Tianzhen Hong
Dr. Tianzhen Hong is a Senior Scientist leading research on technologies, data, methods, computing, occupant behavior, and policy for design and operation of low energy buildings and sustainable urban systems. He is leading the EnergyPlus development at LBNL. He established and chairs the ASHRAE Technical Committee 7.10 Occupant behavior in building design and operation. He actively contributed to international collaborations such as the 10-year U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency, IEA EBC Annex 53, 66, 79, and 81. He was co-Operating Agent of Annex 66 and co-lead of Subtask 3 of Annex 79. He led the development of two building energy software: CBES and CityBES winning an R&D 100 Award in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He is an IBPSA Fellow, an ASHRAE Fellow, and a Highly Cited Researcher since 2021. He received B.Eng. and Ph.D. in HVACR, and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University, China.
Links
Urban Systems Research
Urban Systems Group, UrbanSystems.lbl.gov
City Buildings, Energy, and Sustainability (CityBES), CityBES.lbl.gov
Occupant Behavior Research
LBNL, behavior.lbl.gov
Occupancy Simulator, occupancysimulator.lbl.gov
IEA EBC Annex 79 (2018-2023): Occupant-centric building design and operation
IEA EBC Annex 66 (2013-2018): Definition and simulation of occupant behavior in buildings
IEA EBC Annex 53 (2008-2013): Total Energy Use in Buildings: Analysis & Evaluation Methods
ASHRAE Technical Committee 7.10 Occupant Behavior in Building Design and Operation
Building Energy Modeling and Analysis Tools
Commercial Building Energy Saver: California version, cbes.lbl.gov; National version, cbespro.lbl.gov
EnergyPlus, energyplus.net
Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x5m2zBYAAAAJ&hl=en