Major research interests:

• Human Comfort
• Human Behaviour in Buildings
• Artificial Intelligence in Building Performance Prediction
• Smart Buildings
• Sustainable Energy Technologies
• Energy Storage in Phase Change Materials 

PGR Supervision: 

PhD:

• Ms Ruiming Zhang (PhD, Principal Supervisor),”Study of occupant behaviour and building energy consumption at urban scale”, (Started from Sep 2019)
• Mr Zu Wang (PhD, Co-supervisor), “Dynamic optimization control for ventilation and air conditioning system for minimizing energy consumption”, (Started from Dec 2018)
• Ms Ning Liu (PhD, Co-supervisor).” A simplified method for pre-assessment in retrofitting of Chinese civil building, in aspect of gap analysis and economy analysis”, (Started from Sep 2018)
• Ms Zimu Li (PhD, Co-supervisor), “Hybrid Model of Zero-Carbon Building and Intelligent Building: The Case of Renovation and Upgrade of CSET”, (Started from Sep 2019)
• Ms Siyu Ma (PhD, Co-supervisor) (Started from Sep 2020)

MRes:

• Mr Mengtian Yin (MRes, Principal Supervisor), “Elevation recognition in architecture drawings for 3d converting to BIM models”, (Completed at March 2019)
• Mr Xiangzhi Zhang (MRes, Principal Supervisor), “The application of entransy theory in heat transfer optimization of heat exchanger networks and multi-stage latent heat storage systems”, (Completed at March 2018)
• Chenyi Li (MRes, Co-supervisor), “Innovation Design Development of the Acupuncture Department in Hospitals in Ningbo”, (Completed at Nov 2019)
• Wenzhao Liu (MRes, Co-supervisor), “Post-Occupancy Evaluation to Improve the Clinical Laboratory in Tertiary Hospitals in Shaoxing”, (Completed at Nov 2019)