Tianzhen Hong

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2026

Xu, Yujie, Pouya Vahmani, Andrew Jones, and Tianzhen Hong. "Improving energy efficiency while reducing anthropogenic heat from buildings: how retrofits influence the building stock and urban microclimate in Los Angeles." Energy and Buildings 366 (2026) 117691.

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Rodriguez-Garcia, Luis, Miguel Heleno, Wanni Zhang, Han Li, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong. "Consumer safety-oriented scheduling of rotating power outages during heat waves." Applied Energy 416 (2026) 127983.

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Li, Han, Liang Zhang, Huiwen Zhou, and Tianzhen Hong. "MCP-enabled agentic AI workflow for building energy modelling: framework and use cases." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2026) 1–27.

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Hong, Tianzhen, and Han Li. "Good practices for documenting AI-based studies on energy and buildings." Energy and Buildings 355 (2026) 117043.

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Jiang, Yilin, Han Li, Payam Delgoshaei, Zhangding Liu, and Tianzhen Hong. "Robotics for HVAC applications: A critical review and future perspectives." Building and Environment 289 (2026) 114048.

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Krelling, Amanda, Sang Hoon Lee, and Tianzhen Hong. Strategic Energy Plan — City of Key West, Florida. 2026.

Malik, Jeetika, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong. "Cool rooms for indoor heat resilience: Evaluating affordable cooling strategies in heat-stressed California homes." Building and Environment 287 (2026) 113877.

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2025

Wu, Y, Jeetika Malik, Tianzhen Hong, Elif Kilic, Prasad Vaidya, D A Yan, and Ashok J Gadgil. "Evaluating indoor thermal resilience of passive and low-power cooling shelters for outdoor workers in India." Building Simulation 18.12 (2025) 3373–3391.

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Li, Han, Yujie Xu, and Tianzhen Hong. "EnergyPlus-MCP: A model-context-protocol server for ai-driven building energy modeling." SoftwareX 32 (2025) 102367.

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Xu, Yujie, Wanni Zhang, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong. "Mapping Heat Vulnerability in Cities: A Tale of Two California Cities." Sustainable Cities and Society 135 (2025) 107002.

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Krelling, Amanda, Yi Wu, Jeetika Malik, Max Wei, Christopher Perry, Roberto Lamberts, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong. "Thermal Resilience of Buildings and Communities: A Multistakeholder Review of Metrics and Approaches." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 50.1 (2025) 681–708.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Jeetika Malik, Jared Langevin, Zhaoru Liu, and Da Yan. "Ten questions on building stock modeling to inform energy efficiency and sustainability." Building and Environment 284 (2025) 113465.

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Li, Han, Miguel Heleno, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Luis Rodriguez Garcia, and Tianzhen Hong. "A cross-dimensional analysis of data-driven short-term load forecasting methods with large-scale smart meter data." Energy and Buildings 344 (2025) 115909.

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Yan, Da, Yi Wu, Jeetika Malik, and Tianzhen Hong. "Ten questions on future and extreme weather data for building simulation and analysis in a changing climate." Building and Environment 269 (2025) 112461.

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Gao, Yuan, Jacob C Jonsson, D Charlie Curcija, Dragan Vidanovic, and Tianzhen Hong. "Global and regional perspectives on optimizing thermo-responsive dynamic windows for energy-efficient buildings." Nature Communications 16.1 (2025).

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Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Han Li, Kaiyu Sun, and Joshua Kace. "Informing electrification strategies of residential neighborhoods with urban building energy modeling." Building Simulation 18.1 (2025) 3–18.

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2024

Jain, Anubhav, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Michael D Sohn, Will Gorman, Alexandre Moreira, Lazlo Paul, Haitam Laarabi, and Maher Alghalayini. Frontiers in Energy Storage: Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI). 2024.

Liang, Wei, Han Li, Sicheng Zhan, Adrian Chong, and Tianzhen Hong. "Energy flexibility quantification of a tropical net-zero office building using physically consistent neural network-based model predictive control." Advances in Applied Energy 14 (2024) 100167.

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Krelling, Amanda, Roberto Lamberts, Jeetika Malik, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong. "Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future climates: A case study in Brazil." Sustainable Cities and Society 107 (2024) 105460.

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Xu, Yujie, Pouya Vahmani, Andrew Jones, and Tianzhen Hong. "Anthropogenic heat from buildings in Los Angeles County: A simulation framework and assessment." Sustainable Cities and Society 107 (2024) 105468.

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Robinson, Alastair, Samuel Fernandes, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, Ronnen M Levinson, and Mary Ann Piette. Potential Urban Heat Island Countermeasures and Building Energy Efficiency Improvements in Los Angeles County. 2024.

Wu, Jiyuan, Lan Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Qinran Hu, and Wei Wang. "Revealing and optimizing the design of cover installation for outdoor units of air conditioners through CFD simulations and thermodynamic modeling." Journal of Building Engineering 87 (2024) 109014.

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Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli. "An innovative heterogeneous transfer learning framework to enhance the scalability of deep reinforcement learning controllers in buildings with integrated energy systemsAbstract." Building Simulation 17.5 (2024) 739–770.

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Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Minh Le, Lujuana Medina, Yujie Xu, Alastair Robinson, and Mary Ann Piette. "Assessment of energy and thermal resilience performance to inform climate mitigation of multifamily buildings in disadvantaged communities." Sustainable Cities and Society 104 (2024) 105319.

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Pan, Xiyu, Yujie Xu, and Tianzhen Hong. "Surrogate modelling for urban building energy simulation based on the bidirectional long short-term memory model." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2024) 1–19.

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