Selected Publications

Adam Dayem, Arta Yazdanseta, From the Eye to the Skin: Architectural Representation Beyond Vision, Athens Journal of Architecture, Volume 12 Issue 2, 2026. Link to Article.

Youngjin Hwang, Amogh Wasti, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, Alexandros Tsamis, Investigation of Climate-Adaptive Thermal Effects of a Double-Sided Hydronic Loop Embedded in an Opaque Building Envelope, Journal of Building Engineering Volume 102, 2025. Link to Article.

Arta Yazdanseta, Yehong (Mia) Mi Knowledge mapping for advancement of hemp-lime composite in the construction industry: a systematic literature, JJournal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering Volume 20, no. 1, 2025. Link to Article.

Fleet Hower, Peyton Catarelli & Jayden Huang Neighborhood Scale Carbon Analysis: Developing Methods for Large Scale Material Reuse, 114th ASCA National Meeting Proceedings, 2025. Link to Article.

Fleet Hower, Moe Kawakami, Acer Van Dis, A Framework to Assess Commercial to Residential Conversion, Acadia 2025 Conference.

Fleet Hower, Christiana Bennett, Creating the Hive: A Model for Design Educators to Engage in Community Partnership, JASCA Teachers Conference 2025.

Amogh Wasti, Youngjin Hwang, Berardo Matalucci, Alexandros Tsamis, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc Feasibility Study of a Ground Sourced Thermoelectric Heat Pump Fitted in Single Family Detached Homes in Different Climate Zones of New York State, 19th International Conference on Energy Sustainability ES 2025. Link to Article.

Shu Tang, Dennis R. Shelden, Xinghua Gao, Cheng Zhang, Jianli Hao, Fangyu Guo, Haoyu Zhang, A framework for integrating BIM, building automation systems, and IoT: an application in design and operation using open standards, Journal of Building Engineering: Volume 113, 2025. Link to Article.

Ouellette, J., Roth, S., & Shelden, D., ASHRAE RP-1815 - Integrating Occupant Behavior Data into Building Information Modeling Workflows and Open Data Standards, Journal of Science and Technology for the Built Environment: Volume 31 Issue 8, 2025. Link to Article.

Jihoon Chung, Tianzhen Hong, Jeetika Malik, Dennis SheldenEnhancing Occupant Behavior Representation for Interoperability between Building Information Modeling and Building Energy Modeling, Building Simulation: Volume 18 Issue 9, 2025. Link to Article.

Hang Li, Shovan Chowdhury, Frank Li, Investigating Building Energy Consumption and CO2 Emission in Phoenix Using AutoBEM and Future Typical Meteorological Year (fTMY) Weather Data, ASHRAE Annual Conference, 2025. Link to Article.

Shovan Chowdhury, Fengqi Li, Avery Stubbings, Joshua New, Quantifying and Zoning Urban Heat Island Effects Using Unsupervised Machine Learning, ASME 2025 International Conference on Energy Sustainability, 2025.Link to Article.

Shovan Chowdhury, Hang Li, Fenqi Li, Avery Stubbings, Joshua New, Exploring Building Retrofit Strategies Using AutoBEM Under Future Weather Scenarios, 2025 Buildings XVI International Conference. Link to Article.

Meiyu (Melrose) Pan, Wan Li, Chieh (Ross) Wang, Shian Wang, Fengqi (Frank) Li, Jin Dong, Joshua New, Evaluating system responses to electric vehicle charging infrastructure expansion through data-driven simulation, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2025. Link to Article.

Shovan Chowdhury, Fengqi Li, Avery Stubbings, Timothy W. Hawkins, Joshua New, Jianming Lian, UrbanScaping: Community Spatial Data Visualization & Analytics, ASME 2025 19th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. Link to Article.

Shovan Chowdhury, Fengqi Li, Avery Stubbings, Joshua New, Impact of Building Characteristics on Energy Demand Profile Forecasting: An Evaluation of Predictive Accuracy and Methods, 2025 ASHRAE Winter Conference.Link to Article.

Elena Petruzzi, Alexandros Tsamis, Chaitanya Ullal, Toward a Digital Design Framework for the Thermal Tunability of 3D Printed Envelopes, Journal of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Volume 12 Issue 2 Biobased Design, 2024. Link to Article.

