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X Author: Han Li
2026
Jiang, Yilin, Han Li, Payam Delgoshaei, Zhangding Liu, and Tianzhen Hong."Robotics for HVAC applications: A critical review and future perspectives."Building and Environment
289 (2026) 114048. DOI
2025
Li, Han, Yujie Xu, and Tianzhen Hong."EnergyPlus-MCP: A model-context-protocol server for ai-driven building energy modeling."SoftwareX
32 (2025) 102367. DOI
Li, Han, Miguel Heleno, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Luis Rodriguez Garcia, and Tianzhen Hong."A cross-dimensional analysis of data-driven short-term load forecasting methods with large-scale smart meter data."Energy and Buildings
344 (2025) 115909. DOI
Lee, Jonathan W, Han Wang, Kathy Jang, Nathan Lichtlé, Amaury Hayat, Matthew Bunting, Arwa Alanqary, William Barbour, Zhe Fu, Xiaoqian Gong, George Gunter, Sharon Hornstein, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Mat-Thew W Nice, William A Richardson, Adit Shah, Eugene Vinitsky, Fangyu Wu, Shengquan Xiang, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Fahd Althukair, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Raphael Chekroun, Eric Cheng, Maria Teresa Chiri, Fang-Chieh Chou, Ryan Delorenzo, Marsalis Gibson, Derek Gloudemans, Anish Gollakota, Junyi Ji, Alexander Keimer, Nour Khoudari, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Hossein Nick Zinat Matin, Sean Mcquade, Rabie Ramadan, Daniel Urieli, Xia Wang, Yanbing Wang, Rita Xu, Mengsha Yao, Yiling You, Gergely Zachár, Yibo Zhao, Mostafa Ameli, Mirza Najamuddin Baig, Sarah Bhaskaran, Kenneth Butts, Manasi Gowda, Caroline Janssen, John T Lee, Liam Pedersen, Riley Wagner, Zimo Zhang, Chang Zhou, Daniel B Work, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, and Alexandre M Bayen."Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs."IEEE Control Systems
45.1 (2025) 28-60. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Han Li, Kaiyu Sun, and Joshua Kace."Informing electrification strategies of residential neighborhoods with urban building energy modeling."Building Simulation
18.1 (2025) 3-18. DOI
2024
Szum, Carolyn, Han Li, Robin Mitchell, Sydney Applegate, Billierae Engelman, Nicholas Long, Yassen Roussev, and Eric Noller."New U.S. Data Tools are Playing a Crucial Role in Decarbonizing Buildings at Speed, Scale, and Low Cost."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2024). DOI
Liang, Wei, Han Li, Sicheng Zhan, Adrian Chong, and Tianzhen Hong."Energy flexibility quantification of a tropical net-zero office building using physically consistent neural network-based model predictive control."Advances in Applied Energy
14 (2024) 100167. DOI
Li, Han, Giuseppe Pinto, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, and Tianzhen Hong."Building thermal dynamics modeling with deep transfer learning using a large residential smart thermostat dataset."Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
130 (2024) 107701. DOI
2023
Li, Han, Hicham Johra, Flavia deAndrade Pereira, Tianzhen Hong, Jérôme Le Dréau, Anthony Maturo, Mingjun Wei, Yapan Liu, Ali Saberi-Derakhtenjani, Zoltan Nagy, Anna Marszal-Pomianowska, Donal Finn, Shohei Miyata, Kathryn Kaspar, Kingsley Nweye, Zheng O'Neill, Fabiano Pallonetto, and Bing Dong."Data-driven key performance indicators and datasets for building energy flexibility: A review and perspectives."Applied Energy
343 (2023) 121217. DOI
Nagy, Zoltan, Gregor P Henze, Sourav Dey, Javier Arroyo, Lieve Helsen, Xiangyu Zhang, Bingqing Chen, Kadir Amasyali, Kuldeep Kurte, Ahmed Zamzam, Helia Zandi, Ján Drgoňa, Matias Quintana, Steven McCullogh, June Young Park, Han Li, Tianzhen Hong, Silvio Brandi, Giuseppe Pinto, Alfonso Capozzoli, Draguna Vrabie, Mario Bergés, Kingsley Nweye, Thibault Marzullo, and Andrey Bernstein."Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management."Building and Environment
