Qun Zhou Sun

Director of Smart Infrastructure Data Analytics Laboratory
University of Central Florida
Email: qz.sun@ucf.edu
Office: HEC 358
Ph: 407-823-3284

Positions:
– Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCF
– Courtesy Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCF

Professional Activities:
– Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
– Secretary, IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Smart Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems (SBLC) Committee

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2011
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2007

Team Members

Wenyi Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: Ph.D., Machinal Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 2019
Research: HVAC operations, model predictive control, and building-grid interactions.

wenyi.wang@ucf.edu

Guanyu Tian

Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering

Education: M.S., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016
Research: Commercial building modeling and optimization, demand response

tiang@knights.ucf.edu

Hossein Panamtash

Ph.D. student, Electrical Engineering

Education: B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2017
Research: Solar power forecasting, solar system integration and optimization

h.panamtash@knights.ucf.edu

Xipeng Jin

Ph.D. student, Electrical Engineering

Education: B.S., Physics, Capital Normal University, 2019
Research: Modeling and optimization of commercial buildings

xipeng_jin@knights.ucf.edu

Michael Cash

Ph.D. student, Computer Science

Education: B.S., Computer Science, Florida International University,
Research: Building cyber security, BACnet and KNX protocol security, cyber-physical attacks. 

SIDAL Alumni

Samy Faddel, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021, currently with ABB Research Center. 

Lei Wang, M.S., 2019, currently with Florida State University.

Rahul Birari, M.S., 2017, currently with Software Motor Company.