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California, United States

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Lead high efficiency low cost low GWP cooling equipment design

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Lead high efficiency low cost low GWP cooling equipment design

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Global Cooling Efficiency Program• Lead high efficiency low cost low GWP cooling equipment design

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Urban Infrastructure and Building Attributes Generation using Machine Learning and Satellite Imagery• Propose a framework to conduct machine learning analysis for urban geometry generation • Collect open-source benchmarking data and satellite imagery• Guide student research assistant on machine learning model developmentBig Data Analysis for Regional Energy Use, Emission and Pollutants to Enable Ambitious Policies• Propose a framework to conduct spatial and temporal distribution analysis for city/region level emission and pollutants • Develop reference building energy model and estimate emissions from cooking IGSD Mini-split Room Air Conditioner Project and KCEP VRF Air Conditioner Project• Perform technical analysis to identify the potential of efficiency improvement using various technologies and the costs of transition to low-GWP refrigerants• Calibrate design simulation model through comparison between modeling results and experimental test data• Conduct air conditioner (heat pump) design simulation to improve system energy efficiency • Present research results in seminars, workshops, and conferences and coordinate with project partners and funders CECEP Nanchang Office Building Energy Simulation• Created baseline building energy models and performed EnergyPlus simulation to understand baseline energy performance• Proposed several energy-saving HVAC technologies and built corresponding building energy models• Compared energy saving potential and provided design suggestionsWuhan Urban-scale Building Energy Simulation Big Data Platform• Created building energy models and performed stochastic EnergyPlus simulations to generate building energy databased• Created energy regression models to prediction urban-scale building energy consumption based on user inputs• Generated a web-based interface and API for Wuhan building energy prediction to support decision making

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Performed technical analysis and air conditioner design simulation to identify the costs of efficiency improvement using various technologies and the costs of transition to low-GWP refrigerants• Conducted experiment to identify the highest efficiency air conditioner models, technologies and manufacturers on the global and Chinese markets.

San Jose, California, Us

• Conducted CFD simulations to study CO2 and temperature distribution in the built environment• Provided simulation results and worked with the AI team to develop machine learning models for CO2 prediction

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Undergraduate level course: 48-116 Building Physics, Fall 2013-2015• Conducted lectures and demo sections for students to learn Ecotect• Graded project report for undergraduate courses

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

My research focuses on urban-scale coupled indoor and outdoor airflow simulation, air quality analysis, building energy simulation as well as HVAC and day lighting simulation. I also study meteorology and climate science.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Graduate level course: 48-744 Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics in Building Design• Designed syllabus, lecture sides, assignments and projects to learn airflow modeling in building domain• Offered lectures and introduced real world problems to teach fundamental CFD concepts and theories• Conducted demo sections and provided step-by-step instructions to teach airflow modeling in scSTREAM • Graded assignments and reports to ensure students can apply CFD simulations to support building design

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Worked with the Simulation User Experience (UX) team to critique and refine existing interactions, and developed user stories and workflows that describe how users will interact with these applications.• Created user-centric, highly usable designs via wireframes, mockups, and visual prototypes.• Contributed to the successful launch of the Autodesk Simulation suite of products.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Building Performance And Diagnostics

Master’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation And Refrigeration(Hvac, Hvacr)

Bachelor’S Degree, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning And Refrigeration Engineering