Schedule
Conference Program
November 4
November 6
Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Social Infrastructure Systems (CPSIS)
Seventh International Workshop on Data Acquisition & Analysis in the Era of AI (DATA)
November 7
SenSys & BuildSys Joint Keynote
8:30 - 9:30
Embedded AI Systems for Autonomous Driving and Smart Health
Guoliang Xing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Session 1: Environment Applications
Session Chair: Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang Pei Zhang
11:00 - 12:00
Shangjie Du (University of California, Merced), Zhizhang Hu (University of California, Merced), Shijia Pan (University of California, Merced)
Tian Liu (Texas A&M University), Liuyi Jin (Texas A&M University), Radu Stoleru (Texas A&M University), Amran Haroon (Texas A&M University), Charles Swanson (Texas A&M University), Kexin Feng (Texas A&M University), Tian Liu (Texas A&M University)
Evaluating Water-Energy Nexus related Water Saving Potentials of Residential Households with Solar PV and Electric Storage
Jonas Schiller (University of Wuerzburg), Marco Pruckner (University of Würzburg)
Exploring the Capabilities of Large Language Models in Seat Recommendation Systems for Hot-Desking Offices
Hiroaki Murakami (The University of Tokyo), Keiichiro Taniguchi (The University of Tokyo), Yohsuke Kamiya (The University of Tokyo), Katsuya Koike (Daikin Industries, Ltd.), Yoshihisa Toshima (Daikin Industries, Ltd.), Yasunori Akashi (The University of Tokyo), Yoshihiro Kawahara (The University of Tokyo)
Session 2: Building Systems
Session Chair: Hussain Kazmi
13:30 - 14:45
Adaptive Policy Regularization for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning in HVAC Control
Hsin-Yu Liu (University of California San Diego), Bharathan Balaji (Amazon), Rajesh Gupta (University of California San Diego), Dezhi Hong (Amazon)
Office-in-the-Loop for Building HVAC Control with Multimodal Foundation Models
Tomoya Sawada (Mitsubishi Electric), Takaomi Hasegawa (Matsuo Institute, Inc), Keiichi Yokoyama (Matsuo Institute, Inc), Masahiro Mizuno (Mitsubishi Electric)
Modeling the Impact of Passive Ventilation Systems on Multi-Zone Thermal Dynamics
James Onyejizu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Sandipan Mishra (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Causal data-driven modelling of overheating risk in high efficiency residential buildings
Fuyang Jiang (KU Leuven), Hussain Kazmi (KU Lueven)
Ontologies at Work: Analyzing Information Requirements for Model Predictive Control in Buildings
Anand Krishnan Prakash (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab/Carnegie Mellon University), Flavia De Andrade Pereira (University College Dublin/University College London), Mario Bergés (Carnegie Mellon University), Marco Pritoni (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Burcu Akinci (Carnegie Mellon University)
Session 3: Human Behavior
Session Chair: Katherine Flanigan
15:15 - 16:45
Tushar Routh (University of Virginia), Nurani Saoda (University of Virginia), Fateme Nikseresht (University of Virginia), Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah (University of Virginia), Jiechao Gao (University of Virginia), Viswajith Govinda Rajan (University of Virginia), Bradford Campbell (University of Virginia)
Jesse Codling (University of Michigan), Jeffrey Shulkin (University of Michigan), Yen-Cheng Chang (University of Michigan), Jiale Zhang (University of Michigan), Hugo Latapie (Cisco Systems), Hae Young Noh (Stanford University), Pei Zhang (University of Michigan), Yiwen Dong (Stanford University)
Xiaoguang Guo (Colorado School of Mines), Keyang Yu (Colorado School of Mines), Qi Li (Colorado School of Mines), Dong Chen (Colorado School of Mines)
i-Care: A Multi-Modal Data Integration Approach for Real-time Surveillance and Voice Assistance to Improve Infant Care
Rahul Mishra (IIT Patna), Hari Prabhat Gupta (IIT (BHU) Varanasi)
Pico-Scale Science for Pedestrian-Scale Solutions (PSS4PSS): A Computational Toolbox Leveraging Molecular Simulation for Pedestrian Dynamics
Samuel Chen (Carnegie Mellon University), Emerson K. Collins (Kimley-Horn), Vincent M. Cheng (Carnegie Mellon University), Kelby B. Kramer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gerald Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mind the Hazard: Modeling and Interpreting Comfort with Personalized Sensing
Yufei Zhang (ETHOS Lab, EPFL), Matteo Favero (ETHOS Lab, EPFL), Patrick Chwalek (Responsive Environments, MIT Media Lab), Sailin Zhong (University of Fribourg), Denis Lalanne (University of Fribourg), Joseph A. Paradiso (Responsive Environments, MIT Media Lab), Clayton Miller (National University of Singapore), Andrew Sonta (ETHOS Lab, EPFL)
SIGEnergy Award Talk
Session Chair: Dan Wang
17:15 - 17:45
Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Experiments
Xiang Pan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Posters
13:30 - 18:30
Recognizing Occupant Behavior Patterns in Office Buildings Based on Multi-source Environmental Data and the Construction of a Digital Twin Platform.
