08/07/2026
With increasingly frequent and extreme heat waves, finding effective solutions to urban heat islands, which amplify severe heat events, is more important than ever before. For this week's Speaker Series, Chenghao Wang presented on his efforts to build tools that can help predict building energy use and support more sustainable and resilient urban development.
Wang, assistant professor in the School of Meteorology , is combining physics-based models and data-driven approaches to better understand the interactions among urban climate, weather, and energy systems. Wang leads the Sustainable URban Futures Lab, where they combine a mass number of variables (like building height, tree canopy coverage, historical weather data, and surface air temperatures), to create new models to mitigate the harmful impacts of extreme events.
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