Yunyang Ye

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Yunyang Ye is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines. He was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama and a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Ye received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder.

His research focuses on sustainable and resilient buildings, sustainable and smart cities, and grid-interactive efficient buildings. Dr. Ye’s research spans from the system level to the urban scale, using system modeling methods that hybridize physics-based and cutting-edge artificial intelligence approaches. His spatial-temporal research is interdisciplinary and involves occupant behaviors (social), power systems, transportation (engineering), and climate disasters (science), which provide nature to conduct broad collaborations.

He has led multiple projects and tasks sponsored by U.S. DOE, NSF, and ASHRAE, and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. He is a Youth Editor for Building Simulation: An International Journal. He has also served as a guest editor for six special issues, a member of the scientific committee to organize three international conferences, and vice chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 7.4.

Dr. Ye has received multiple awards, including the ASHRAE New Investigator Award, IBPSA-USA Emerging Contributor Award, and the ASHRAE Homer Addams Award.

Labs and Research Groups

• Dr. Ye’s Research Group

Education

• Ph.D., Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019.
• M.E., Power Engineering (HVAC), Tongji University, 2016.
• B.E., Building Environment and Facilities Engineering, Tongji University, 2013.

Research Interests

• 1947-TRP, Climate Change Driven Extreme Temperature Effects for Efficiency and Resilience Map of Heat Pump Technology

Key Awards and Honors

• ASHRAE New Investigator Award
• IBPSA-USA Emerging Contributor Award
• PNNL Early Career Researcher Award Finalist
• ASHRAE Homer Addams Award
• Reviewer’s Recognition: 2021 Reviewers of the Year from the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
• PNNL Outstanding Performance Award (x2)

Publications

• F Rosas-Diaz, CA Juárez-Alvarado, M Chen, Y Ye, RJ Myers and D Jiangk (2025). Biomass-based concrete could effectively decarbonize buildings in Mexico. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 219, 108264.
• Y Yang, R Adhikari, J Sui, Y Lou, Y Ye, J O’Donnell, N Hewitt and W Zuo (2025). Leveraging online housing data for large-scale building energy modeling. Building and Environment 277, 112929.
• Y Ye, CA Faulkner, W Jung, J Zhang and E Brock (2024). A new database of building-space-specific internal loads and load schedules for performance based code compliance modeling of commercial buildings. Building Simulation 17 (6), 877-892.
• Y Yang, J Sui, Y Ye, W Zuo, YJ Jung and X Lei (2024). Long-Term Assessment of Commercial Building Energy and Carbon Emissions in the Northwestern Region Under Future Weather Trend. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States).
• Y Xie, YJ Jung, J Zhang, Y Ye, Y Chen, V Salcido, D Maddox, E Franconi, and et. al. (2024). Integration of Hourly Energy Usage And Emission Rates through Mapping Between Climate Zones And eGRID Region. Integration 2024.
• Y Yang, J Sui, Y Ye, W Zuo, YJ Jung and X Lei (2024). Long-Term Assessment of Commercial Building Energy and Carbon Reduction Potential in the Northwestern Region under Future Climate Trend 2.
• S Biswas, C Faulkner, T Wall, F Tuffner, Y Ye, C Vartanian, C Koplin, and et. al. (2024). Simulation-Guided Decision-Making for Enhancing Energy Resilience in a Remote Alaskan Community. 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT).
• Y Lou, Y Ye, Y Yang, W Zuo and G Wang (2024). Energy modeling of typical commercial buildings in support of ASHRAE building energy quotient energy rating program (ASHRAE RP-1771). Science and Technology for the Built Environment 30 (2), 101-133.

For additional publications and citation data, see Google Scholar.