Education

Teaching Interests

  • CVEN 5830: Sustainable Building Design (Fall)

  • CVEN 5830: Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis for Built and Natural Environment (Spring)

  • CVEN 5830: Building Energy Systems (Fall) 

  • AREN 3130: Building Energy Laboratory (Spring)

  • AREN 2120: Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer (Spring)

  • AREN 3010: Mechanical Systems for Buildings (Fall)

Research Interests

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Its Applications in Building and Environment

  • Heat Transfer and Energy Analysis of Building Systems

  • Building Indoor Environment Quality: Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality

  • Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Systems

  • Renewable Energy and Sustainable Building Design

Experience

  • 2015: Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

  • 2014: Faculty Director, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

  • 2010-2015: Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA.

  • 2009-2016: The Sea-Sky Special Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

  • 2008: Faculty Affiliate, The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA.

  • 2008-2013: Graduate Faculty, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, IN, USA.

  • 2006-2008: Visiting Professor, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.

  • 2003-2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA.

  • 2003(Jun-Aug): Research Associate, Building Technology Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

  • 1999-2003: Teaching Assistant, Department of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

  • 1999-2003: Research Assistant, Building Technology Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

  • 1995-1998: Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

  • 1994-1999: Research Assistant, Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence Laboratory, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Professional Activities

  • Member of
    • International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)
    • International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)
    • American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
    • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
    • US Green Building Council (USGBC)

  • Voting member and ASHRAE Learning Institute Coordinator of ASHRAE Technical Committee 4.10 – Indoor Environmental Modeling, 7/2004-6/2012

  • Member of ASHRAE Technical Committee 4.10 Project Monitoring Subcommittee (PMS) for Research Project 1321-TRP, 2007-2010

  • Corresponding member of ASHRAE Technical Committee 5.6 – Control of Fire and Smoke; Technical Committee 4.3 – Ventilation Requirements and Infiltration; and Technical Committee 5.3 – Room Air Distribution, 2005-~

  • Member of Technical Committee – Conservation and Solar Buildings of The Solar Energy Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009-~

  • Invited Panel Reviewer for National Laboratory Assessment, The US National Academies and National Research Council (NRC), 2009-2010

  • Invited Member for The Committee on Protecting Occupants of DoD Buildings From Chemical or Biological Release (Immune Buildings), The US National Academies and The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), 2006

  • Editorial Board Member of The Open Civil Engineering Journal, 2007-~

  • Managing Guest Editor for Building and Environment, 2009

  • Guest Editor for Energy and Building, 2009

  • Panel Reviewer for Georgian National Science Foundation (NSF), 2008-2010

  • Panel Reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2009

  • Panel Reviewer for US National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2007, 2010

  • Oversea Reviewer of National Office for Science and Technology Awards (NOSTA) of China, 2009

  • Member of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) for IAQVEC2010 Conference, August, 2010 Syracuse, New York

  • Track Chair for The 4th ASME International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2010), May, 2010, Phoenix, AZ, USA

  • Member of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) for ROOMVENT 2009 International Conference, May, 2009, Pusan, Korea

  • Member of the Scientific Committee for the 11th IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2009), July, 2009, Glasgow, Scotland

  • Conference Co-Chair of The First International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE08), July, 2008, Dalian, China

  • Session Chair for The 3rd ASME International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2009), July, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA

  • Session Chair for The 5th International Workshop on Energy and Environment of Residential Buildings and The 3rd International Conference on Built Environment and Public Health (EERB-BEPH 2009), May, 2009, Guilin, Guangxi Province, China

  • Chair for ASHRAE Transaction/Symposium: Material Emissions/Adsorptions at the 2009 ASHRAE Annual Conference, June, 2009, Louisville, KY

  • Chair for Two ASHRAE Seminars and One Transaction/Symposium at the 2008 ASHRAE Annual Conference, June, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT​

  • Session Chair for The 10th International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference and Exhibition (BS2007), September, 2007, Beijing, China​

  • Session Chair for The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Indoor Air 2005), September, 2005, Beijing, China

  • Session Chair for The First IBPSA-USA Conference (SimBuild2004), August, 2004, Boulder, CO

  • Reviewer of more than 20 professional journals

Awards

  • Research Development Award, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, May, 2010

  • Distinguished Service Award (DSA), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), May, 2010

  • William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship in Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, 2009

  • 2008 Best Paper Award, International Journal of Building Simulation, 2009

  • CRCW Conference Award, 2008

  • Green Faculty of Campus Sustainability Award, 2008

  • The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Project Award, 2007

  • CU-CEAE Young Investigator Award, 2007

  • MIT Presidential Fellowship, 1999–2003

  • ASHRAE Grant-in-Aid Fellowship, 2001

  • MIT Avalon Travel Grant, 2000

  • MIT Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability, 2000

  • Tsinghua Outstanding Research Assistant (A-level) Award, 1997

  • Best Paper Award of Student Education and Management at Tsinghua, 1997

  • Tsinghua Outstanding Teaching Assistant (A-level) Award, 1996

  • Guanghua Scholarship (Taiwan) (First Prize), 1996

  • Takada Scholarship (Japan SMC) (First Prize), 1995