2024
Large Language Models for the Creation and Use of Semantic Ontologies in Buildings: Requirements and Challenges [pdf][link]
Ozan Baris Mulayim, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Malavikha Sudarshan, Gabe Fierro
Seventh International Workshop on Data: Data Acquisition & Analysis in the Era of AI (DATA 2024). November, 2024.
Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What’s in it for me? [pdf][link]
Marco Pritoni, Michael Wetter, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Steven Bushby, Parastoo Delgoshaei, Michael Poplawski, Avijit Saha, Gabe Fierro, Matt Steen, Joel Bender, Paul Ehrlich
2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. August, 2024.
Early Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Computing Education: Emergent Student Use Cases and Perspectives in 2023
C. Estelle Smith, Kylee Shiekh, Hayden Cooreman, Sharfi Rahman, Yifei Zhu, Md Kamrul Siam, Michael Ivanitskiy, Ahmed M. Ahmed, Michael Hallinan, Alexander Grisak, and Gabe Fierro
29th ACM conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2024). Milan, Italy, July, 2024.
Playground: A Safe Building Operating System [pdf] Best Paper Runner-Up
Xiaohan Fu, Yihao Liu, Jason Koh, Dezhi Hong, Rajesh Gupta, Gabe Fierro
15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2024). Hong Kong, China, May, 2024.
Using Concept Maps for Notional Machine Selection in CS1 [pdf]
Ethan Richards, Sonia Spindt, Gabe Fierro
55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2024). Portland, OR, USA, March, 2024.
Toward LLM-Powered Robots in Engineering Education [pdf]
C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, Shadi Nourriz, Bo Wu, and Gabe Fierro
Companion to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024). Boulder, CO, USA, March, 2024.
2023
SeeQ: A Programming Model for Portable Data-driven Building Applications [pdf][link]
Dimitris Mavrokapnidis, Gabe Fierro, Maria Husmann, Ivan Korolija, Dimitrios Rovas
The 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2023). Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2023.
Data-Driven Smart Buildings: State-of-the-Art Review [pdf][link]
David Blum, José Candanedo, Zhelun Chen, Gabe Fierro, Virginia Gori, Hicham Johra, Henrik Madsen, Anna Marszal-Pomianowska, Zheng O’Neill, Ojas Pradhan, Dimitrios Rovas, Francesco Sacco, Sofia Stensson, Christian A. Thilker, Charalampos Vallianos, Jin Wen, Stephen D. White
International Energy Agency : Annex 81. September, 2023.
A Programming Model for Portable Fault Detection and Diagnosis [pdf][link]
Dimitris Mavrokapnidis, Gabe Fierro, Ivan Korolija, Dimitrios Rovas
14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2023). Orlando, FL, USA, June, 2023.
Skewering the silos: using Brick to enable portable analytics, modeling and controls in buildings [pdf][link]
Therese Peffer, Gabe Fierro, Paul Raftery, Carlos Duarte Roa, Marco Pritoni, Michael Wetter, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, Erik Paulson
Tech Report for DOE Grant DE-EE0008681. January, 2023.
2022
Application-Driven Creation of Building Metadata Models with Semantic Sufficiency [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Avijit Saha, Tobias Shapinsky, Matthew Steen, Hannah Eslinger
Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environment (BuildSys). Boston, MA, USA, November, 2022.
Notes Paper: Enabling Building Application Development with Simulated Digital Twins [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Joel Bender, Erik Paulson, Michael Wetter
Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environment (BuildSys). Boston, MA, USA, November, 2022.
Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery [pdf][link]
Amir Roth, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, David Blum, Yan Chen, Gabe Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, Draguna Vrabie
ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Asilomar, CA, US, August, 2022.
Extending the Brick Schema to Represent Metadata of Occupants [pdf][link]
Na Luo, Gabe Fierro, Yapan Liu, Bing Dong, Tianzhen Hong
Automation in Construction. May, 2022.
Survey of Metadata Schemas for Data-Driven Smart Buildings [pdf][link]
Gabe Fierro, Pieter Pauwels
International Energy Agency : Annex 81. May, 2022.
Enabling Portable and Reproducible Long-term Thermal Comfort Evaluation with Brick Schema and Mortar Testbed [pdf][link]
Ruiji Sun, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Gabe Fierro
ASHRAE 2022 Annual Conference. February, 2022.
2021
Query Relaxation for Portable Brick-Based Applications [pdf][link]
Imane Bennani, Anand Prakash, Marina Zafiris, Lazlo Paul, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro
Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys). Virtual Event, Portugal, November, 2021.
Modelica-json: Transforming Energy Models to Digitize the Control Delivery Process [pdf]
Michael Wetter, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Paul Erlich, Gabe Fierro, Milica Grahovac, Marco Pritoni, Lisa Rivalin, Dave Robin
Proceedings of the 17th IBPSA Conference (IBPSA 2021). Brugge, Belgium, September, 2021.
Self-Adapting Software for Cyberphysical Systems [pdf][link]
Gabe Fierro
PhD Dissertation. Berkeley, CA, USA, May, 2021.
Metadata Schemas and Ontologies for Building Energy Applications: A Critical Review and Use Case Analysis [pdf][link]
Marco Pritoni, Drew Paine, Gabe Fierro, Cory Mosiman, Michael Poplawski, Avijit Saha, Joel Bender, Jessica Granderson
Energies. April, 2021.
Phasor Based Control with the Distributed, Extensible Grid Control Platform [link]
Keith Moffat, Jasper Pakshong, Leo Chu, Gabe Fierro, Jaimie Swartz, Maxime Baudette, Alexandra von Meier
2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). Virtual Event, February, 2021.
