Ryunhee Kim (Luna)

Education Background

Before joining the University of Alabama, Ryunhee Kim (Luna) accomplished her M.S. in Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2023. During her M.S. study, she also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. She obtained her B.Eng. in Architecture and Urban Design from Incheon National University, South Korea. She was a research assistant at the Sustainable Architecture and Building Systems research lab in South Korea. ​Her research focuses on building system control and optimization, and data mining and machine learning for building and urban systems.

Research Interests

• ​Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Systems
• Intelligent Building Energy Management System
• Occupant-Centric Building System Control and Optimization
• Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) in building systems
• Unsupervised Data Mining for Building and Urban Energy Systems
• Automated Continuous Commissioning

Publications

• Kim, R.H., Ye, Y., Huang, S., Xie, Y., Wang, J., 2024, “Developing A Novel Modeling Framework for Residential Home’s Occupant Behaviors in Support of Building-to-Grid Integration Research”, SimBuild 2024, May 21-23, Denver, CO (Accepted).
• Kim, R.H., Hong, Y. J., Choi, Y. W., Yoon, S.M., “System-level fouling detection of district heating substations using virtual-sensor-assisted building automation system.” Energy 2021, Volume 227, 120515, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.120515.
• Yoon, S.M., Choi, Y.W., Koo, J.B., Hong, Y.J., Kim, R.H., Kim, J.W., “Virtual Sensors for Estimating District Heating Energy Consumption under Sensor Absences in a Residential Building.” Energies 2020, Volume 13 (Issue 22), 6013. DOI: doi.org/10.3390/en13226013.