Wanni Zhang

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2026

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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2025

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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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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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

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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Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, Kai Gao, Muzahim Altheeb, Abdulrahman Al Mogirah, Abdullatif BinMoammar, Tianzhen Hong, Ansar Khan, Constantinos Cartalis, Anastasios Polydoros, and Mattheos Santamouris. "Quantifying the energy impact of heat mitigation technologies at the urban scale." Nature Cities 1.1 (2024) 62–72.

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Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, Kai Gao, Muzahim Altheeb, Abdulrahman Al Mogirah, Abdullatif BinMoammar, Tianzhen Hong, Ansar Khan, C Cartalis, A Polydorose, and Mattheos Santamouris. "Quantifying the Energy Impact of Heat Mitigation in Cities: A Catalyst for Building Energy Saving." Nature Cities (2024).

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2023

Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Barry Hooper, and Janghyun Kim. "Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale." Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104608.

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2022

Luo, Na, Xuan Luo, Mohammad Mortezazadeh, Maher Albettar, Wanni Zhang, Dongxue Zhan, Liangzhu Wang, and Tianzhen Hong. "A data schema for exchanging information between urban building energy models and urban microclimate models in coupled simulations." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2022) 1–18.

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Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong. "Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice." Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 52 (2022) 102041.

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Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong. "Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice." Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 52 (2022) 102041.

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Sun, Kaiyu, Patricia Kusumah, Wanni Zhang, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong. "Exploring Decarbonization and Clean Energy Pathways for Disadvantaged Communities in California." 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment. Montreal, Canada, 2022.

Zeng, Zhaoyun, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong. "Investigation of pre-cooling as a recommended measure to improve residential buildings’ thermal resilience during heat waves." Building and Environment 210 (2022) 108694.

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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.

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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.

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Xu, Yujie, Tianzhen Hong, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, and Max Wei. "Heat Vulnerability Index Development and Mapping." SimAUD 2021. 2021.

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.

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2020

Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo. "Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history." 2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA. Chicago, IL, 2020.

Hong, Tianzhen, Zhe Wang, Xuan Luo, and Wanni Zhang. "State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle." Energy and Buildings 212 (2020) 109831.

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2019

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." Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys’19. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press, 2019.