Zheng O’Neill

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
152 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Zheng O’Neill is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zheng O’Neill has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Building and Construction, 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 34 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zheng O’Neill's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (112 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (30 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (21 papers). Zheng O’Neill is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (112 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (30 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (21 papers). Zheng O’Neill collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ireland. Zheng O’Neill's co-authors include Bing Dong, Zhihong Pang, Yanfei Li, Fuxin Niu, Bryan Eisenhower, Xing Lu, Fan Feng, Jin Wen, Igor Mezić and Vladimir A. Fonoberov and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Scientific Reports and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Zheng O’Neill

140 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

A review of smart building sensing system for better indoor environment control

2019 250 citations Bing Dong, Zheng O’Neill et al. Energy and Buildings profile →
Grey-box modeling and application for building energy simulations - A critical review

2021 235 citations Zheng O’Neill et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →
A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems

2023 149 citations Zhelun Chen, Zheng O’Neill et al. Applied Energy profile →
Large language models for building energy applications: Opportunities and challenges

2025 25 citations Mingzhe Liu, Zhiyao Yang et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Occupancy behavior-informed PV–battery sizing for resilient and sufficient buildings under climate-related disruptions 2025 ·Energy Conversion and Management ·Zixin Jiang, Zheng O’Neill, Bing Dong	1
2	On predictive device-level controls for water source heat pumps in multi-family residential buildings 2025 ·Energy and Buildings ·Saptarshi Bhattacharya, Syed Ahsan Raza Naqvi, Mingzhe Liu, Veronica Adetola, (unknown), (unknown), Zheng O’Neill, (unknown), Zhongguo John	0
3	Development and Validation of a Water-to-Air Heat Pump Model using Modelica 2025 ·Linköping electronic conference proceedings ·(unknown), Mingzhe Liu, Zhiyao Yang, (unknown), Zheng O’Neill	1
4	A cyber-resilient control framework with adaptive model predictive control (AMPC) for securing energy systems in smart buildings 2025 ·Science and Technology for the Built Environment ·Guowen Li, Yangyang Fu, Zheng O’Neill, Zhiyao Yang, Veronica Adetola, Jin Wen, (unknown), Teresa Wu, Qi Zhu, K. Selçuk Candan, Chirag R. Parikh	0
5	Temperature control strategies for fifth generation district heating and cooling systems: A review and case study 2024 ·Applied Energy ·(unknown), Mingzhe Liu, Zheng O’Neill, Jinyu Wen	7
6	Exploring and field-demonstrating geofence-based occupancy-centric control in residential buildings 2024 ·Energy and Buildings ·Mingyue Guo, (unknown), Zheng O’Neill, (unknown), Zhiyao Yang	2
7	An entropy-based causality framework for cross-level faults diagnosis and isolation in building HVAC systems 2024 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ojas Pradhan, (unknown), Teresa Wu, Jin Wen, Zheng O’Neill, K. Selçuk Candan	6
8	Model Free Control for Non-Uniform Indoor Environment Using Reinforcement Learning 2024 ·Mingzhe Liu, (unknown), Zheng O’Neill	1
9	Long-Term field testing of the accuracy and HVAC energy savings potential of occupancy presence sensors in A Single-Family home 2024 ·Energy and Buildings ·Zhihong Pang, Mingyue Guo, Zheng O’Neill, (unknown), Zhiyao Yang, Mingzhe Liu, Bing Dong	5
10	A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed for cyber-physical energy systems in smart commercial buildings 2024 ·Science and Technology for the Built Environment ·Guowen Li, Zhiyao Yang, Yangyang Fu, Zheng O’Neill, Lingyu Ren, Ojas Pradhan, Jin Wen	6
11	Expert-guided imitation learning for energy management: Evaluating GAIL’s performance in building control applications 2024 ·Applied Energy ·Mingzhe Liu, Mingyue Guo, Yangyang Fu, Zheng O’Neill, Yuan Gao	15
12	Energy resilience in the built environment: A comprehensive review of concepts, metrics, and strategies 2024 ·Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·(unknown), Zixin Jiang, (unknown), Mingzhe Liu, Rongling Li, Zheng O’Neill, Bing Dong, Mohamed Hamdy	3
13	Adopting occupancy-based HVAC controls in commercial building energy codes: Analysis of cost-effectiveness and decarbonization potential 2023 ·Applied Energy ·Zhihong Pang, Zheng O’Neill, Yan Chen, Jian Zhang, Hwakong Cheng, Bing Dong	13
14	Quantification of HVAC energy savings through occupancy presence sensors in an apartment setting: Field testing and inverse modeling approach 2023 ·Energy and Buildings ·Zhihong Pang, Mingyue Guo, (unknown), Zheng O’Neill, Zhiyao Yang, Mingzhe Liu, Bing Dong	30
15	OCCUPIED: Long-term field experiment results from an occupant-centric control in an office building 2023 ·Energy and Buildings ·Zixin Jiang, Zheng O’Neill, Bing Dong	12
16	Dynax: a differentiable dynamic energy simulator for inverse inference, optimal control and end-to-end learning 2023 ·Building Simulation Conference proceedings ·Yangyang Fu, Zheng O’Neill	1
17	Optimal supply air temperature control for dedicated outdoor air system under varying climate zones 2023 ·Building Simulation Conference proceedings ·(unknown), Lü Xing, Zheng O’Neill, (unknown)	1
18	A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems breakdown → 2023 ·Applied Energy ·Zhelun Chen, Zheng O’Neill, Jin Wen, Ojas Pradhan, Tao Yang, Xing Lu, Guanjing Lin, Shohei Miyata, Seungjae Lee, (unknown), Roberto Chiosa, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, (unknown), (unknown), Marco Pritoni, Wei Liu, John Clauß, Yimin Chen, (unknown)	149
19	Occupancy Sensing in Buildings through Social Media from Semantic Analysis 2020 ·ASHRAE winter conference papers ·Xing Lu, (unknown), Zheng O’Neill	1
20	A COMPARISON OF GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION AND CHANGE-POINT REGRESSION FOR THE BASELINE MODEL IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES 2016 ·Proceedings of SimBuild ·(unknown), Keith A. Woodbury, Zheng O’Neill	3

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