August 18, 2025
Kun Zhang
Professeur
Department
Département de génie mécanique
Degrees
B.Eng. (Chongqing U), M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Polytechnique Montréal), Postdoc (Berkeley Lab)
Office
A-2910
Email
Research axes
- Infrastructure and Built Environment
- Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
Research areas
- Energy flexibility
- Energy efficiency of buildings and communities
- Advanced control of energy systems
- Building-grid interactions
- Application of artificial intelligence in the built environment
- Next-generation building performance simulation
- Urban building energy modelling
Course
Supervision
- Learning-based Model Predictive Control for Demand Flexibility of Commercial and Institutional Buildings, par Seyedali Makki
Été 2025
- Amélioration du contrôle des systèmes de chauffage, ventilation et conditionnement de l'air, par Charbel Korkomaz
Hiver 2024 - Évaluation des performances énergétiques des pompes à chaleur au C02, par Mohamed-Jalal Benzaouia
Hiver 2025 - Analyse des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dynamiques sur les réseaux électriques canadiens, par Emma Mathieu
Hiver 2025 - Impact des variations structurelles des ménages sur les projections de consommation énergétique en France à l'horizon 2050, par Timothé Soulié-Marcillaud
Hiver 2025
- En codirection avec : Mathieu Tremblay
Étude du surdimensionnement des unités de ventilation dans les locaux commerciaux, par Nassim Yazami
Automne 2025
- Coordination et planification d'entretien, par Omar Alejandro Ruiz Morales
Automne 2025
Publications
- Zhang K., Quintana H., Kummert M.. 2015 « Assessing simplified models for predictive control of space heating in houses ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network 4th meeting (Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 2015)
- Quintana H., Zhang K., Kummert M.. 2014 « Optimized control strategies for solar district heating ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network 3rd meeting (Montreal, QC, Canada, 2014)
- Hossein Arasteh, Siba Kalivogui, Abdelatif Merabtine, Wahid Maref, Kun Zhang, Sullivan Durand, Patrick Turcotte, Daniel Rousse, Adrian Ilinca, Didier Haillot, Ricardo Izquierdo. 2025 « Decarbonization strategies for Northern Quebec: Enhancing building efficiency and integrating renewable energy in off-grid indigenous communities ». Energies vol. 18 , nº 16
- Hongwen Dou, Kun Zhang. 2025 « Transfer learning for cross-building forecasting of building energy and indoor air temperature in model predictive control applications ». Journal of Building Engineering vol. 111
- Sullivan Durand, Patrick Turcotte, Didier Haillot, Daniel Rousse, Hossein Arasteh, Siba Kalivogui, Kun Zhang, Ricardo Izquierdo, Abdelatif Merabtine, Wahid Maref, Adrian Ilinca. 2025 « Decarbonization strategies for northern Canada: A review of renewable energy and energy storage in off-grid communities ». Energy Conversion and Management: X vol. 27
- Etienne Saloux, José A. Candanedo, Charalampos Vallianos, Navid Morovat, Kun Zhang. 2025 « From theory to practice: A critical review of model predictive control field implementations in the built environment ». Applied Energy vol. 393
- Kun Zhang, Etienne Saloux, José A. Candanedo. 2024 « Enhancing energy flexibility of building clusters via supervisory room temperature control: Quantification and evaluation of benefits ». Energy and Buildings vol. 302
- Etienne Saloux, Jason Runge, Kun Zhang. 2023 « Operation optimization of multi-boiler district heating systems using artificial intelligence-based model predictive control: Field demonstrations ». Energy vol. 285
- Etienne Saloux, Kun Zhang. 2023 « Data-driven model-based control strategies to improve the cooling performance of commercial and institutional buildings ». Buildings vol. 13 , nº 2
- Etienne Saloux, Kun Zhang. 2023 « Towards integration of virtual meters into building energy management systems: Development and assessment of thermal meters for cooling ». Journal of Building Engineering vol. 65
- Etienne Saloux, Kun Zhang, José A. Candanedo. 2023 « A critical perspective on current research trends in building operation: Pressing challenges and promising opportunities ». Buildings vol. 13 , nº 10
- Michael Wetter, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Dave Robin, Kun Zhang. 2022 « OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification ». Energy vol. 238
- Kun Zhang, David Blum, Hwakong Cheng, Gwelen Paliaga, Michael Wetter, Jessica Granderson. 2022 « Estimating ASHRAE Guideline 36 energy savings for multi-zone variable air volume systems using Spawn of EnergyPlus ». Journal of Building Performance Simulation vol. 15 , nº 2. p. 215-236
- Kun Zhang, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, David Blum, Peter Alstone, James Zoellick, Richard Brown, Marco Pritoni. 2022 « Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems ». Advances in Applied Energy vol. 7
- Kun Zhang, Michaël Kummert. 2021 « Evaluating the impact of thermostat control strategies on the energy flexibility of residential buildings for space heating ». Building Simulation vol. 14 , nº 5. p. 1439-1452