Fleet Hower, Josh Draper, Embodied Carbon and Adaptive Reuse: Towards a Union of Design and Analysis in Architectural Pedagogy, 113th ASCA National Meeting Proceedings, 2024. Link to Article.

Fleet Hower, Restoring the Mission of Guild House: Combining Community Partnership and Technical Analysis to Design for Social Benefit, 113th ASCA National Meeting Proceedings, 2024. Link to Article.

Manabendra Nath, Alexandros Tsamis, Josh Draper, Building Integrated Agriculture Simulation (BIA-SIM), ASCA 112th Annual Meeting: Disrupters on the Edge, 2024. Link to Article.

Jihoon Chung, Dennis Shelden, A Framework of ifcJSON-Based Digital Twin Platform for Monitoring Building Environment Using BIM, IoT, and Semantic Web Technologies, 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, ICCCBE 2024. Link to Article.

A Neuro-Symbolic GraphRAG Approach to Building Energy Modeling Automation, ASHRAE Annual Conference, 2024.

Shovan Chowdhury, Fengqi Li, Avery Stubbings, Joshua New, Ankur Garg, Kevin Bacabac, Santiago Correa, Machine Learning for Determining Building Type, SimBuild Conference, 2024.Link to Article.

Ankur Garg; Santiago Correa, Fengqi Li, Shovan Chowdhury, Joshua R. New, Kevin Bacabac, Christian Kunkel, Donnel Baird, Empirical Validation of UBEM: An Assessment of Bias in Urban Building Energy Modeling for Chicago, 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference. Link to Article.

Fengqi Li, Xinwei Zhuang, Evaluating an auto decoder-based generative model for the infomorphism urban planning framework, 2023 Building Simulation Conference. Link to Article.

Jihoon Chung, , Gabriel Jacoby-Cooper, Kelsey Rook, Henrique Santos, Dennis Shelden, Elisa F. Kendall, Deborah L. McGuinness, Towards an Indoor Environmental Quality Management Ontology, Proceedings of First International Workshop on Semantic Web on Constrained Things, 2023.Link to Article.

Fengqi Li, Kristen R. Schell, Alexandros Tsamis, Infomorphism: an urban planning approach for equitable access to renewable energy, 2023 Building Simulation Conference.Link to Article.

Fengqi Li, Haolin Yang, Kristen R. Schell, Alexandros Tsamis, Infomorphism: integrating a forecasting model for highresolution urban energy demand prediction, 2023 Building Simulation Conference. Link to Article.

Daniel Walczyk, Alexandros Tsamis, Transverse thermal properties of commingled hemp and flax thermoplastic tows for biocomposite processing applications, Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, 2023. Link to Article.

Constantina Varsami, Daniel Rosenberg, Diego Pinochet, Alexandros Tsamis, Human-System Collaboration: toward Lighting Enabled Collaborative System Design, Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of IBPSA. Link to Article.

Fengqi Li, Alexandros Tsamis, Kristen R. Schell, Infomorphism: Urban Planning For Renewable Energy Integration Via Simulated Energy Exchange Networks, 2022 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference. Link to Article.

Fengqi Li, Kristen R. Schell, Haolin Yang, Alexandros Tsamis, Infomorphism: An Urban Planning Framework for Local Renewable Energy Integration, 2022 Building Performance Modeling Conference and SimBuild.Link to Article.

The Marching Shape: 3-Dimensional Extensions of the Ice Ray Shape Grammar, 2022 Building Performance Modeling Conference and SimBuild. Link to Article.

Daniel M. Cohen, Alexandros Tsamis, Daniel F. Walczyk, Sharmad Joshi, Fibrewerks: An interscalar study into the viability of natural fibre composite rebar for cementitious materials, ACSA 2022 Intersections Research Conference: RESILIENT FUTURES.Link to Article.

Constantina Varsami, Alexandros Tsamis, Timothy Logan, Gaming Engine as a Tool for Designing Smart, Interactive, Light-Sculpting Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, 2022. Link to Article.

