Mingyue Guo

Mingyue Guo

PhD candidate

Texas A&M University

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Research Interests

Advanced Controls in Buidlings
Occupancy-centric Controls
Urban Building Energy Modeling
Large-scale Data Analysis
BIM to BEM

About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, supervised by Dr. Zheng O'Neill in the Building Energy and HVAC&R Research Group. For more information, please see my CV.

My research includes:

AI & BIG DATACONTROLSSIMULATIONData-drivenenergy prediction[J2]Large-scaledata analysis[J10, P6]RL[J6, C2, P5]LLM[on-going]Model-predictive control[J9]Occupant-centric Control[J5, J7–8, J11, C4, P3]Control-oriented model[C2]Urban building energy modeling[on-going, P7]Cleanroom simulation[on-going, P5]BIM to BEM[C1, P1]

Education

2023.01 - Present

Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering

Texas A&M University. GPA 4.0/4.0. Supervised by Dr. Zheng O'Neill.

2019.09 - 2022.03

M.S. in HVAC & Gas Engineering

Tongji University. Supervised by Prof. Peng Xu.

2015.09 - 2019.06

B.E. in Built Environment

Chongqing University. GPA 3.69/4.0, rank 2/113. Minor in Business Administration.

Professional Experience

2025.05 - 2025.08

Machine Learning Research Intern

Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Developed reinforcement learning control for data center liquid cooling systems.

2024.06 - 2024.08

Graduate Research Intern

Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Developed control-oriented models for model-predictive control of grid-interactive buildings.

Selected Publications

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[J12]Cleanroom environmental control systems: review of research landscape and control strategies

Mingyue Guo, Z. O'Neill, Z. Yang, J. Wen, W. Sun

Energy and Buildings 2026

[J10]Current and Future Residential Electricity Demand Using Large-Scale Smart Meter Data in a Changing Climate

Mingyue Guo, Y. Choi, S.-M. Cheong, Z. O'Neill

Sustainable Cities and Society 2025

[J9]Deploying advanced supervisory control strategies to small- and medium-sized commercial buildings: Case study and lessons learned

Mingyue Guo, B. Liu, S. Huang, J. Dong, J. Lian, Z. O'Neill

Energy and Buildings 2025

[J7]Exploring and field-demonstrating geofence-based occupancy-centric control in residential buildings

Mingyue Guo, B. Smith-Cortez, Z. O'Neill, T. Firsich, Z. Yang

Energy and Buildings 2024

[C1]Building energy modelling based on building information modelling: the remaining problems and a more robust method

Mingyue Guo, P. Xu, H. Wang, J. Gu, Z. Chen

Proceedings of the 18th International Building Simulation Conference of IBPSA 2023

News

2026-5

My first-authored paper about cleanroom control strategies got accpeted.

2025-12

I passed the PhD preliminary exam! 🎉