Hou, Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Filip Biljecki
, 2025
Global Urban Visual Perception Varies across Demographics and Personalities
Matias Quintana, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang, Yujun Hou, Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Filip Biljecki
Nature Cities, 2025
It Is Not Always Greener on the Other Side: Greenery Perception across Demographics and Personalities in Multiple Cities
Matias Quintana, Fangqi Liu, Jussi Torkko, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang, Yujun Hou, Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Tuuli Toivonen, Yi Lu, Filip Biljecki
, 2025
Recommender Systems and Reinforcement Learning for Human-Building Interaction and Context Aware Support: A Text Mining-Driven Review of Scientific Literature
Wenhao Zhang, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
Energy and Buildings, 2025

2024

What Is a Digital Twin Anyway? Deriving the Definition for the Built Environment from over 15,000 Scientific Publications
Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Edgardo Macatulad, Binyu Lei, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller, Filip Biljecki
arXiv, 2024
Creating Synthetic Energy Meter Data Using Conditional Diffusion and Building Metadata
Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
arXiv, 2024
Creating Synthetic Energy Meter Data Using Conditional Diffusion and Building Metadata
Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
Energy and Buildings, 2024
Global Streetscapes --- A Comprehensive Dataset of 10 Million Street-Level Images across 688 Cities for Urban Science and Analytics
Yujun Hou, Matias Quintana, Maxim Khomiakov, Winston Yap, Jiani Ouyang, Koichi Ito, Zeyu Wang, Tianhong Zhao, Filip Biljecki
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024
Global Streetscapes --- A Comprehensive Dataset of 10 Million Street-Level Images across 688 Cities for Urban Science and Analytics
Yujun Hou, Matias Quintana, Maxim Khomiakov, Winston Yap, Jiani Ouyang, Koichi Ito, Zeyu Wang, Tianhong Zhao, Filip Biljecki
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024
Translating Street View Imagery to Correct Perspectives to Enhance Bikeability and Walkability Studies
Koichi Ito, Matias Quintana, Xianjing Han, Roger Zimmermann, Filip Biljecki
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2024
Translating Street View Imagery to Correct Perspectives to Enhance Bikeability and Walkability Studies
Koichi Ito, Matias Quintana, Xianjing Han, Roger Zimmermann, Filip Biljecki
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2024
Opening the Black Box: Towards Inherently Interpretable Energy Data Imputation Models Using Building Physics Insight
Antonio Liguori, Matias Quintana, Chun Fu, Clayton Miller, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck
Energy and Buildings, 2024
A Data-Driven Agent-Based Model of Occupants' Thermal Comfort Behaviors for the Planning of District-Scale Flexible Work Arrangements
Martín Mosteiro-Romero, Matias Quintana, Rudi Stouffs, Clayton Miller
Building and Environment, 2024
Poster Abstract: My Street Is Better than Your Street: Towards Data-Driven Urban Planning with Visual Perception
Matias Quintana, Youlong Gu, Filip Biljecki
Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2024
Recommender Systems and Reinforcement Learning for Building Control and Occupant Interaction: A Text-Mining Driven Review of Scientific Literature
Wenhao Zhang, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
arXiv, 2024