Youngjin Hwang, Amogh Wasti, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, Justin Shultz, Luigi Vanfretti, and Alexandros Tsamis, CABE: Modeling, Simulation, and Evaluation of a Climate-Adaptive Building Envelope, Buildings XV International Conference, 2022. Link to Article.

Jingshi Zhang, Alexandros Tsamis, Daniel Rosenberg, Algae Bio-reactive Building Envelope: Dynamic Lighting and Energy Aspects for Algae-based Building Skin, 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild. Link to Article.

Xinghua Gao, Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, Dennis Shelden, Shu Tang, Internet of Things Enabled Data Acquisition Framework for Smart Building Applications, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Volume 147 Issue 2, 2021. Link to Article.

Ihuoma Onungwa, Nnezi Olugu-Uduma, Dennis R. Shelden, Cloud BIM Technology as a Means of Collaboration and Project Integration in Smart Cities, Sage Journals, 2021.Link to Article.

Fengqi Li, Alexandros Tsamis, INFORMORPHISM: The Autonomous Building as a Driver for Urban Planning, Deep City: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital, 2021. Link to Article.

Diego Pinochet, Alexandros Tsamis, Path Optimization for Multi-Material 3D Printing Using Self-Organizing Maps, Computer-Aided Architectural Design: Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol 32, 2021. Link to Article.

Dennis Shelden, Technology Transformation, Are We There Yet, Design Intelligence Quarterly, 2020. Link to Article.

Alexandros Tsamis, Youngjin Hwang, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, An Ectothermic Approach to Heating and Cooling in Buildings, ACSA Intersections Research Conference, 2020. Link to Article.

Alexandros Tsamis, Mohammed Alnaggar, Ana Cecilia Toledano, Towards Functionally Graded Bio-ceramic Composites in Additive Manufacturing, ACSA 108th Annual Meeting, 2020. Link to Article.

Joshua Draper, Daniel Rosenberg, Alexandros Tsamis, A Pedagogical Approach to Materials by Design, ACSA 108th Annual Meeting, 2020. Link to Article.

Xinghua Gao, Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, Dennis Shelden, Shu Tang, Machine Learning-Based Building Life-Cycle Cost Prediction: A Framework and Ontology, Construction Research Congress 2020: Computer Applications. Link to Article.

Dennis Shelden, Shu Tang, A Framework Utilizing Modern Data Models with IFC for Building Automation System Applications, Construction Research Congress 2020: Computer Applications.Link to Article.

Shu Tang, Dennis R. Shelden, Charles M. Eastman, Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, Xinghua Gao, BIM Assisted BAS Information Exchange Using BACnet and IFC, Automation in Construction: Volume 110, 2020. Link to Article.

Dennis Shelden, The Disruptors: Technology-Driven Architect-Entrepreneurs: Technology Enabling Design, Architectural Design, 2020. Link to Article.

Dennis Shelden, Entrepreneurial Practice: New Possibilities in a Reconfiguring Profession, Architectural Design Volume 90 Issue 2, 2020. Link to Article.

Shu Tang, Dennis R. Shelden, Charles M. Eastman, Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, Xinghua Gao, A Review of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the Internet of Things (IoT) Devices Integration: Present Status and Future Trends, Automation in Construction: Volume 101, 2019. Link to Article.

Jeanette Sordi, Alexandros Tsamis, The Recombinant City. Legacy in Extreme Mining Territories, Abitare la Terra 3, 2019. Link to Article.

Daniel Rosenberg, Alexandros Tsamis, 2019 HUMAN-BUILDING COLLABORATION: A Pedagogical Framework for Smart Building Design, CAADRIA, 2019. Link to Article.

Dennis Shelden, Cyber-Physical Systems and the Built Environment, Technology | Architecture + Design Volume 2 Issue 2, 2018. Link to Article.

Kereshmeh Afsari, Charles Eastman, Dennis Shelden, Building Information Modeling Data Interoperability for Cloud-Based Collaboration: Limitations and Opportunities, International Journal of Architectural Computing Volume 15 Issue 3, 2017.Link to Article.

Alexandros Tsamis, The Marching Shape, Computer-Aided Architectural Design: Future Trajectories, 2017. Link to Article.