The Intelligent Environments Laboratory (IEL), led by Prof. Zoltán Nagy, is an interdisciplinary research group in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at The University of Texas at Austin.
IEL advances science, engineering and education towards an intelligent and human-responsive energy infrastructure in the built environment. We develop methods in Machine Learning (Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement), Internet of Things, Data Analytics and System Integration/Deployment, with applications in Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation and Grid-Interactive Smart Communities.
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Meet the Team
Principal Investigators
Zoltan Nagy
Assistant Professor
Grad Students
Kingsley Nweye
PhD Student
Praveen Radhakrishnan
MSc Student
Ting-Yu Dai
PhD Student
Alumni
Dr Hagen Fritz
Engineer
Dr. Aysha Demir
Assistant Instructional Professor
Dr. Jose Vázquez-Canteli
Machine Learning Engineer
Dr. June Young Park
Assistant Professor
Research Projects
(BEVO) Beacon: A rapidly-deployable and affordable indoor environmental quality monitor
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring is essential to assess occupant exposure to the wide range of pollutants present in indoor environments. Accurate research-grade monitors are often used to monitor IAQ but the expense and logistics associated with these devices often limits the temporal and spatial scale of monitoring efforts.
GridLearn
Led by CU Boulder - Griffin Lab (Dr Kyri Baker): Increasing amounts of distributed generation in distribution networkscan provide both challenges and opportunities for voltage regulation across the network. Intelligent control of smart inverters and other smart building energy management systems can be leveraged to alleviate these issues.
CityLearn
CityLearn is an open source OpenAI Gym environment for the implementation of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) for building energy coordination and demand response in cities. Its objective is to facilitiate and standardize the evaluation of RL agents such that different algorithms can be easily compared with each other. Try it out using our example in Google Colab! More details and installation on GitHub: https://github.com/intelligent-environments-lab/CityLearn