Publications
2021
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M. Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings
252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper."Urban microclimate and its impact on building performance: A case study of San Francisco."Urban Climate
38 (2021) 100871. DOI
Carnieletto, Laura, Martina Ferrando, Lorenzo Teso, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Francesco Causone, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation."Building and Environment
192 (2021) 107590. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Na Luo, Xuan Luo, and Tianzhen Hong."Prototype energy models for data centers."Energy and Buildings
231 (2021) 110603. DOI
2020
Picard, Theo, Tianzhen Hong, Na Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, and Kaiyu Sun."Robustness of energy performance of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) homes."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110251. DOI
Shan, , Xiaofang, Na Luo, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yi-Kuen LEE, and Wei-Zhen Lu."Coupling CFD and building energy modelling to optimize the operation of a large open office space for occupant comfort."Sustainable Cities and Society
60 (2020) 102257. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Michael Specian, and Tianzhen Hong."Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home."Building and Environment
177 (2020) 106842. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, Na Luo, and Kaiyu Sun."Energy and Behaviour Developing quantitative insights on building occupant behaviour: Supporting modelling tools and datasets."
(2020) 283 - 319. DOI
2019
Wang, Jingyi, Zhe Wang, Ding Zhou, and Kaiyu Sun."Key issues and novel optimization approaches of industrial waste heat recovery in district heating systems."Energy
188 (2019) 116005. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, and Xuan Luo."Visualizing Urban Microclimate and Quantifying its Impact on Building Energy Use in San Francisco."the 1st ACM International WorkshopProceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19
(2019). DOI
Jia, Ruoxi, Ming Jin, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Costas Spanos."Advanced Building Control via Deep Reinforcement Learning."Energy Procedia
158 (2019) 6158 - 6163. DOI
Luo, Na, Wenguo Weng, Xiaoyu Xu, Tianzhen Hong, Ming Fu, and Kaiyu Sun."Assessment of occupant-behavior-based indoor air quality and its impacts on human exposure risk: A case study based on the wildfires in Northern California."Science of The Total Environment
686 (2019) 1251 - 1261. DOI
2018
Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy
225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI
2017
Wallace, Nancy, Paulo Issler, Paul A. Mathew, and Kaiyu Sun."Impact of Energy Factors on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages."
(2017).
Mathew, Paul A., Kaiyu Sun, Baptiste Ravache, Paulo Issler, and Nancy Wallace."Impact of Energy Use and Price Variations on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages: Case Studies."
(2017).
Sun, Kaiyu, and Tianzhen Hong."A Framework for Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Energy Savings of Energy Conservation Measures."
(2017).
2016
Sun, Kaiyu, and Tianzhen Hong."A Simulation Approach to Estimate Energy Savings Potential of Occupant Behavior Measures."Energy and Buildings
(2016).
2015
Hong, Tianzhen, Kaiyu Sun, Rongpeng Zhang, Ryohei Hinokuma, Shinichi Kasahara, and Yoshinori Yura."Development and validation of a new variable refrigerant flow systemmodel in EnergyPlus."Energy and Buildings
117 (2015). DOI