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

Artificial Intelligence Empowered Building Design and Operation

Sustainable Building and Building Decarbonization

Building and Renewable Energy Integration

Occupant Behaviors, Comfort, and Health

Gang Jiang, and Jianli Chen*. 'Efficient fine-tuning of large language models for automated building energy modeling in complex cases.' Automation in Construction (2025)

Zhihao Ma, Gang Jiang, and Jianli Chen. 'Neural ordinary differential equations-based approach for enhanced building energy modeling on small datasets.' Building Simulation (2025)

Gang Jiang, Zhihao Ma, Liang Zhang, and Jianli Chen*. 'Prompt engineering to inform large language model in automated building energy modeling.' Energy (2025)

Gang Jiang, 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, Gang Jiang, Yuqing Hu, and Jianli Chen*. ' A review of physics-informed machine learning for building energy modeling.' Applied Energy (2024)

Zhihao Ma, Gang Jiang, and Jianli Chen*. 'Physics-informed ensemble learning with residual modeling for

enhanced building energy prediction', Energy and Buildings (2024)

Gang Jiang, Yixing Chen, Zhe Wang, Kody Powell, Blake Billings, and Jianli Chen*. 'A deep learning-based Bayesian framework for high-resolution calibration of building energy models', Energy and Buildings (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)

Biao Kuang, Chelsea Schelly, Ge Ou, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Shardul Tiwari, and Jianli Chen*. 'Data-driven analysis of influential factors on residential energy end-use in the US', Journal of Building Engineering (2023).

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

Subject Editor, Building Simulation (JCR Q1)