Built Environment & Energy Laboratory
2025 News
Jun 06, 2025: Prof. Chun Chen received The University of Toronto - The Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Fund: "Opportunities and challenges for air filtration for the control of infectious disease, HK$85,000, 06/2025 – 05/2026." The U of T PI is Prof. Jeffrey Siegel.
May 23, 2025: Kangqi Guo has successfully passed her Ph.D. defense. Her Ph.D. thesis title is "Controlling Airborne and Surface Bioaerosols with Far-UVC in Indoor Environments". Congratulations to Dr. Guo!
May 02, 2025: Our paper "Wu, H., Niu, Z., Chen, C.* (2025). Toward understanding the interaction between wetting liquid aerosols and metal organic framework-embedded nanofiber air filters." has been accepted by Building and Environment. Congratulations to Houhua!
Feb 25, 2025: Our invention "Chen, C., Niu, Z., Bian, Y., Zhang, L. Electrospinning method for fabricating nanofiber air filter with minimized pressure drop" has been granted a U.S. non-provisional patent, US 12,180,613B2, December 31, 2024. Congratulations to Zhuolun and Ye!
Jan 10, 2025: Prof. Chun Chen attended the International Workshop on Building Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality in AI Era at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and gave a talk entitled "Energy-Efficient Control of Indoor PM2.5 and Thermal Comfort using Deep Reinforcement Learning".
Jan 26, 2025: Our paper "Deng, C., Niu, Z., Chen, C.* (2025). Personal air cleaning by a user-tracking robot equipped with a nanofiber air cleaner in a large work space." has been accepted by Indoor Environments. Congratulations to Chengzhong!
