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2026
- Publication
Exploration of the fidelity ladder for attic and basement representation in 5R1C Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs)
Submitted
- Publication
Lost in aggregation? Guidance on functional geometric fidelity in Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs)
Submitted
- Publication
Scalable smart-meter Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) calibration: a physics-supervised amortized inverse surrogate learning framework
Submitted
- Publication
Sequential coordination of precomputed Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) responses enables scalable feeder-level flexibility assessment
Submitted
- Publication
ShadingZip: Within-Building Selective Computation of Shading Profiles for Urban Building Energy Models
ASIM 2026 · Accepted
- Conference talk
City-scale digital twins for building energy modeling and carbon reduction planning
Conference talk · Cesium Developer Conference 2026, Philadelphia, PA
- Publication
- Award
- Award
Nemetschek Innovation Award, second place
Nemetschek · €60,000 prize; second place, with no first place awarded.
- Award
New York State Pollution Prevention Institute Competition, winner
New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) · $3,000 prize.
- Webinar
How Cities Can Plan the Energy Transition Using Urban Building Energy Models
Webinar · IBPSA-USA Educational Webinar
- Webinar
2025
- Award
NYSP2I Research Grant, Co-PI
New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) · $4,000 research grant, Co-PI with Prof. Timur Dogan.
- Award
Bentley Systems Going Digital Awards 2025, Founders' Honors
Bentley Systems Going Digital Awards
- Award
Holcim Building Tomorrow Scholarship, winner
Holcim · Full sponsorship for the One Young World Summit 2025
- Publication
- Media
- Publication
A Bottom-Up Urban Building Energy Model for Evaluating Thermal Load Electrification Measures
Journal of Building Performance Simulation
- Publication
- Media
2024
- Media