Awards

Ph.D. student Saranya Anbarasu has been selected to receive the Awtar and Teji Singh Graduate Fellowship from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. This fellowship will provide her additional financial support for her graduate studies during the 2020-2021 academic year. Congratulations to Saranya for receiving this prestigious fellowship!

Dr. Zuo will be leading a new project on "Modernizing Cities via Smart Garden Alleys with Application in Makassar City" funded by the National Science Foundation. This project is in collaboration with the US Department of State, Virginia Tech and Gadja Mada University to integrate innovations in smart and connected...

Ph.D. candidate Xu Han has won the prestigious Strauch Family Graduate Fellowship for 2020. Congratulations to Xu for winning this distinguished scholarship!

Dr. Zuo received the Research Development Award for 2020 from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering. This award recognizes his “research accomplishments in developing a robust research activities in ‘smart, sustainable and resilient cities’, through high profile research grants and fundamental contributions”. Congratulations to Dr. Zuo for receiving...

Ph.D. student Jes Stershic has been awarded the 2020 CEAE Summer Fellowship. This fellowship will provide her with a 3-month stipend over the summer to support her research with the SBS lab. Congratulations Jes, we look forward to seeing your research progress!

Last week the Departement of Energy announced that our $4.16M proposal on Optimal Co-Design of Integrated Thermal-Electrical Networks and Control Systems for Grid-interactive Efficient District (GED) Energy Systems was awarded. A big congratulations to Dr. Zuo for securing this grant! In addition, Ph.D. students Katy and Yingli did a great...

Ph.D. students Jing Wang, Jes Stershic, Cary Faulkner and Yingli Lou received scholarships to attend the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations to all receiving scholarships! In addition, Yingli presented her work on ASHRAE project 1771 at the BEQ Methodology meeting. Dr. Zuo also attended the conference where...

Senior Ph.D. student Xu Han received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the department of Architectural Engineering to complete his thesis work this coming semester. His thesis work is on advanced modeling of thermal environment and energy efficiency in buildings. Congratulations to Xu, and we look forward to his dissertation!

Ph.D. student Jes Stershic received a scholarship to attend the Energy Service Coalition’s 8th Annual Market Transformation Conference, in Denver, CO, held August 21-23, 2019. According to Jes, "The Energy Service Coalition was a unique opportunity to meet and discuss guaranteed energy savings performance contracting (GESPC) with people from all...

The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) has offered Katy $1,000 + $1,500 for travel expenses to attend their Project 1 meeting and Building Simulation conference in Rome, Italy during September 2-4, 2019. Congratulations, Katy!