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  • Expert ACMV Recommendations for COV-19

    Smart Hub: Expert ACMV Recommendations for COV-19

    In April 2020, The Super Low Energy Building (SLEB) Smart Hub, a portal for accessing and examining the latest green technologies with building proprietors, professionals, researchers, and policymakers, incorporated SinBerBEST's  Air Conditioning and Mechanical Ventilation (ACMV) consummate recommendations aimed at minimizing the further spread of COVID-19 in Singapore. This document is targeted at the commercial, institutional and residential buildings that are open during the Circuit Breaker period.

  • Professor Spanos photographed by Cayce Clifford

    Wired Magazine: Feature on Professor Spanos

    In April 2020, Wired, a monthly American magazine that concentrates on how developing technologies impact culture, the economy, and politics, spotlighted Prof. Spanos and his work to “cut office energy use by half—with the help of artificial intelligence” in Singapore.

  • Baihong Received 2019 - 2020 Lofti A. Zadeh Prize

    Baihong Received 2019 - 2020 Lofti A. Zadeh Prize

    Baihong Jin, a graduating PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at University of California, Berkeley, was recognized for his notable contributions to soft computing and its application with the Lofti A. Zadeh Prize. Every year, the EECS Student Awards Committee selects department award winners, many of them are based on recommendations from EECS students, faculty and staff. 

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The release of ICSETS 2019 conference proceeding during opening ceremony

IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Systems (ICSETS) 2019

IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Systems (ICSETS) is a new international conference which is planned to bring together professionals and executives in the energy sector, electrical power companies, manufacturing industries, research institutes and educational bodies to share and exchange ideas and information pertaining to sustainable energy technologies. The 1st ICSETS will be organized in Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India early 2019. SinBerBEST NUS Lead-PI A/Prof. Sanjib Kumar Panda, postdoctoral researcher Dr.

Award ceremony for IEEE EBL competition

POWER@NUS team from ECE Dept awarded Best Overall Student Team in the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives competition (EBL)

The team POWER@NUS, comprising of PhD students (Jaydeep Saha, Rohit Chandra, Sandeep Kolluri, Binita Sen, Palak Jain and Kamala Srinivasa Rao) and researchers (Rajesh Sapkota, Prathamesh, Md Waseem and Santosh Janaki Raman) from Electrical Machines and Drives Lab, ECE department, mentored by Associate Professor S K Panda and Dr. Eddy Blokken (SERIS), participated in the Empower a Billion Lives competition organised by IEEE. The team submitted their proposal online and were selected for the South-Asia regional round at PEDES 2018, IIT Chennai.

University of California President Janet Napolitano's Visit to BEARS

University of California President Janet Napolitano's Visit to BEARS

The University of California President Janet Napolitano visited BEARS on Tuesday 18th February 2019. Her visit to BEARS was part of a series of government and university meetings across Asia to expand University of California’s research and education partnerships.

International Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems Workshop

Call for Papers: International Workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems

SinBerBEST team members, along with other along with other researchers from industry and academia,  are organizing the International Workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Intelligent Energy Systems (AMLIES) as part of the ACM e-Energy Conference 2019 at Phoenix, Arizona. The workshop's objective is to bring researchers together to discuss the underlying challenges related to the application of Machine Learning to Energy Systems, including sm

Professors Xie Lihua, Costas Spanos and Rong Su who presented at the CDC workshop

CDC: Smart Buildings: A Status Quo Check

On December 16 2018, at the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, Professors Rong Su, Costas Spanos, and Xie Lihua spoke at the workshop on Smart Buildings: A Status Quo Check. Co-organised by Prof Rong Su, the workshop was held to report and showcase several recent technical progresses related to smart buildings at both individual and program levels, and some visionary discussions on the roles of IoT and formal design methods.

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Theme A: Human-Building Nexus - Enhancing Health and Productivity in the Built Environment (16) Theme B: Smart Technologies for Agile, Intelligent, Efficient and Resilient Buildings (21) Theme C: Agile Design and Operation of the Building Envelope for Energy Efficiency and Human Comfort (16) Theme D: Data Analytics for the Built Environment (19) Theme E: Cyber Physical Testbed (12) Thrust 1: Sensing, Data mining and Modeling (2) Thrust 2: Multi-Level Optimal Control (2) Thrust 3: High Confidence Building Operating System (2) Thrust 4: Human-Building Interactions & the Environment (2) Thrust 5: Materials, Designs & Lifecycle (2)