Mr. REN Zhihao (任智浩)

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Biography

Research Interests

  • Building information modeling
  • Building energy and performance simulation
  • Occupant-centric control

 

Research Description

REN’s research empowers buildings with occupant adaptive control through perceiving and integrating fine-grained occupant information to improve building energy efficiency and sustainability. He leverages multiple sensing methods (e.g., cameras, motion sensors, and geophones) and simulation methods to estimate real-time and dynamic internal heat gains, thereby establishing parametric building energy assessment method to facilitate decision-making on comparison of alternatives and/or daily operation.