July 29, 2020

​​​Our paper "Harnessing smart meter data for a Multitiered Energy Management Performance Indicators (MEMPI) framework: A facility manager informed approach" was published in Applied Energy.  Congrats to Jon and Howard on this great piece of work!  (Note the above link is valid until September 17, 2020 for free access. Please use the link from the publications page after this date.)

July 24, 2020

As part of the Annex 79 project, UIL PhD student Andrew Sonta and Director Rishee Jain contributed to a review paper on "Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design" in Energy & Buildings. Congrats to all Annex 79 members on this collaborative effort! (Note the above link is valid until September 8, 2020 for free access. Please use the link from the publications page after this date.)

June 10, 2020

UIL collaborated with the Global Projects Center on a new publication "One approach does not fit all (smart) cities: Causal recipes for cities' use of 'data and analytics' " recently published in Cities.

June 01, 2020

​UIL PhD student Kopal Nihar was awarded a Leavell Fellowship on Sustainable Built Environment from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Congrats Kopal!

April 08, 2020

UIL PhD Student Abigail Andrews was awarded a prestigious 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!  Congrats Abigail!

February 28, 2020

​​​Our paper "Examining the feasibility of using open data to benchmark building energy usage in cities: A data science and policy perspective" was published in Energy Policy.  Congrats to Jon, Ben and Dian on this collaborative effort!  (Note the above link is valid until April 16, 2020 for free access. Please use the link from the publications page after this date.)

January 06, 2020

​​UIL Director Rishee Jain was awarded the NSF CAREER award for his project entitled "UrbanEMOS: An Urban Energy Management Operating System for understanding and co-optimizing building, energy and human systems at multiple scales". Support from NSF for five years is gratefully acknowledged.

October 11, 2019

Our paper "Building Relationships: Using Embedded Plug Load Sensors for Occupant Network Inference" was published in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters.  Congrats to Andrew!

June 19, 2019

UIL members Andrew, Jon and Rohan presented papers (2) and posters (3) at the 2019 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE) in Atlanta, GA. Thanks to our colleagues at Georgia Tech for hosting! Check out the two papers here and here.

May 01, 2019

​​​Our paper "Understanding the adoption and usage of data analytics and simulation among building energy management professionals: A nationwide survey" was published in Building & Environment.  Congrats to Charu and Zheng!  (Note the above link is valid until June 20, 2019 for free access. Please use the link from the publications page after this date.)

April 02, 2019

​UIL PhD student Alex Nutkiewicz has been accepted to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)'s Young Scientists Summer Program in Vienna, Austria.  Congrats Alex!

January 29, 2019

We are excited to be co-leading a $1.7 M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy titled "I-DREEM (Impact of Demand Response on short and long-term building Energy Efficiency Metrics) with Prof. Johanna Mathieu (EECS, Michigan). Prof. Ian Hiskens (EECS, Michigan) and Prof. Jeremiah Johnson (CCE, North Carolina State) are also collaborators on the project.  Support from the Building Technology Office (BTO) at the U.S. Department of Energy is gratefully acknowledged.

December 20, 2018

​Our paper "Urban Data Integration Using Proximity Relationship Learning for Design, Management, and Operations of Sustainable Urban Systems" was published in ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (JCCE).  Congrats to Karan and Zhang who led this work!

November 07, 2018

UIL researcher Andrew Sonta presented his paper "Inferring occupant ties: automated inference of occupant network structure in commercial buildings" at the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys '18) in Shenzen, China. Nice work Andrew!

September 19, 2018

​​Our paper "Energy modeling of urban informal settlement redevelopment: Exploring design parameters for optimal thermal comfort in Dharavi, Mumbai, India" was published in Applied Energy.  Congrats to Alex and collaborator Prof. Bardhan!  (Note the above link is valid until Nov. 9, 2018 for free access. Please use the link from the publications page after this date.)

September 14, 2018

​UIL was awarded a NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) grant entitled "Building Information, Inhabitant, Interaction and Intelligent Integrated Modeling (BI5M)" with collaborators from Columbia University and Georgia Tech. Support from NSF is gratefully acknowledged.

August 25, 2018

Our paper "Data-driven Urban Energy Simulation (DUE-S): Integrating machine learning into an urban building energy simulation workflow" was selected for a 2017 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE) in Hong Kong! (award picture) Congrats Alex and Zheng on this prestigious award! 

