Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Education:
- PhD in Built Environment – NUS Singapore (with NUS Research Scholarship)
- M.Tech. (Civil Engineering) in Building Technology and Construction Management – IIT Madras
- B.Arch. – NIT Patna

Professional Member: - ASHRAE, ISIAQ, ACM

Research Interest:
- My research interests primarily revolve around building science, building technology and construction management. Currently, I am focused on investigating the impact of outdoor/indoor pollutants and viral loads on building system control, system-level and building-level energy efficiency, as well as on the health and well-being of occupants at the zone level. Additionally, I am interested in exploring topics such as energy and buildings, indoor air quality and thermal comfort, building-to-urban data science, and the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with Building Energy Modeling (BEM) to develop digital twin solutions.

Editorial Experience:
- March 2023 to Present - Early Career Board Member of Energy and Buildings (ENB), a journal published by Elsevier
- March 2023 to Present - Series Associate Editor for World Scientific Series on the Built Environment, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Research Group at ARP Department:
AI & Human-Building Interaction Lab

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Current editorial work: Guest editor for the special issue on “Strategies for improving urban liveability”
Details: This is a special issue of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Infrastructure".
Abstract Submission Deadline 12 April 2023
Manuscript Submission Deadline 25 June 2023
Link for the further details: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/50528/strategies-for-improving-urban-livability

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- Member of the International Scientific Committee, 17th International Conference on Indoor Air, https://indoorair2022.org/committee-members/
- Co-Chair ACM BenchSys 2022 - https://benchsys.github.io/2022/
- Published Special Issue "Building Energy Codes and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation", Atmosphere MDPI Journal, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/building_energy_GHG

All Publications

A review on bioinspired strategies for an energy-efficient built environment Anand P. By Energy and Buildings 113-382 (2023)
Occupancy-based energy consumption modelling using machine learning algorithms for institutional buildings Anand P. By Energy and Buildings 252 111-478 (2021)
A review of occupancy-based building energy and IEQ controls and its future post-COVID Anand P., Cheong D. , Sekhar C. By Science of The Total Environment 804 150-249 (2021)
Performance characteristics of a Fan Filter Unit (FFU) in mitigating Particulate Matter levels in a naturally ventilated classroom during haze conditions Anand P., Tham K. , Gk P. , Cheong D. , Sekhar C. By Indoor Air 31 795-806 (2021)
Computation of zone-level ventilation requirement based on actual occupancy, plug and lighting load information. Special Issue, New Building Ventilation Technologies Anand P., Cheong D. , Sekhar C. By Indoor and Built Environment 1-17 (2019)
Energy saving estimation for plug and lighting load using occupancy analysis Anand P., Cheong D. , Sekhar C. , Santamouris M. , Kondepudi S. By Renewable Energy 143 1143-1161 (2019)
Occupancy-based zone-level VAV system control implications on thermal comfort, ventilation, indoor air quality and building energy efficiency Anand P., Sekhar C. , Cheong D. , Santamouris M. , Kondepudi S. By Energy and Building 204 194373- (2019)
Adaptable cooling coil performance during part loads in the tropics - a computational evaluation Anand P., Chandra S. , Schiavon S. , Tham K. , Cheong D. , Saber E. By Energy and Building 159 148-163 (2018)

Completed Projects

Principal Investigator

A Novel, Smart, Eco-Friendly and Modular Window System
Configuration and testing of smart occupant-centric thermal and indoor air quality controls in buildings
Development of a guidebook on sustainable technologies for new and retrofitting of existing buildings and space cooling

Alumni members

Ph. D. Students

Ajith N Nair

Area of Research: Data-driven building energy and IEQ retrofit

Anurag Aman Kaushal

Area of Research: Scientific validation of Vastu Shastra through Building IEQ and Energy Efficiency Studies

Ketaki Parag Manolkar

Area of Research: Buildings for Climate Change

Krithika Panicker

Area of Research: Occupant behaviour in building energy simulation

Manoj Kumar V

Area of Research: Urban form and outdoor thermal comfort

Piyali Debnath

Area of Research: Parametric optimization of building facades

St Malsawmtluangi

Area of Research: Sustainable and Green Housing

Vikash Chandra

Area of Research: Building Energy