Awards & Honors
Selected awards, honors, and competition recognitions
Best Oral Presentation Nomination
The International Conference of Building and Simulation (BAS 2026)
Oral presentation titled "Fast flexibility quantification and resilience evaluation for building air-conditioning systems"
Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Paper Nomination
The International Conference of Building and Simulation (BAS 2026)
Oral presentation and paper titled "Development and validation of a data quality assessment framework for machine learning modelling in building energy systems"
Champion, FlexTrack Challenge: Detecting Energy Flexibility in Buildings
AIcrowd, New South Wales Government, and University of Wollongong
Building energy flexibility prediction, ranked 1/610, and awarded AU$10,000 Source
PolyU FCE Awards for Outstanding PhD Theses
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Awarded to only 3 of the Faculty's 117 PhD graduates in the 2024/2025 academic year (top 2.5%); the only recipient from the department Source
PolyU Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Recipient of the PolyU Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (HK$841,040) and a finalist for the RGC Junior Research Fellow Scheme (the only nominee from the department)
Elsevier Highly Cited Paper Award
Elsevier
The most cited paper published in Advances in Applied Energy (IF: 18.3) in 2023 Source
Champion, First Greater Bay Area Data Application Innovation Competition
Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality
Distributed PV generation prediction; awarded CN¥100,000, was invited to present to leaders of Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, and earned high praise Source 1 Source 2
Excellent Control Award, 21st MDV Central Air Conditioning Design and Application Competition
Midea Building Technologies
AI-enabled chiller plant control; the competition is regarded as the "Oscar" of the HVAC field Source
Champion, AI Master Cup Algorithm Competition
Schneider Electric and Baidu PaddlePaddle
Organized by Schneider Electric and Baidu PaddlePaddle; building electrical load prediction, ranked 1/331, awarded CN¥20,000, and was invited to attend the award ceremony at Wuzhen International Internet Exhibition & Convention Center Source
ESI Hot Paper and Highly Cited Paper
Journal Citation Reports
Corresponding-author paper titled "Physical energy and data-driven models in building energy prediction: A review"
Champion, Smart Energy System Algorithm Competition
UNiLAB and Alibaba Tianchi
Distributed PV generation prediction, ranked 1/513, and awarded CN¥20,000 Source
Eni Award 2023 Nomination
Eni Award Committee
First-author paper titled "Multi-objective residential load scheduling approach for demand response in smart grid"
Champion, i-Space: VRAR Contest 2021/22
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Project title: "AR-enabled smart building energy management platform" Source
Silver Award, Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities
Electrical and Mechanical Services Department
Building cooling load prediction Source
PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Recipient of the inaugural PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship (HK$1,203,800)