Dr. Jiazhen Ling joined NREL in 2021 and is a research engineer in the Commercial Buildings Research Group within the Building Technologies and Science Center. Dr. Ling's research areas include HVAC modeling, thermal comfort, energy efficiency of appliances, and building- and community-level energy simulations.

Prior to joining NREL, Dr. Ling was a research faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park and was part of the team that was awarded the 2021 Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award.

Research Interests

Transient and steady-state modeling and simulations

Energy efficiency of HVAC&R

Building energy simulations

Thermal comfort

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2011

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2005