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Hongshan Guo

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Princeton University

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Welcome! You’ve reached the project and personal info page by Hongshan Guo. I’m currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Having recently finished my PhD in Architectural Technology and Computational Design from the university’s School of Architecture, I have been working on projects including geothermal TRT (thermal response test) and outdoor infrared sensing through distributed sensors.

Aside from doing practical and applied research, time in Princeton has also led me into rabbit holes of doing fundamental research on both the analytical modeling of not only the borehole, but also the heat balance of the human body, and I primarily focused on the challenge of understanding the underlying physiological models and their roles in existing conditioning systems.

Interests

  • Architectural Technology
  • Distributed Sensing
  • Human Biometerology
  • IoT and wearable sensors

Education

  • PhD in Architectural Technology, 2019

    Princeton University

  • MEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2013

    Columbia University

  • BSc in Architectural Engineering, 2012

    Harbin Institute of Technology

Sklls & Specialties

Python

90%

R

70%

Statistics

80%

Building Diagnostics

70%

Thermal Comfort

95%

Urban Climatology

55%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Anglinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Jun 2019 – Present Princeton,NJ
Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing 2nd law of thermodynamics’ influence on comfort delivery efficiency
  • Modelling geothermal borehole heat exchanger
  • Deploying campus-wide distributed sensing network
 
 
 
 
 

PhD Student/Candidate

Princeton University

Sep 2014 – May 2019 Princeton,NJ
Obtained PhD in understanding the occupants’ need and demands regarding their thermal comfort and its impact on redesigning energy delivery.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Associate

Carnegie Mellon University

Sep 2013 – Jul 2014 Pittsburgh, PA
Researched on Post-Occupancy Evaluation for Building 101 Project funded by EEEHub (Energy Innovation Hub for Energy-Efficient Buildings) and the challenges posed by joining building energy/information modeling.

Accomplish­ments

William P. Lowry Methodology Prize

American Meterological Society Oct 2018
Awarded the prize for presenting research at ICUC 10 Conference in New York, 2018- the award is made to the presenter at the IAUC meetings that incorporates the best conceptual or experimental methodology.

Maeder Graduate Fellowship in Energy and the Environment

Princeton University Sep 2018
Awarded the fellowship on research regarding improving the comfort delivery efficiency of existing building and built environment conditioning systems.

Recent Posts

Recent development in machine learning

A scikit-based Python environment for performing multi-label classification[1] What’s Python? Python is a high-level programming …
Last updated on Nov 14, 2019 5 min read machine learning, research

Recent development in machine learning - Technical

A scikit-based Python environment for performing multi-label classification[1] What was done in this study? Building on the existing …
Last updated on Nov 20, 2019 4 min read machine learning, research

Skin temperature - and its relationship to thermal comfort

Localized discomfort of the human body - or over-generalized discomfort It is not very common to discuss the localized thermal …
Last updated on Nov 10, 2019 2 min read publication, research

Vertical Borehole Heat Exchanger Length Estimation

The basics Method to estimate required length of borehole The methods required to estimate the length required by borehole is outlined …
Last updated on Nov 7, 2019 3 min read publication, research

Two new publications are up!

Mean radiant temperature review Super excited to see that the review of mean radiant temperature that I authored is to be published in …
Last updated on Nov 4, 2019 2 min read publication, research
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Is it Time to Make People Instead of Rooms Comfortable?

We are not AIR. Conventional HVAC system designs uses air temperature as the only indicator of thermal comfort states - so long as the …
May 7, 2019 12:00 AM

Recent Publications

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Hongshan Guo, Maria Ferrara, James Coleman, Mauricio Loyola, Forrest Meggers, Simulation and measurement of air temperatures and mean radiant temperatures in a radiantly heated indoor space, Energy, 2019, 116369, ISSN 0360-5442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116369.

Hongshan Guo, Dorit Aviv, Mauricio Loyola, Eric Teitelbaum, Nicholas Houchois, Forrest Meggers, On the understanding of the mean radiant temperature within both the indoor and outdoor environment, a critical review, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019, 109207, ISSN 1364-0321, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.06.014.

Hongshan Guo, Yongqiang Luo, Forrest Meggers, Marco Simonetti, Human body exergy consumption models’ evaluation and their sensitivities towards different environmental conditions, Energy, Volume 183, 2019, Pages 1075-1088, ISSN 0360-5442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.05.045.

Hongshan Guo, Eric Teitelbaum, Nicholas Houchois, Michael Bozlar, and Forrest Meggers. Revisiting the Use of Globe Thermometers to Estimate Radiant Temperature in Studies of Heating and Ventilation. Energy and Buildings 180 (2018): 83–94.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.08.029

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