Wangda Zuo
Professor, Department Of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWangda Zuo is a professor and researcher specializing in advanced modeling for smart, sustainable, and resilient cities, with 12+ years of experience spanning academia, national labs, and industry. He leads development of open-source Modelica tools and a Fast Fluid Dynamics (simplified CFD) solver used for data centers, chiller plants, and net-zero communities, and has contributed low-level C fixes and CFD refactors to the prominent Modelica Buildings library. As CTO and co-founder of Glacian Technologies he fuses physics-based digital twins with machine learning to optimize data-center energy and cooling at scale. His appointments across architectural, mechanical, and computational departments reflect a rare ability to bridge building science, numerical simulation, and real-world deployment. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue and maintains an active lab that emphasizes reproducible, open research for urban-scale energy resilience.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computational Engineering, M.Sc., Computational Engineering at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergMaster's Degree, Automation, Master's Degree, Automation at Chongqing UniversityPh.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
numerics10
c1110
numerical10
computation10
numeric10
modelica10
cfc9
cfml9
cfengine9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
lbl-srg/modelica-buildings
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Modelica Buildings library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 19 days
Contributions summary:Wangda's commits primarily involve modifications to C source code files related to FastFluidDynamics within the Modelica Buildings library. They focused on fixing bugs within the `fabs()` function, which suggests an understanding of numerical computation and potential floating-point issues. Further, the user disabled visualization features by removing glut dependencies, and refactored/updated data exchange related to CFD simulation. These actions point towards an effort to refine the core simulation aspects.
modelicabuildingsenergy-efficiency
zuowangda/Fast-Fluid-Dynamics
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:265 commits in 4 months
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