Dr. Maomao Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Built Environment at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2024. He is the director of the Building Informatics and Operations Research (BIOR) Lab, Deputy Director of the NUS Center for Digital Building Technology, and Deputy Programme Director for the MSc (Building Performance and Sustainability). Prior to joining NUS, Dr. Hu was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University from 2022 to 2023 and in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 2020 to 2021. He received his PhD in Building Environment and Energy Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019. In 2018, he was a visiting PhD student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark.
His research focuses on developing sustainable and scalable technologies and computational tools to make today’s building and urban energy systems low-carbon, energy-efficient, energy-flexible, climate-resilient, and equitable. To achieve this overarching goal, he employs a multifaceted approach that encompasses data analytics and machine learning, physics-based modeling and simulation, optimization and model-based optimal controls, and experimental studies. These approaches have been deployed across a spectrum of scales, spanning from equipment- through building- and community- to city-scale.
Dr. Hu is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and a member of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). He has been contributing to international collaborations, including the IEA EBC Annex 81 (Data-Driven Smart Buildings), Annex 82 (Energy Flexible Buildings Towards Resilient Low Carbon Energy Systems), and Annex 96 (Grid Integrated Control of Buildings).