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Zheng O’Neill

Texas A&M University · US
Area of research
Building and Construction · Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Smart Grid Energy Management, Wind and Air Flow Studies, and Energy Efficiency and Management.
h-index
46
citations
6,624
works
219
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Occupancy behavior-informed PV–battery sizing for resilient and sufficient buildings under climate-related disruptions
Energy Conversion and Management 2026cited by 4position: contributordoi
On predictive device-level controls for water source heat pumps in multi-family residential buildings
Energy and Buildings 2026cited by 2position: contributordoi
Quantifying the impact of occupancy sensor errors on energy savings, thermal comfort, and peak demand in residential smart thermostats
Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2026cited by 1position: contributordoi
Graph-based unsupervised domain adaptation for fault diagnosis of HVAC systems
Building and Environment 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Uncertainty Analysis of Real-Time Hardware-in-the-loop Testing with a Real HVAC System and a Simulated Building Model
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Digital twin-enabled multi-agent control for energy-efficient wood drying in desiccant-assisted heat pump systems
Drying Technology 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Comparative study of energy flexibility in model predictive control of single- and variable-speed heat pumps with active thermal energy storage
Energy 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Scientific machine learning (SciML) for building technology: A new paradigm for design and operations
Building and Environment 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Large language models for building energy applications: Opportunities and challenges
Building Simulation 2025cited by 66position: lastdoi
Energy resilience in the built environment: A comprehensive review of concepts, metrics, and strategies
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2025cited by 17position: contributordoi
Current and future residential electricity demand using large-scale smart meter data in a changing climate
Sustainable Cities and Society 2025cited by 7position: contributordoi
Advances in supervisory control strategies for a heat pump centric HVAC system − a comprehensive review on applications
Applied Thermal Engineering 2025cited by 4position: contributordoi
Deploying advanced supervisory control strategies to small- and medium-sized commercial buildings: Case study and lessons learned
Energy and Buildings 2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
A cyber-resilient control framework with adaptive model predictive control (AMPC) for securing energy systems in smart buildings
Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
A framework for calibrating and validating an HVAC system in Modelica
Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Expert-guided imitation learning for energy management: Evaluating GAIL’s performance in building control applications
Applied Energy 2024cited by 33position: contributordoi
An entropy-based causality framework for cross-level faults diagnosis and isolation in building HVAC systems
Energy and Buildings 2024cited by 13position: contributordoi
A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed for cyber-physical energy systems in smart commercial buildings
Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2024cited by 11position: contributordoi
Deep Weighted Fusion Learning (DWFL)-based multi-sensor fusion model for accurate building occupancy detection
Energy and AI 2024cited by 9position: lastdoi
Securing Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) through Cyber Defense and Resilient System (CYDRES)
2024cited by 5position: contributordoi
Advanced co-simulation framework for assessing the interplay between occupant behaviors and demand flexibility in commercial buildings
Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
Evaluation of data imputation approaches for multi-stream building systems data <sup>1</sup>
Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Large-scale energy cost optimization and performance analysis for dedicated outdoor air system: simulation results from ASHRAE RP-1865
Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
IoT-Based Comfort Control and Fault Diagnostics System for Energy-Efficient Homes
2024cited by 1position: contributordoi
A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems
Applied Energy 2023cited by 252position: contributordoi
Ten questions concerning occupant-centric control and operations
Building and Environment 2023cited by 74position: middledoi
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems
Annual Reviews in Control 2023cited by 57position: contributordoi
Benchmarking high performance HVAC Rule-Based controls with advanced intelligent Controllers: A case study in a Multi-Zone system in Modelica
Energy and Buildings 2023cited by 54position: contributordoi
How good are learning-based control v.s. model-based control for load shifting? Investigations on a single zone building energy system
Energy 2023cited by 27position: contributordoi
Performance assessment of a real water source heat pump within a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing environment
Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2023cited by 10position: contributordoi

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Frequent collaborators

· 38 papers (2020–2026)Jin Wen · Drexel University10 papers (2022–2026)Yanfei Li · Naval University of Engineering9 papers (2016–2021)Ojas Pradhan · Drexel University7 papers (2022–2024)Zhihong Pang · Louisiana State University6 papers (2018–2020)Teresa Wu · Applied Radar (United States)6 papers (2022–2026)Bing Dong · Tsinghua University5 papers (2014–2021)Fuxin Niu · Ministry of Natural Resources5 papers (2017–2020)Fei Hu · Universiti Teknologi MARA4 papers (2020–2024)Zhelun Chen · Drexel University4 papers (2023–2025)Mingzhe Liu · Texas A&M University4 papers (2024–2026)Yangyang Fu · Texas A&M University4 papers (2023–2025)K. Selçuk Candan · Arizona State University4 papers (2022–2025)Joseph Carpenter · Mississippi State University3 papers (2016–2018)Charles O’Neill · Center For Remote Sensing (United States)3 papers (2015–2018) · 3 papers (2019–2021)Keith A. Woodbury · University of Alabama3 papers (2016–2018) · 3 papers (2021–2026)Jiajing Huang · Arizona State University3 papers (2022–2024)Zhiyao Yang · Shanghai Jiao Tong University3 papers (2024–2026)