Frontier Technologies Seminars 2022 by HKUST-BDR Joint Research Institute - Sustainable Coating Technology & Smart Building Control
HKUST-BDR Joint Research Institute (HBJRI) is going to organize an online Frontier Technologies Seminar on 13 Apr 2022 (Wednesday). Prof. Yanguang ZHOU from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Prof. Zhe WANG from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIVL) will give seminars on topics on “A Sustainable Evaporative Cooling Coating With Ultrahigh Cooling Power” and “Smart Building Control” respectively to researchers in Bright Dream Robotics (BDR) and HKUST.
All UST staff and students are welcome to attend the seminar and explore potential ways of collaboration on mutually-interested research projects.
Topics that BDR is interested in are as follows:
- Construction Robotics (typically, integration of control, actuation, and vision)
- AI & Big data
- Building Technologies & Intelligent Manufacturing
Please register here. If you would like to know more about the seminar or research collaboration with BDR, contact the institute at hbjri@ust.hk.
Topics of the Seminar
• “A Sustainable Evaporative Cooling Coating With Ultrahigh Cooling Power” by Prof. Yanguang ZHOU
• “Smart Building Control” by Prof. Zhe WANG
Prof. Yanguang Zhou received his Ph.D. degree with “Ausgezeichnet” in Mechanical Engineering Department at RWTH-Aachen University, as well as his M.Eng. degree and B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering Department at Beihang University and China University of Geoscience, respectively. After graduation from Aachen, he worked as a postdoc research associate and an assistant visiting project scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before joining HKUST as an assistant professor.
Prof. Zhou’s group designs advanced materials & structures, i.e., thermoelectric materials, magnetic materials and nanocomposites, via using nanotechnologies (both experimental and theoretical methods), with applications in energy, thermal management in solid-state batteries and soft electronics
Professor Wang is an Assistant Professor working with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research is about the application of artificial intelligence in smart building and low carbon city, majorly from two aspects. First, He is looking at how to leverage advanced control techniques (e.g. Reinforcement Learning, Model Predictive Control, etc.) to enhance building performance. Second, He is interested in how machine learning techniques could help to inform decision making on building performance. Before joining HKUST, He worked as a Project Scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on smart building control, as a Postdoctoral Scholar in University of California, Berkeley on data-driven personal comfort model and devices, and as an Energy Consultant with World Bank on Urban Scale Building Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in China. He was awarded the Second Class Award of Chinese State Science and Technology Prize (2019), the First Class Award of Beijing Science and Technology Prizes (2018), and was invited to give a speech on the Seventh-Round High-level Consultation on U.S.-China People to People Exchange, as the only representative of Chinese young scholar.