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Nasim Mamaghani receives scholarship from Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) conference to attend the upcoming “ Energy Efficiency for Transformative Solutions ” event being held April 20-21, 2021. And she was a scholarship attendee at “2020 AEE World Energy Virtual Conference” which was held December 1-4, 2020. Nasim is also...

Ph.D. student Katy Hinkelman has been selected to receive Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) . The announcement is here . Congratulation to Katy for receiving this prestigious fellowship!

Buildings community is talking about building-to-grid integration, but how much power flexibility can US commercial buildings provide? Our new paper with Sen Huang , Yunyang Ye , and Di Wu at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) tries to answer this interesting question. The paper is available here . Congratulations to...

Congratulations to Dominik for successfully defending his Master's thesis in AI for indoor airflow simulation. He was sponsored by CU Boulder's Europe-Colorado program, which is a joint research project with Prof. Dr. Philipp Epple​ at the Coburg University of Applied Science and Arts in Germany. The application for 2021 Europe-Colorado...

Matthew Strong receives the honorable mention for the Computing Research Association Outstanding Computer Science Undergraduate Researcher in all of North America, which is the most prestigious for all Computer Science students. In the past few years, Matthew has been working with Dr. Yunyang Ye and Yingli Lou in high-performance computing...

On November 17, 2020 Xu's Ph.D. thesis titled Holistic Optimization of Data Center Cooling Systems and Airflow Management was approved by the committee. Congratulations to Dr. Xu Han on this huge accomplishment, and we wish him the best on his future endeavors!

Optimal airflow management can save 50% cooling energy for data centers as demonstrated in our new journal paper about our open source Fast Fluid Dynamics model for fast prediction of data center airflow. The paper is available here . Funded by DOE's BENEFIT program, this is a joint effort of...

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!

Ph.D. candidate Jing Wang and SBS Lab alum Dr. Sen Huang from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory lead an online Modelica workshop for the American Modelica Conference on Friday, September 18. The workshop was titled Cyber-physical System Modeling using Modelica for Smart and Sustainable Communities . This workshop covered the use...

On Wednesday September 9, 2020 Dr. Zuo gave a webinar on time-saving smart cities, also featuring Jason Nelson from Smart Cities Council and Giandri Machado from Stefanini. Congratulations to Dr. Zuo for being chosen to give this webinar and we look forward to more presentations in the future!