CBE hosts visiting scholars from around the world who contribute to our research and impact. They include graduate students in master’s and doctorate programs, visiting researchers from CBE partner companies, and also academic faculty spending their semester or year-long sabbaticals from their institutions. These visitors are actively engaged in CBE research and/or complimentary independent work.
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Zhaohan Bai
Harbin Institue of Technology, China
Zhaohan explores personalized thermal comfort modeling, sleep environment design, and low-carbon building performance through physiological sensing and machine learning approaches.
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Natasha Balwit-Cheung
University of Cambridge
Natasha Balwit-Cheung’s research is focused on planning and life cycle assessment of shallow geothermal heating and cooling infrastructure.
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Xiaoxi Cai
Hunan First Normal University, China
Xiaoxi specializes in urban landscape space, especially exploring the relationship between the characteristics of high-quality urban landscapes and people’s satisfaction.
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Yating (Olivia) Chang
Central South University, China
Yating’s research focuses on outdoor thermal environments and thermal comfort in wetland parks, as well as the cooling effects of built environments and blue-green infrastructure in shrinking cities.
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Malgorzata Kurcjusz-Gzowski
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Małgorzata integrates BIM technology with building sustainability assessment, focusing on environmental indicators that can be analyzed directly within BIM models.
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Mingchen Li
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mingchen Li develops AI tools that enable natural language interaction with building metadata, focusing on large language models and semantic modeling techniques.
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Yihui Li
Tsinghua University
Yihui Li focuses on graph-based geometric representation and space–performance coupling to enable AI-assisted sustainable building design in the early stages.
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Jiang Li
Central South University, China
Jiang is focused on outdoor thermal comfort, especially thermal comfort research in landscape spaces of urban wetland parks.
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Chang Liu
Shenzhen University, China
Chang Liu is focused on providing efficient comfort strategies for residential buildings, including envelope systems, and balancing sustainability and economics.
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Junmeng (Patrick) Lyu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Junmeng researches occupant-centric environmental control, models and multi-sensor networks for real-time comfort sensing and adaptive climate coordination.
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Izabella Milto
Polytechnic University of Milan / IUSS Pavia, Italy
Iza researches passive cooling and adaptive thermal comfort in mixed-mode buildings, integrating fans and other devices into the BMS to reduce reliance on A/C.
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Sizhong Qin
Tsinghua University, China
Sizhong Qin’s research centers on AI-driven integration of architectural and structural design, leveraging graph learning, large language models, and structural optimization to support intelligent design.
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Xianfu (Robin) Wan
Donghua University, China
Xianfu (Robin) researches clothing thermal comfort and intelligent wearables, integrating modeling, automation, and AI to enhance thermal comfort.
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Yijia Wang
Tsinghua University
Yijia’s research focuses on airflow and thermal comfort, aiming to improve thermal comfort using airflow while enhancing building energy efficiency.
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Shikang Wen
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shikang’s research focuses on artificial intelligence-assisted energy-efficient building design.
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Tong Xiao
Tongji University
Tong specializes in energy forecasting, optimal operation and control for HVAC systems in commercial buildings using data science technologies.
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Haiyan Yan
Henan Polytechnic University, China
Haiyan Yan specializes in human adaptive thermal comfort and sustainable energy-efficient building environments.
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Jiake Yang
City University of Hong Kong
Jiake focuses on personalized and AI-driven environmental management, leveraging LLMs to integrate data assets for safety-driven recommendations.
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Yingying Zhao
Central South University, China
Yingying’s research focuses on thermal radiation effects on cognitive performance in high-temperature environments.