Postdoctoral Researcher
Junmeng (Patrick) Lyu’s research focuses on user-centered control of building systems, with the goal of reducing energy use while maintaining occupant safety and comfort. He is particularly interested in understanding human behavior and incorporating occupant information directly into environmental control. In his future research, he plans to extend this concept from individual buildings to the community scale by considering diverse energy resources and natural patterns of human mobility, with the goal of optimizing community energy systems and supporting climate and energy resilience in California communities.
Before joining CBE, Junmeng received his PhD in Building Science and Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China. His doctoral research explored non-intrusive approaches to identifying individual thermal sensation and using this information to control personal comfort systems (PCS). His work integrated low-cost sensor networks, natural language models, data science, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to develop user-centered indoor control strategies.
Prior to his postdoctoral appointment, he contributed to the development of a model for ankle draft risk in winter conditions for ASHRAE Standard 55 and to the development of advanced semiconductor-based personal cooling technologies during his time as a visiting student researcher at CBE.