(2023) 110435. DOI
2022
Li, Han, and Tianzhen Hong."A semantic ontology for representing and quantifying energy flexibility of buildings."Advances in Applied Energy
8 (2022) 100113. DOI
Pinto, Giuseppe, Riccardo Messina, Han Li, Tianzhen Hong, Marco Savino Piscitelli, and Alfonso Capozzoli."Sharing is caring: An extensive analysis of parameter-based transfer learning for the prediction of building thermal dynamics."Energy and Buildings
276 (2022) 112530. DOI
2021
Li, Han, Zhe Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."A synthetic building operation dataset."Scientific Data
8.1 (2021). DOI
Mistry, Aashutosh, Ankit Verma, Shashank Sripad, Rebecca Ciez, Valentin Sulzer, Ferran Brosa Planella, Robert Timms, Yumin Zhang, Rachel Kurchin, Philipp Dechent, Weihan Li, Samuel Greenbank, Zeeshan Ahmad, Dilip Krishnamurthy, Alexis M Fenton, Kevin Tenny, Prehit Patel, Daniel Juarez Robles, Paul Gasper, Andrew M Colclasure, Artem Baskin, Corinne D Scown, Venkat R Subramanian, Edwin Khoo, Srikanth Allu, David Howey, Steven DeCaluwe, Scott A Roberts, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan."A Minimal Information Set To Enable Verifiable Theoretical Battery Research."ACS Energy Letters
6.11 (2021) 3831 - 3835. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Bingqing Chen, Han Li, and Tianzhen Hong."AlphaBuilding ResCommunity: A multi-agent virtual testbed for community-level load coordination."Advances in Applied Energy
4 (2021) 100061. DOI
Li, Han, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy flexibility of residential buildings: A systematic review of characterization and quantification methods and applications."Advances in Applied Energy
3 (2021) 100054. DOI
Li, Han, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Andrew Parker, and Monica Neukomm."Characterizing patterns and variability of building electric load profiles in time and frequency domains."Applied Energy
291 (2021) 116721. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Han Li."Informing the planning of rotating power outages in heat waves through data analytics of connected smart thermostats for residential buildings."Environmental Research Letters
16.7 (2021) 074003. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, and Mary Ann Piette."Predicting city-scale daily electricity consumption using data-driven models."Advances in Applied Energy
2 (2021) 100025. DOI
Luo, Xiaoyan, Douglas I Kushner, Jonathan Li, Eun Joo Park, Yu Seung Kim, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Anion Exchange Ionomers: Impact of Chemistry on Thin‐Film Properties."Advanced Functional Materials
(2021) 2008778. DOI
Li, Han, Zhe Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."Occupant-Centric key performance indicators to inform building design and operations."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
(2021) 1 - 29. DOI
Ding, Chao, Carolyn Szum, Han Li, Nan Zhou, and Clay Nesler."Data-Driven Analysis Tool Plays Critical Role in Climate Neutral Buildings."Advances in Applied Energy
2 (2021) 100014. DOI
Cao, Xinyun, Runming Yao, Chao Ding, Nan Zhou, Wei Yu, Jinyang Yao, Jie Xiong, Qiang Xu, Li Pan, and Baizhan Li."Energy-quota-based integrated solutions for heating and cooling of residential buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter zone in China."Energy and Buildings
236 (2021) 110767. DOI
2020
Hong, Tianzhen, Daniel Macumber, Han Li, Katherine Fleming, and Zhe Wang."Generation and representation of synthetic smart meter data."Building Simulation
13.6 (2020) 1205 - 1220. DOI
Xu, Lin, Honghui Guo, Chao Ding, Yi Lu, and Jinghan Liu."Impacts of longitudinal air velocity and fuel flow rate on flame radiative fraction in tunnel."Sustainable Cities and Society
61 (2020) 102336. DOI