July 23, 2018

​Our paper "Data-driven Urban Energy Simulation (DUE-S): A framework for integrating engineering simulation and machine learning methods in a multi-scale urban energy modeling workflow" was published in Applied Energy.  Congrats to Alex and Zheng who led this work!

July 19, 2018

Rishee gave a seminar at Berkeley Lab's Energy Technologies Area (ETA) on the latest and greatest research being done at UIL.  

April 30, 2018

Our paper "Understanding building occupant activities at scale: An integrated knowledge-based and data-driven approach​" was published in Advanced Engineering Informatics.  Congrats to Andrew and Perry who led this work!

April 03, 2018

UIL PhD Student Rohan Aras was awarded a prestigious 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!  Congrats Rohan!

March 14, 2018

​Along with collaborators from Cornell Tech, Georgia Tech, City University of Hong Kong and industry (Envairo, Maalka), we published "A review of occupant energy feedback research: Opportunities for methodological fusion at the intersection of experimentation, analytics, surveys and simulation" in Applied Energy.  Congrats to all the contributors!

January 15, 2018

Our paper "DUE-B: Data-driven urban energy benchmarking of buildings using recursive partitioning and stochastic frontier analysis" was published in Energy and Buildings. Congrats to Dr. Zheng Yang and Jon Roth who led this work!

January 07, 2018

​Andrew Sonta is 1 of 10 scholars selected for a Norman Foster Foundation Scholarship to attend the DigitalX program in Madrid, Spain.  Congrats Andrew!

August 08, 2017

UIL was awarded a NSF supplemental grant to support collaboration with SLAC's Grid Integration, Systems, and Mobility (GISMo) group in the area of building informatics.

July 17, 2017

Our paper "Data-driven planning of distributed energy resources amidst socio-technical complexities" was published in Nature Energy! Additionally, Nature Energy also published an editorial highlighting our contributions and ArsTechnica featured an article on the work.

May 09, 2017

​Director Rishee Jain presented UIL's work at the NSF Sustainable Smart Cities International Workshop in Cairo, Egypt.

April 07, 2017

UIL is collaborating with Prof. Les Norford (MIT) and Prof. Ronita Bardhan (IIT-Bombay, Visiting Professor at UIL) on a MIT-Tata Center project to improve kitchen air quality in Mumbai’s Dharavi settlement.

March 15, 2017

Congrats to UIL Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Zheng Yang for being named a 2017 New Faces in Civil Engineering Honoree by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)! ASCE’s New Faces of Civil Engineering recognition programs highlight the next generation of civil engineering leaders and we are proud that Zheng was one of 10 chosen this year.  Check out Zheng's featured ASCE news story to learn more.   

February 24, 2017

Our paper "OESPG: Computational Framework for Multidimensional Analysis of Occupant Energy Use Data in Commercial Buildings" was published in the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. Congrats to Andrew Sonta (UIL PhD student who led this work)!

February 08, 2017

UIL had our paper on data-driven and simulation based approaches to understanding slum redevelopment in Mumbai, India accepted to Building Simulation 2017. Congrats to Ramit and Ronita!

February 06, 2017

UIL had two papers accepted to the 2017 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering (IWCCE 2017) in Seattle, WA. Congrats to Andrew, Perry, Zheng and Karan.  We look forward to presenting our work on automated inference of occupant behavior dynamics and data integration for urban systems analysis in Seattle this summer!

October 20, 2016

UIL participated in the Digital Cities Summit at Stanford and our work was featured in a Stanford Engineering News article. Check it out!

October 18, 2016

UIL Director Rishee Jain was named a Terman Faculty Fellow by the Stanford School of Engineering.  This fellowship will support UIL's research and educational efforts.

October 01, 2016

UIL with collaborators Dian Grueneich (PECC) and Mark Hartney (SLAC) was awarded a Precourt Institute for Energy Seed grant to develop an open-source analytics platform for benchmarking buildings.  Support from PIE is gratefully acknowledged.

September 28, 2016

UIL was awarded a NSF EAGER grant to study the coupled dynamics of urban systems using data science and micro-experimentation.  Support from NSF is gratefully acknowledged.

September 18, 2016

The Stanford UIL website is offically launched.  Check out our team and latest projects!