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.
Latest News
Big congrats to awesome IEL graduate students Kingsley and Praveen for winning Runners-Up prize ($5000) in Technical Demonstration category of the RTEM Hackathon 2022 organized by NYSERDA, OnboardData and others. https://www.
The Call for papers for the third edition of the ACM Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings and Cities is now published at
http://rlem-workshop.net
We expand beyond RL to more general AI in buildings, in particular real world demonstrations.
PV+Battery storage are the cornerstone of virtual power plants to provide grid flexibility. But what is the optimal charging/discharging policy to reduce costs and emissions from buildings ? And can you transfer knowledge/policies from one building to others?
This week Aysha and and Hagen successfully defended their PhD Thesis:
Aysha Demir Dilsiz : “Urban Building Energy Modeling: From Sensitivity to Big Data”
and
Hagen Fritz: “Development and Application of Consumer-Grade Devices to Gather Ecologically-Valid, Multi-Modal Environmental Data to Characterize Indoor Air Quality and its Effect on Sleep Quality”
IEL’s awesome PhD student Hagen Fritz has been selected out of an international pool of applicants as 1 of 15 PhD Symposium Fellows at the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction PhD Symposium.
Meet the Team
Principal Investigators
Zoltan Nagy
Assistant Professor
Grad Students
Aditi B Ilanthodi
MSc Student
Aysha Demir
PhD Student
Hagen Fritz
PhD Student
Kingsley Nweye
PhD Student
Praveen Radhakrishnan
MSc Student
Ting-Yu Dai
PhD Student
Alumni
Dr. Jose Vázquez-Canteli
Machine Learning Engineer
