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Posts
DesignBuilder Award honours Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering MSc students
Published:
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering students Yikang Tong and Wenhao Zhang win the DesignBuilder award for modelling.
portfolio
Strange Art Collection 2022
Some strange arts in 2022…
Strange Spring/Summer Collection 2021
My good old days haha. 
Strange Spring/Summer Collection 2019
First anniversary of my little brand. 
publications
Energy Efficient Operation Optimization of Building Air-conditioners via Simulator-assisted Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning
Published in IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, 2022
Developed an energy efficient operation strategy for VRF system during the cooling season for a case office and achieved energy savings of up to 16.1% as well as improved thermal comfort compared to a rule-based control strategy.
Recommended citation: Wenhao Zhang and Zhiang Zhang 2022 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 1048 012006. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1048/1/012006
Reinforcement Learning in Building Controls: a Comparative Study of Algorithms considering Model Availability and Policy Representation
Published in Journal of Building Engineering, 2024
Model-free and model-based reinforcement learning algorithms were implemented; Reinforcement learning of value-based, policy gradient and actor-critic are discussed.
Recommended citation: Z. Wu, W. Zhang, R. Tang, H. Wang, I. Korolija, Reinforcement Learning in Building Controls: a Comparative Study of Algorithms considering Model Availability and Policy Representation, Journal of Building Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.109497. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710224010659?via%3Dihub
talks
teaching
PF3211 AI Applications for the Built Environment [2410]
Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore, Department of The Built Environment, 2024
Mentorship
Student mentoring, National University of Singapore, Department of The Built Environment, 2024
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