Gregor P. Henze, Ph.D., P.E. is professor and holds the C.V. Schelke Chair in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado. His teaching focuses on the building energy systems side of architectural engineering, i.e., thermalÌýenvironmental engineering, HVAC and refrigeration systems, design of energy efficient buildings, building control and automation systems, data science for building engineering applications, and sustainable building design. His research emphasizes model-based predictiveÌýoptimal control and model-free reinforcement learning control of building energy systems, building thermal mass refrigeration systems, model-based benchmarking of building operational performance, whole-building fault detection and diagnosis, control strategies for mixed-mode buildings that incorporate both natural and mechanical ventilation, uncertainty quantification of occupant behavior and its impact, human presence detection, energy analytics and decision analysis as well as the integration of building energy system operations with theÌýelectric grid system. He is the primary author of more than 150 research articles, four of which have received best paper awards, and received two patents with another pending. He received the 2011 Colorado Cleantech Industry Association's ResearchÌýand Commercialization Award. Prof. Henze is a professional mechanical engineer, certified high-performance building design professional (HBDP), member of ASHRAE, editorial board member for Journal Building Performance Simulation, Associate Director of the RenewableÌýand Sustainable Energy Institute for the area of energy systems integration, joint professor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, collaborating with the power systems engineering and building research groups, as well as co-founder and chief scientist of QCoefficient,ÌýInc., a startup developing real-time optimal control solutions for grid-interactive efficient buildings.
Gregor's Recent RASEI Activities
Optimal environmental and economic performance trade-offs for fifth generation district heating and cooling network topologies with waste heat recovery
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, 2024, 309, 118322 Read more
The Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering group receives $8 million from DOE's Renew America Nonprofits program
RASEI Fellow Gregor Henze is a Co-PI on this five-year award Read more
A dynamic programming based method for optimal control of a cascaded heat pump system with thermal energy storage
OPTIMIZATION AND ENGINEERING, 2023, 25, 229-251 Read more
Reinforcement learning building control approach harnessing imitation learning
ENERGY AND AI, 2023, 14, 100255 Read more
Inverse Reinforcement Learning Control for Building Energy Management
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS, 2023, 286, 112941 Read more
An optimization framework for the network design of advanced district thermal energy systems
Energy Conversion and Management, 2022, 266, 115839 Read more
A high-fidelity building performance simulation test bed for the development and evaluation of advanced controls
J. Building Perf. Simul., 2022, 15, 3, 379-397 Read more
Multimodal sensor fusion framework for residential building occupancy detection
Energy and Buildings, 2022, 258, 111828 Read more
Affordable and accurate sensors to better understand residential buildings
This publication from RASEI Fellow Gregor Henze describes new, affordable and accurate sensors to better understand energy use in residential buildings. Read more