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2023
Wei, Max, Kaiyu Sun, Henry Willem, Patricia Kusumah, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, Miguel Heleno, and Tianzhen Hong."Final Project Report: Building Healthier and More Energy-Efficient Communities in Fresno and the Central Valley."
(2023).
Malik, Jeetika, Handi Chandra Putra, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."On the applicability of various levels of detail for occupant behavior representation and modeling in building performance simulation."Building Simulation
(2023). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Barry Hooper, and Janghyun Kim."Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale."Sustainable Cities and Society
95 (2023) 104608. DOI
Regnier, Cynthia, Luis L. Fernandes, Kaiyu Sun, Pia Engel-Moss, Tom Abram, Luke McGuire, and Ruju Rathod."Integrated Whole-Building Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial Offices."
(2023).
Sheng, Maggie, Michael Reiner, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Assessing thermal resilience of an assisted living facility during heat waves and cold snaps with power outages."Building and Environment
230 (2023) 110001. DOI
2022
Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, Janghyun Kim, and Barry Hooper."Application and evaluation of a pattern-based building energy model calibration method using public building datasets."Building Simulation
15.8 (2022) 1385 - 1400. DOI
Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
52 (2022) 102041. DOI
Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
52 (2022) 102041. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Patricia Kusumah, Wanni Zhang, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Exploring Decarbonization and Clean Energy Pathways for Disadvantaged Communities in California."5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment
(2022).
Zeng, Zhaoyun, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Investigation of pre-cooling as a recommended measure to improve residential buildings’ thermal resilience during heat waves."Building and Environment
210 (2022) 108694. DOI
2021
Carnieletto, Laura, Martina Ferrando, Lorenzo Teso, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Francesco Causone, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation."Building and Environment
192 (2021) 107590. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Na Luo, Xuan Luo, and Tianzhen Hong."Prototype energy models for data centers."Energy and Buildings
231 (2021) 110603. DOI
2020
Picard, Theo, Tianzhen Hong, Na Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, and Kaiyu Sun."Robustness of energy performance of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) homes."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110251. DOI
Shan, , Xiaofang, Na Luo, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yi-Kuen LEE, and Wei-Zhen Lu."Coupling CFD and building energy modelling to optimize the operation of a large open office space for occupant comfort."Sustainable Cities and Society
60 (2020) 102257. DOI
Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C. Diamond, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A. Mathew, Iain S. Walker, Alan K. Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues
(2020). DOI
Regnier, Cynthia, Luis L. Fernandes, Kaiyu Sun, and John Bruschi."ZNE for All! Enabling Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial Offices."ACEEE Summer Study
(2020).
2019
Wang, Jingyi, Zhe Wang, Ding Zhou, and Kaiyu Sun."Key issues and novel optimization approaches of industrial waste heat recovery in district heating systems."Energy
188 (2019) 116005. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, and Xuan Luo."Visualizing Urban Microclimate and Quantifying its Impact on Building Energy Use in San Francisco."the 1st ACM International WorkshopProceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19
(2019). DOI
Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Eliot Crowe, Samuel Fernandes, Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun."Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings."
(2019). DOI
Jia, Ruoxi, Ming Jin, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Costas Spanos."Advanced Building Control via Deep Reinforcement Learning."Energy Procedia
158 (2019) 6158 - 6163. DOI
Luo, Na, Wenguo Weng, Xiaoyu Xu, Tianzhen Hong, Ming Fu, and Kaiyu Sun."Assessment of occupant-behavior-based indoor air quality and its impacts on human exposure risk: A case study based on the wildfires in Northern California."Science of The Total Environment
686 (2019) 1251 - 1261. DOI
2018
Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy
225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, and Kaiyu Sun."Building Simulation: Ten Challenges."Building Simulation
11 (2018). DOI
Zhang, Rongpeng, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A Novel Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heat Recovery System Model: Development and Validation."Energy and Buildings
168 (2018). DOI
Regnier, Cynthia, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying the benefits of a building retrofit using an integrated system approach: A case study."Energy and Buildings
159 (2018). DOI