Juwan Ha selected as recipient of 2025-2026 ASHRAE Graduate Student Award
Congratulations to Juwan Ha on being selected as a recipient of the 2025–2026 ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-In-Aid, awarded in the amount of $10,000. ASHRAE is an international society of heating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning professionals committed to advancing human well-being through sustainable technologies for the built environment. This competitive award recognizes Juwan’s strong research potential and scholarly commitment.
Juwan’s research, supported by this award, is titled: “Development of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Control for Grid-Interactive University Campus Communities.” During his M.S. program, Juwan completed several projects assessing the performance and control of HVAC and renewable energy systems across various building types to enhance energy efficiency. Through that work, he identified a key limitation in the model-based approach: the uniqueness of each building’s energy system requires labor-intensive customization, posing a significant challenge to scalability.
In his Ph.D. studies, Juwan aims to address this limitation by employing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates model-based and data-driven methods. He centers on developing advanced control technologies for grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) and district energy systems within a real-world university campus microgrid. His research goes beyond improving energy efficiency—it also focuses on enhancing energy flexibility and resilience at the campus-community level to support scalable microgrid deployment.
