2024.08 – now   Tongji University, Associate Professor

2020.08 – 2024.08    University of Utah, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

2018.11 – 2020.08    US National Renewable Energy Lab, Post-doc

2014.08 - 2018.08     Georgia Institute of Technology, Building Construction, PhD

2015.08 - 2017.12     Georgia Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Master

2012.08 - 2014.05      Virginia Tech, Civil Engineering, Master

2008.09 - 2012.06     Dalian Jiantong University, Civil Engineering + Computer Science, Bachelor

Sustainable Building

Artificial Intelligence Empowered Building Design and Operation

Building and Renewable Energy Integration

Occupant Behaviors, Comfort, and Health

Jiang, Gang, Zhihao Ma, Liang Zhang, and Jianli Chen*. 'EPlus-LLM: A large language model-based computing platform for automated building energy modeling.' Applied Energy (2024).

Zhihao Ma, Shuang Cui, and Jianli Chen*. 'Demand response through ventilation and latent load adjustment for commercial buildings in humid climate zones.' Applied Energy (2024)

Biao Kuang, Yangming Shi, Yuqing Hu, Zhaoyun Zeng, and Jianli Chen*. 'Household energy resilience in extreme weather events: An investigation of energy service importance, HVAC usage behaviors, and willingness to pay.' Applied Energy (2024).

Xinghua Gao*, Saeid Alimoradi, Jianli Chen, Yuqing Hu, and Shu Tang. 'Assistance from the Ambient Intelligence: Cyber–physical system applications in smart buildings for cognitively declined occupants.' Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2023).

Jiannan Cai, Jianli Chen, Yuqing Hu, Shuai Li*, and Qiang He. 'Digital twin for healthy indoor environment: A vision for the post-pandemic era.' Frontiers of Engineering Management (2023).

Zhaoyun Zeng, Di Lu, Yuqing Hu, Godfried Augenbroe, and Jianli Chen*. 'A Comprehensive Optimization Framework for the Design of High-performance Building Systems', Journal of Building Engineering (2022).

Jianli Chen, Rajendra Adhikari*, Eric Wilson, Joseph Robertson, Anthony Fontanini, Ben Polly, and Opeoluwa Olawale. 'Stochastic Simulation of Occupant-driven Energy Use in a Bottom-up Residential Building Stock Model', Applied Energy (2022).

Jianli Chen*, Liang Zhang, Yanfei Li, Yifu Shi, Xinghua Gao, and Yuqing Hu. 'A Review of Computing-based Automated Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2022).

Liang Zhang*, Jin Wen, Yanfei Li, Jianli Chen, Yunyang Ye, Yangyang Fu, William Livingood. 'A Review of Machine Learning in Building Load Prediction', Applied Energy, (2021).

Jianli Chen, Godfried Augenbroe, Zhaoyun Zeng*, Xinyi Song. 'Regional Difference and Related Cooling Electricity Savings of Air Pollutant Affected Natural Ventilation Across the US', Building and Environment (2020).

PI and Co-PI for Projects of >4 Million USD