Zhe Wang

8.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
207 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Zhe Wang is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhe Wang has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Building and Construction, 50 papers in Environmental Engineering and 46 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhe Wang's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (99 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (23 papers). Zhe Wang is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (99 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (23 papers). Zhe Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Zhe Wang's co-authors include Tianzhen Hong, Borong Lin, Mary Ann Piette, Yingxin Zhu, Maohui Luo, Yingdong He, Han Li, Ali Ghahramani, Richard de Dear and Geng Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Zhe Wang

186 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review

2018 486 citations Zhe Wang, Maohui Luo et al. Building and Environment profile →
Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges

2020 375 citations Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong Applied Energy profile →
Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning

2020 349 citations Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong et al. Applied Energy profile →
Energy flexibility of residential buildings: A systematic review of characterization and quantification methods and applications

2021 261 citations Han Li, Zhe Wang et al. Advances in Applied Energy profile →
State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle

2020 247 citations Tianzhen Hong, Zhe Wang et al. Energy and Buildings profile →
A review of operating performance in green buildings: Energy use, indoor environmental quality and occupant satisfaction

2018 245 citations Geng Yang, Zhe Wang et al. Energy and Buildings profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Zhe Wang

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhe Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhe Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhe Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhe Wang 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 Zhe Wang. Zhe Wang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Chance-constrained stochastic framework for building thermal control under forecast uncertainties 2025 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), (unknown), Zhe Wang	5
2	Agile and creative: A sustainability-oriented generative framework for residential site layout design 2025 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), (unknown), Jack C.P. Cheng, Zhe Wang, H.L. Kwok, Cong Huang, (unknown)	2
3	Developing an automatic integration approach to generate brick model from imperfect building information modelling 2024 ·Journal of Building Engineering ·(unknown), Zhe Wang, Gabe Fierro, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
4	A deep learning-based Bayesian framework for high-resolution calibration of building energy models 2024 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), Yixing Chen, Zhe Wang, Kody M. Powell, (unknown), Jianli Chen	9
5	Evaluating different CFD surrogate modelling approaches for fast and accurate indoor environment simulation 2024 ·Journal of Building Engineering ·(unknown), Qi Zhou, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang	15
6	A smart platform (BEVPro) for modeling, evaluating, and optimizing community microgrid integrated with buildings, distributed renewable energy, electricity storage, and electric vehicles 2024 ·Journal of Building Engineering ·Wenjian Chen, (unknown), Nianping Li, Zhe Wang, Jinqing Peng, (unknown)	15
7	Efficient metamodel-based importance sampling coupled with single-loop estimation method for parameter global reliability sensitivity analysis 2024 ·Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics ·Wanying Yun, Fengyuan Li, Xiangming Chen, Zhe Wang	1
8	A knowledge-informed optimization framework for performance-based generative design of sustainable buildings 2024 ·Applied Energy ·(unknown), Zhe Wang, Jack C.P. Cheng, H.L. Kwok	6
9	Comparing different parameter identification techniques for optimal control of building energy systems 2024 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), (unknown), Zhe Wang	2
10	Influences of Heat Rejection from Split A/C Conditioners on Mixed-Mode Buildings: Energy Use and Indoor Air Pollution Exposure Analysis 2024 ·Buildings ·(unknown), Ming Cai, Zhe Wang, Zhiang Zhang, Ruijun Zhang	4
11	Attention mechanism-based transfer learning model for day-ahead energy demand forecasting of shopping mall buildings 2023 ·Energy ·Yue Yuan, Zhihua Chen, Zhe Wang, Yifu Sun, Yixing Chen	44
12	Field test of Model Predictive Control in residential buildings for utility cost savings 2023 ·Energy and Buildings ·Dan Wang, (unknown), Wei Wang, (unknown), Zhe Wang	40
13	Understanding occupancy patterns of university libraries in the post-pandemic era 2023 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), Zhe Wang, (unknown), Bin Cao, Chen Chen, Borong Lin	2
14	Unlocking ventilation flexibility of large airport terminals through an optimal CO2-based demand-controlled ventilation strategy 2023 ·Building and Environment ·Hao Tang, Juan Yu, Geng Yang, Zhe Wang, Xue Liu, Zujian Huang, Borong Lin	11
15	Analysis and prediction of carbon emission in the large green commercial building: A case study in Dalian, China 2023 ·Journal of Building Engineering ·Yuan Su, (unknown), Zhe Wang, Junwei Yan, (unknown), (unknown)	23
16	An ontology-based framework for automatic building energy modeling with thermal zoning 2023 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), Jack C.P. Cheng, Zhe Wang, H.L. Kwok	16
17	Analyzing the interactions between photovoltaic system and its ambient environment using CFD techniques: A review 2023 ·Energy and Buildings ·Qi Zhou, Peixin Dong, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang	17
18	Predicting city-scale daily electricity consumption using data-driven models 2021 ·Advances in Applied Energy ·Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, Mary Ann Piette	88
19	Interpreting the neural network model for HVAC system energy data mining 2021 ·Building and Environment ·Man Wang, Zhe Wang, Geng Yang, Borong Lin	21
20	High-density thermal sensitivity maps of the human body 2019 ·Building and Environment ·Maohui Luo, Zhe Wang, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Davide Filingeri, Ling Jin, Ali Ghahramani, Wenhua Chen, Yingdong He, Binghui Si	115

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