Rate My Professor Maomao Hu

Dr. Maomao Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering, at the National University of Singapore since 2024. She obtained her Ph.D. in Building Environment and Energy Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, following a visiting Ph.D. studentship at the Technical University of Denmark in 2018. She also holds an M.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2015 and a B.Sc. from Nanjing Tech University in 2012. Prior to her current role, she served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University from 2022 to 2023 and in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 2020 to 2021.

Dr. Hu's research focuses on building decarbonization technologies for energy efficiency, flexibility, and climate resilience; grid-interactive smart buildings and communities; modeling, optimization, and model-based optimal control of building and urban energy systems; physics-based modeling and control of HVAC&R systems; data analytics and machine learning for buildings; uncertainty quantification for building energy systems; and occupant behavior in buildings. Her notable publications include 'Empirical exploration of zone-by-zone energy flexibility: a non-intrusive load disaggregation approach for commercial buildings' (Energy and Buildings, 2023), 'Impacts of building load dispersion level on its load forecasting accuracy: Data or algorithms? Importance of reliability and interpretability in machine learning' (Energy and Buildings, 2023), 'Classification and characterization of intra-day load curves of PV and non-PV households using interpretable feature extraction and feature-based clustering' (Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021), 'Neighborhood-level coordination and negotiation techniques for managing demand-side flexibility in residential microgrids' (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021), and 'Investigation of demand response potentials of residential air conditioners in smart grids using grey-box room thermal model' (Applied Energy, 2017). She received the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at the 5th International High-Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue University in 2018. Dr. Hu currently serves as Deputy Program Director for the MSc in Building Performance and Sustainability and sits on the organizing committees for ASim 2026, Indoor Air 2026, and ACM BuildSys 2026.