Zefeng Huang, Zhonghua Gou.
My street is better than your street: Towards data-driven urban planning with visual perception.
Matias Quintana, Youlong Gu, Filip Biljecki.
Model Predictive Control based Scheduling for an Electric Heat Pump Water Heating System via Photovoltaics.
Shuhei Mitsunaga, Dafang Zhao, Hiroki Nishikawa, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye.
Indoor Temperature Prediction for Energy Management using Smart Remote Controller.
Ren Sasaki, Kenshiro Kato, Dafang Zhao, Hiroki Nishikawa, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye.
Comfort-Aware HVAC Aggregation for Enhancing Demand-Side Flexibility: Insights from an On-Site Experiment.
Harrison Malfait, Dafang Zhao, Hiroki Nishikawa, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Takao Onoye.
Towards Distributed Continuous RF Monitoring in Factories.
Jan Schlichter, Leonard Zurek, David Niederprüm, Lars Wolf.
Towards Machine Learning-based Model Predictive Control for HVAC Control in Multi-Context Buildings at Scale via Ensemble Learning.
Yang Deng, Yaohui Liu, Rui Liang, Donghua Xie, Dafang Zhao, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Samson Tai, Dan Wang.
Scalable Automation of Building Control Loops via Geospatial Semantic-enriched Digital Twins.
Iqbal Shah, Ali Ghahramani.
Multi-Objective Eco-Routing Solution and Analysis for Electric Vehicles Towards a Sustainable Transportation System.
Junaid Islam, Nilotpal Chakraborty.
Analyzing the Performance of Time Series Foundation Models for Short-term Load Forecasting.
Harish Kumar Saravanan, Shivam Dwivedi, Pandarasamy Arjunan.
Sustainable Urban Mobility: Cost-Effective Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure with User-Centric Design.
Akshat Lohia, Aadesh Pochhi, Nilotpal Chakraborty.
Strategic Placement and Capacity Optimization of EV Charging Infrastructure on Highways.
Aadesh Pochhi, Akshat Lohia, Nilotpal Chakraborty.
Using DPO to align the building environment with personal preferences: A perspective from LLMs fine-tuning.
Zijie Chen, Christiane M. HERR.
Physics informed Deep-o-Nets as universal approximator for modelling district-level building heating systems.
Muhammad Hafeez Saeed, Hussain Kazmi, Geert Deconinck.
Demos
BuildProg: Program Generation for Testing ML-based Building Load Forecasting models via LLM and Prompt Engineering.
Yang Deng, Donghua Xie, Rui Liang, Jingyun Zeng, Samson Tai, Dan Wang.
CarbonReveal: Embodied Carbon Accounting with Retrieval-Augmented LLM for Computer Systems.
Xiaoyang Zhang, Yucheng Bao, Taiqi Zhou, Dan Wang.
