Yueyue Zhou
Mechanical Engineering Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolYueyue Zhou is a Mechanical Engineering Researcher with eight years of experience at the intersection of building science and computer science, specializing in residential building simulation, energy-conservation measures, and data-driven modeling. Based in Golden, Colorado, she leads development of the OpenStudio‑HPXML workflow at NREL to standardize residential energy modeling for DOE programs and industry software, and has contributed back-end code enhancements to the widely used EnergyPlus whole‑building simulator. Her work spans practical HVAC innovations—cold‑climate and geothermal heat pump modeling, defrost and demand‑response controls—and advanced analysis using machine learning for energy prediction and urban-scale studies. She pairs rigorous academic training (dual master's degrees from Georgia Tech and a mechanical engineering degree from Zhejiang University) with hands‑on scripting and automation (Python, IDF/OS workflows) to run large parametric simulations and build reproducible toolchains. Notably, she applied randomized search for neural networks to reach 87.1% accuracy in building energy classification and built visualization pipelines that bridge DAYSIM/Radiance daylighting outputs with EnergyPlus. Curious and methodical, Yueyue blends code-level contributions to open-source tools with domain expertise to turn complex simulation needs into production-ready workflows.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.84, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.84 at Zhejiang University
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NREL/EnergyPlus
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 284 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yueyue's contributions focused on implementing a desuperheater for a water-to-air heat pump simple coil. They added functionality to the `WaterThermalTanks.cc` and `WaterToAirHeatPumpSimple.cc` files by including the `WaterToAirHeatPumpSimple.hh` header and implementing new calculations. These changes included adding the HeatReclaimSimple_WAHPCoil to the `DataHeatBalance.hh` to handle the new desuperheater data. These modifications appear to be part of a feature enhancement for the `nrel/energyplus` repository.
renewable-energypower-systemsenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
yzhou601/EnergyPlus
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Contributions:64 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
modelicarenewable-energyenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
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