2020
An Extensible Software and Communication Platform for Distributed Energy Resource Management [link]
Gabe Fierro, Keith Moffat, Jasper Pakshong, Alexandra von Meier
2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). Virtual Event, November, 2020.
Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, David E. Culler
Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys). Virtual Event, Japan, November, 2020.
Demo Abstract: Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, David E Culler
Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation. Virtual Event, Japan, November, 2020.
Formalizing Tag-Based Metadata With the Brick Ontology [pdf][link]
Gabe Fierro, Jason Koh, Shreyas Nagare, Xiaolin Zang, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta and David E. Culler
Frontiers in Built Environment. September, 2020.
Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings [pdf]
Harry Bergmann, Cory Mosiman, Avijit Saha, Selam Haile, William Livingood, Steven Bushby, Gabe Fierro, Joel Bender, Michael Poplawski, Jessica Granderson, Marco Pritoni
2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Virtual Event, August, 2020.
Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids [pdf][link]
Anand Krishnan Prakash, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellick, Richard Brown and Marco Pritoni
Energies. June, 2020.
CoVista: A Unified View on Privacy Sensitive Mobile Contact Tracing Effort [pdf][link]
David Culler, Prabal Dutta, Gabe Fierro, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Nathan Pemberton, JohannSchleier-Smith, K. Shankari, Alvin Wan, and Thomas Zachariah
arXiv. May, 2020.
Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Paul Raftery, Therese Peffer, Greg Thomson, David E. Culler
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. January, 2020.
2019
Beyond a House of Sticks: Formalizing Metadata Tags with Brick [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Jason Koh, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta, David E. Culler
6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys). New York, NY, USA, November, 2019.
Dataset: An Open Dataset and Collection Tool for BMS Point Labels [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Sriharsha Guduguntla, David E. Culler
2nd Workshop on Data Acquisition To Analysis (DATA). New York, NY, USA, November, 2019.
Design of an Effective Ontology and Query Processor Enabling Portable Building Applications [pdf][link]
Gabe Fierro
Masters Thesis. Berkeley, CA, USA, June, 2019.
WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework with Transitive Delegation [pdf][link]
Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Gabe Fierro, John Kolb, Hyung-Sin Kim, David E. Culler, Raluca Ada Popa
28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19). Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2019.
2018
Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics [pdf] Audience Choice Award
Gabe Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Paul Raftery, Therese Peffer, Greg Thomson, David E. Culler
5th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys). Shenzhen, China, November, 2018.
Design and Analysis of a Query Processor for Brick [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. January, 2018.
Democratizing Authority in the Built Environment [pdf]
Michael P Andersen, John Kolb, Kaifei Chen, Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler, Randy Katz
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. December, 2018.
2017
WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization System for IoT via Blockchain Smart Contracts [pdf][link]
Michael P Andersen, John Kolb, Kaifei Chen, Gabriel Fierro, David E. Culler and Raluca Ada Popa.
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2017-234. December, 2017.
Design and Analysis of a Query Processor for Brick [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler
4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys). Delft, The Netherlands, November, 2017.
2016
Brick v1.0 - Towards a Unified Metadata Schema for Buildings [pdf] Best Paper Runner-Up
Bharathan Balaji, Arka Bhattacharya, Gabe Fierro, Jingkun Gao, Joshua Gluck, Dezhi Hong, Aslak Johansen, Jason Koh, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Berges, David E. Culler, Rajesh Gupta, Mikkel Baun Kjaergaard, Joern Ploennigs, Kamin Whitehouse
3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys). Palo Alto, California, November, 2016.
Enabling Portable Energy Applications with a Building Operating System [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Therese Peffer, David E. Culler
2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, August, 2016.
Writing Controls Sequences for Buildings: from HVAC Industry Enclave to Hacker’s Weekend Project [pdf]
Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, Soazig Kaam, Joyce Kim, Paul Raftery
2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, August, 2016.
Getting into the Zone: How the Internet of Things can Improve Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in a Commercial Building [pdf]
Peng Zhao, Therese Peffer, Ram Narayanamurthy, Gabe Fierro, Paul Raftery, Soazig Kaam, Joyce Kim
2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, August, 2016.
Well-connected Microzones for Increased Building Efficiency and Occupant Comfort [pdf]
Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, Sam Kumar, Joyce Kim, Edward A. Arens, Hui Zhang, Paul Raftery, and David E. Culler
2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, August, 2016.
System Design for a Synergistic, Low Power Mote/BLE Embedded Platform [pdf]
Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler
15th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. Vienna, Austria, April, 2016.
Enabling Synergy in IoT: Platform to Service and Beyond [pdf]
Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler
1st IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation. Berlin, Germany, April, 2016.
2015
XBOS: An Extensible Building Operating System [pdf][link]
Gabe Fierro and David E. Culler
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-197. September, 2015.
Automated Disambiguation of US Patent Grants and Applications [pdf]
Benjamin Balsmeier, Alireza Chavosh, Guan-Cheng Li, Gabe Fierro, Kevin Johnson, Aditya Kaulagi, Doug O’Reagan, Bill Yeh, Lee Fleming
Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. Berkeley, CA, USA, 2015.
2013
BOSS: Building Operating System Services [pdf]
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Andrew Krioukov, Jay Taneja, Sagar Karandikar, Gabe Fierro, Nikita Kitaev, and David E. Culler
10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. Lombard, IL, April, 2013.
2012
BAS: Building Application Stack [pdf] Best Paper Award
Andrew Krioukov, Gabe Fierro, Nikita Kitaev, David E. Culler
4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings. Toronto, Canada, November, 2012.
Demo Abstract: Zone-level occupancy counting with existing infrastructure [pdf]
Gabe Fierro, Omar Rehmane, Andrew Krioukov, David E. Culler
4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings. Toronto, Canada, November, 2012.