November 8
BuildSys Panel
Session Chair: Dan Wang
8:30 - 10:00
Panel topic: The Role of AI to the Sustainability of the Built Environment
Panelists:
Fred (Xiaofan) Jiang, Columbia University
Rajesh Gupta, University of California San Diego
Amir Roth, Department of Energy
Minghua Chen, City University of Hong Kong
Linda Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
BuildSys Keynote
Session Chair: Shijia Pan
10:30 - 11:30
Can BuildSys Celebrate its 30th Anniversary? Looking at the past and future through my rose-colored glasses
Mario Bergés, Carnegie Mellon University - Civil and Environmental Engineering
SIGEnergy Award Talk
Session Chair: Minghua Chen
11:30 - 12:00
Evaluating and Optimizing Distributed Energy Resources
Utkarsha Agwan, University of California Berkeley
Session 4: Data
Session Chair: Matias Quintana
13:30 - 14:45
Sukanya Jewsakul (The University of Hong Kong), Edith Ngai (The University of Hong Kong)
Benchmarking Domestic Energy Consumption using High-Resolution Neighbourhood Energy Data and City Clustering in the UK
Grace Colverd (University of Cambridge), Ronita Bardhan (University of Cambridge), Jonathan Cullen (University of Cambridge)
Yang Deng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Rui Liang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Yaohui Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jiaqi Fan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Yang Deng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Are Time Series Foundation Models Ready to Revolutionize Predictive Building Analytics?
Ozan Baris Mulayim (Carnegie Mellon University), Pengrui Quan (University of California, Los Angeles), Liying Han (University of California, Los Angeles), Xiaomin Ouyang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Dezhi Hong (Amazon), Mario Bergés (Carnegie Mellon University), Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
Key Lessons From Improving the Energy Efficiency of Hospitals Using Reinforcement Learning: Insights From 39 Deployments in India
Saksham Dutta (Smart Joules Private Limited), Akshit Singhal (Smart Joules Private Limited), Appala Srisurya Pardhasaradhi Tupurani (Smart Joules Private Limited), Listin Abey Mathew (Smart Joules Private Limited), Amreen Parveen (Smart Joules Private Limited), Venu Madhav A. (Smart Joules Private Limited), Dishant Arora (Smart Joules Private Limited), Selvakumar K. (Smart Joules Private Limited), Deva P. Seetharam (Smart Joules Private Limited)
Session 5: Infrastructure
Session Chair: Pandarasamy Arjunan
15:15 - 16:55
BioSys: Efficient Quality Control System for Manufacturing of Sustainable Biopolymer Composites
Barney Miao (Stanford University), Yiwen Dong (Stanford University), Andreas Theissler (Aalen University of Applied Sciences), Andrew Lesh (Stanford University), David Loftus (NASA Ames Research Center), Michael Lepech (Stanford University)
ICON drone: Autonomous indoor exploration using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for semantic 3D reconstruction
Hao Xuan Zhang (The University of British Columbia), Yilin Yang (The University of British Columbia), Zhengbo Zou (Columbia University), Hao Xuan Zhang (University of British Columbia)
Examining the adoption of electromobility concepts across social contexts for energy transition
Julia Köhlke (OFFIS e.V. Institute for Information Technology), Adam Lechowicz (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Oluwole Fabikun (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Noman Bashir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Abel Souza (University of California Santa Cruz), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Sebastian Lehnhoff (OFFIS e.V. Institute for Information Technology)
Energy for Infrastructure and Infrastructure for Energy: A Joint Optimization Approach for Enterprise Operations
Anshu Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services - Research), Prasant Misra (Tata Consultancy Services - Research), Vishnu Menon (Tata Consultancy Services - Research), Yogesh Bichpuriya (Tata Consultancy Services - Research), Venkatesh Sarangan (Tata Consultancy Services - Research)
Quantifying the Similarity of Urban Forms through the Building Morphology Complexity Index
Xiaochen Fan (Tsinghua University), Rui Chen (Tsinghua University), Yuming Lin (Tsinghua University)
Paved with Good Reflections: Road Quality Mapping with Multispectral Satellite Imagery
Tunmise Raji (Rochester Institute of Technology), Courage Ekoh (Rochester Institute of Technology), Nathaniel Williams (Rochester Institute of Technology), Jay Taneja (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
HeliosFair: Fair Sharing of Solar Energy Costs in Communities
Diptyaroop Maji (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Vani Gupta (Roger Williams University), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Akamai Tech)