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CEE 4984/5060 – Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Practices• Graded assignments and held office hours to troubleshoot course material-related (Construction 3D modeling) issues.• Designed and lecture virtual reality implementation-related content (Autodesk Revit, Unity tutorial) in a class of 30+ students.

Human-Building Communication with Voice-based Proactive Smart Home Assistants (SHAs)• Built the framework of voice-based SHAs initiating proactive interactions with users for energy-saving in smart buildings with the Internet of Things (IoT).• Collected users’ feedback on proactive energy-saving suggestions from SHAs (Alexa in Amazon Echo).• Developed prediction framework for users’ preferences in SHA proactive interaction, trained machine learning models (SVM, Logistic Regression… Show more Human-Building Communication with Voice-based Proactive Smart Home Assistants (SHAs)• Built the framework of voice-based SHAs initiating proactive interactions with users for energy-saving in smart buildings with the Internet of Things (IoT).• Collected users’ feedback on proactive energy-saving suggestions from SHAs (Alexa in Amazon Echo).• Developed prediction framework for users’ preferences in SHA proactive interaction, trained machine learning models (SVM, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Neural Network) with high performance (accuracy of 0.67-0.82, F-1 score of 0.66-0.74). Show less

• Standard Chartered Bank building and branches project, managing the maintenance requests, planning and coordinating installations and refurbishments in cost estimates and work timetables.• Supervised two renovation projects of branches, coordinating between owners and contractors.

English Teaching Apartment• Recordkeeping of documents, tracking attendance and calculating grades.