Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
The workshop will accept
the submissions of original work or work in progress. Submitted papers must be unpublished and
must not be currently under review for any other publication. Submissions must be full papers,
at most 4 single-spaced US Letter (8.5" x 11") pages, including figures, tables, references and
appendices. Submissions for All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found
here. All submissions must be submitted using the submission
website. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions by: (1)
using the "anonymous" option for the class and (2) using "anonsuppress" section where
appropriate. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will
not be reviewed. Please note that ACM uses 9-pt fonts in all conference
proceedings, and the style (both LaTeX and Word) implicitly define the font size to be
9-pt.
The tentative presentation formats are regular oral presentation
(15 minutes) and a spotlight presentation (2 minutes).
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Agenda
8:25am
Opening and Welcome
8:30am
Keynote
Prof. Na Li
Harvard University
9:15am
Break
9:30am – 10:45am
Presentations 1–5
9:30 Presentation 1: Beyond Prototypes: Overcoming the UBEM Data Bottleneck with Large Multimodal Models
R. Dubois, B. Howard
9:45 Presentation 2: Uncertainty-Aware Transfer Learning for Cross-Building Energy Forecasting: Toward Robust and Scalable District-Level Energy Management
S. Zaregarizi, K. Yavari
10:00 Presentation 3: An AI Agent Framework for Real-World Chiller Plant Optimization with Long-Term Deployment
J. Zhang, Z. Chen, Z. Xiao, K. Xu, T. Ma, F. Xiao
10:15 Presentation 4: Extreme Heat and Human Mobility: A Diffusion Model Approach to Climate-Adaptive Urban Dynamics
Y. Yang, B. Dong
10:30 Presentation 5: Enhancing Urban Building Energy Models through Activity Based Occupancy Generation
J. Schiller, L. Friedrich, M. Pruckner
10:45am
Break
11:00am – 12:15pm
Presentations 6–10
11:00 Presentation 6: SingSys: Acoustic Vibration Sensing for Strength Monitoring and Characterization of Engineered Biopolymer Composite (EBC)
B. Miao, A. Theissler, Y. Dong, A. Lesh, H. Noh, D. Loftus, M. Lepech
11:15 Presentation 7: Bayesian-Calibrated Posterior-Ensemble Reinforcement Learning for Robust HVAC Control under Model Uncertainty
C. Shen, S. Lee, C. Lee
11:30 Presentation 8: Cross-Task Federated Backbone Aggregation with Selective State Space Models for Building Energy Analytics
B. Kumar, N. Srivastava, P. Arjunan
11:45 Presentation 9: Exploring the Potential of Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Building Energy Modeling with Component-Level Calibration
Y. Cai, A. Aryal
12:00 Presentation 10: Generalizing HVAC Control With Domain Randomized Reinforcement Learning
P. Boitel, K. Zhang
12:15pm
Closing Remark
Organization
Workshop Chairs
Technical Program Committee
Prof. Pingbo Tang
Carnegie Mellon University
USA
Prof. Gabe Fierro
Colorado School of Mines
USA
Prof. Maomao Hu
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Dr. Cary Faulkner
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USA
Prof. Pandarasamy Arjunan
Indian Institute of Science
India
Dr. Joshua New
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
USA
Dr. Jonas Schiller
University of Würzburg
Germany
Prof. Xinwei Zhuang
Texas A&M University
USA
Dr. Karthik Panchabikesan
University of Central Florida
USA
Prof. Soomin Woo
Konkuk University
South Korea
Prof. Jason Zhang
Arizona State University
USA
Prof. Jiajing Huang
Kennesaw State University
USA
Contact:
bidong@syr.edu
