I am a PhD student at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, affiliated with SBE@UBC and under the supervision of Professor Haibo Feng. I am also a student researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, affiliated with the Construction Research Centre.
Research interest
Leveraging machine learning techniques to achieve intelligent building operation and construction. For operation, I care about demand-responsive and occupant-centric control, building energy efficiency, and indoor environment quality. For construction, I pursue reinforcement learning and imitation learning-based construction robot control.
Updates
Jan 2025 | I was hired as a student researcher by the Construction Research Centre, the National Research Council of Canada.
Dec 2024 | One paper “How far back shall we peer? Optimal air handling unit control leveraging extensive past observations” was accepted by Building and Environment.
Sep 2024 | I was the recipient of the President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award at UBC.
Sep 2024 | I started my second PhD journey at UBC.
May 2024 | I earned my MASc from UBC. Under the guidance of Professor Zhengbo Zou, I completed my master’s thesis titled “Integrated optimization of energy systems in buildings: from demand responsive battery storage to intelligent HVAC control”, achieving a grade of A+.
Jan 2024 | One paper “Expert Demonstration Collection of Long-Horizon Construction Tasks in Virtual Reality” was published in Computing in Civil Engineering 2023.
Aug 2023 | One paper “Enhancing construction robot learning for collaborative and long-horizon tasks using generative adversarial imitation learning” was accepted by Advanced Engineering Informatics.
Sep 2022 | I was the recipient of the CITech Fellowship at UBC.
Sep 2022 | I started my Master of Applied Science (MASc) in Civil Engineering at ICON lab, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
May 2022 | I voluntarily withdrew from my PhD program at KAIST to explore broader opportunities and pursue higher-impact research aligned with my long-term career goals. During my time in the program, I completed ten courses with a GPA of 90.22/100.
Jul 2020 | I passed the PhD qualification examination and became a PhD candidate.
Oct 2019 | I earned my MSc from CityUHK. Under the supervision of Professor Hin Wa Li, I completed my master’s thesis titled “Towards Net-Zero Energy: Deep Learning-Based Energy Consumption Prediction and Photovoltaic Strategy Optimization for Subtropical School Buildings”, achieving a grade of A-.
Sep 2019 | I was the recipient of the Korean National Scholarship Tier 1 at KAIST.
Sep 2019 | I started my first PhD journey at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Sep 2018 | I started my Master of Science in Civil and Architectural Engineering at City University of Hong Kong.
Jun 2018 | I earned my Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University.
Jun 2014 | Graduated from Urumqi No.1 High School, I achieved a top 1.17% ranking (1900 out of 162,600) in the 2014 Gaokao (Chinese National College Entrance Examination).