Tianzhen Hong

Dr. Tianzhen Hong is a Senior Scientist leading the Urban Systems Group and a team with 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 in Engineering in 2021 and 2022. 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