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🏆And here are the winners! Please join me in congratulating the winners of the CityLearn Challenge 2022: 🥇1st Prize ($8000) Team Together (Alibaba Group, China) 🥈2nd Prize ($5000) Team ambitiousengineers (University of Washingtonand University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

👋👋👋 🏆 Please join us when we announce The CityLearn Challenge 2022 winners ($15,000) at NeurIPS 2022 in an online workshop (Dec 7th, 2022, at 8:00am EST). 🥇🥈🥉 We had over 600 participants 👩🏽‍💻🧑‍💻👩🏻‍💻👨🏾‍💻from 50+ countries🌎🌍🌏, competing in developing the best battery scheduling algorithm for 17 single family homes without seeing the data for some.

Dr Labib and Dr Nagy talk with ASHRAE Journal Editor John Falcioni on the opportunities and challenges that come with artificial intelligence/machine learning in building design and operations. They also discuss the questions facing the industry in accepting these new tools and the difficulties in preparing the next generation of AI-savvy engineers.

And that’s a wrap for #RLEM22 #BuildSys22 ! We had a great workshop with around 40 participants from all over the world on the challenges and opportunities of building controls. If you missed it, here is the raw uncut version (~4 hours):

⁉️How can we use past data to generate synthetic data to improve our learning controllers 🤨? ‼️Check our our paper led by Marta Fochesato (ETH Zürich) and Fazel Khayatian (Empa) at ACM BuildSys'22 tomorrow (Nov 10).

Dr Nagy gave a seminar talk at CU Boulder’s Collaborative on Air Quality Research (CAQR) Meeting upon invitation by Prof Shelly Miller.

Dr Nagy was interviewed on his thoughts on coming heating costs this winter. The interview was syndicated throughout the nation on local news. Here is KSBY in California https://www.ksby.com/news/national/forecast-predicts-higher-heating-costs-for-homes-this-winter

Together with EPRI we are organizing a session on the AI Grand Challenge on Grid Interactive Smart Communities. We are meeting in person to take our summit journey to Rome where we will move the AI and electric power dial even further.

This month’s webinar was focused on reinforcement learning as we had presentations from Dr Henze and his research team at CU Boulder. They discussed the advanced control test bed (ACTB) for buildings as well as opportunities, challenges and cases studies for reinforcement learning control in buildings.

Dr Nagy was the guest speaker in Amazon’s SSI speaker series on Sustainability. He talked about our research on CityLearn. Amazon is sponsoring AWS compute credits for the CityLearn Challenge 2022