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Our Smart Buildings and Cities course is wrapping up this week with student project presentation. The breadth of the topics (see image) shows the breadth of applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering.

📣 Big congratulations to our awesome PhD student Kingsley Nweye who has been selected into the first cohort of Graduate Student Guest Editors at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Renewable Power Generation Journal!

Dr Nagy has been elected to be the General Chair fo ACM BuildSys'23. The TPC Chairs are Rajesh Gupta and Clayton Miller. We look forward to receiving your awesome research papers, posters and demos in the area of intelligent sustainable infrastructure systems.

Check out The Quest to Use AI to Make Buildings More Efficient here: https://cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive/9629-the-quest-to-use-ai-to-make-buildings-more-efficient

Machine learning seems to be everywhere these days. But how does it perform in predicting indoor air quality or sleep quality in individuals? Our new paper led by Hagen Fritz and Mengjia Tang explores common algorithms and their performance for this task.

🏆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):