- Anjukan Kathirgamanathan, Thibault Péan, Kun Zhang, Mattia De Rosa, Jaume Salom, Michaël Kummert, Donal P. Finn. 2020 « Towards standardising market-independent indicators for quantifying energy flexibility in buildings ». Energy and Buildings vol. 220
- Anand Krishnan Prakash, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellick, Richard Brown, Marco Pritoni. 2020 « Solar+ optimizer: A model predictive control optimization platform for grid responsive building microgrids ». Energies vol. 13 , nº 12
- Kun Zhang, David H. Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter. 2020 « Development and verification of control sequences for single-zone variable air volume system based on ASHRAE Guideline ». Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings vol. 169 , nº 9. p. 81-90
- Dou Hongwen, Zhang Kun. 2024 « Transfer learning-supported building electric energy forecasting using neural network models ». Proceedings of ASim Conference 2024: 5th Asia Conference of IBPSA (Osaka, Japan, Dec. 08-10, 2024) IBPSA-Asia
- Etienne Saloux, Jason Runge, Kun Zhang. 2023 « Field implementation of a predictive control strategy in district heating systems: A tale of two demonstration sites ». Energy Informatics : Third Energy Informatics Academy Conference, EI.A : Proceedings (Campinas, Brazil, Dec. 06-08, 2023) Springer
- L. Paul, A. Prakash, K. Zhang, M. Pritoni, R. Brown. 2022 « Solar+ optimizer: Integrated control of solar, batteries, and flexible loads for small commercial buildings ». 22nd biennial ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2022) ACEEE
- E. Saloux, K. Zhang. 2022 « Virtual energy metering of whole building cooling load from both airside and waterside measurements ». 12th Conference of IBPSA-Canada (Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 21-24, 2022) International Building Performance Simulation Association
- P. Alstone, R. Brown, J. Zoellick, M. Pritoni, D. Blum, K. Radecsky, Kun Zhang. 2020 « Resilient buildings for fire-adapted landscapes: EE and flexible loads integrated with solar and storage microgrids ». 21st Biennal ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (En ligne, Aug. 17-21, 2020) ACEEE
- M. Pritoni, A. Prakash, D. Blum, K. Zhang, R. Tang, J. Granderson. 2020 « Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale ». 21st biennial ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (En ligne, Aug. 17-21, 2020) ACEEE
- B. Barzegar, K. Zhang, M. Kummert. 2018 « Energy flexibility analysis for photovoltaic solar system with battery ». 10th Conference of IBPSA-Canada (Montreal, QC, Canada, May 09-10, 2018)
- K. Zhang, M. Kummert. 2018 « Potential of building thermal mass for energy flexibility in residential buildings: a sensitivity analysis ». 10th Conference of IBPSA-Canada (Montreal, QC, Canada, May 09-10, 2018) International Building Performance Simulation Association
- Kun Zhang, Timothy P. McDowell, Michaël Kummert. 2017 « Sky temperature estimation and measurement for longwave radiation calculation ». 15th Conference of IBPSA (San Francisco, CA, USA, Aug. 07-09, 2017) International Building Performance Simulation Association
- K. Zhang, N. Roofigari, H. Quintana, M. Kummert. 2015 « Assessing simplified and detailed models for predictive control of space heating in homes ». Ninth International Conference on System Simulation in Buildings (Liege, Belgium, Dec. 10-12, 2014)
- Kun Zhang, Humberto Quintana, David Bradley, Michaël Kummert, Mark Riley. 2015 « Air-source integrated heat pumps (AS-IHPs) with smart zoning for residential space and water heating in cold climate ». 14th Conference of IBPSA (Hyderabad, India, Dec. 07-09, 2015)
- Kun Zhang. 2018 « Model predictive control of building systems for energy flexibility ». 148 p.Thèse de doctorat. École Polytechnique de Montréal.
- M. Wetter, P. Ehrlich, A. Gautier, M. Grahovac, P. Haves, J. Hu, K. Zhang. 2023 « Open Building Control ». Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 103 p.
- Anna Joanna Marszal, Hicham Johra, Tobias Weiss, Armin Knotzer, Søren Østergaard Jensen, Hussain Kazmi, Ilaria Vigna, Roberta Pernetti, Jérôme Le Dréau, Kun Zhang, Rune Grønborg Junker, Henrik Madsen, Rui Amaral Lopes, Daniel Aelenei, Krzysztof Arendt, Glenn Reynders, Ala Hasan, Minyan Lu. 2019 « Characterization of energy flexibility in buildings ». International Energy Agency. 116 p.
- Li Rongling, Sarah O'Connell, Kun Zhang, Krzysztof Arendt, Yuekuan Zhou, Suliang Cao, Hussain Kazmi, Zahra Mohammadi. 2019 « Modelling of possible energy flexibility in single buildings and building clusters ». International Energy Agency. 91 p.
- Christian Finck, Paul Beagon, John Claus, Thibault Pean, Pierre Vogler-Finck, Kun Zhang, Hussain Syed Kazmi. 2018 « Review of applied and tested control possibilities for energy flexibility in buildings ». International Energy Agency. 61 p.
- Kun Zhang. 2017 « Impact of Maestro thermostats on heating energy use ». Montréal : Polytechnique Montréal. 14 p.
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