2023

Filling Time-Series Gaps Using Image Techniques: Multidimensional Context Autoencoder Approach for Building Energy Data Imputation
Chun Fu, Matias Quintana, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller
arXiv, 2023
Enhancing Classification of Energy Meters with Limited Labels Using a Semi-Supervised Generative Model
Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2023
Filling Time-Series Gaps Using Image Techniques: Multidimensional Context Autoencoder Approach for Building Energy Data Imputation
Chun Fu, Matias Quintana, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller
Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023
The Building Data Genome Directory -- An Open, Comprehensive Data Sharing Platform for Building Performance Research
Xiaoyu Jin, Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi, Atilla Balint, Ada Canaydin, Matias Quintana, Filip Biljecki, Fu Xiao, Clayton Miller
arXiv, 2023
The Building Data Genome Directory -- An Open, Comprehensive Data Sharing Platform for Building Performance Research
Xiaoyu Jin, Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi, Atilla Balint, Ada Canaydin, Matias Quintana, Filip Biljecki, Fu Xiao, Clayton Miller
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023
Opening the Black Box: Towards Inherently Interpretable Energy Data Imputation Models Using Building Physics Insight
Antonio Liguori, Matias Quintana, Chun Fu, Clayton Miller, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck
arXiv, 2023
Utilizing Wearable Technology to Characterize and Facilitate Occupant Collaborations in Flexible Workspaces
Kristi Maisha, Mario Frei, Matias Quintana, Yun Xuan Chua, Rishee Jain, Clayton Miller
arXiv, 2023
Utilizing Wearable Technology to Characterize and Facilitate Occupant Collaborations in Flexible Workspaces
Kristi Maisha, Mario Frei, Matias Quintana, Yun Xuan Chua, Rishee Jain, Clayton Miller
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023
Introducing the Cool, Quiet City Competition: Predicting Smartwatch-Reported Heat and Noise with Digital Twin Metrics
Clayton Miller, Matias Quintana, Mario Frei, Yun Xuan Chua, Chun Fu, Bianca Picchetti, Winston Yap, Adrian Chong, Filip Biljecki
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2023
From Personal Comfort to District Performance: Using Smartwatch and WiFi Data for Occupant-Driven Operation
Martín Mosteiro-Romero, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller, Rudi Stouffs
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2023
Leveraging Campus-Scale Wi-Fi Data for Activity-Based Occupant Modeling in Urban Energy Applications
Martín Mosteiro-Romero, Clayton Miller, Matias Quintana, Adrian Chong, Rudi Stouffs
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023
Ten Questions Concerning Reinforcement Learning for Building Energy Management
Zoltan Nagy, Gregor Henze, Sourav Dey, Javier Arroyo, Lieve Helsen, Xiangyu Zhang, Bingqing Chen, Kadir Amasyali, Kuldeep Kurte, Ahmed Zamzam, Helia Zandi, Ján Drgoňa, Matias Quintana, Steven McCullogh, June Young Park, Han Li, Tianzhen Hong, Silvio Brandi, Giuseppe Pinto, Alfonso Capozzoli, Draguna Vrabie, Mario Bergés, Kingsley Nweye, Thibault Marzullo, Andrey Bernstein
Building and Environment, 2023

2022

Green Mark Certified Buildings Metadata from Singapore
Yi Ting Teo, Matias Quintana, Muhammad Zikry Bin Sabarudin, Charlene Tan, Adrian Chong, Clayton Miller
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2022
From Model-Centric to Data-Centric: A Practical MPC Implementation Framework for Buildings
Sicheng Zhan, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller, Adrian Chong
Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2022
ALDI++: Automatic and Parameter-Less Discord and Outlier Detection for Building Energy Load Profiles
Matias Quintana, Till Stoeckmann, June Young Park, Marian Turowski, Veit Hagenmeyer, Clayton Miller
Energy and Buildings, 2022
ComfortLearn: Enabling Agent-Based Occupant-Centric Building Controls
Matias Quintana, Zoltan Nagy, Federico Tartarini, Stefano Schiavon, Clayton Miller
Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2022
Cohort Comfort Models --- Using Occupant's Similarity to Predict Personal Thermal Preference with Less Data
Matias Quintana, Stefano Schiavon, Federico Tartarini, Joyce Kim, Clayton Miller
Building and Environment, 2022
Personal Comfort Models Based on a 6-month Experiment Using Environmental Parameters and Data from Wearables
Federico Tartarini, Stefano Schiavon, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
Indoor Air-international Journal of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, 2022

2021

Dataset: Longitudinal Personal Thermal Comfort Preference Data in the Wild
Matias Quintana, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Mario Frei, Federico Tartarini, Clayton Miller
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2021
The Internet-of-Buildings (IoB) --- Digital Twin Convergence of Wearable and IoT Data with GIS/BIM
Clayton Miller, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Adrian Chong, Filip Biljecki, Matias Quintana, Mario Frei, Michael Chew, Daniel Wong
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021
Islands of Misfit Buildings: Detecting Uncharacteristic Electricity Use Behavior Using Load Shape Clustering
Matias Quintana, Pandarasamy Arjunan, Clayton Miller
Building Simulation, 2021

2020

Humans-as-a-Sensor for Buildings---Intensive Longitudinal Indoor Comfort Models
Prageeth Jayathissa, Matias Quintana, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Clayton Miller
Buildings, 2020
Balancing Thermal Comfort Datasets: We GAN, but Should We?
Matias Quintana, Stefano Schiavon, Kwok Wai Tham, Clayton Miller
Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2020
Balancing Thermal Comfort Datasets: We GAN, but Should We?
Matias Quintana, Stefano Schiavon, Kwok Wai Tham, Clayton Miller
arXiv, 2020

2019

Towards Class-Balancing Human ComfortDatasets with Gans
Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
, 2019
Is Your Clock-Face Cozie? A Smartwatch Methodology for the in-Situ Collection of Occupant Comfort Data
Prageeth Jayathissa, Matias Quintana, Tapeesh Sood, Negin Nazarian, Clayton Miller
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019
Towards Class-Balancing Human Comfort Datasets with Gans
Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2019