Jiakang Lu

861 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 622 citations indexed

About

Jiakang Lu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiakang Lu has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 622 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 4 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Jiakang Lu's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (4 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (4 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (3 papers). Jiakang Lu is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (4 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (4 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (3 papers). Jiakang Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States and Finland. Jiakang Lu's co-authors include Kamin Whitehouse, Tamim Sookoor, Vijay Srinivasan, John A. Stankovic, Ge Gao, Timothy Hnat, Dagnachew Birru, Michel Goraczko, Jie Liu and Christian Belady and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Design & Test of Computers and IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science.

In The Last Decade

Jiakang Lu

9 papers receiving 579 citations

Hit Papers

The smart thermostat 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The smart thermostat
    2010 391 citations Jiakang Lu, Tamim Sookoor et al. profile →

Peers

Jiakang Lu
Thomas Weng United States
Antonio G. Ruzzelli Ireland
Abbas Javed United Kingdom
Saguna Saguna Sweden
Ankur Kamthe United States
Wilhelm Kleiminger Switzerland
Jinsung Byun South Korea
Khalida Ghanem Algeria
Raymond Low Singapore
Thomas Weng United States
Jiakang Lu
Citations per year, relative to Jiakang Lu Jiakang Lu (= 1×) peers Thomas Weng

Countries citing papers authored by Jiakang Lu

Since Specialization
Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jiakang Lu

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jiakang Lu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jiakang Lu. The network helps show where Jiakang Lu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiakang Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jiakang Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jiakang Lu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jiakang Lu. Jiakang Lu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Lu, Jiakang, et al.. (2014). Smart Blueprints: How Simple Sensors Can Collaboratively Map Out Their Own Locations in the Home. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. 11(1). 1–23. 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Jiakang & Kamin Whitehouse. (2012). SunCast: Fine-grained prediction of natural sunlight levels for improved daylight harvesting. 34. 245–256. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Jiakang & Kamin Whitehouse. (2012). SunCast. 245–256. 25 indexed citations
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Whitehouse, Kamin, et al.. (2012). Towards Occupancy-Driven Heating and Cooling. IEEE Design & Test of Computers. 29(4). 17–25. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Jie, et al.. (2011). The data furnace: heating up with cloud computing. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 15–15. 23 indexed citations
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Hnat, Timothy, Vijay Srinivasan, Jiakang Lu, et al.. (2011). The hitchhiker's guide to successful residential sensing deployments. 232–245. 116 indexed citations
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Lu, Jiakang, Tamim Sookoor, Vijay Srinivasan, et al.. (2010). The smart thermostat. 211–224. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lu, Jiakang, Dagnachew Birru, & Kamin Whitehouse. (2010). Using simple light sensors to achieve smart daylight harvesting. 73–78. 39 indexed citations
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Lu, Jiakang & Kamin Whitehouse. (2008). Exploiting the capture effect for low-latency flooding in wireless sensor networks. 409–410. 9 indexed citations
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